First Dotcom registered 25 years ago today

[Douglas the Intrepid]

My first experience was playing the text based Diku Mud Phantazm (ancient precursor to World of Warcraft!) in 1994 on the Prime systems at Alfred University. I actually met a lovely girl on there with whom I spent the summer sailing the Long Island sound on her father's 56 foot sailboat he purchased with the money from a chemistry patent for some hi tech glue! Ahhhh...the good old days...

 

[Matt J]

alt.binaries.pictures.younameit uudecoders and all kinds of stuff. I never did understand the purpose of alt.pave.the.earth or alt.chrome.the.moon.

Stoned internet users + connection to internet = those.

I started a few usenet groups I'm not owning up to.

 

[Em]

I remember the first time I logged onto the internet. It was in the basement of a dorm at FSU and we were on a token ring network. Anybody remember when the images loaded blurry and then slowly faded in? I remember when OnDemand was considered a very futuristic ideal.

Pictures? Pictures weren't an option on VGA screens back when I started. Text only, and that was in a choice of three colors if you had a good monitor. I recall SVGA monitors coming on the market and tech nerds went nuts because of the advancement -- still no photos, just more variations of colors of text.

 

[Will B]

Regardless of who wins Al Gore will still stake his claim to inventing it!

You could at least do some research on the issue.

I must have missed where I said that he didn't invent it in my message above...

 

[Matt J]

Pictures? Pictures weren't an option on VGA screens back when I started. Text only, and that was in a choice of three colors if you had a good monitor. I recall SVGA monitors coming on the market and tech nerds went nuts because of the advancement -- still no photos, just more variations of colors of text.

Okay, let me rephrase. The first time I used the web.

 

[Lynnie]

You're all a bunch of nerds.