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- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -21/+185THIS IS LIKE 13 YEARS OLD BURIED.
- combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -4/+80You've got it backwards. The internet wouldn't be where it is today without the porn industry.
- tfizzle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+70Odd, it is so old to us, but so far ahead of Senator Ted Stevens.
- Bokista, on 10/12/2007, -1/+50I love that it's called "Internet" and not "the Internet."
- Shayer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+52good flashback (xcept the lame wow in the end)
- TurtleBeoulve, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39How many times can this lame ass video get pushed to the front page. This has to be at least the 10th time I've seen this video on here. Please stop posting it.
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34"I can indulge my deep and abiding passion for all things Thai"
Hehe, bet you can. Pervert. - anti_hax0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Knightblade is just jealous because the story is older than he is.
- subigo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Just a hint, if you are at work and you have your sound turned up, get ready for people to look over in your general direction when your speakers start screaming, "The internet is for porn!".
Just a tip. - Brenky, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Peter Mansbridge is a legend.
- EbowUK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17For the benefit of the parents who may be proud of Little Johnny for being part of the adventure that is Digg, and reading this over his shoulder, can I just say:
There is no porn on the internet
MILF *must* be a typo for MILK
We don't play video games
That is all. - ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Funny, I've never seen it on here before.
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I love that the reporter said it cost only $200 per year.
You'd think we could at least match that price these days. - farazyashar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17For those that don't know, this line comes from a hit broadway musical Avenue Q as it is the title and subject for one of the most amazing songs ever written.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_q#The_Internet_Is_for_Porn - suppazone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15"Stein in Oslo...." and then they show the Swedish flag???
- thirdplanet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15grab your dick and doubleclick
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20This video is always posted like every three months...
- Lane5slacker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Then some kid got a modem and almost started a nuclear war.
- DragonAura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Oslo = big city in Norway
- shitthisfook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11We've come so far. I wonder if the change will be as drastic in the next 13 years ?
- sovereign3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Otherwise known as MySpace?
- roastedbagel, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14The porn industry wouldn't be where it is today without the intrawebs
- DragonAura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8MILF is closer to a typo for MILD.
Sorry... I'll go die now. - siliconglen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Speaking of 1993, I wrote this in a research report in 1993 - this is about the web.
"The X based program xmosaic is an interface to the World Wide Web (WWW) started at CERN. Xmosaic allows a hypertext document to have links to files on machines across the world. This technology is very exciting and is based on the idea that setting up a connection to other computers is becoming cheap. Imagine hundreds of people on many continents collaborating on a single document. This is what WWW is aiming for and it works today. " (a very Web 2.0 remark for 13+ years ago!!)
Ah, if only I'd been in Silicon Valley and not Scotland....
The full report is here under the "computer supported cooperative work" link in MS Word format. Well, not many documents were being authored in HTML in Scotland in 1993 and I've never got round to converting it.
http://www.siliconglen.com/craig/cv.html - Smeed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8FDR watched this during his second term.
/diggdown - beejay54, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The CBC and Peter Mansbridge kick ass. So does the BBC. No other network even comes close.
- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7lol anti_hax0r
and @griz:
I hope you're ***** me. - Mithrander, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8ARRGGG the sound of a 28k modem connecting to 'internet' makes my brain hurt...bad memories, bad bad memories...
- kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"You'd think we could at least match that price these days."
Sure, just sign up for a free dial up account. That's really cheap these days.
Ohh, you mean you want be able to download movies, mp3s and games for $200 / year?
Yeah right. - Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Pretty soon a phenomenon known as Internet come to YOUR house.
Sounds scary :-) - Halfang, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Internet, serious business, since 1993.
- tdyer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Peter Mansbridge is a god!
- Supernova36, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I like how he calls it 'Internet'. Wonder when it became 'The Internet'.
- digital1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Its better than another article about digg.
- jarvelated, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oh, they have the internet on computers now...
- AlbinoRaven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@ccanni
For $200 a year you got a slip account @ 2400 baud from universities, 9600 baud if you were REALLY lucky.
God, I can't believe the crap we ran all that infrastructure on 13 years ago. The most amount of memory we had in any of our servers was about 128 megs and we had a million records in there and the same ***** box was shared with the university for crunching numbers.
Sing with me...VAX VAX VAX VAX VAX VAX VMS!!! Alpha alpha alpha VMS!!! "How do you sync the databases on VMS?" I don't know how do you? "Fedex the disk over night hope it mounts!" LOL...god we were nerds...
No Linux, no Windows NT or Mac. Green screen or nothing baby!! - SebastianR, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6* Capital City
- Lazrius, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Already made front page...
http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/05/they-call-it-internet.html - AlbinoRaven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Delicious ascii porn. Huge five foot long ascii pictures of Spock.
"Ascii a stupid question and get a stupid ansi!" Ha!
Honk. - astrosmash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5No, I want to see it again. And again. And again and again.
- gr8one, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm still not convinced that the internet has very wide appeal to the general public, my money is on the Segway Personal Transporter.
- digital1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3MILF is a typeo of DILF
- TheKeithD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You'll probably have even more problems viewing it on YouTube now.
- gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like how they played "The Internet is for porn" at the end!
If you want to watch the full version it's on Google Video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7997646050642417046&q=the+internet+is+for+porn - positron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Funny, I pay right around $240/year for 6mbit adsl.
- Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It became "the internet" when it became a singular entity; originally, "an internet" was what you got when two colleges established data links between themselves. It was only over time that those connections became standardized and universal.
I remember back in 1989 when the coolest part about working for my company was that we got a Usenet feed from the University. Then I discovered what it was like trying to keep up with the hundreds of flame wars per day on the alt.comp.sys.* groups. - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was only a junior/senior in high school!! I was still using BBS' on 28.8k modem. :)
- xNaquada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Show your math!
- MrPlug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Classic, I love my interweb
- gib0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3heh, beat me to it. :)
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