This is what "Internet" looked like 15 years ago. LOL

Standard Toaster

Linky (5.6mb wmv)

Hehe....even explains what 'emotions' are
We've come a long way

Basquillech

I should look into that internet thing it sounds great

Infini

The_Edge wrote:

Linky (5.6mb wmv)

Hehe....even explains what 'emotions' are
We've come a long way

Boy ain't that retro!

Basq

Love the bit with "there's not a lot of swearing.. not a lot of putdowns. There's not screenfuls of Go To Hell!"

Obviously hasn't been on a thread with Godlike!

EDIT:

Also loved when they has the users from different parts of the world saying what the Internet meant to them:

"Someone in Engand - "I can indulge my deep and abiding passion for all things Thai"

What kinda sites is he looking at?!

mad m

basquille wrote:

Also loved when they has the users from different parts of the world saying what the Internet meant to them:

"Someone in Engand - "I can indulge my deep and abiding passion for all things Thai"

What kinda sites is he looking at?!

Yeah was going to quote that,and id say its not the food either.haha ;-]

spunkymunky

I love, 'its called Internet'
Hey look at me, im on internet :-) (turn head to left to see 'im kidding')

JohnCleary

It has caught on everywhere, except here in Canida.. I guess the border means something

Sorry but I laughed my arse off at that line

Hugh Hefner

I saw that video about 3 months ago. I still can't imagine the mechanics of the internet that's depicted in it. I mean, it doesn't have sites or anything. I Just can't get my head around the practicalities of navigating it.

Basq

Hugh Hefner wrote:

I saw that video about 3 months ago. I still can't imagine the mechanics of the internet that's depicted in it. I mean, it doesn't have sites or anything. I Just can't get my head around the practicalities of navigating it.

I know... everything seemed to be typed in a DOS Prompt!

_Kaiser_

only cost $200 a year to get connected huh?... we STILL pay eircom far more than that every year in line rental!

Ain't progress great(!) :rolleyes:

Drapper

Love them hairstyles !!

nachos

anyone know what year that was from?

Standard Toaster

Once of the screen shots shows 1992 at one stage.

Berger

15 years ago.

2005 - 15= I DONT KNOW ?? WHAT

StupidLikeAFox

:-( I Am Serious!!!

DrIndy

Jesus! LOL!

the_syco

Takes me back to when I used to connect to a BBS. Was only the one number. Found some basic porn :cool: but it was wiped shortly afterwards Connected to it with a 28kb modem (may have been a 14kb modem; its been a while).

There was another number, which had warez on it, but that was the bloody holy grail. Unless you knew of someone with the number, you couldn't get it. In the US, there was greater availbility of the numbers, but over here, it was more scarce.

Some of the younger people wouldn't believe how handy they have it, with the internet, and all.

Berger

the_syco wrote:

Some of the younger people wouldn't believe how handy they have it, with the internet, and all.

*Cringe*

L5

:-]

Just kidding

Slutmonkey57b

That was the days before the World Wide Web was discovered by ordinary morons who assumed that the Web was the internet, as opposed to one part of it.

Nowadays you get people who claim their internet isn't working when IE breaks down.

L5

video is a fake i think. Check out the WinXP background at 3:34 minutes in that video.

bonkey

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

That was the days before the World Wide Web was discovered by ordinary morons who assumed that the Web was the internet, as opposed to one part of it.

Ahh yes. The good ol' days

Standard Toaster

L5 wrote:

video is a fake i think. Check out the WinXP background at 3:34 minutes in that video.

Yeah, they must of had the first beta copy of Whistler there.

Anyway, check out this Microsoft add from the same era. [size=-1]Steve Ballmer 'selling' Windows 1.0
What's with the ".....except in Nebraska" at the end?
[/size]

L5

The_Edge wrote:

Yeah, they must of had the first beta copy of Whistler there.

Anyway, check out this Microsoft add from the same era. [size=-1]Steve Ballmer 'selling' Windows 1.0
What's with the ".....except in Nebraska" at the end?
[/size]

holy crap, there's a heart attack candidate if ever I saw one.

[Jackass]

Richard - Somewhere in England

"I can indulge my deep and abioding passion for all things thai."

Haha...Brilliant!

I love the "tilt your head to the left" part too! :-] <<---- I'm Kidding...it was sh!t :-[

I think the guy was talking through his chocolate factory when he said "There's no put-downs etc." ... I thought that's what the internet was invented for....to make 12 year olds feel important?

Hmmm...and the dude up-loading illegal court transcripts...should have been a sign of things to come. (Along with the thai porn......Im off to look up www.MeLoveYouLongTime-FiveDolla.com)

Steffano2002

L5 wrote:

video is a fake i think. Check out the WinXP background at 3:34 minutes in that video.

Didn't look like the Windows XP background to me. Looks more like some satellite picture for the weather report. I think it's genuine :-[ (tilt your head to the left: I'm serious!)

Boro

DubGuy22 wrote:

Im off to look up www.MeLoveYouLongTime-FiveDolla.com

I feel let down, that site doesnt exist :-[
(look im emoting through text! Woah!)

(insert name)

I think b3ta.com had a photoshopping competition a while ago entitled the Victorian Internet, maybe they have archives?

danniemcq

"He wants ppl to be rooted and the only way that can happen is if someone else roots them" brilliant it's the start of porn

pclancy

take a look at this for some old sites

http://web.archive.org

look at microsoft.com in 1995 or good ol tinet.ie

who could have imagined java or flash in those days

dr strangelove

After a quick Googlifaction:

1993 - There are 15 million people online worldwide and the CBC's Bill Cameron reports, "The internet is growing like an embryonic brain at a rate of 10 per cent a month."

Taken from here

i remember being at university in 1994 and everyone crowding into one of the labs cos someone had just found pictures of NAKED LADIES on "this internetworking thing!"

Ah, the joys of technology......

Exit

L5 wrote:

video is a fake i think. Check out the WinXP background at 3:34 minutes in that video.

Nah, it's not fake. The host is a real news anchor in Canada for CBC.

scargill

L5 wrote:

holy crap, there's a heart attack candidate if ever I saw one.

thats nothing....loot at the nutcase now

(insert name)

(insert name) wrote:

I think b3ta.com had a photoshopping competition a while ago entitled the Victorian Internet, maybe they have archives?

Here[url] [/url]

(insert name)

(insert name) wrote:

I think b3ta.com had a photoshopping competition a while ago entitled the Victorian Internet, maybe they have archives?

here we go

Lemming

Exit wrote:

Nah, it's not fake. The host is a real news anchor in Canada for CBC.

Interesting .... a list of usenet feeds gets listed at 2.15 - listed as among the political discussions are Rush Limbaugh (fair enough) and Bill Clinton ...

Interesting since the rush fro the whitehouse in which clinton was first elected wouldn't occur for a couple more years. That makes me question the time authenticity of some of the footage.

Then at 3:12 there is a screen with a UNIX copyright notice of 1992.

If this video is 15 years old, there's something wrong here.

FX Meister

Political discussions may not have been limited to Bill Clinton running for President, he had a political career before that.

Lemming

FX Meister wrote:

Political discussions may not have been limited to Bill Clinton running for President, he had a political career before that.

I know, but given that in that time-period you had Panama, Grenada, and the Iran-Iraq war (with weapons supplied by the US), the gassing of the kurds, and possibly the onset of the first Gulf war - why was Clinton being discussed?

I mean, why not, but at the same time the guy would have been 'just another politician' in the US system, unless he'd either been in a prominent senior white-house position prior or been involved in something publically controversial.

Steffano2002

scargill wrote:

thats nothing....loot at the nutcase now

I had seen this one alright! And when I saw the crappy old add for Windows 1.0 posted by The Edge, I asked myself if it was the same nutter. It was...
If he hasn't had a quadruple bypass by now it's a miracle!

Standard Toaster

What a fooking loser.

hardCopy

The_Edge wrote:

What a fooking loser.

I think he used to write speeches for Howard Dean?

RAFALUTION

Great find! That was pretty interesting.