The Internet.

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*click* Doooooooooooooooooooooooo

Ber ber ber ber bi ber ber bi ber

Boop........Boop........

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*click*BURR*clickBARR*click*SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH......









Apparently the the Internet is 25 today, and I wondered what people's earliest memories of it were.

The above is mine.

gerrybbadd

SeaSlacker wrote: »

*click* Doooooooooooooooooooooooo

Ber ber ber ber bi ber ber bi ber

Boop........Boop........

DIIIIIDIIIIIDIIIIIDURRRR

*click*BURR*clickBARR*clisk*SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH......









Apparently the the Internet is 25 today, and I wondered what people's earliest memories of it were.

The above... And ringing my mates phone number through the modem and hearing the answer coming from the pc tower. Magical times

Donkey Oaty

That'd be the web's birthday, not t'internet.

Mr. Incognito

I think the sound of the internet is a woman faking ectasy and men fapping who are not

Galwayguy35

Those of us in our 30s are probably the last generation that will remember what it was like before the internet and when everyone had a mobile phine.

Maximus Alexander

Geocities.

The Hill Billy

25, you say? I'm not surprised. Over the past while it has been getting thin on top & a bit thicker around the middle. It happens to the best of us.

Nidgeweasel

"WHO'S ON THE PHONE"

spank_inferno

T'internet is well older than 25.

jimgoose

Crappy bulletin-boards in the UK, even crappier 1200 baud modems and wobbly phone lines. It was Heaven. Like accidentally dialling a fax machine and being appalled to discover you can actually understand it!

MarkR

The internet looked like this. http://www.homerswebpage.com/

Bog Standard User

ah more mandy.... the first porn flick i installed on the scripts in school to autoload when the pc first booted. took the computer teacher 3 months and repeated disc image restorations to figure out the script was actually stored on the domain controller... fun times

Quin_Dub

Connecting via a US Robotics 4800 baud External Modem....

Downloading UUE encoded files from the usenet and having to rebuild them in a txt editor to recreate the source file..

GIF's downloading line by line on the screen in the original Mozilla browsers.. Oh, the anticipation of what the photo might be!!! :-)

My 1st job (22 years ago!!) was running a dial-up Bulletin Board service using a bank of 16 External modems whilst managing an online forum on Usenet (alt.sys.pc-clone for those of you that remember Usenet!!) and on CIX in the UK..

I was SO high-tech back then...;)

Maximus Alexander

spank_inferno wrote: »

T'internet is well older than 25.

I'm not sure if 32 years could be considered "well older" than 25 years, but even so, the first commercial Internet Service Provider didn't appear until 1989, so it is reasonable to describe that as the birth of the internet.

You pedantically could claim that the internet was born in 1969 with ARPANet, but it would be disingenuous to do so, since it is completely alien to the internet that we know today.

UtopianWarlord

Playing Age of Empires online, which somehow connected and didn't lag. My internet used to only connect at 14.4kbps until we got broadband too, I remember downloading a single song for nearly an hour

jimgoose

Quin_Dub wrote: »

Connecting via a US Robotics 4800 baud External Modem....

Downloading UUE encoded files from the usenet and having to rebuild then in a txt editor to recreate the source file..

GIF's downloading line by line of the screen in the original Mozilla browsers.. Oh, the anticipation of what the photo might be!!! :-)

My 1st job (22 years ago!!) was running a dial-up Bulletin Board service using a bank of 16 External modems whilst managing an online forum on Usenet (alt.sys.pc-clone for those of you that remember Usenet!!) and on CIX in the UK..

I was SO high-tech back then...;)

Will you pipe down and stop hogging all the Bauds? Some guys at MIT are trying to send me 207 reasons why Captain Picard is better than Captain Kirk!

jmcc

Funny all the technology churnalists who claim that the internet is 25 years old. But then they probably never got the press release about it being older.

Regards...jmcc

jester77

Surfing porn was frustrating back then. You would have to wait a few mins for a pic to download line by line or if it was a gif you would have to wait for it to unpixelate! And after all that it may not even be worthy material.

Quin_Dub

jester77 wrote: »

Surfing porn was frustrating back then. You would have to wait a few mins for a pic to download line by line or if it was a gif you would have to wait for it to unpixelate! And after all that it may not even be worthy material.

But the anticipation of what it might be was great!!!...

This could be cool.........she looks hot!!!........Ah jesus , it's a bloke!!!!!

jmcc

jester77 wrote: »

Surfing porn was frustrating back then. You would have to wait a few mins for a pic to download line by line or if it was a gif you would have to wait for it to unpixelate! And after all that it may not even be worthy material.

At 2400 baud and below, it could take half an hour or more to download some files. Wonder if there was any correlation between the invention of Viagra and slow download rates?

Regards...jmcc

Bog Standard User

Quin_Dub wrote: »

But the anticipation of what it might be was great!!!...

This could be cool.........she looks hot!!!........Ah jesus , it's a bloke!!!!!

bet ya still had that ****

Birneybau

Oh, they have the internet on computers now.

Davarus Walrus

It's a series of complex tubes, the Interwebulator.

jimgoose

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

It's a series of complex tubes, the Interwebulator.

Mwaa-HEY!! :pac::pac::pac:

eviltimeban

A few memories. Going into Trinity with my brother and "seeing" the pre-browser internet, this must've been about 1992. Getting him to print off (on dot matrix paper) posts from rec.music.beatles. Posting on said newsgroup (and my posts from 1992 are still there).

Not quite web-related but again my bro and his friend playing 688 Attack Sub over their phone line, which I think was the first "online" multiplayer game (or one of). His friend picking up the phone to speak and his voice coming out the computer monitors.

Sitting playing the guitar or reading a book while waiting for emails to "download".

Waiting until after 6pm before I could connect (cheaper call).

Very very very slowly and patiently waiting for that picture of Donna D'Errico to load on screen. And Alley Baggett. And Patricia Ford. And...

Downloading 30 second clips of songs in Real format.

I'm surprised with all this nostaglia that hipsters haven't come along and made a "hipsternet" or somesuch, where all the websites are early 90s style and "webrings" are how you connect with other people.

would be kind of cool :-)

mikom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1AQcGGSec

eviltimeban

People calling it the "Information Superhighway".

Ruu

When we first got the internet, my parents were having none of it. Friends would be talking to my Dad taking the piss. "so John, are you surfing the web yet?" Hated that term. Real Player..buffering.

If anyone is interested in learning a little more on Alan Turing, Tim Berners Lee, the chap that invented Ethernet and more, it is worth checking out the Coursera course below. There are currently no sessions but add it to your watchlist.

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

Duggy747

WinMx
AudioGalaxy
Winamp
MSN GameZone
Unreal Tournament
Microsoft Comic Chat
GeoCities
Yahoo Checkers
AltaVista
Netscape Navigator
Billions of "100 Free Hours" internet CDs
10 second Quicktime clips of music videos
Hamster Dance
Rotten

Ah, memories...........................*shudder*

smileyj1987

Doom and quake online , age of empires , napster and get away from the house phone .

jester77

Blast from the past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x5OXfe9KY

DrumSteve

Quin_Dub wrote: »

But the anticipation of what it might be was great!!!...

This could be cool.........she looks hot!!!........Ah jesus , it's a bloke!!!!!

Come on Captain Janeway... I haven't got all day.

StompToWork

DrumSteve wrote: »

Come on Captain Janeway... I haven't got all day.

Best......post.........EVER.

Temptamperu

Internet? wouldnt be using it meself.

briany

I really wish I could have experienced the whole dial up BBS scene that existed in the late 80s/early 90s but we didn't even have a phone line at the time, much less the know-how on how to get some proto-Internet access going. We had a lend of a C64 but that was to me, at the time, basically a funny looking game console. I had no idea of it's nature as a home computer.

First memory of the Internet was probably watching my brother chat with somebody in America. They tell him that they're from Indiana, so my brother goes 'Eerie, Indiana?'. They didn't understand the reference.