03-20-2011, 12:45 AM | #16 |
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The Encyclopedia Galactica site (on a Geocities page - OMG, remember Geocities? I had my first website on there ). It's debris can still be seen here - http://www.slawcio.com/foundation/cover2.html.
Geocities, Angelfire, ICQ () - all those familiar haunts that seem so alien now. Even AOL (setting up a restricted account for my teen cousin under the orders of my uncle while said teen cousin blubbers that his social life is over). Heck, I still remember "command line" web browsers . Not too different from early mobile web tech if you ask me . |
03-20-2011, 01:01 AM | #17 |
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Anyone else remember gopher?
gopher://gopher.quux.org/ Best way to experience is with Firefox and the Overbite addin: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ There are some web browsers that still support gopher out of the box though! |
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03-20-2011, 01:17 AM | #18 |
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I'd have to include IRC in Old Internet. We've all switched to Facebook etc. but IRC is still superior if you want a chat with a large group of people.
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03-20-2011, 06:50 AM | #19 |
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03-20-2011, 01:00 PM | #20 | |
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03-20-2011, 02:13 PM | #21 | |
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Most communications was done on "bulletin boards" which was a computer, usually sitting in someone's spare bedroom, and connected to a telephone line with a dial up modem. One person at a time could dial into it, and leave messages similar to here at MR. But you had to wait for the other person to log off before you could log on. And sometimes it was a race to see who could get on first. |
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03-20-2011, 02:51 PM | #22 | |
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Assuming that you mean a 14,400 modem, sending a 3 megabyte file took you 27 minutes under the best of conditions. To send a 3 megabyte file in 45 seconds would require a modem with an upload speed of around 533,000 bits per second, which is about 15 times faster than the fastest standard analog modems ever marketed. |
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03-20-2011, 06:42 PM | #23 | |
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Hard to believe we used to video and voice chat back then - saved a fortune in long distance. |
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03-20-2011, 09:48 PM | #24 |
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The B*stard Operator From Hell. One of the first internet jokes that did the rounds at my work.
Does anyone rememer the web rings? The days when frames were the next big thing? Ah Usenet. I used to check in every morning at work. |
03-21-2011, 07:26 AM | #25 | |
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03-21-2011, 07:29 AM | #26 |
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Like I said in the previous post I wasn't a techie but earlier in 1993 I used to think "What wonders do the gopher people have behind their electronic magic?"
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03-21-2011, 07:39 AM | #27 |
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Grandma went back a ways before computers started talking to each other, she used to tell me about her astonishment when computers started talking to each other "they can do that" she told me she used to think. She told me about her first job at the DoD where she would walk about with a bunch a wires on her arm and would plug them into sockets on the huge computer in the basement in order to program the thing. She used to tell me about teams of programers wandering through this tangled web of wires trying to figgure out what went wrong.
Pop talked about putting together programs in punch cards which he had to be very careful to keep in proper order. |
03-21-2011, 07:53 AM | #28 |
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My first computer. Purchased by the company I worked for to use SUPERCALC instead of the old Kalamazoo ledgers (which never crashed). It sat idle for over a year when I said one long weekend "Can I try that at home as see if I can get it working?"
Fortunately it also had an 80 column green screen that would sit on top instead of scrolling that tiny window back and forth. The FIRST truly portable [read luggable] computer! edit: The OS was CPM. Very similar to DOS. |
03-21-2011, 08:57 AM | #29 |
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Here's a link for anyone interested in old school computing or simply want to take a walk down memory lane or simply interested in what old school computing was in the 80's http://pc-museum.com
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03-21-2011, 12:16 PM | #30 |
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Funny, my first computer was a Heathkit H89 (had to look that up) my dad loved building things and had built a couple of Heathkit projects, a couple of Ham Radio's. The funny thing is he never used the radios for much, at the time we lived in the arctic (73) and he used the ham radios to pick up radio commercial stations(?) in Canada and once in awhile we would hear Russian on the radio.
Wannabee my first portable computer was a Compaq Portable II, it came with a hard drive, mine was upgraded to a whopping 40 meg! the processor was an Intel 80286 (AT)turbo(?) it could be switched between 6 or 8MHz. I bought it used, very, from the company I worked for, I paid $800 in 1988. |
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