What is the Internet?!

[JudeBaldo]

One of my brothers sent me this clip and we all got a good chuckle from it. Bryant Gumble makes 1994 sound like it was 40 years ago.

[Fresno Bob]

In 1994, I'd already been online for 11 years.....

[schlesinj]

I was using Prodigy a lot at that point, but I assume that was early 90s. I was so far a head of my high school friends in getting stats that it really helped me with my fantasy leagues. Unfortunately, it also meant I was the guy to keep the stats.

[Wonderboy]

World Wide Web is just 20 years old, if you can believe that. For a few years, you could actually visit every single web page on the entire internet in one single week if you spent just one minute at each one.

[TranaGreg]

In 1994, I'd already been online for 11 years.....

yeah, I think I gotta call you-know-what here - first off I'm pretty sure that the internet was strictly a military thing in 1983, plus for fresno bob to be using it in the mid-80's www.milf.com would have had to exist then ...

[Bob Kohm]

yeah, I think I gotta call you-know-what here - first off I'm pretty sure that the internet was strictly a military thing in 1983, plus for fresno bob to be using it in the mid-80's www.milf.com would have had to exist then ...

I was using USENET and IRC on VAX and UNIX boxes at SUNY Buffalo in 1988...

[Steve]

I was using USENET and IRC on VAX and UNIX boxes at SUNY Buffalo in 1988...

with or without soju?

[virgonomic]

yeah, I think I gotta call you-know-what here - first off I'm pretty sure that the internet was strictly a military thing in 1983, plus for fresno bob to be using it in the mid-80's www.milf.com would have had to exist then ...

I consider myself to have been online in the early 90s when I was calling BBS' (Bulletin Board Systems) i.e., dial-up. The catch was that only one user could be connected and all messages were stored locally. There were themed forums as well as private messages. Nothing was central back then.

[Steve]

. Nothing was central back then.

There's that park in NY city.

[Kevin Seitzer]

There's that park in NY city.

If you believe that, then I have some oceanfront property in California to sell you.

[Steve]

If you believe that, then I have some oceanfront property in California to sell you.

[Fresno Bob]

yeah, I think I gotta call you-know-what here - first off I'm pretty sure that the internet was strictly a military thing in 1983, plus for fresno bob to be using it in the mid-80's www.milf.com would have had to exist then ...

dude, I was telnet-ing into Stanford's machines to play games off my 300 baud modem in 1983, then on FidoNet and other local BBS's like "The Wall" not too long after....hell, we went on school field trips in 1980 to a computer lab in Menlo Park where we played Wumpus and Xtrek on their machines. I was phone-phreaking in the early 80s as well.

[The Feral Slasher]

dude, I was telnet-ing into Stanford's machines to play games off my 300 baud modem in 1983, then on FidoNet and other local BBS's like "The Wall" not too long after....hell, we went on school field trips in 1980 to a computer lab in Menlo Park where we played Wumpus and Xtrek on their machines. I was phone-phreaking in the early 80s as well.

My parents warned me about phone-phreaking.

[Fresno Bob]

My parents warned me about phone-phreaking.

Wow, thinking about it now, that was probably Xerox PARC I went to in 1980, don't remember seeing a mouse or any kind of UI though

[The Feral Slasher]

Wow, thinking about it now, that was probably Xerox PARC I went to in 1980, don't remember seeing a mouse or any kind of UI though

Exactly, mom said there would be kids with no mice !


Sorry for being such a smart ass, I never got into computers, but I bet it is pretty cool now to look back at what was going on then and what it turned into. I do remember my dad brought home a bunch of those punch cards from work in the early 70's. Must have been fun to work with those.