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Katie Couric Doesn't Know What the Internet is...

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

WOW how times have changed!

I remember looking at the @ symbol and going... WTF is that? I had no idea that the first @ symbol was the one as they showed with an "a" and a ring around it. The more you know.

LOL at Bryant completely missing the "."s

By the way... what they're talking about is the huge LA Earthquake (for reference nationwide) aka. Northridge Earthquake (first believed epicenter) aka. Reseda Earthquake (true epicenter). I was in it.
 
How many of you out there knew what the internet was 17 years ago? It didn't become commonly know until the late 90's.
 
I was 4... so... I think my brother knew though since he was your stereotypical "geek" at that time and was about 14-15 years of age.

I feel so old when I think of all the kiddies born during the age of broadband. They wont be able to fathom what dial up was like. lol
 
I was 4... so... I think my brother knew though since he was your stereotypical "geek" at that time and was about 14-15 years of age.

I feel so old when I think of all the kiddies born during the age of broadband. They wont be able to fathom what dial up was like. lol

I'm not exactly old-man winter (whoever that is), but when you were 4 I was 14. So don't feel too old.

BTW I did know what the internet was back then. But that's because my computer crazed dad was shoving it down my throat before it was cool.
 
I knew what the internet was back in the late 80's because some of my friends in high school got caught 'hacking' by the FBI. They had been stealing other peoples telephone numbers to call out to California to download games off of the internet. If anyone remembers the 80's, that was when long distance cost you out the nose! All told these 5 boys racked up $25,000 dollars in charges. But since none of them were 18 their parents all had to cough up $5 grand a piece to the authorities.

I wasn't on the internet, but that was the first I remember hearing about it. Sounds like Bryant Gumble is someone who LOVES to talk!
 
How many of you out there knew what the internet was 17 years ago? It didn't become commonly know until the late 90's.

I think it was around 95 or 96 for me. Got my first computer in 2000. Alta Vista and Excite were my favorite search engines...

I think DSL was the only player out for high speed internet for us consumers. Either that or Cable was too high at the time.

I used AOL and Net Zero before going to DSL.

I remember the original Napster; Kaaza was big too. Probably WinMX also. I remember when BitTorrent had just one app that could be used for it. Or one was all I could get to work...lol

Favorite browser was Netscape. Java worked better in for me.
 
I think it was around 95 or 96 for me. Got my first computer in 2000. Alta Vista and Excite were my favorite search engines...

I think DSL was the only player out for high speed internet for us consumers. Either that or Cable was too high at the time.

I used AOL and Net Zero before going to DSL.

I remember the original Napster; Kaaza was big too. Probably WinMX also.

I got my first computer i 1996, I owned/operated a dial-up BBS, hoped on dial-up prodigy and I thought that was the greatest thing ever. Moved on to netzero, then aol, and so on. My first computer had I believe a 25mhz processor and maybe 16mb ram? Lol. I know my second one with windows 95 I thought was a beast, with a whopping 75mhz cpu and 96mb ram. I was blazin!

And yeah, in 1996 I was 12 lol
 
I feel so old when I think of all the kiddies born during the age of broadband. They wont be able to fathom what dial up was like. lol

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I learned about the internet around 1990 when I was a computer science student at university. I recall one day in the lab, someone did some spell check or dictionary lookup of a word from our lab to some computer in California. Everyone gathered around the monitor to see it and thought it was so cool. Outside of university, no one knew about the internet then.

It wasn't until the late 90's (I think it may have been 1997) when I was watching some TV show (I think it was the news) and the person actually mentioned a web site. That was the moment in my mind that the internet went main stream.
 
I remember my friend having that wierd phone cradle for his computer that gave the aol screeching sound. That was my limited knowledge.

When I was in college, I used dialup for my internet and you could forget about getting through on your 10 tries during peak hours in Tallahassee in December.

good times.


When I wireless tether to my lappy, the sound I use to notify me of my connection being established is a 15 second mp3 of the AOL dialup sound. Homage to my heritage.
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Gmail notification is aol's "you've got mail"
 
I remember my friend having that wierd phone cradle for his computer that gave the aol screeching sound. That was my limited knowledge.

You forgot about the "boing boing" sound that occurs after the screeching.

When I was in college, I used dialup for my internet and you could forget about getting through on your 10 tries during peak hours in Tallahassee in December.

You kids had it easy. When I was in university/high school, I used dial-up to access Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's). Each BBS at the time had maybe a hundred users. If I wanted to communicate with someone on another BBS, I had to hang up and call a different phone number to connect with that other BBS. I regularly frequent about a dozen or so BBS's and had to dial in to each one individually and then hang up and dial up the next one.

I'm really dating myself here. :)
 
You forgot about the "boing boing" sound that occurs after the screeching.



You kids had it easy. When I was in university/high school, I used dial-up to access Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's). Each BBS at the time had maybe a hundred users. If I wanted to communicate with someone on another BBS, I had to hang up and call a different phone number to connect with that other BBS. I regularly frequent about a dozen or so BBS's and had to dial in to each one individually and then hang up and dial up the next one.

I'm really dating myself here. :)

WildCat FTW :D;)
 
@barely_legal_lover-that thing was called an acoustic coupler. Everyone had telephones that fit those things...When you put it on (the phone handset that is) it made a sucking vaccum sound. Old TTS/TTY keyboards for the deaf/hard of hearing had those too...2am for AOL email with a local telephone number.
 
You know what you said is unpossible, right?

Talk since '86, bang routing in '89, first static IP in '93.

say what? I don't know what you mean by talk and bang.

I was just saying that I knew what the internet was in '94 unlike the Today Show.
 
Talk was a split-screen program with scrolling on a VT-100 console that you used much like you'd use Google talk today - you'd be in the upper half, the person you were talking to would be in the lower. The unix world used ytalk, a lame version without scrolling and thought it was fab because they hadn't seen better.

Today, you send an email with an user@server and the net figures out how to route it from you to the destination.

Back then, we had to figure out and know the specific server paths between us and any recipient - I had emails that would hop through 20 or more servers and an email address would look kinda like:

!server-a!server-b!server-c!....!server-t!user

Exclamation marks are called bangs so it was called bang routing - I'm not making that up - UUCP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And what you said was your Dad made you know about the internet before it was cool - that italicized bit is the unpossible part. ;)
 
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