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25th Anniversary of the Internet
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I would have bet a dollar it would have been a porn site.
is it still on line?
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Wow! BUMP!
And Barry Ubama in the WH.
We’re all WHAT advanced??
The World Wide Web is one of the few things that takes longer to say in it's abbreviated form, no? d;^)
25 years later the net could take down a seemingly Invincible potus candidate
..still waiting for more leaks
Anybody still use a Gopher? :)
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.”
Bah humbug, the real future is analog.
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.
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.
Gosh I remember Black Sheep News. Magellan Search engine, Drudge, and a hose of other sites that I never really replaced in my tour.