Posted on 08/06/2016 11:25:41 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Anybody still use a Gopher? :)
Gun shot wound
=:^O
That is true. The World Wide Web is kind of the GUI for the internet, which had already existed for years before the WWW. The internet should be thought of as the infrastructure of sending data from node to node. Software applications are built on top of that layer. WWW and browsers simply use the infrastructure to display information graphically across the internet.
Email used the internet before the WWW, as well as file transfer protocols like FTP. There was a bulletin board application called Usenet, which had a lot of forums, some not unlike Free Republic.
But he had no hits because nobody else was online.
I imagine it was hard for Edison to sell that first light bulb with the sales pitch being “We promise to turn it on one of these days.”
So did I, but that was connecting to BBSes, Bulleting Board Systems, privately operated computers that could allow one, or possible two dial in calls at a time, not multiple users to access the page simultaneously by dial-up, Ethernet, or other means. I was the substitute SYSOP for one in Stockton, CA, when the owner went on vacation, called "The Wrong Number" back in the 1980s.
Then Al ate the internet.
You certain it wasn’t a solitaire site?
I used Fidonet and IIRC several mail programs like PINE.
I remember going “on-line” with my Tandy Color Computer using an external 300 baud dial-up modem. The service was StarText and it had forums similar to this one and news provided by the Star Telegram.
Later, on a PC, using the Mosaic browser to look at Gopher sites, as there was practically no WWW pages to look at. Those Gopher sites had tons of great info.
Bah humbug, the real future is analog.
I remember when I had seen the opening ceremony for the 2012 summer olympics in London on tv. When the London production mentioned Mr. Lee’s name, I thought that it the USA that invented the WWW. Turned out while America invented the internet, it was the British who invented the WWW.
Was fortunate enough to have exchanged a couple emails with TBL right at the start.
What a ceaselessly amazing thing this is !
He would be much more famous if he just used his simple name: Tim Lee.
Anyone remember the name of the inventor of tv? No. His name is difficult. Philo T.
Thomas Edison. Graham Bell. Easy names to remember.
Coincidentally, that is the exact same time the first SPAM arrived in people’s email.
Sample from StarText:
( 1/05/90-11:21 am)
The StarTexan’s Forum
Volume 7, Number 5 - Friday, January 5, 1990
Copyright (c) 1989, StarText
Moderator/Editor: William (Bill) Manly
Mail Code: FORUM
Size of this update 5,945 Bytes
See the FORUMBIOS keyword for the biographies of regular column participants.
-——*
Current topics:
1. Answering Fan Mail (if I were on fire, they’d fan me)
2. Short Bytes
-——*
Coco yes! Also used Timex Sinclair and Tom Mix Software.
In the early 1800s there was a group of Japanese scholars who realized that fairly soon Japan was going to be opened to the world, and so they decided to learn how to speak Dutch, since the one European country that had been allowed to deal with Japan since the 1600s was Holland; they called themselves the Dutch Studies Movement. They diligently taught themselves how to speak, read, and write Dutch, so that they would be available to help Japan enter the globalist 19th century. Then Japan was indeed opened up to the world, but by America, and all the Dutch-speaking Japanese scholars were stuck with a useless-to-them language, and had to start all over again learning how to speak English.
In the late 1980s, I made myself learn how to use, run, and design a BBS, because I realized that fairly soon computerized telecommunications would become commonplace and I wanted to be on the forefront of using it in higher education. I even designed a few educational DOS-based programs for the introductory courses I was teaching, and convinced my college to set aside a computer with a 14400 modem and a dedicated line, so I could design and teach two courses on BBS (Mustang Wildcat 4). When I was told in the early 90s about the WWW, I thought it was a fad that would never catch on. By the time my then-fifth-grade son was designing his own web pages in 1995, I felt very much like the Dutch Studies Movement, and have spent the last two decades like everyone else in the online education biz, scrambling to keep up with the perpetually changing web software and androgogical implications.
Shortly after this event happened, I got a call from a fellow former MBA student, saying this would be the hottest thing to ever hit the market.
We had kids in higher learning or finishing and minimal money to invest.
However,my company’s 401K had ETF’s which I preferred, and I could buy for my wife’s self managed IRA both via Fido. We had some QQQ and it was going up like crazy before this event.
So I traded the S&P etfs and some stagnant mutual funds for QQQ. It continued to go up, and I changed the stop sell orders at least a month to cover the new gains.
Fortunately, our stop sell orders protected us from the Clintoon internet bust and saved most of our gains. We have been back and forth with lesser amounts since the Bushco/Obama bust.
I can’t imagine not having the internet for FR, texting, emails, buying and selling stuff and everyday use.
It's true. The "Web" is just the world of web browsers talking to each other, and browsers are just a kind of app on the internet which mainly communicate through the HTML language.
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