FLASHBACK: What The Internet Was In 1995 (1 Viewer)

[longknife]

Apr7th 2013 Written by Wealth Magnate

Back in 1995, a public television show called "The Computer Chronicles" made an episode about an emerging technology: "The Net."
We found the video after venture capitalist MG Siegler embedded it on his blog.
It's pretty insane how far things have come in the last 20 years.

See for yourself @ FLASHBACK: This Was The Internet In 1995 - Business Insider

I remember in the early to mid-80's when I was on the internet and it was comprised of an over-priced Compuserve and EBBS'. I remember exchanging messages with people from all over the world – at the speed of a snail!

 

[Helix]

i remember the text based interface of 1995. i first got dial up access in early 1996. my college hard wired my dorm that same year, and i thought i was in heaven. just a few years earlier, i had been dialing up BBSs with a 2400 baud modem (which i upgraded to 14.4k.) ethernet was an exponential improvement. it was really exciting.

 

[Fisher]

Some friends and I revived some old BBS stuff a few years ago when I found out my IT guy used to run some as the host and had all the old software and also had a bunch of the old 386 and 486 computers as do I in case I ever have to do ancient financial research. They were so slow and the games were so bad but it was so much fun sitting there talking smack to each other on cellphones while playing perhaps the worst knock off of RISK ever on computers that had like a total of 20 megs of memory on the whole thing.

 

[Fisher]

BTW, on all the old cpu's I own, they run on something called QDOSII. People today would have a stroke if they had to go in and find the right .exe or .com file to get the programs to run, especially when most programs and multiple files with those.

 

[Dickieboy]

I remember that early Netscape browsers had an 'image' button. This allowed one to navigate to the desired site quickly as only text was displayed. Once you were at your destination you could enable images then go eat dinner while the photos downloaded...:lamo

 

[Fisher]

I remember that early Netscape browsers had an 'image' button. This allowed one to navigate to the desired site quickly as only text was displayed. Once you were at your destination you could enable images then go eat dinner while the photos downloaded...:lamo

Yeah but what if mom got done eating before you and found your porn :2rofll::2rofll::2rofll::2rofll:

 

[longknife]

I had a Franklin 1200 [Apple II clone] with an RGB monitor and a dot matrix printer. Don't remember the speed of my dial-up modem but there were 3 or 4 good EBBS' here in Vegas that kept all of us entertained. No Wikipedia though!!!

 

[longview]

I think I built my first internet capable computer in 1987, but the earliest I remember
actually participating online was the Cold Fusion discussions in 1989.
There were text based forums like sci.physics.fusion.
The first browser I remember was mosaic, but don't remember much about it.
Who remembers the simtel 20 database, a collection of dos based shareware?
There was something we were communicating with in 1982, email and such, but I think it was Dec-net based

 

[fmw]

The pre web days on the internet were even more primitive. It was the web that really got the internet going. I launched my first web site in 1997. Things were pretty advanced by that time. About all we have accomplished since then is faster speeds and more graphics. I liked it better in 1997.

 

[American]

I remember when NCSA Mosaic was introduced as the first multimedia browswer. Man was it a buggy thing.

 

[Hicup]

Apr7th 2013 Written by Wealth Magnate

See for yourself @ FLASHBACK: This Was The Internet In 1995 - Business Insider

I remember in the early to mid-80's when I was on the internet and it was comprised of an over-priced Compuserve and EBBS'. I remember exchanging messages with people from all over the world – at the speed of a snail!

Porn was in its infancy. LOL

Remember waiting about 30 minutes for a single pic to download.


Tim-

 

[Hicup]

Yeah but what if mom got done eating before you and found your porn :2rofll::2rofll::2rofll::2rofll:

Sorry I see we had the same idea.


Tim-