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    With it being the 20th anniversary of the internet, my impending flu fatality, and the pointless conf call I'm on right now, let us harken back to those early days.............................................. .................................................. .
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    Who remembers Mosaic? When exciting graphics meant ASCII pics :-) ? When all you could access was university thesisi? What was the first thing you got excited about on the internet (if it is porn you are too young to answer)?
    Bored.

    #2
    Originally posted by ace00 View Post
    With it being the 20th anniversary of the internet, my impending flu fatality, and the pointless conf call I'm on right now, let us harken back to those early days.............................................. .................................................. .
    ...................
    Who remembers Mosaic? When exciting graphics meant ASCII pics :-) ? When all you could access was university thesisi? What was the first thing you got excited about on the internet (if it is porn you are too young to answer)?
    IRC. That was way cool.

    Until I got groomed for bum sex.*








    *JOKE!
    ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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      #3
      I remember Mosaic, it wasn't long before the porn arrived though. I remember a search engine called HotBot and when Netscape navigator was more popular than Explorer (which probably didn't exist then).
      The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

      But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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        #4
        IRC for me, long before the days of't'interweb, I was to be found on Ircnet or Efnet, chatting about all sorts of nonsense. Not like today. Oh, wait...

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          #5
          Originally posted by ace00 View Post
          With it being the 20th anniversary of the internet,
          Huh?

          20th anniversary for the second time, perhaps.

          Do you mean that subset of the Internet, the World Wide Web?
          Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

          Xenophon said: "CUK Geek of the Week". A gingerjedi certified "Elitist Tw@t". Posting rated @ 5 lard points

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            #6
            I remember Mosaic and Netscape navigator.
            I also remember spending hours and hours playing Doom.
            It came on floppy disk... <sigh> good times, good times...
            My first PC had a 30 meg hard drive.

            bored
            I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

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              #7
              Originally posted by BrowneIssue View Post
              Huh?

              20th anniversary for the second time, perhaps.

              Do you mean that subset of the Internet, the World Wide Web?
              People used to think the WWW and the internet were the same thing. Nobody really mentions the WWW anymore though.


              Originally posted by Pogle View Post
              I remember Mosaic and Netscape navigator.
              I also remember spending hours and hours playing Doom.
              It came on floppy disk... <sigh> good times, good times...
              My first PC had a 30 meg hard drive.

              bored
              You are a proper female geek, never met many of those, should we be worried?
              The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

              But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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                #8
                teh internets


                'foo.

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                  #9
                  I remember blagging myself a JANET account at Univesity and using it to post drivel on various bulletin boards. Then came IRC and UseNet which I used to post drivel on various channels. Dial up access , Ascii Art, Mosaic, then Netscape back when Lycos was the best search engine around. Geocities, Angelfire and Tripod hosted web pages, Blink tags, Marquee text on the status bar, more drivel on more bulletin boards and appalling page layouts and design.
                  Warez sites, anonymous FTP, downloading Civilisation on 40 rar'd floppy images and finding that image 32 was corrupted. No such thing as blogging but vast numbers of pointless web pages full of flashing "Hello World", bad graphics and still more drivel.
                  "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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                    #10
                    I remember moving up from 9600 baud to 14,400 ( I had one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fax_modem_antigo.jpg ) . Mind you, my first modem was 2400 baud, but that was pre-internet.

                    Oh, and my internets all came via Compuserve

                    I also remember the days when bulletin boards were all the rage.


                    /feeling old

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