[and101]

I launched my first website in 1996. It had half a dozen pages and I think there were about 100 visitors in the first year. The site is still going today but it now has several hundred pages of info and gets a couple million visitors a year. Not too bad for a tourism website for a small town.

[howard h]

Originally Posted by and101

I launched my first website in 1996. It had half a dozen pages and I think there were about 100 visitors in the first year. The site is still going today but it now has several hundred pages of info and gets a couple million visitors a year. Not too bad for a tourism website for a small town.

Go on...give us a link. You know you want to

[TheSilentFez]

Originally Posted by jy1541

Wait, people actually pronounced URL?

"yurrel"

Only in America, I'm guessing.

[and101]

Originally Posted by howard h

Go on...give us a link. You know you want to

No I don't. It would make it too easy to figure out who I am.

[Regis Magnae]

My first experience with internet was 1998ish. There was very little difference between an amateur site and a big company's site.

[jjne]

Yup, remember Gopher, and Archie, the nearest thing to social networking being Usenet, and the excitement at finding ftp.funet.fi and downloading shareware crap...

Happy days.

Of course, some of use were around in the days of Prestel....

[nuttytigger]

10 years ago I barely knew how to use a PC, we didn't use them at school, we used apple macs that were shit!

Then my parents got our first PC in 2002 (just after my 18th) and in that 10 years I can now build PCs in under 5 mins, troubleshoot them etc, thats just 2 of my qualifications lol, but yes I am VERY knowledgeable about them now, however there is some parts I'm useless on!

So going by my own experience in another 10 years the internet is going to unrecognisable as already there is moonpig video cards.

[Jeeooorghhhbbb]

Originally Posted by and101

No I don't. It would make it too easy to figure out who I am.

You're Mr Expedia!
Or maybe you're not. I remember being given a copy of Computer SHopper back in 1996 from an uncle for an Easter present. Totally pants at the time, seeing as I still had a Mega Drive and sometimes used an Amiga and had no use of the thing. A year or two later, we (as a family) had a PC, and I remember trying out the CD from the magazine with its demos of Paintshop Pro and Winzip and stuff. Still got it now. The internet in its early days were great. I just remember slow loading boobies.

[summerbunny]

i didn't go on the internet intill 2006 and that was my dads computer, i couldn't afford one, it was on a dial up modern box thing , i could only go on there after 6pm as it was cheaper lol then i got a laptop in 2008 and haven't looked back since lol
now i wonder how the hell i ever lived without it!!!

[InMyArms]

Originally Posted by Barnes5603

then wonder no more!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTKIgdfoHxM

This brilliant video is worth the watch. Check out the cheese.

Just skimmed through the video in about 120 seconds, and it seems to go through a lot of stuff people don't need to know to get started. No wonder people found it difficult to get going, as they'd just assume they need to know everything.

[David (2)]

apples view of the future back in the 90s.......is this an ipad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlfTD...eature=related

, then again, nothing you cant do with a laptop.

[albertd]

I was on the Internet from home in 1994 using a 14.4 kbps modem - now that was slow, but even that was very fast when compared with the 300 bps modems of the bulletin board days which were around before the web.

As for the real past - my first contact with computers was in 1966 with a 1kb (16 bit word) machine which used an ASR33 teletype machine for I/O and took all night just to assemble the program using paper tape. It was a 3C (later Honeywell) DDP116.

[Phil Owens]

Originally Posted by and101

No I don't. It would make it too easy to figure out who I am.

You are Judith Chalmers, I claim my prize....

[RiverChelt]

As we're sharing early days internet related videos, i like this one showing the Childrens BBC address...!

[Phil Owens]

Originally Posted by RiverChelt

As we're sharing early days internet related videos, i like this one showing the Childrens BBC address...!

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[Voynich]

Originally Posted by David (2)

apples view of the future back in the 90s.......is this an ipad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlfTD...eature=related

, then again, nothing you cant do with a laptop.

Thanks for that cyberlink!

[Hotelier]

Originally Posted by albertd

I was on the Internet from home in 1994 using a 14.4 kbps modem - now that was slow, but even that was very fast when compared with the 300 bps modems of the bulletin board days which were around before the web.

I had a 300 bps modem in 1989. I worked for a Government science research centre and they had their own LAN and IP provider service for the scientists to log on from home. As an IT bod, I was allowed a modem for home use, but had to pay the phone bill ourselves for non work stuff and for given 300bps modems (later on we were allowed the dizzy speeds of 1400bps).
I remember hooking up my Amiga to the modem and dial-up and waiting hours while it donwloaded some amiga sound files via bulletin boards. My phone bill was huge..lol
I remember using IRC a lot as well to chat to American students/college workers....got friendly with a nice couple who invited me over for a holiday that year..nice

[nvingo]

Around 1982/83 a mate and I used headphones/microphones placed in front of telephone receivers (those bits on the end of the curly cord that you normally place to your cheek when speaking) and transferred ZX Spectrum data representing homework assignments. IIRC the Spectrum tape data was recorded at 1200 baud, a massive leap over the ZX81 datarate (and necessary - with the jump in RAM from 1K installed to 16K/48K) but still took upto 5 minutes to load apps.

[orange1234]

There was one thing missing, nearly every site you went to had popups, and when you closed one, 3 more would pop up, you would end up with 10 -20 windows open with automatic music playing, all competing for bandwidth on a dial up modem, you could set something to download, have your dinner and by the time you came back it was nearly done. The greatest thing was the invention of MP3 to greatly reduce file size. A song as wav could be 60mb and about 5mb on MP3, so it came down in less than 10 minutes - which was quick then.

Also MP3 screwed the music industry, so I bet they wished internet came straight in as broadband, and not dialup - which forced the MP3 invention - and their demise.