Posted on 12/20/2015 9:22:56 PM PST by pluvmantelo
If the web were a person, it wouldn't have trouble renting a car from now on: the world's first website, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, went online 25 years ago today. The inaugural page wasn't truly public when it went live at CERN on December 20th, 1990 (that wouldn't happen until August 1991), and it wasn't much more than an explanation of how the hypertext-based project worked.
(Excerpt) Read more at engadget.com ...
How about us 1999 joiners? I think I found FR a few months after you took it onto the web, but was content to lurk until I just had to post an article about the Clinton Crime Wave from the San Jose Mercury Snooze.
One of the reasons I agreed to move to Maryland in 2000 was so I could join the Saturday morning protests at the Whitehouse.
I was surfing Compuserve bulletin boards back then.
Great day for FR,
Yeah, man!
“...and Amazon books shortly afterwards.”
I didn’t get online until summer ‘96 but I think Amazon was still only selling books then. Now a good deal of my disposable income gets disposed of via Amazon. I have a tab open on Amazon now.
Bless you Jim for this effort of Love...
I became a “FREEPER” on Nov 9, 1998, and never regretted it.
You were a little late in the online game.
In 1975 while working on the Honeywell 6060 Main Frame we went online within the Mare Island Shipyard to approx. 40 users in the Production Department.
The Database was used for work performed on Nuclear Submarines.
PS: I was a lurker for a couple of years before that...
Like high screwel reunions, are there FR threads of celebration by join year?
I think my first real uses of the Internet were work-related and this was some time in 1995. I got dialup at home in 1996. I remember playing around with a browser called “Mosaic” and it was already archaic by then. I think my first “modern” browser was Netscape 2. I remember experimenting with streaming audio back in 1997 and it sounded really choppy and unpleasant. It was interesting but I thought, shortwave radio sounds better than this! I stumbled upon a site called “Free Republic” sometime in 1997 but didn’t sign up until 2002. I remember when news was “hugh and series!” Of course, back then, the Clinton scandals were much discussed. Now all these years later we are still plagued with Clinton scandals!
Oops, I didn’t sign up until 2003, not 2002. One thing from 2002 I vividly remember is following the thread here about the Columbia disaster. I remember hoping the missing shuttle just had some communication glitch and then having to accept that no, the worst thing happened.
Hello
I was a lurker then, too. I kept hoping until pieces of Columbia fell on Texas.....Tragic loss.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/01/us/columbia-anniversary/index.html#
Anybody still out there?
Anybody still lurkin around
Before the internet I used dial up modems to access corporate and university servers. We called this service bulletin boards. The intetnet was similar except without dial up. Packets were used for the network.
I first used the internet in 1994. IBM was a good web site.
I began lurking on FR during the summer of 1997.
Having found the online world in 1993 at a Quantum Leap TV show convention, I found FR for the 2000 presidential race after Rush mentioned FR often. Thanks, Jim!
Can we start planning the party now?
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