The old internet

s7ryf3925pivug

Decent encryption was declared to be a weapon by the USA so they could control who could use it. People were shocked by Snowden but his revelations weren't too surprising when you put them in that context.

s7ryf3925pivug

I found pic of Naomi Campbell in a bikini and printed it out on a dodgy inkjet printer.

pornhub is way better.

Quantum Erasure

http://www.homerswebpage.com

skallywag

Jaliyah Melted Narc wrote: »

I found pic of Naomi Campbell in a bikini and printed it out on a dodgy inkjet printer.

I can recall such pics coming in one line at a time over my 28K modem, so taking about 10 minutes from the top of Naomi's head to her bikini :pac:

another observation is that Geocities promoted the concept of homesite "neighborhoods": site owners in a particular "neighborhood" could interact with one another in such forum mine was "Cape Canaveral". There were also "Rodeo" and "Heartland" neighborhoods.

Ever since, no other webspace provider business or free never again cared about facilitating such a concept, and nobody cares anyway.

Grandeeod

I'm on the old internet tonight! Broadband is not working so I'm on my laptop using a Hotspot via my crap mobile connection. Its great. All I can do is type stuff.:D Forget Youtube and anything video related.:D

Shady Grady

I remember connecting at 2400bps on dialup. And the longer the handshaking as they called it was the worse your connection was.

skallywag

Shady Grady wrote: »

I remember connecting at 2400bps on dialup. And the longer the handshaking as they called it was the worse your connection was.

Well you win the prize there. I never recall using anything slower than 14.4K.

The handshaking by the way is still used in all communication systems. It's just a way that the machine who sends the info can know that it was received correctly at the other end.

ACK : 'Acknowledge' : ' I received it properly'
NACK : 'Not Acknowledged' : 'I did not receive it properly, send it again'

Mugser

Remember getting our first Windows 95 pc, from Gateway! cant remember the specs but pretty sure the current fridge probably has more computing power, it cost somewhere in the region of 1,100 punts too.
Oceanfree.net was the way into the internet, remember the wife's comment.... "Sure that's the same as Aertel!"

Web - Rings. How to link up various amateur websites.
They died the same time homesite owners would agree together to put each others link on their own website.
The Commodore 64 webring was one of the more famous.

branie2

We got our internet at home in 1997

Graces7

Deleted User wrote: »

There was almost an innocence to the Internet. The real weirdo's were on Mirc/IRC rather than mainstream internet sites.

Everquest was all the rage, along with Ascherons call. Games that were actually difficult to play.

My students were shocked when I told them I got my first phone when I was 20. There was simply little need to have a phone at that time. No smartphones. Just simple phone/text. They all started around 14 with their smartphones and apps... I could see their eyes glaze over trying (and failing) to understand what it was like.

The only way to make a phone call in my early life was to hike down to the nearest phone box.. They always stank of... almost no one had home phones

Assetbacked

The Internet wasn't on computers back in the good old days.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

branie2 wrote: »

We got our internet at home in 1997

Same here. October 97. Dial up and wait an age for anything to load then somebody would pick up the phone to make a call and disconnect the internet. People would call wondering why the phone was engaged for so long.

The cost was ridiculous, as phone usage was charged by time.

artanevilla

Free internet CDs from AOL you got from petrol stations. Great frisbees.

Waiting a couple of days for songs to download on Winmx.

OU812

artanevilla wrote: »

Free internet CDs from AOL you got from petrol stations. Great frisbees.

AOL was the world's largest CD producer in the 90s

Grandeeod

Assetbacked wrote: »

The Internet wasn't on computers back in the good old days.

Okay, I'll bite. What was it on?

My memories.

I connected up in 1999. The usual dial up crap on my PC. Yup, it cost a fortune in phone bills for exciting stuff if you had specific interests and were finding sites worth reading. Video back then had to be downloaded before watching and even then the quality was pretty crap. But you didn't care if you got the chance to see a live recording of a band, brief as it was. Chat rooms were cool and again if it was based on an interest you had. Some came with a specific day and time for said chat.

It all changed very quickly in terms of content and the video aspect improved. But in Youtubes early days, up loads were limited to 10 mins and the quality wasn't exactly great. I spent over 10 years accessing the internet from a PC or Laptop and watching it grow and develop. Then the smart phone/tablet era came along and it changed. In 2008 Facebook was a really nice place and was considered an "oldies" spot as opposed to Myspace etc.

The mobile device gave the internet to everyone and the rest is....ah well! I often wonder how the internet would be if it was restricted to those who are computer literate.

1997: To watch many movies other than animated GIFs you used FLASH plugin. An Evil plugin for Netscape navigator.

To do your own cartoon processing for the web in 1997, you could use something like Macromedia Director.
:Make a Shockwave movie. Then convert it to Flash format for display in a web browser.

Internet Explorer 3.01 was the Microsoft offering in 1997 and was shunned, except for its compatibility with Microsoft Office 97, with which it was available on the Microsoft Office 97 CD!

paleoperson

skallywag wrote: »

Well you win the prize there. I never recall using anything slower than 14.4K.

The handshaking by the way is still used in all communication systems. It's just a way that the machine who sends the info can know that it was received correctly at the other end.

ACK : 'Acknowledge' : ' I received it properly'
NACK : 'Not Acknowledged' : 'I did not receive it properly, send it again'

The name stems of course from how in the old days you would have to travel to the local exchange and request the operator there to connect you and literally handshake the operator there agreeing to the terms and conditions. Tough times.

skallywag

paleoperson wrote: »

The name stems of course from how in the old days you would have to travel to the local exchange and request the operator there to connect you and literally handshake the operator there agreeing to the terms and conditions. Tough times.

:pac:

Capt'n Midnight

Shady Grady wrote: »

I remember connecting at 2400bps on dialup. And the longer the handshaking as they called it was the worse your connection was.

From
https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html

Let me sing you the song of my people ...
https://oona.windytan.com/blogfiles/dialup.mp3


This is what the sound looks like - large picture
https://oona.windytan.com/posters/dialup-final.png

kenmm

1/2 meg 'broadband' around summer of 2000 - compared to the dial up via my Nokia 7110 (9kbs!) it was brilliant!

Assetbacked

Grandeeod wrote: »

Okay, I'll bite. What was it on?

I was making a vague Simpsons reference, nothing to do with shorts!

kenmm

Deleted User wrote: »

Web - Rings

There is a term I haven't heard for years!

Samsgirl

Lotus notes

limnam

net meeting.

Not sure it was entirely built for the use case it ended up been used for.

:pac:

LaFuton

IOL in the 90s was my isp, 'surfing the net' all night. yip it was better in the early days, not just the newness and esoterism of it but the hidden infinity of it and it being a global library of knowledge as opposed to everyone having it now and it just being generally all samey. as somebody said, it definitely went downhill with the web 2.0 tech social media and all that jazz, it was kinda nice when it was mostly people who had interest in learning.
i remember making sites with frontpage and dreamweaver, had geocities, cant remember the others but there was shortcut kickme.to/whatever
very nostalgic now xfiles episodes coming back...

Montage of Feck

Lets say I still wanted to connect to the internet over dial-up is it still possible? I cant seem to find my eircom.net CD anywhere and i've completely forgotten how to set up a dial up connection.

LaFuton

i worked for eir for a long sad month once and its my understanding some people still are connecting with this, i think it has to be your only available option, so you would need to have your original copper phoneline and i suppose an isp still offering the old secret handshake, go on the information super highway and perform a websearch

mikeecho

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