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psychiccheese
10/26/09

In reply to Remember When "LO" Wasn't Necessarily Followed By "L"?
it's a good thing they chose to use the @ sign for emails. I'd hate to imagine how many trees would have been wasted had we used : // instead. #apeopleshistoryoftheinternet
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Sunshineyness
10/24/09

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I remember the first time I saw the internet I was over at my brother's. I was 11 maybe? If then he'd been about 17/18ish. He had just gotton a modem for his computer (back when they were all external) and he was showing me a chat room of sorts, but a really early one that was all text and looked just like the picture above. This was around '94/'95 or so and he set me up in the room with a handle and all and it was just people within 100 mile radius of the house.

It was obscenely boring chat too, ha. I think all I typed was "what's up?" a few times when people entered and left but couldn't think of anything really to say.

I was supremely disappointed because about that time Hackers came out and I was convinced that THAT was what EVERYONE could/was doing online at the time.

BTW, does anyone remember that AWESOME episode of Ghostwriter with the hacker named Max the Mouse who was terrorizing the school? Lemme see if I can dig up some youtube.
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Sunshineyness
10/24/09

@Sunshineyness: Ah yes, this was the infamous episode with Julia Stiles in it rocking out all cyberpunk... #apeopleshistoryoftheinternet
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
10/24/09

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I miss ye olde days of text-only, Usenet-only newsfroups. Before the September that never ended, back when everyone was at least 18.

My first email address ended in .ARPA! Yep, before we had .com, .edu and all. And it was at that ARPA address that I learned :-)

I do appreciate the video and audio now, though! #apeopleshistoryoftheinternet
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capnrob
10/24/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Me, too - well, not the .ARPA thing, but I had a Bitnet address. And, arguably, a Fidonet address, but, hey. #apeopleshistoryoftheinternet
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ShadowStaarr
10/24/09

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I remember the Internet to me was just AOL 4.0. Followed by a few subsequent AOL releases, then some version of MSN. Also, Juno for those times where having a month bill for a connection was too much. Simpler times, they were.

Also, porn was limited to pictures and 30 second clips downloaded from Kazaa or WinMX. #apeopleshistoryoftheinternet
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txtphile
10/24/09

@ShadowStaarr: Backinmyday we whacked it to walls of text! #apeopleshistoryoftheinternet
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Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
10/24/09

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Lets link some old webpages still going strong but is ugly as the internet was back then!

I set the stakes high with:

www.serietidningar.com #apeopleshistoryoftheinternet
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NerD: Blattella
10/24/09

@Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: Whoa!

That site gave me a popup in russian. I know no russian, and that could have just jacked my computer!

shame Tomb! Well done. #apeopleshistoryoftheinternet
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txtphile
10/24/09

@Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: The Old Internet Is Dead. I don't mean nerds at some computer lab on some campus, nor some older nerds deciding on continuity plans from some military base. I mean the one where all the "web" sites were in gopher. Sure, it was a wall of text. But, backinmyday, a wall of text was value added, and lynx was user-friendly.

In that spirit (get off my lawn) I offer you this link you probably can't use of the extant gopher servers:
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/

PS: stick tintin++ somewhere in there. ahh, memories
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Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
10/24/09

@txtphile: Now thats worth a golden star! #apeopleshistoryoftheinternet
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cadrina
10/24/09

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I made my first email in 1999 and internet was this weird looking thing that didn't make much sense. And how horrible it was dial up connection, having to connect again all the time.
Edit: when I wanted to learn html I would do internet pages about anything:
[br.geocities.com]
that is quite embarrassing, good thing that geocities is closing down
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