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more about #online more comments → psychiccheese: 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. #apeop... more » Sunshineyness: 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 ... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: 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 a... more » ShadowStaarr: 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 wher... more » Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: 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 #apeopl... more » cadrina: 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, havi... more » -
#internethistory
Remember When "LO" Wasn't Necessarily Followed By "L"?
What was the first message sent across the first version of email (and what was it supposed to be)? Who was the first reigning monarch online? These questions and more are answered in A People's History Of The Internet. More » -
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#conceptart
Giant Robot Repairs the Arc de Triomphe
We hope that upcoming MMOThe Day manages to look like its sumptuous concept art, pictured above. That image of the Arc de Triomphe being repaired, upgraded, or duplicated is just simply amazing. The premise of The Day is that two parallel worlds smash together, and we've got a whole gallery of strange history-mashup imagery from The Day for you to gawk at. More »
