A Little Internet History

[Siouxfaninseattle]

Here's a link to a website that is pretty interesting - the first ever use of www. Ancient history - it goes back to 1992.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

 

[jericho]

Re: A Little Internet History

...- the first ever use of www. Ancient history - it goes back to 1992.

Which is also the exact same year Al Gore became Vice President. Coincidence?

 

[St. Clown]

Re: A Little Internet History

Which is also the exact same year Al Gore became Vice President. Coincidence?

No, he was elected in 1992, but didn't become the VP until January, 1993.

 

[joecct]

No, he was elected in 1992, but didn't become the VP until January, 1993.

Slow pipeline. 2400 baud was fast then.

 

[FreshFish]

Re: A Little Internet History

Slow pipeline. 2400 baud was fast then.

Yeah and you generally had to stick your telephone handset into your modem....

I suppose some of our younger posters might not even know what a 'telephone handset' was, unless they see one when they visit their grandparents....

 

[joecct]

Yeah and you generally had to stick your telephone handset into your modem....

I suppose some of our younger posters might not even know what a 'telephone handset' was, unless they see one when they visit their grandparents....

What was the communication software that came with every modem? Black case.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: A Little Internet History

Yeah and you generally had to stick your telephone handset into your modem....

I suppose some of our younger posters might not even know what a 'telephone handset' was, unless they see one when they visit their grandparents....

Offices still have them; it's not all headsets. You may have to explain to them why we still call it "dialing"...

 

[jmh]

Re: A Little Internet History

Slow pipeline. 2400 baud was fast then.

I remember how excited I was when I upgraded from a 2400 baud modem to 14400. Prodigy loaded so much faster!