The entire internet."
Posted on 12/18/2016 6:21:56 PM PST by Lazamataz
"Going through old papers my dad gave me, I found his map of the internet as of May 1973.
The entire internet."
Ha! Whoever heard of computer engineering nerds having any interest in sex? Well, maybe insofar as computer porn — ha! /s
Well. Porn has made a lot of progress since Pam. /s
I worked for a GE computer division in the late 90s. I still remember having a vendor or a client in a conference room, looking at something, and we were having a name resolution problem. Someone said “here, try this IP”, which was typed in, and the outsider asked “that’s an odd looking IP address, what’s that?”
I replied “just something in GE’s Class I IP address space.”
“Oh!”
And that should be Class A.
In the early 70’s my (JR High) math teacher brought a giant hand held calculator that her husband used at NASA/JSC. It would add, subtract, multiply and divide only.
She left it on her desk and left the room and someone stole it. An announcement went over the PA that it was federal property and the FBI had been called and was enroute. It was found soon after.
You can buy a more powerful one today for under a dollar.
Around 1987, Wal-Mart closed out a bunch of HP pocket calculators. I have always been a sucker for bargains and bought maybe a dozen for between $10-$20. I remember one was an 11 and another was a 12c and several others looked like typical Texas Instruments model 60 etc.
They all were programmable and used RPN which is the reason Wal-Mart cleared them out.
15 years later, I noticed they were going for very good prices on ebay. I sold every one at a huge profit, many going for around a hundred. I specifically recall one I sent to an Engineering student in Scotland. I guess they really went for the RPN system.
I noticed recently that they have come out with new ones similar to those older models.
Well, that would have cured everyone’s problem right then and there.
Right around 1985 I was running an IBM mini with a whopping 6 megs of disk space and a 9600 baud acoustic modem.
I was so cool...
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They only needed one for porn back then. All they had was ASCII porn.
I programmed a couple of games on a Wang in 75, they were quite popular on our ship. All text, stored on a cassette. Brings back memories.
Hey Laz, I’m on your countdown PING list.
Now, all I want for Christmas is to be on this list.
Where’s the pr0n?
Especially if it got naked.
I connected my Packard Bell to it in September 1994 and the whole thing stopped.
In the 1920s?
Office faxes didn't really start to crop up until the 1980s. I remember several of us trying to figure out how to send a fax on a Saturday from a machine shared by 3 multi-billion dollar banks. That would probably have been in 1987. Before that, FedEx offered an expensive, and short lived, service to pick up your document, fax it to another FedEx office, and deliver it the same day.
Can’t be. Al Gore didn’t invent the internet until the 1990’s and he said so in an interview with Wolf Blitzer of CNN in 1999.
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Given the link to CMU (shown as Carnegie) I would think so. The schools merged in 1967, but they were still trying to sort out what to call it years later - Case Reserve was the official short form at one point, although the common usage was Case Western. They even tried a run at just ‘Case’ at one point, but I don’t think that flew with the old Western Reserve donors. I can see why the old engineering types would have still used ‘Case’ less than a decade after the merger. They probably didn’t want to acknowledge the ties to the other folks.
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