It's been around longer that most of you:
http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/humor/internet_history/
http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/humor/internet_history/
A History of the Internet
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Wow, so informative. I had no idea.....
"Scam e-mails replace oil as the chief export of Nigeria."
"asshat!!!" 
mosht ecshellent
mosht ecshellent
hahaha
They kind of miss a memorable moment (imo anyways) the development of newsgroups and the release of those newsgroups to be used by anyone with a dial-up connection. At the time those connections were created on various bbs's and later directly through isp's. For a lot of us old timers (not old just been online in some form for 18 years) that was the first time it was publicly released. And then at around the same time (likely earlier but I avoided the 'web' like the plague for years, I didn't want to give up my bbs), Lynx came out pre "html"...oh the memories
The guys who did the site know history but suck at web design, what horrible colour contrast for the dates.
Awesome quote
They kind of miss a memorable moment (imo anyways) the development of newsgroups and the release of those newsgroups to be used by anyone with a dial-up connection. At the time those connections were created on various bbs's and later directly through isp's. For a lot of us old timers (not old just been online in some form for 18 years) that was the first time it was publicly released. And then at around the same time (likely earlier but I avoided the 'web' like the plague for years, I didn't want to give up my bbs), Lynx came out pre "html"...oh the memories
The guys who did the site know history but suck at web design, what horrible colour contrast for the dates.
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lol X-10
I remember a BBS where only one person could dial in at a time to leave messages. And even that wasn't my first computer experience...Roasted said:hahaha
Awesome quote
They kind of miss a memorable moment (imo anyways) the development of newsgroups and the release of those newsgroups to be used by anyone with a dial-up connection. At the time those connections were created on various bbs's and later directly through isp's. For a lot of us old timers (not old just been online in some form for 18 years) that was the first time it was publicly released. And then at around the same time (likely earlier but I avoided the 'web' like the plague for years, I didn't want to give up my bbs), Lynx came out pre "html"...oh the memories
The guys who did the site know history but suck at web design, what horrible colour contrast for the dates.
Nov 11 1989 I went on my first bulliton board at 1:30 am (phone rates were cheaper and parents were sleeping)and got some very low res porn
That's good stuff!
Circa 1990: Found my first dial-in BBS. Got addicted to Legend of the Red Dragon. Racked up parent's long-distance bill in the early AM.
Circa 1990: Found my first dial-in BBS. Got addicted to Legend of the Red Dragon. Racked up parent's long-distance bill in the early AM.
nice, I was partial to Rize of the triad
Rise of the Triad? Did they make something other than a first person shooter version?firetoole said:
LORD was one of those text based, role-playing BBS games.
That is pretty damn funny
yea it was a erly role playing game the first person shooter was based off it
Cool, never played the text based version of it. I also played quite a bit of Usurper.firetoole said:
Yeah right, I'm not buying that LIE!
With just a punch-card and a dream, Al Gore INVENTED the internet. Himself. Alone. Then there was ridemonkey, and I havn't seen much of the rest of it since.
With just a punch-card and a dream, Al Gore INVENTED the internet. Himself. Alone. Then there was ridemonkey, and I havn't seen much of the rest of it since.