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- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+53how dare you utter the name of ebaums in this place...
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39Peter Mansbridge is the bomb, yo. Ah, the way we were. And just think, ten years from now we'll be looking back and laughing at digg...or maybe digg will be looking back and laughing at us?
- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -27/+58this is old. the internet has been around for YEARS.
- isemism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29#######################/
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#########/ WELCOME TO DIGG BBS!!!
######| our stop on INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY
######## sysop: keVin_r0s3 - lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Check out that guy's mad hunt-and-peck typing skills.
- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27"there's no cursing, put downs..."
there's the understatment of the millenia - burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25haha yeah, Peter Mansbride is awesome.
It's so hilarious how they refer to it as 'internet', not 'the internet'. ...somewhat like Buster from Arrested Development: "Hey, I know Army!" or "Hey, he's from Army!" - ordinarywonder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19thats freaking hillarious...
i love how he's all like "its just so calm, theres no pages that say GO TO HELL or anything.... i think we have something wonderful going on" or something like that... bwaha! - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Man, I can't wait until the military can use this new technology called "internet." Hopefully they'll allow us common folk to use it some time in the near future.
Who knows, we might even be able to simplify the distribution of pornography! - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21http://baumanletters.ytmnd.com/
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19BloodJunkie, you too have spoken the name of he-whose-name-shall-not-be-spoken. To the dungeon with the both of ye!
- XxUNDEROATHxX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19oh how I miss the "Electronic Scream" of 56k...
- genmud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17@knightblade2oo4
Your an idiot. :-(
With that emoticon, that means I am serious.
(Joke) - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16http://ebaumsworldsucks.com
- isemism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Someday when I get interviewed, I wanna be called an "internet enthusiast" too.
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15No, no. We got it.
It's just that it was a REALLY crappy joke... - biff198, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16My favorite quote: "There's not a lot of cursing/swearing"
My how 'internet' has evolved....
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http://www.crusaderflash.com/ - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14@burke
But if you talk about those of whom we do not speak, have you not spoken of that about which we do not talk? - Jamezes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Does the monitor at the top left seem like Windows XP at 3:30?
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I remember being in a bookstore in 1994 and reading a book on BBS. It briefly mentioned the Internet in there as part of a synopsis of the networks available at that time. The book stated that the Internet was 'too complicated and was fragmented with too many protocols which were impossible to grasp for the average user". Hell, at that time the author was probably correct, but he also predicted that the Internet would always "be relegated to academic use and not be adopted by a mainstream audience" - LOL.
- rpn700, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1256k? When we moved from 4800 baud to 14.4 we thought we were Kings!
- fuzzmello, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"there's not screenfulls of 'go to hell' " those were the days...
- isemism, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I did search Digg quite a bit before submitting this one.. by URL and keywords. Alas, I could be wrong
- CoolSilver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10$200 dollars a year. All on BLAZING AOL or BBSes!
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10 CBC.ca archives "Broadcast Date: Oct. 8, 1993"
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-75-1738-11981/science_technology/internet/clip6 - matts0344, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I thought the same thing! It looked like XP with the "Bliss" desktop backround. Weird...
- jcmead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+94800 baud Ha! ; ) Try it with a 300 baud then you will know slow. And my first account was cheaper than $200 per year , only $6 per month ( However that was for only six hours per month. oh , and the long distance charge to log on was nearly double that) . Imagine not wanting to download a 100k file because it would take too long.
- passion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Crazy?! Not at all... many times that electronic scream was the sound of "jacking in". It was the sound of a door opening, I was pavlovian-trained to crave that sound.
I would go crazy when I heard it over and over and over again, and still no connection. - geeko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Riiiiight, no screenfulls of "Go to hell"
I see those all over the place. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Thats EXACTLY what i thought of!
I cant believe that generation didnt go crazy - Darmichar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8IIRC, CompuServe was also one of the main players in getting people on-line in the early stages of the Net.
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8They keep misspelling internets.
- leboff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwQYyUoOA7w&search=the%20internet
youtube version - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6i no rite its pissin me off
- isemism, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I always hated the scream of 56K. I think its because I was afraid it would wake up my parents and they would catch me on the pr0n. Thats how I learned AT commands to tell the modem to shut the hell up... :)
- derkles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Lol, Internet
- Sanchez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Who else thinks an AIM box should have popped up with the message "LOL" after: "human spirit".
- batguano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4*****! you SO get a digg for that blast from the past isemism. LOL
- MilitantRabbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4We went from 15 million worldwide through 28.8 kbaud modems tapping megabytes of scientific data to 600 million worldwide through 10MBit lines tapping thousands upon thousands of terabytes of mostly useless data in 15 years.
Impressive. - letterten, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5seen it before, but looking back, still funny as hell. imagine what a report about the 'net today will look like in 2016.
- anonymonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Mal, do you really think I need to know that???
;-) - quokkapox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Can anybody date this better than ~1993 ? I noticed one of the newsgroups was alt.politics.clinton, but there was no mention of the WWW.
- thebigkahuna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this is probably the best CBC programming i have ever seen and im including a canada: a peoples history.
- rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh man, internet's birth - so fun. I first started with BBSes (I still remember calling up sysop's numbers at the wrong hour and have their voice come over my 2400 baud Hayes AT modem yelling at me). That's when you'd look for porn labelled "ST:TNG - Troy", and you'd wait for Kermit to download your picture. It took *10 minutes* to download a good picture - and I could only see it in monocrhrome (black and white monitors 5.25" floppy's win.exe = awesome). And you had to use "attrib -h" on your porn to make it a hidden file in DOS, because back when hard drives topped out at 100 MB, you (and your dad) knew *every* file on your computer and what it did. You had to use "del" a lot if you wanted to use more than a dozen or so programs.
Thank God Prodigy came along. I could actually talk to other people outside my calling area. And we had awesome usernames like ZHW2345ZH. But at least you could find new numbers for other BBSes, and use CShow to look at even more porn :)
Then CompuServe came into the scene, along with 14.4 kbps modems, and ***** took off. Then AOL and their f*cking white disks, and *boom*, everyone was online. - Cyborg771, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"There is not a lot of swearing or put downs...etc" My how internets have changed.
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Awww.... You're making me feel young.
- AngryBacon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4No pages that say go to hell,
o rly??
http://www.gotohell.com/
Yes, that's a real web page. - RpgActioN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can't remember them.... :(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So, tell me more about this "internet"??
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In case you're not familiar with Canadian television, the network here is the CBC, which is one of Canada's big networks (and partially government owned), and the anchor is Peter Mansbridge, who still anchors "The National" today, the CBC's national newscast.
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