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- Philmer, on 07/12/2009, -2/+501989 was 20 years ago?? Time shouldn't work like that!
What have i done with myself ? - toxicityj, on 07/12/2009, -1/+46I'm older than the internet. I feel old.
- ninzo09, on 07/12/2009, -4/+49The internet is older than me, i feel like a noob
- Junkyarddawg, on 07/12/2009, -1/+33First photo ever published on the web:
http://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernett ...
It's just so... right. - spidey0vs0venom, on 07/12/2009, -2/+24And now we just use it to look up porn and youtube videos. God bless the internet
- bizchris, on 07/12/2009, -1/+21You should post yourself to Digg. Everything else that's older than the internet has been.
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -3/+21Spent 20 years fapping to the internet.
- SpareAccount, on 07/12/2009, -2/+18The World Wide Web isn't the same thing as "The Internet", which has existed, in various forms, since 1969. That wasn't meant to sound condescending, I'm just making the point.
- Philmer, on 07/12/2009, -0/+16It's like he's following me every article i click on.
- Kaegro, on 07/12/2009, -5/+19All this advancement in technology for one thing and one thing only : 2 girls 1 cup
- ShaneMcDeath, on 07/12/2009, -0/+14Damn, waiting to find out if 2nd from the right was naked or not must have been agony.
http://img12.imageshack.us/i/lhc5.jpg/ - EddiePotato, on 07/12/2009, -0/+14After reading that description of your local keypad-powered nerfnet, I'm even more convinced development of the WWW was revolutionary.
- sirmasterboy, on 07/12/2009, -1/+11Link to the first website ever:
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hyper ... - doom777, on 07/12/2009, -0/+9How old are you, bear?
- Kaegro, on 07/12/2009, -0/+8phht, don't flatter yourself, your 33 dude, your way too old.
- leamanc, on 07/12/2009, -0/+8Yep, that's right. The summer of Batmania and Yahoo Serious at the movies, Fine Young Cannibals "She Drives Me Crazy" on the radio, and Pixies' Doolittle in your shiny new-fangled CD player, is TWENTY FREAKING YEARS AGO.
Yeah, I'm feeling old too. - kaminariko, on 07/12/2009, -0/+7Only 100 years ago:
The New York Times reported on January 14, 1910,
“ Opera broadcast in part from the stage of the New York City Metropolitan Opera Company was heard on January 13, 1910, when Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn sang arias from Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci, which were "trapped and magnified by the dictograph directly from the stage and borne by wireless Hertzian waves over the turbulent waters of the sea to transcontinental and coastwise ships and over the mountainous peaks and undulating valleys of the country." The microphone was connected by telephone wire to the laboratory of Dr. Lee De Forest. - techdever, on 07/12/2009, -1/+8Don't forget lolcats and pedobear ASCIIs
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -1/+8Mosaic still loads google
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………………………………………………………’’~-‘’_ , , ,,’,_/--‘ - kevinmoore, on 07/12/2009, -0/+6FTA: Familiar names like Google had appeared by 1999, but they were yet to oust established search engines such as Northern Light.
I remember many early search engines, (InfoSeek, Lycos, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, etc.) but I've never heard of Northern Light. - MtheoryX, on 07/12/2009, -1/+7Well, if the shoe fits...
- EddiePotato, on 07/12/2009, -0/+6I read all that in the voice of the comic book store guy from the Simpsons.
- portnoy, on 07/12/2009, -1/+6No, and here there was the internet (and ARPNet before that), I started playing with MichNet before the Internet became open, using gopher, archie, veronica, pine, etc. The first time I saw the web I was really unimpressed. It was a page of text with a bunch of underlined words, not interesting at all. It was later when I saw how it had grown and that there was a client (mozaic" that it started to look interesting.
- portnoy, on 07/12/2009, -0/+5Dude that is so weird! My wife tells me that I look like the comicbookstore dude too!
- Bloodwine, on 07/12/2009, -0/+5Let's take a moment of silence for FIDOnet, which was cast aside like a scorned lover when the internet and its fancy WWW became more accessible and with its superior markup and rendering that shamed ANSI graphics.
- Hodor, on 07/12/2009, -0/+5the horrible cernettes
- ladyattis, on 07/12/2009, -0/+4And I think that makes MUDs like... almost 35 years old? O_O
- martage, on 07/12/2009, -0/+420 years of free pornography (yep, it's been that long)
- rixbad, on 07/12/2009, -0/+4If you don't know, consider yourself lucky...I know :(
- GailScott, on 07/12/2009, -1/+5Gore's contributions were significant and important, but the existence (or worldwide usage) of the internet was inevitable--with or without Gore--after the development of WWW.
- booyahbitch, on 07/12/2009, -0/+3The bad part is...I had spent 9 years in the military by 1989....wow! I have a son who will turn 21 this year...DAMN!
- nenadsuperzmaj, on 07/12/2009, -0/+3Back in the day it was a treat to see an actual photo on a website, and the pinnacle of design were those ugly tables with thick borders and equally thich horizontal rules... Maaaan... can you even imagine what will an average website look in 2029?!?!
Mindblowing! - inactive, on 07/12/2009, -0/+3it had a typo... typical.
- booyahbitch, on 07/12/2009, -1/+4Point well made if you ask me! :o)
- scoot2006, on 07/12/2009, -1/+4He was a promoter, not a contributor. It was invented without him.
- Dweller99, on 07/12/2009, -1/+4if I could have a moment of your time before getting off your lawn, the WWW did for the Internet what Windows did for PCs. You hear about it all the time because it is accessible to everyone, not just some geeks in a back corner of a computer lab at a university somewhere.
- scarwars, on 07/12/2009, -0/+3You see.. Opera did invent the web.
- analogkid01, on 07/12/2009, -0/+3[IMAGE]
- rebrad, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2Lies! Lies! Everyone knows that Al Gore invented the internet to help combat ManBearPig!
- ingoldsby, on 07/12/2009, -1/+3The author is from the UK, which probably explains something.
- yaosio, on 07/12/2009, -0/+2To find out about the future of the Internet they asked a guy from a failed company with no imagination, good idea.
- FOR3MAN, on 07/12/2009, -2/+4Bear is ageless, and that's Mr. Bear to you buddy.
- InsomniacAgent, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2I believe you mean Pedobear, idiot.
Mr. Pedobear to you. - scarwars, on 07/12/2009, -0/+2dude.. that's almost fappable
- SirBruce, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2The graphical version of WWW only ran on the NeXT. So while there were text browsers for other platforms, for all practical purposes Mosaic was the first graphical browser that could run on almost anything.
- Paranor01, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2/raises hand
- RadiantSilver, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2Nextstep still looks cleaner and classier than any OS today, even its successor Mac OS X.
- booyahbitch, on 07/12/2009, -0/+2So does lynx!
- vizerei, on 07/12/2009, -0/+2I actually agree with DifferentAngle.
The internet owes it's creation to the packets. Not hyperlinks. -
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