The internet back in the day

Kinda funny.

I think it's from about 1994 rather than 1990 though =)

Kids these days, just don't appreciate what they got!

It ISN'T from 1990. You know that, because they mention WWW. In 1990 it was JUST starting to get off the ground!

The reference to MODEM is STILL required for Older hookups, and areas with no real broadband capability. They STILL exist! The PPP reference is ALSO still relevant. It is needed for use through direct accounts where a connection on either side can't accept TCP/IP connections. So the internet IS the same today! We simply have a better phone network, so more people can use broadband, and they WANT to, so windows and unix have ppp builtin , and more people are used to it, so more places allow wireless and/or direct internet connections. HECK, the Airlines have been LYING for DECADES, and people always KNEW IT! The Airlines are now starting to do what they claimed was IMPOSSIBLE! They are starting to provide WIRELESS INTERNET ON THE PLANE! WHY? Because people want it, and they can provide it for a price! I REALLY wonder how dumb they must think we are to think that radios TRANSMIT, or that pdas and computers today put out any appreciable EMR. And how about the idea that CD players, or even MP3 players, put out any EMR that can affect communications?

As for the reference of the FAST computer? For what they had to do in the day, they WERE fast. Certainly faster than computers are TODAY, in relation. I mean COME ON! Windows is HANDICAPED! ALSO, there used to be a 1:1 correlation. The SAME processor at double the speed went twice as fast. That isn't so true today. HECK, my boss didn't believe me when I told him how fast a 386sx was! It was as fast as SUPERCOMPUTERS used to be. Our complex software did in a split second what took minicomputers used to take MINUTES to do.

So I don't see what is really so funny, besides the fact that she is trying to act like an EXPERT, and he is acting like a technophobe. BTW, technophobes STILL exist, and they are JUST like that guy, and lots of people act JUST like she did!

Oh well, Kim is right! "Kids these days, just don't appreciate what they got! "

Steve

I'll never forget how excited I was when our local telco finally provided ISDN. That was around 1994 in Chicago. Hi-speed baby...

I can remember when email might take a couple weeks. I used to run a 2 line Renegade bbs out of my apartment back in the day. I was part of 'Throbnet' which was a major network on the east coast of the states. Everynight at midnight, my bbs would start up, dial the next in line and swap email packets, and that would go on all night long. Sooner or later your email would get to where you wanted.

There was really no 'porn' except for scanned images. No real viruses except for modem code in emails that would make you hang up when you opened them. Most games were text based rpgs' (tradewars2002, mutants!) and IRC was THE place to be.

Newegg.com used to be Egghead and had small shops everywhere. You could go into any egghead and ask for a local bbs list and the dot matrix printer would chug out page after page of track fed paper with phone numbers on them. some big, some small, some nothing more than file depositories, some were full on services. I used to hang out on a 60 line bbs that was local. We would talk and b.s. online all week, then meet at a local bar on the weekends to party.

The guy who owned the bbs had the whole thing set up in his house. 3 486 machines with 60 modems (60 phone lines coming into his house too) and all you heard all night long was the screaming of phone modems.

Just found this thread through a "web ring"!



Wonder if the young ones even know what those were?

~M~

Ah famous last words.

reminds me of sitting in my cube at X-10 when some of my friends came in and said some folks from CERN were giving a lecture on this SGML derivative they'd been using on the 'net. Having hacked Tex, LaTex, and postscript - and used more typesetting equipment than I can remember - the last thing I wanted to do that day was listen to that stuff - so I raised my hand and ticked off - telnet, NNTP(Usenet), FTP, Gopher, and archie servers.

Why the heck do we need this HTML stuff I asked....

not my best day.

--Jack