History of the Internet

[TylerDurden]

http://www.thelemon.net/issues/timeline.php

pretty good reading

 

[Ian_F]

HAHA, I love homestarrunner!

 

[blackbuick87]

World-Wide Web released by CERN. Group suggests someone invent a web browser so people can use it.

Dan Bricklin invents the spreadsheet. It will be 5 more years before anyone knows what they're for, and another decade before anyone knows how to use them.

 

[TurboTer]

What memories! MOSAIC!!! When I first got Internet access back in '95 (when the web was still good) I used that program! What a shame. They started the wed browser revolution and Netscape and Internet Explorer got all the credit for it. No one even remembers it.

BTW, I wish it would have covered BBS's. Anyone remember them?

 

[FlyinGN]

I've been on the net since the early days. 93. Working for a Major university i had access way back then. it was very different. I remember then I was tryingto send a picture and Ken Mosher was trying to talk me thru a FTP method. Wow was I confused. and still am lol..
I was on a place called the Hot rod list. There were some sharp guys on that. John Dearmond, Ken Mosher, Dave Cooley and a bunch of others.. Wow those days were different..

 

[victa1]

I had to learn a few UNIX commands to use my first internet
"shell" account. That was back in 93 when I was using "powerful" laptop, 25mhz 386 with a speedy 9.6 modem.

 

[blackbuick87]

I remember playing DOOM on my bud's 486/33 (it even had a "turbo" button, as if someone would want to use the computer at half speed), then I got my Pentium 75, and it was blindingly fast

 

[TurboTer]

Those times, while much simpler, were much more fun. I would trade today's technology in a second to go back to the good old days of the Internet.

 

[TurboMike]

Originally posted by FlyinGN
I've been on the net since the early days. 93. Working for a Major university i had access way back then. it was very different. I remember then I was tryingto send a picture and Ken Mosher was trying to talk me thru a FTP method. Wow was I confused. and still am lol..
I was on a place called the Hot rod list. There were some sharp guys on that. John Dearmond, Ken Mosher, Dave Cooley and a bunch of others.. Wow those days were different..

I remember those days Frank. I came around '94. Ken, Jay Carter and a couple others were it. If your TR is fast, thank those guys. Man, I haven't heard of Dave Cooley in a looong time. Maybe we should start a post "What ever happened to..."

 

[pat83t]

Originally posted by TurboTer

BTW, I wish it would have covered BBS's. Anyone remember them?

A friend of mine used to run one around here. I loved it. Connected to it with my 286 with math co-processor and 2400 baud modem.

 

[TurboTer]

Originally posted by pat83t
A friend of mine used to run one around here. I loved it. Connected to it with my 286 with math co-processor and 2400 baud modem.

I ran one in my house from 1994-1997. It was called Knight's Realm, and was a general BBS. After success, I founded Right-Net, a network to link other BBS's to the messages of Right-Net, which covered very conservative issues without having to worry about being censored. A little while later, I created 80's Net, a net about the decade of the 1980's. Those years were some of the best of my life, and I will never ever forget them and the users that made Knight's Realm a success.

 

[Little6pack]

I remember using TIN to getting to the NEWSgroups..

Hey I worked for BBN which orriginally helped DARPA.
We had a webfarm with 300+ servers

 

[Gothmog]

"if my opponent invented the internet, how come every internet address starts with dubya?"
- George W. Bush 2000

real quote!

 

[Rogue Leader]

the days of old BBS's and the original COmpuserve and AOL is where my name of Rogue Leader came from... My gosh I cant even remember when I started!!!

I had a PCXT at one point BTW

 

[TurboTer]

Originally posted by Rogue Leader
the days of old BBS's and the original COmpuserve and AOL is where my name of Rogue Leader came from... My gosh I cant even remember when I started!!!

I had a PCXT at one point BTW

Were you on my BBS, Knight's Realm? Located in Staten Island, NY, it ran from 1994-1997. My BBS name was White Knight.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Originally posted by TurboTer
Were you on my BBS, Knight's Realm? Located in Staten Island, NY, it ran from 1994-1997. My BBS name was White Knight.

very possible ..... i honestly dont remember everything but Im pretty sure I was there at one point towards like 94 or 95...

 

[TurboTer]

Originally posted by Rogue Leader
very possible ..... i honestly dont remember everything but Im pretty sure I was there at one point towards like 94 or 95...

I have an old backup of Renegade on my hard drive. Will check my users to see if you were there. The only thing going against it is I am in SI and you are in LI. That can get expensive after a while.

 

[ULYCYC]

I started on a Apple 2 C with a 300 baud modem. It took a 1/2 hour just to say hello on the BBS

 

[Rogue Leader]

I remember getting a 14,400 baud modem and it was like WOW thats so fast noone supported it... i ran at 9,600 most of the time... even AOL for the longest time!!!!

using differnet protocols to download stuff like Zmodem and Xmodem, etc....

 

[FlyinGN]

yep yep.. Jay Carter was really instrumental in those days.. Last I heard of dave Cooley he had a Neon and was messing with that makin it faster.. That was 5 years ago or more..

Frank

Originally posted by TurboMike
I remember those days Frank. I came around '94. Ken, Jay Carter and a couple others were it. If your TR is fast, thank those guys. Man, I haven't heard of Dave Cooley in a looong time. Maybe we should start a post "What ever happened to..."