Internet Infancy

[Adrian II]

You can't help smiling at the naive expectations of the Internet in the early 1990's, as shown in this old CBC news footage.

Well, Total War 'jocks', how has it been for you? Do you enjoy your 'restrained' crosscultural communication without swearing or personal putdowns?

[Strike For The South]

Ive never met so many baby killing homo surrender monkey communists in my life

[Sartaq]

go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!

ahhh, that better. My yearning to connect is satisfied for today.

[Sartaq]

Ive never met so many baby killing homo surrender monkey communists in my life

me either

[Zalmoxis]

Oh BBC, you amuse me so!

[Adrian II]

Thanks, Strike for the South. I feel rooted now.

[Reenk Roink]

One word: porn

[solypsist]

if every porn site on the internet were taken down there would be only one webpage left, and it would say, "Bring back teh porn."

[Lemur]

I've never felt the urge to say this before -- but that's sig material.

[Don Corleone]

I don't know that it happens so much anymore, but does anybody else remember the really early days when every yahoo and his brother had their own webpage that they plastered everywhere? Myself included. I actually found mine not too long ago, which doesn't speak so highly for the custodial capabilities of the IT department at the University of Connecticut (I graduated and left my job in 1996).

At that time, I apparently thought the entire world would not be able to live through the night without my list of cool links, to among other things: the band Concrete Blonde and the movie "7". Don't get me wrong, these were pretty cool cultural icons, but who did I think I was, the online Roger Ebert?

The other funny thing... I was absolutely and utterly convinced at that time that by now, actually by 2001, somebody would have found a way to exert mind control by webpage material.

[Just A Girl]

if every porn site on the internet were taken down there would be only one webpage left, and it would say, "Bring back teh porn."

New sig 4 you solly?

Its probable your gonna be quoted in a few sigs any way now :)
So may as well.

[solypsist]

"You sit down and say 'What do you think of the raiders?' and 500 people reply"

Yeah, with "Go **** yourself!"




edit: I miss my modem noises.

[English assassin]

The other funny thing... I was absolutely and utterly convinced at that time that by now, actually by 2001, somebody would have found a way to exert mind control by webpage material

What makes you think we haven't...

[Adrian II]

I miss my modem noises.

Good point. I occasionally dream about them. I see myself crouching in a corner with my laptop modem converter plugs inserted in a Balkan or Hanoi hotel room socket, listening for the tell-tale 'glouyrrrng' connecting sound followed by the 'poing poing' handshake and the little Trumpet Winsock pop-up appearing on my screen.

[English assassin]

I see myself crouching in a corner with my laptop modem converter plugs inserted in a Balkan or Hanoi hotel room socket,

"Journalist" my backside, you are hereby outed as a spook AII.

Anyway, modem sounds aren't real nostalgia, real nostalgia is the sound Defender used to make loading from a tape recorder.

[Adrian II]

"Journalist" my backside, you are hereby outed as a spook AII.

Eww, outed!

[drone]

if every porn site on the internet were taken down there would be only one webpage left, and it would say, "Bring back teh porn."

Without pr0n, the internet would still be a research communication tool. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Video games drive computer performance tech, pr0n drives internet performance. Shopping online wouldn't have gotten nearly as far without the purveyors of smut.

[BDC]

Counter-Strike did it.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

When I was fourteen, I used to sneak down at night to, ahem, 'use' the computer without my parents noticing. Those modem noises were the only sound I couldn't prevent. I'd just sit there in the dark listening for any footsteps upstairs, and I wouldn't breathe easy until it had connected.

Ah, the good old days.

[Xiahou]

Good point. I occasionally dream about them. I see myself crouching in a corner with my laptop modem converter plugs inserted in a Balkan or Hanoi hotel room socket, listening for the tell-tale 'glouyrrrng' connecting sound followed by the 'poing poing' handshake and the little Trumpet Winsock pop-up appearing on my screen.

Boy that takes me back... I was in Highschool though- not deep undercover.

Also, my first browser was Cello- not Netscape. And before that, it was Gopher baby!

[BDC]

Ah, the good old days.

Porn through a modem. Ah the humanity.

[doc_bean]

Emoticons !

Man this makes me nostalgic, even though I've only been on the internet since 1996 (maybe a little earlier). I miss newsgroups these days, they used to be the best way to communicate on the internet, then chatting came along and everything went downhill

[Adrian II]

Counter-Strike did it.

Did what? Made the Net great, or destroyed Netiquette? I would opt for the latter; Counter-Strike gave rise to the most inane chatting and flaming cult ever. 'Half-life Technology', what an apt name.

*ducks to evade awp whore*

[Reenk Roink]

When I was fourteen, I used to sneak down at night to, ahem, 'use' the computer without my parents noticing. Those modem noises were the only sound I couldn't prevent. I'd just sit there in the dark listening for any footsteps upstairs, and I wouldn't breathe easy until it had connected.

Ah, the good old days.

[Viking]

edit: I miss my modem noises.

For those of us that still are suffering from modem use, that statement is incredibly hard to understand.

[Reenk Roink]

DSL or Cable my friend...It's the wave of the future.

[Viking]

Yeah, I`m most likely getting optical cable installed this autumn; with a capacity of 6 megabit. Not that fast, but still a giant leap from what I have now...56 kbit.

[Byzantine Prince]

When I was fourteen, I used to sneak down at night to, ahem, 'use' the computer without my parents noticing. Those modem noises were the only sound I couldn't prevent. I'd just sit there in the dark listening for any footsteps upstairs, and I wouldn't breathe easy until it had connected.

Ah, the good old days.

I did that too. It took like 2 hours to get a 6 minute video, which I had to delete or hide really well afterwards.
I still remember my first anal porn experience. Yep, those were the good old days where I appreciated something that tame.

[doc_bean]

I remember my stash being found when I was 14

(just naked women no real porn though)

[Uesugi Kenshin]

For those of us that still are suffering from modem use, that statement is incredibly hard to understand.

I agree, I'd much rather have a sleek, silent cable modem than the piece of pcb currently jammed into one of the tower's pci slots....