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post #31 of 38
3/29/10 at 4:31am
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim View Post
1996? What exactly are you talking about? Since www. was created in 1991 and the first Graphics based web browser came out in 1993, I'm not sure exactly what benchmark you are discussing here. If you are talking the first commercial ISP, it was Delphi in 1992. If you are talking about the first unrestricted access to the national internet backbone, it was 1995, and the original three companies to exploit it were AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve.
ARPANET was military until what? Late '95? The only civilian "internet backbone" back then was a glass fiber cable just laid in California. The Internet did not exist for most people until they: (1) bought a Pentium-based PC, (2) with Windows 95 or 98, and (3) got free dial-up ISP. Since most working people couldn't afford a home computer, most people got Internet only when their workplace or school installed it. That didn't happen until the late '90s. So I don't know what you're referring to. The Internet simply didn't exist for about 99% of people until the late '90s.
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post #32 of 38
4/2/10 at 10:46pm
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ARPANET was military until what? Late '95?

No. I'm not sure where you are getting your info from but they shut down the military side of ARPANET completely in 1990, and they separated the military nodes from the civilian nodes in 1983.

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The only civilian "internet backbone" back then was a glass fiber cable just laid in California.

No. The first real nationwide civilian backbone was CSnet, created in 1981, which linked the computer science departments of most major universities. By 1984 it connected 80 something universities internationally. NSFnet went online in 1986, and connected most regional U.S. LAN's by 1988.

Case in point: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, one of the first popular user guides to the history and use of the internet was published in 1987.

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The Internet did not exist for most people

I beg to differ.

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until they: (1) bought a Pentium-based PC, (2) with Windows 95 or 98, and (3) got free dial-up ISP. Since most working people couldn't afford a home computer, most people got Internet only when their workplace or school installed it. That didn't happen until the late '90s.

^ No. See above.



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So I don't know what you're referring to. The Internet simply didn't exist for about 99% of people until the late '90s.

It wasn't that long ago. You'd think people would remember recent history. The late 90's was PentiumIII era. Pentium processors came out in '95 (with Win95), and The internet predates Pentium computers by quite a stretch.
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post #33 of 38
4/2/10 at 10:48pm
I remember the internet existed in 80s because of War Games
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post #34 of 38
4/3/10 at 1:38am
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I remember the internet existed in 80s because of War Games
That was '83, just pre-dawn of the internet. That was back when you had to randomly call numbers you thought might be another computer to connect. There were LAN's and MUD's and BBS's and stuff, but they weren't all connected like they were under NSFnet, and a lot of the numbers were unlisted, thus the entire concept of calling a number, and getting a computer playing GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR. Or a nice game of chess. AOL was, if I'm not mistaken, preloaded onto Apple MacSE and/or Mac II's for a little bit in the late 80's. Those were the good old days. I can't even imagine such a thing happening now.
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post #35 of 38
4/3/10 at 4:15am
I remember I first used a free trial of Prodigy. Then joined the aol bandwagon since every I knew had it [circa 2.5 then quickly turned to 3.0], then dabbled with Juno [remember them?]. I remember downloading some type of program to keep the free Juno internet connection active, since it would disconnect if idle [same with aol, server chat rooms, etc].
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post #36 of 38
4/3/10 at 1:45pm
I used something called AppleLink on my Mac starting in maybe 1985 or 86. AppleLink, btw, sort of morphed into AOL.
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post #37 of 38
4/4/10 at 5:52am
Can't say I miss the dial-up modem sound, tho I did hear one somewhere a few days ago and it made me smile - must have been the nostalgia factor.

I remember having so much trouble connecting back in my dial-up days that I was always relieved when I heard that sound. Very glad to be using DSL now.
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post #38 of 38
4/4/10 at 6:14am
I still use my old AOL password sometimes. It's oldschool too from when it was called American Online.

Anyone game in The Zone?
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