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Is that a Rule 19 violation? 🤣

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.

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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.

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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.
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.

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?"
 
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?"
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.
 
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.

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How old were YOU when YOU first learned about Rule 34?
I was, I think...FIFTY-ONE!! 🤣

Yeah, okay...of COURSE I did know that there was porn about just about anything and everything, but I'd never heard it CODIFIED as some sort of "rule" yet...it was just an assumption that I made long ago.
But here we are at dinner, kids are teenagers and of course, a bit jaded and we knew it, we're a fairly open-minded bunch and we use humor a lot.

And I can't remember how it came up, but I would hazard a guess that Karen and I were probably discussing safety on the internet and what not.
And I guess somehow "THE SUBJECT" came up, and it would seem that one of us voiced the concern that consuming "the wrong stuff on the internet is going to twist young minds into sad and whacked out pretzels" or something along those lines....snorting and muffled laughter from the other end of the table....?????????????

"What?"
"Too late!"
"Too late what? What's too late?"
(more laughter)
"Rule 34", says daughter.
Son is now snorting and trying not to guffaw.

"What's Rule 34?"
"If it exists, no matter what it is, there's porn of it."

Karen and I were

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And of course that elicited out loud howls of laughter.
OMG Rule 34, of course we should have figured there's some kind of a "Rule 34" out there somewhere...duuuh. 😆🤦‍♂️
 
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.

Actually, all that CompuServe and AOL offered was POP3 email through their email services. That was all, nothing else.

AOL did not actually offer "Internet Service" until late 1996. 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.
 
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.

Using that token we can argue that cars have been around since 1769.

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Actually, all that CompuServe and AOL offered was POP3 email through their email services. That was all, nothing else.
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.

AOL did not actually offer "Internet Service" until late 1996.
Yes they did, as early as 1991.

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.
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.
 
WTF is that thing. Looks like a salt and pepper set. Wait that’s a dog LMAO
 
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.
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

No, it was not.


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.
 
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.

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Apologies for delayed reply - real life interfered with DP. Anyhoo, "The more you want something to not happen, the more likely it will happen just to piss you off." is a loose interpretation of Rule 19 of the Internet. I was (jokingly) referring to DP Rule 19. Pornography / Nudity / Graphic Images. But yeah, Internet Rule 34 of the Internet also applies. 😁
 
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?"
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.

It's still around it seems...

 
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I thought Ask Jeeves was going to become the dominant search engine.

It's still around it seems...

Oh yes, it took years until Google was worth much of anything. Yahoo was the dominant search engine for ages, as well as Alta Vista, and a few that searched multiple engines.

And yes, Jeeves is still around, it got bought up, repackaged, and resold many times over the ages. But to me, it is no longer the same. Because now if you ask him, he no longer prefers the term "Jovial".
 
No, it was not.


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.
 
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.

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.
 
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.
 
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

Yes, I guess I am on drugs. I guess And I guess CSNET and NSFNET had nothing to do with anything either. Nope, the NSF had nothing to do with the Internet. Nothing to do with CIX, or in doing anything. They did not assign IP addresses, or later run the domain name registration system. Nope, nothing at all.
 
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