The History of The Internet (Humor)

The Lemon ^ | 5/19/2003

[anymouse]

No it wasn't. That is an IMSI 180 (sp), a primative personal computer. When I was in high school back in 1976 I learned to do programming in basic on one. Pretty clumsy, but better than feeding paper tape into a teletype terminal or using punch cards.

[ShadowAce]

Y'all make me feel like a young little beansprout. My first exposure to computers was a Commodore64 and an Apple IIC.

heh. I taught myself programming in BASIC on a TRS-80 Model I in 1978 at the ripe old age of 14.

[50sDad]

TRS-80? With the 32K memory expansion the size of a small compact car, pressed from the Oh, So Attractive silver plastic?

Haunted House? We dreamed about being allowed to play Haunted House! ("The silver knife hangs in the air, and *swoops* down and cuts your throat. You are dead. What are you doing now?")

[ShadowAce]

TRS-80? With the 32K memory expansion the size of a small compact car, pressed from the Oh, So Attractive silver plastic?

Ha! I could only dream about the expansion pack. I was limited to only 16K of RAM and a cassette drive.

[Centurion2000]

Loved these lines

1993
DOOM is released, slowing the network to a near stop, and worker productivity to a total stop.

Parents rejoice as the release of the game frees them from all responsibility for how their kids behave.

1994
First piece of spam appears in USENET newsgroups and is quickly removed. "Well, that should be the last of that", say users.

[Centurion2000]

You've never computed until you've had to use this

ENIAC

[perfect stranger]

You've never computed until you've had to use this

[ChefKeith]

I used to use one of those in the early days of the autoparts store to link one store to the "server" at the other...it took forever to transfer data.

I could type faster than it filled the screen and that was back before graphics.

and I did "hunt and peck" keyboard then.

[50sDad]

and I did "hunt and peck" keyboard then.

Keyboard?

[ChefKeith]

Keyboard ?

Yes, We laid out a bunch of old car and door keys and soldered ground wires to them and depending on the cut of the key it would produce different characters when a positive wire was touched to a particular key.

That would make the monkey draw on the chalk board depending on the shock it recieved.

[50sDad]

Shock the monkey, shock the monkey!

[m18436572]

Why does this thread remind me of ZORK!

[bigcheese]

Ahhhh, Zork. I had it mastered so that I could get through it in 16 minutes... on an AT. On my prior computer, a C64, it took app. 30 minutes because of the
"slower" 1541.

[Blue Highway]

I loved this version of DOS back in 1981

Interesting Atari 800 TCP/IPserver