Posted on 11/07/2015 8:22:46 PM PST by Swordmaker
Very cool!
What’s the web address?
“In my beginning is my end.” — T.S. Eliot
Al Gore WAS there
Sometimes, they just need a good augmentation.
“the literal starting point of the Internet”
Oh hogwash! That’s like saying the Apple II was the literal starting point of the personal computer.
There was plenty of internet before the WWW as anyone with the ability to read knows. So who still uses usenet? Or maintains a Gopher site?
I have two unlimited and two block accounts on 4 different servers.
When I saw my first amazon.com sign, I assumed they sold clothes to large and tall women.
ARF! I had just graduated from dwelling in an under stairway closet in the mission district after having gotten first salaried job and I hung out on the NirvanaNet underground dialup BBS systems in the bay area.
Same info on message board here.
Lol! Sadly, flame wars were going on long before the WWW. I was using Compuserve with a 300 baud dialup modem in the late 1970s and there were flame wars on threads back then. Maybe Al Gore started the first flame war back then, just couldn't resist and has been spreading lies since.
06 August 1991...
Exactly 46 years after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Lol. I feel yet pain. ;^)
I was kind of a spoiled brat....
I remember it well, although it was not, as I recall an illustrated comic style glossary, it was called “The Jargon File” and can be found here...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/
It was later published as “The New Hacker's Dictionary” and can be found here...
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Hackers-Dictionary-Edition/dp/0262680920
There are several places on this InterWeb thing that have .pdf files of both.
Click bait!
I started with a 300 baud modem on a CP/M machine. Used it to log onto Cleveland Freenet ( http://cfn.tangledhelix.com/history.html ), the first free Usenet server open to the public on the planet if I recall correctly. When I moved on to a 1200 baud screamer the text moved so fast on the screen you couldn't read it. No problem, I saved everything to disk (300 kb) to read later. Around the same time I read a letter of complaint from a professional lambasting his 1200 baud modem because he too could no longer read the text flashing by on the screen.
I believe the 1200 baud modem, no longer cutting edge at the time of purchase cost around $250.00 (ballpark 5 or 6 hundred dollars in today's money) and the USR 9600 I got a few years later retailed around 1K$ (ballpark 2.5K$ today). I got a real deal at $300 !
Websites used to be so laughably crude. So they seem in retrospect but then peering at them through Internet Explorer 3, any nice looks would have been wasted
My first year on the internet, in 1997 yahoo.com was especially crude, ominous and ugly. Black type set against a grey background. It was depressing to go there. Why they used a grey background...??? Were the yahoo boys on drugs?
All the UFO sites and Art Bell type sites (crop circles, prophecy, predictions etc) had a spooky black background. Some still do (lulz)
Altavista was the best search engine!!! Compaq paid a billion for it.
We hear about the number of lost films/movies dating before 1950.
I’d wager that more than 50% of all webpages since 1994 no longer exist.
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