OT: The History of the Internet

trekgeezer · December 02, 2005, 01:15:03 PM

A little mild amusement on a Friday afternoon. I got this link from Fark.com a while back, hope you enjoy it.

The History of the Internet

odinn7 · December 02, 2005, 01:26:47 PM

That was quite funny. Thanks for posting it.

Mr_Vindictive · December 02, 2005, 01:33:59 PM

Fark.com?

What is this fark.com?

being sarcastic.

Thanks for the laugh Trek.

ulthar · December 02, 2005, 02:33:01 PM

:) :) :)

Couple of quick comments, for no purpose at all:

The timeline has Prodigy and Compuserve taking off in 1995; I was a member of Prodigy, then Genie (ugh) around 1991 or so. They all seemed pretty popular, at the time (not like the Net today, of course).

With Genie, you paid by the minute! I'm trying to remember the model of Prodigy, but I think it was monthly fee.

Also, they mention pr0n coming in 1997; in grad school, around 92 or so, a colleague of mine was "into" getting pr0n off the ftp sites; there was a HUGE following, and there email/bbs groups that would review and rate different clips. Granted, they were low res, mostly animated stills, not true video.

Asshat...one of my favorite net-isms.

trekgeezer · December 02, 2005, 02:37:47 PM

I was on AOL pre-internet. When they started providing internet service I dropped it and went with a local ISP which was much more reliable.

Before that I was into the bulletin boards.

ulthar · December 02, 2005, 03:08:59 PM

trek_geezer Wrote:
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Yeah, I did the bbs thing early 90's, too. I was a member of one that was specific to the Flintstones (very cool) and another on which we "debated" politics/social theory and philosophy non-stop.

I saved a bunch a messages from that last one and recently was reading some of the discussions. The question that came to mind as I read was "what in the WORLD was I even talking about?" I'm sure I had a point, and some of the others seemed to think so from time to time, but what a convoluted mess. :)

Ah, to be young and idealistic again...you know, pre-disillusionment.

Mr_Vindictive · December 02, 2005, 03:41:32 PM

I fondly remember the BBSs as well.

Anyone else play Lair Of The Red Dragon on the bulliten boards?

Ash · December 05, 2005, 09:25:41 PM

I liked the www.zombo.com
That was amusing.

"Welcome to Zombocom! You can do anything at Zombocom!"

LOL!