The internet in 1994

[HolyMoly]

http://www.wimp.com/todayshow/

 

[Advantage 1]

Classic :thumbsup

 

[HBCraig]

I am glad Al Gore invented it.

 

[OCMerrill]

I am glad Al Gore invented it.

Nice!

 

[floatn turd]

wow, if i hade a time machine. I would be a rich SOB

 

[Brian B]

Wow! We've come a long way in 17 years.....

Imagine how the internet will change the ways newer generations will evolve and grow. If I had seen two girls one cup in my teens, who knows where I'd be now! lol

 

[floatn turd]

You would have founded Cold Stone

 

[Tank]

Pretty amazing that the internet has come so far so fast and has become such a huge part of the world social network that those born after the early 90's are now dubbed Generation "I" for internet.

 

[shueman]

The wired world started in France with TELEX...just about every home had a terminal... The World Wide Web is an off-shoot of that infrastructure...

 

[BajaMike]

Bryant "Gumball" and Katy Couric are too of the biggest liberal assholes on TV, then and now.

And that's pretty funny stuff.....time flies doesn't it?

As prevously stated....what's going to happen in the next 17 years??

:champagne:arty2::drunk:blah:

 

[Dave Wettlaufer]

Pretty amazing that the internet has come so far so fast and has become such a huge part of the world social network that those born after the early 90's are now dubbed Generation "I" for internet.

First I've heard of it...and the only reason these stupid names stick is the media puts it out and the sheople pick it up....

 

[Outlaw]

Funny Stuff, anybody try and explain to their kids that we didnt have cell phones when we were young, they cant imagine how we lived

 

[RiverDave]

Wow! We've come a long way in 17 years.....

Imagine how the internet will change the ways newer generations will evolve and grow. If I had seen two girls one cup in my teens, who knows where I'd be now! lol

LMAO!!

The wired world started in France with TELEX...just about every home had a terminal... The World Wide Web is an off-shoot of that infrastructure...

I thought it started between 2 particle accelerator facilities that were sharing information with each other?

Bryant "Gumball" and Katy Couric are too of the biggest liberal assholes on TV, then and now.

And that's pretty funny stuff.....time flies doesn't it?

As prevously stated....what's going to happen in the next 17 years??

:champagne:arty2::drunk:blah:

RDP will take over.. dumass!

DR

 

[Tom Brown]

Pretty amazing that the internet has come so far so fast and has become such a huge part of the world social network that those born after the early 90's are now dubbed Generation "I" for internet.

I thought they were called the "I" generation because they are such self centered pricks?

The wired world started in France with TELEX...just about every home had a terminal... The World Wide Web is an off-shoot of that infrastructure...

I suppose that's one view.

The first Internet application I was ever exposed to was called 'Relay'. That evolved into a barely related app we now call "Internet Relay Chat" or "IRC". To be fair, Relay was pretty similar to how a Telex operated. That, however, was the end of any relationship.

Telex was about sending binary codes representing characters over a phone line by modulating the signal on one end into an audio stream and demodulating that audio stream back into characters on the other end. It was a pair of typewriters with remote keyboards.

Internet, on the other hand, was about connecting computers in a general purpose way such that a variety of different information could be carried on the same network and, just as importantly back then, those connections were intended to be brand agnostic.

The general purpose aspect of the Internet created a revolution. Today, Internet Protocol (version 4 is barely recognizable from the earliest ARPANet work and about to change in a massive way with version 6 to take care of the address bankruptcy that is going to bring the world to an end in about four months) carries everything from text, pictures, video, ecommerce, telephony, device control, security, anything else you can think of, and, most importantly, porn.

As I understand the history of it, and I lived through it, the work at ARPA was the first credible work that proposed to allow IBM mainframes, DEC minis and mainframes, and various other niche players to intercommunicate. IBM was the world of EBCDIC and big endian word geometry. To be able to effortlessly send text back and forth between a DEC PDP system and an IBM System 360 was like being able to watch one channel while taping another. Few believed it would ever be acomplished due to industry politics but the idea that it could be done was planted in the heads of naive students and faculty at universities and colleges around the globe and an unstoppable revolution was set in motion.

Everything we know about the Internet came about because some academics believed it could be done. The near universal thought, back in the day, that it would never go very far because there was no clear funding profile to make it happen. Everybody wants to pretend they always knew the Internet would be the most important thing in civilized history but my profs told me it was destined to exclusively be a tool of academics and I had no reason to doubt them. That was back in the very early 1980s.

These days, as the resident geezer in this IT shop, punks cleaning out the computer room bring me cables and devices and ask WTF it is as they curl their lip and furrow their brow while looking at welding cable sized wire bundles with cigarette package sized boxes on the ends and many dozens of pins. Good news, boys... you've just discovered v.35!


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