A network called 'Internet'
New Malachite Square
14-07-2007, 05:41
This is too funny not to post somewhere: Teh Internetz in 1993 (http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-75-710-4205). The vid is long, but amusing. And so educational! :eek:
Hard to believe that was only 13 years ago. The past is another world…
Any special memories of 'Internet' from back then?
Thumbless Pete Crabbe
14-07-2007, 05:52
I think I saw that one here before - pretty funny though. :p
Flatus Minor
14-07-2007, 06:01
This is too funny not to post somewhere: Teh Internetz in 1993 (http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-75-710-4205). The vid is long, but amusing. And so educational! :eek:
Hard to believe that was only 13 years ago. The past is another world…
Any special memories of 'Internet' from back then?
Lolz... I especially liked "There's not a lot of cursing on the Internet..."
As I mentioned in a thread a few days ago, I used to use dial-up BBSs (before the WWW) and even ran one for a while, on an Amiga, and used Fidonet which had interlinks with Usenet discussion groups. That was probably my first experience with Tar Interwebs.
New Malachite Square
14-07-2007, 06:10
Lolz... I especially liked "There's not a lot of cursing on the Internet..."
That part was good… "No endless pages of 'Go to Hell' ".
Mostly I found it funny because the CBC reporters were trying to get used to something new… the mysterious "Internet", whereas we young people today have always had access to endless pages of 'Go to Hell'. :p
We got our first internet connection back in 1994 using Prodigy...I can't remember much from those days (since I was, well, 6 years old) other than being amazed at the speed of the new 56k modem we got in 1995 or 1996.
New Malachite Square
14-07-2007, 06:17
We got our first internet connection back in 1994 using Prodigy...I can't remember much from those days (since I was, well, 6 years old) other than being amazed at the speed of the new 56k modem we got in 1995 or 1996.
Couldn't resist (http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20021107)
Perhaps once I too was amazed at 56 kilobits per second, but those days are gone now. May they never return.
Oh, I remember this stuff all too well. I can remember programming my Dos computer at three years old to get online just to look at the pretty ASCII graphics.
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I so wish I could be that easily impressed again...
I never had a computer until around 2000 when Win ME came out. I've always had cable or DSL. I feel left out.
Cannot think of a name
14-07-2007, 08:27
This is how lame I am on the inter-webs...
On-line, I actually asked the question, "Am I online?" I didn't realize I needed a browser and had somehow gotten into an (I guess) IRC channel where people were discussing...I have no idea. They told me how to get Netscape and then I went, "....Ooohhh..."
Mid 90s some time. Had just gotten my first computer with a hard drive, it was an already out of date 486.
Those dudes probably still laugh at that.
Rubiconic Crossings
14-07-2007, 09:32
Pity they meant World Wide Web...developed by Tim Brenners-Lee.
The Internet has been around for decades.
That must've been before the internet was important enough to have a defining article "the"
New Genoa
14-07-2007, 09:51
I was too young to really remember our first computer. All I remember is getting Windows 95, then ME, then XP.