Is that a Rule 19 violation?
Since 1996?Hmmmm? Rule 19 is " The more you want something to not happen, the more likely it will happen just to piss you off."
This seems more to me like Rule 34.
That reminded me of the fortune -o, where the Berkley Students hid the offensive fortunes in the Unix kernel.Since 1996?
The Internet has been around since 1968, and there was porn available on the Internet back in the 1970s. Typically in the form of ASCII Art. Although, you needed to be a geek in order to find it in those days.
Since 1996?
The Internet has been around since 1968, and there was porn available on the Internet back in the 1970s. Typically in the form of ASCII Art. Although, you needed to be a geek in order to find it in those days.
Tim Berners-Lee created the WWW protocol in 1989, not 1996. AOL was offering Internet access by 1991. CompuServ was offering Internet access by 1984. Netscape was first released in 1994.And the meme is talking about the advent of the WWW and expansion of the Internet from just education and the military and contractors to where everybody could use it. The "Internet" of 1995 and before is almost unrecognizeable to anybody today that had never experienced it.
"What do you mean, no Google or even Yahoo? And WTF is Archie?"
Hmmmm? Rule 19 is " The more you want something to not happen, the more likely it will happen just to piss you off."
This seems more to me like Rule 34.
Tim Berners-Lee created the WWW protocol in 1989, not 1996. AOL was offering Internet access by 1991. CompuServ was offering Internet access by 1984. Netscape was first released in 1994.
Services change all the time, before there was Google there was Alta Vista and Lycos. Just because the Archie, Veronica, and Gopher services are unfamiliar to you doesn't mean they were inferior. They were around at least as long as Google.
Since 1996?
The Internet has been around since 1968, and there was porn available on the Internet back in the 1970s. Typically in the form of ASCII Art. Although, you needed to be a geek in order to find it in those days.
Not true. I had full Internet access via Compu-Serv throughout the 1980s. AOL also provided full Internet access. POP3 didn't even exist before 1988.Actually, all that CompuServe and AOL offered was POP3 email through their email services. That was all, nothing else.
Yes they did, as early as 1991.AOL did not actually offer "Internet Service" until late 1996.
You apparently are unaware that Compu-Serv began in 1969 and by 1980 was offering complete Internet access, four years before the POP protocol was created. There was also never any prohibited activity on the Internet. Commercial activity didn't start until WWW and browsers were created, several years before 1996. I set up a web site in 1994 that allowed online payments for a utility company, and there was much more commercial activity developed by others before I developed that web site.At roughly the same time MSN and Compuserve started to offer Internet services. Prior to that, all such services (including Prodigy, Genie, The Source, etc, etc, etc) were all self-contained networks with no connection to the Internet or anything else, other than POP3 and some Usenet.
If you knew about how things at this time stood, you would know that at this time it was still administered by the National Science Foundation. And commercial activity was prohibited. That was how things stood from 1985-1995, at which time t\"The Internet" was opened up for commercial use, and it then exploded in late 1995 and early 1996.
Are you really suggesting that the Internet didn't exist until the WWW protocol was developed? That would be like claiming there were no cars before seat-belts. Get a clue.
I know I was participating in usenet arguments in at least 1989 via kermit and tcpip.Not true. I had full Internet access via Compu-Serv throughout the 1980s. AOL also provided full Internet access. POP3 didn't even exist before 1988.
Yes they did, as early as 1991.
You apparently are unaware that Compu-Serv began in 1969 and by 1980 was offering complete Internet access, four years before the POP protocol was created. There was also never any prohibited activity on the Internet. Commercial activity didn't start until WWW and browsers were created, several years before 1996. I set up a web site in 1994 that allowed online payments for a utility company, and there was much more commercial activity developed by others before I developed that web site.
There was also very few ISP's prior to the WWW protocol. Most of the time I had Internet access through the University of Minnesota, until I obtained a Compu-Serv account.
POP was created in 1984, POP2 in 1985, and POP3 in 1988.I know I was participating in usenet arguments in at least 1989 via kermit and tcpip.
One company I worked for was using DECnet email in early 1985.
You apparently are unaware that Compu-Serv began in 1969 and by 1980 was offering complete Internet access, four years before the POP protocol was created
Hmmmm? Rule 19 is " The more you want something to not happen, the more likely it will happen just to piss you off."
This seems more to me like Rule 34.
It was more fun in the 90's and early 2000's I think back when Google wasn't this giant monolith and there were search engine wars and browser wars. I was jumping all over trying out different ones. Although the browser wars were pretty much just Netscape Navigator vs IE back then but search engines, they were all over the place angling for your attention. Had I been a gambling man, I'd have lost all my money because I thought Ask Jeeves was going to become the dominant search engine.And the meme is talking about the advent of the WWW and expansion of the Internet from just education and the military and contractors to where everybody could use it. The "Internet" of 1995 and before is almost unrecognizeable to anybody today that had never experienced it.
"What do you mean, no Google or even Yahoo? And WTF is Archie?"
I thought Ask Jeeves was going to become the dominant search engine.
It's still around it seems...
It was the Internet. What you are describing it the WWW protocol that runs on the Internet. If you are calling the WWW the "Internet," like a lot of people incorrectly do, then you are not very well informed about the Internet. It was also not being run by the NSF, and never had been. I accessed it via PlatoNet from the University of Minnesota in 1979. The major universities were the ISP at that time. The University of Minnesota provided public internet access to Minnesota, both Dakotas, and Iowa.No, it was not.
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I still remember this era very clearly. And "The Internet" as people think of it today did not yet exist. Hell, Archie did not even exist yet. You had IRC, Usenet, and could log in as a GUEST to a handful of servers, primarily universities.
I still remember Usenet, was very active in it at one time (as well as FIDONet). But while that was "on the Internet", it is not "the Internet" as anybody would recognize in 2021 other than a few really old farts like myself. It was still NSFNET, as the National Science Foundation was still running it.
It was the Internet. What you are describing it the WWW protocol that runs on the Internet. If you are calling the WWW the "Internet," like a lot of people incorrectly do, then you are not very well informed about the Internet. It was also not being run by the NSF, and never had been. I accessed it via PlatoNet from the University of Minnesota in 1979. The major universities were the ISP at that time. The University of Minnesota provided public internet access to Minnesota, both Dakotas, and Iowa.
Usenet was popular, but XTalk more so. You are also talking about the 1980s, and the Internet was available to the public as early as the 1970s.
Where did I say that Compu-Serv was the Internet? You must be on drugs. It would certainly explain your NSF controlling the Internet stupidity.Yadda-yadda-yadda.
Compuserve was not The Internet, no more than The Source was, or any of the other systems of that era. But universities were not "ISPs", they provided access to students and staff so they could actually do their tasks.
But the NSF never ran the Internet? Sorry, at this I am just walking away. But believe what you want, I am done. But anybody trying to say the National Science Foundation was never in control is just silly. ANd I am rapidly losing my patience with silliness.
Where did I say that Compu-Serv was the Internet? You must be on drugs. It would certainly explain your NSF controlling the Internet stupidity.
You apparently are unaware that Compu-Serv began in 1969 and by 1980 was offering complete Internet access