Okey doke so I know the internet was around then, but the fact that there was that slang term (net) already for it and the fact taht the screenplay musta been written in 1994 or 1993? what the heck?
when was the internet fiorst available to the public?
1994? i dont remeber it even then but it musta been. i memeber using it in like 1998 or 1997
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Let's ask Al Gore when he invented the Internets.
See what I did there?
I dont remeber I memeber...?
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I remember one or two people having internet access as far back as early 1994. We thought it was the coolest thing, ever. It was very limited, of course, and many times you could not even go on most websites because your computer wasn't powerful enough.
share -I remember using the Internet for the first time when I was in 2nd grade around 1994/1995. It was via the NetScape program, it was mostly boring sites for school stuff but I thought it was neat. We were told we would be using the world wide web at the time. And it was very important to enter each address starting with "http://www..."; lol. We didn't buy our first home computer until mid-1998, a Gateway, I remember being so excited when it finally got delivered. They made a mistake and gave us a Pentium III instead of a Pentium II processor so it was pretty sweet, it also had a DVD player, but we had no idea what that was so it was never used. It was complete with AOL 4.0 and a 56k dial up modem. I didn't know what AIM was at first so I would hold online conversations via e-mailing back and forth with my friends...wow. I remember whenever my sister or myself wanted to kick the other offline we would pick up and hang up the phone continually, first AOL would get really slow then you'd hear "GOODBYE". Seems like a million years ago.
"Death by stereo" -The Lost Boys
^You must be about my age...
I totally remember NetScape!
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-Yep, that was the main program used in my elementary school and probably most others at the time. I also remember using Encarta '95 (digital encyclopedia) and something called Groiler, but I don't recall what that program was for. Its so funny thinking about it now, but when we first got the new '94 Macintosh desktops at my school we only had two per class room to start and the others we we had were from the late 80s and were used for "Type-To-Learn". I used to get excited when it was my turn to use the new Mac, I would go right for the Mac paint program and make calendars with clip art lol, it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen, ah man. At the time I thought they were really only for research and school related things. I could never have fathomed that it would become such a huge part of life just a few years later, its crazy. But I guess that's one cool thing we can say about our generation, introduction to the Internet/computers when it was just getting started.
"Death by stereo" -The Lost Boys
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Yeah, the Internet has been around since the 1980s. On usenet, I once saw a message board posting from 1984.
From what I recall, the 'Net started subtly (but steadily) permeating pop culture probably around late 1993/1994. I believe that is when commercials started referencing it. By 1995, it had arrived. It was nowhere near the norm that it is now, but it was definitely the new fad that everyone was in awe of. I had a cousin in Atlanta who is a nerdy electonics guy. He had a computer with an AOL connection. I recall my parents and I visiting him, and us being so impressed by his little online connection.
At the time I got an AOL startup disk in junk mail, and so I took it to school and figured I would be able to get online in the school library just like that. A teacher saw me trying to insert the disk into the computer, laughed and told me that it wasn't that simple....that I would need an account and a credit card. Ooops.
Remember those hard AOL floppy disks that used to come in the mail? Remember all those mid 1990s AOL TV commercials glamorizing email, chatrooms (and the ditzy bitch saying that she was "the chatroom queen"), signing up and getting "free hours?" Remember when being online used to charge credit cards by the hour? Remember when it would sometimes take up to an hour of automatic phone redial to even get an ISP connection, because too many people in the region were jamming those few phone #'s trying to get a connection?
Anyway, we didn't get a computer and AOL until late 1996. By 1997, the Internet was fast becoming everyday life. The rest is history.
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I remember the first "personal computer" (which is what PC original stood for, in case you didn't know) in 1983/4, and it was an IBM Displaywriter that used 8 inch floppy disks. Just imagine, dinnerplate sized floppies that you stored info on. The Apple (way before a Mac) at that time didn't have a hard drive, and you used an 8" floppy to boot it, then another 8" inch to store work. :) We've come a long way, babies. We were overjoyed when, by the end of the '80s, we had 5" floppies. Such an improvement.
I remember !pine and !elm. Does anyone know what they were?
I remember local and national BBS, before the first AOL-type service showed up.
I got my first stand-alone puter back in '85, I think. It was a Kaypro with an amber screen and a display of 12 lines, IIRC.
Sadly, I no longer remember all the internet services I belonged to/used during the '80s. Memory ain't what it used to be. :P
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