Thank God for the Internet (inputmag.com) 164
Everything is so dark, but the internet -- for all its bad and broken parts -- is helping to keep us together in a way that has never happened before, writes Joshua Topolsky in an essay on Input Mag. Two excerpts from the essay: What the hell would we do right now without the internet? How would so many of us work, stay connected, stay informed, stay entertained? For all of its failings and flops, all of its breeches and blunders, the internet has become the digital town square that we always believed it could and should be. At a time when politicians and many corporations have exhibited the worst instincts, we're seeing some of the best of what humanity has to offer -- and we're seeing it because the internet exists.
I was 12 the first time I logged onto whatever was called the internet then. There were no websites to speak of, not really. No ecommerce, no banner ads, no data tracking, no spyware. iPhones hadn't been invented yet; we called apps "programs"; and I had an EGA monitor on my PC (a whole 16 colors of range). But the first time I telnetted into a chatroom about raves, made new friends in Australia, or downloaded files to load into a music tracker, I felt the same elation that I feel now. This force, propelled by people, connected by copper and light, letting us make new connections. Connections we need now more than ever. We're here together, for how long we don't know. But we're not alone. Not anymore.
I was 12 the first time I logged onto whatever was called the internet then. There were no websites to speak of, not really. No ecommerce, no banner ads, no data tracking, no spyware. iPhones hadn't been invented yet; we called apps "programs"; and I had an EGA monitor on my PC (a whole 16 colors of range). But the first time I telnetted into a chatroom about raves, made new friends in Australia, or downloaded files to load into a music tracker, I felt the same elation that I feel now. This force, propelled by people, connected by copper and light, letting us make new connections. Connections we need now more than ever. We're here together, for how long we don't know. But we're not alone. Not anymore.
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Right?
Should be Al Gore.
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Should be Al Gore.
Yes, and ARPA (now DARPA)
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I read somewhere it was a DARPA project, on the budget, signed into law by RIchard Nixon ... so Nixon created the Internet.. Yea!!!!
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Right? Should be Al Gore.
But who created Al Gore? His parents. Who were created by his grandparents. And so on and so forth back to Adam and Eve, that God created. We call this the butterfly effect. So I hereby propose that from now on we address him as First Butterfly. Also, he's a bigger credit hog than Al Gore.
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As usual, you don't know shit.
Gore was instrumental in securing funding for the NCSA at U of Illinois, where the first "modern" web browser was created. This was, in many ways, the "kickstarter" of the internet as we know it.
Please STFU and stop bragging about your broad-based ignorance.
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Funny that there were many of us using the internet BEFORE 1993...
As was I, with a NeXT machine IIRC. And a lot of 'put' and 'get' Ugh.
Perhaps you missed the word "modern" in my post. Has huffing all that paint really impacted your reading comprehension that much?
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Yes, I was using gopher in 1990, loved that sweet ascii interface :)
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It would explain,however, your interchangeable use of the terms internet and world wide web. Argo.
Yes, pedants say that all the time. It's a distinction without a difference for 99.9999999999999% of every person on the planet.
Troll harder, Boris.
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Still hopeful if you can show that I'm wrong about anything, that means there's no God, eh?
Please demonstrate your god and then maybe I'll take him, her, or it seriously.
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You're asking for forced conversion, that is, proof?
I'm asking you to demonstrate this god you keep blathering on about. Can you do it or not?
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Not my place. You have been given all the evidence you need, per every other decision you make in your life, about anything.
I would suggest asking the relevant entity, though. Worked for me.
But, no loss for me, either way. I've already told you the inevitable default. Say hi to them, it's the first of many, many Fridays.
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you were home schooled, weren't you?
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Ah, no.
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Speaking as someone who used ARPANet back around 81 or so... yeah the Internet has historical antecedents that go back even further, to AlohaNet in the 70s even.
So what? ARPANet laid the *technical* foundation for things like eCommerce and social media, but they did nothing to put those protocols in the hands of ordinary people -- even non-defense businesses.
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That was Gore's original claim. That truthful claim later became part of a famous smear campaign which misrepresented him as saying he invented the technology.
The reason that it keeps coming up is that people who believe the smear campaign keep bringing it up.
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You are the only one saying that sweet heart. The whole point is that Al Gore made a statement (backed up by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn), that right wing propaganda repeatedly misquoted and spewed out to their idiot fans, who, like you, take it as fact.
Since you can't be forced to click a link and read what is there, read this:
CNN interview [wikipedia.org]
Following a 1999 CNN interview, then-Vice President Gore became the subject of some controversy and ridicule when his claim that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet"[13] was widely quoted out of context or misquoted, with comedians and the popular media taking his expression as a claim that he had personally invented the Internet.[14][15] George W. Bush, Gore's opponent in the 2000 presidential election, mocked Gore's claim during his acceptance speech before the Republican National Convention that year.[16]
The meaning of the statement, which referred to his legislative support of the early Internet, was widely reaffirmed by notable Internet pioneers, such as Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, who stated, "No one in public life has been more intellectually engaged in helping to create the climate for a thriving Internet than the Vice President".[17]
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Good golly, and you just keep saying more and more stupid shit
You say:
>>The latest "the Internet" could be said to be started, is with TCP/IP, in 1973. That's the Internet, not the World Wide Web, and certainly not Mosaic.
And if you really want to get to the beginning of the Internet (like read the link you posted troll), you should look at ARPANET [wikipedia.org]
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No, you fucking idiot
Al Gore's original quote, which is actually part of a longer interview NEVER claimed to have invented the internet, that is just the quick and stupid synopsis that right wing propaganda has decided to spew, and that you lick up sooooo happily
And, let me go on to say that this entire fucking country is 2 months behind on Coronavirus because the president is just like you, sucks up right wing media, tries to use their lies to actually manage things, and then just finds themselves repeating bullshit while everything goes to shit around them
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To repeat:
"Took the initiative in creating the Internet", is equally absurd.
You're too much of a doubling-down fool to bother with. Enjoy your delusions, people who know better, know better.
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Enjoy your echo chamber of lies, expect to get pummeled with fact here
maybe 4chan is more your speed
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Sorry to say, Trump did not cancel flights from China, the airlines did since 'restrictions' are not a ban, please read below. [factcheck.org]
A Travel ‘Ban’?
For starters, health experts say Trump was wrong to refer to the travel restrictions as a “travel ban,” as he did in a telephone interview on March 4 with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. During a town hall on March 5, Trump said he “closed down the borders to China and to other areas that are very badly affected.” That’s not accu
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Or network engineers. I wish we were treated like gods. Can I get a pay increase now?
What does a God need with money -- or a Starship, for that matter?
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I was about to post something about that same reference. Would have been neater if you had not wrote the bit about a starship to keep things obscure so only true nerds would have understood it.
The actual quote is not "What does a God need with a starship", by the way, but "What does God need with a starship?".
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The actual quote is not "What does a God need with a starship", by the way, but "What does God need with a starship?".
Ya I know, but the original post said, "I wish we were treated like gods." so responding with "a god" seemed more correct than simply "god" -- sigh, grammar man ... :-)
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That quote is the only reason to actually watch Star Trek V. The rest of it is unbelievably bad. Giving Bill Shatner the director's chair was like giving a six year old a million bucks and saying "No don't spend it all on candy..."
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Hey, God's got bills to pay too. Can you imagine Heaven's payroll? A bit an archangel alone makes seven figures a year.
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Just define "God" the way Einstein did: "The being, force, and/or thing which brought about the universe. The nature of this creating force is either unknown or subject to debate, pending further discoveries." (paraphrased)
Like relatively, it's waffly yet brilliant. And won't tick off most religious traditionalists, something rare in science these days.
(Don't know if this applies to the Internet, though, since it was built by known humans.)
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Just define "God" the way Einstein did: "The being, force, and/or thing which brought about the universe. The nature of this creating force is either unknown or subject to debate, pending further discoveries."
You do know we have standard names [wikipedia.org] for the forces in the Standard Model, right?
I do realize you're speaking of the Before Time before time, but honestly, can you not think of a better term than "God". It's so loaded.
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Why? Are you going to force him to take a Voight-Kampff test?
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If MIT and the DoD are God, then I suppose so...
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Yeah, I was just about to post same. The very existence of Him being among the first topics [wikipedia.org] discussed on the Internet, are we seriously thanking Him for the modern wonder?
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"God ?"
In Florida, churches have been declared 'essential business', which means all the Christians will be dead soon.
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Sounds like a lin-lin* situation: they get to go to heaven, and we get rid of them.
*For many a slashdotter, the "win" prefix is associated with loss rather than victory. Although with the exponential nature of the crisis, a lin-log situation might be more appropriate.
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Internet is a "right"? (Score:4, Insightful)
I see both cell phone and high-speed internet being recognized as a necessity similar to electricity.
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Not for rural areas. There are still 20,000,000 people in the United States who cannot get anything better than dial-up speeds, and even then, only when the weather's nice.
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I see both cell phone and high-speed internet being recognized as a necessity similar to electricity.
When I was a kid, if we wanted electricity we had to fly a kite during a storm with a key attached. And save it in a jar. Against the wind. BOTH WAYS!
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If society demands you do things that are contingent upon having Internet access, then it's not unreasonable to expect society to make Internet access available.
Sure, Internet access isn't a natural right -- something that any conceivable society should be bound to honor.
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The internet can be a marvelous tool, don't get me wrong. And yeah, it's nice to be able to keep in touch with the people you usually interact with every day at the office. But there are also down-sides. Tracking. Being forced to work from home which means you're never really off the clock if you're salary. Having your habits stored and sold to anyone that wants to know. Cameras watching your every move, mics recording everything you say.
I get that a certain generation, that grew up with it, are loving that the whole world has to embrace it now and they finally get to espouse to everyone how wonderful and glowing and warm and kumbaya it all is, but it's still just a tool. A useful tool at the moment, but still just that. Feeling elation over the proper use of a tool seems a bit. . . I dunno, over the top. About the only tool I've ever used that made me feel elation was a guitar, but that's not exactly the same thing.
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The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
It rots the senses in the head!
It kills Imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind
It makes a child so dull and blind
He can no Longer understand
A fairytale and a fairyland
His brain becomes as soft as cheese
His thinking powers rust and freeze
He cannot think he only sees!
Re:This is BS (Score:5, Informative)
I defy you, Anonymous Coward, to get in a pen with a 1600 pound steer, or even a 250 pound ram, call him defenceless, and try to do what you are insinuating that rural folk do to their animals. You will quickly realize that it is the most urban of legends.
For the ignorant: Few farm animals are defenceless. Outside of dogs and cats, most farm animals will only tolerate your presence if you are bringing them food. The odd animal becomes attached to a person for some reason, which is heart-warming, but it isn't common and the second you do something out of the ordinary, they spook. If you aren't bringing a farm animal food, the chances are pretty good that they want nothing to do with you. If they are forced into contact with a person, that person will quickly find out what defences these animals have.
Even the regular feeding of animals comes with real risks. While feeding, I've been gored by sheep, bitten by pigs, clawed by chickens, beaten by geese and ducks (geese are way tougher than they look), and thrown clear over a fence by a cow. Usually, this is just the animal expressing territoriality. I've even had a rabbit draw a fair amount of blood because she suddenly felt that my arm had no business being in her hutch, even though that arm was filling her hay feeder. I still have the scars from that six pound rabbit.
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"(geese are way tougher than they look)"
LOL. That reminds me of the time long ago (sometime in the 1990's) when I was walking my dog, Devy's Prince Galahad (a 150 lbs German Shepard -- King was his call name) off leash in a park and we came upon a flock of Swans swimming in the nearby creek, and a few of them on the enbankment. He was only about four and had never seen a Swan before so he went over to say Hi and give them a sniff. Well, the Swans were not impressed, to say the least!
It was quite the site
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Not if your job depended on you being able to be connected to continue to do your work. I believe that's the most important point to this story.
Of course, most of us that this is the case for would have very different jobs had it not been for the internet, so there's that also.
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Lol, sure, as if the world economy isn't entirely dependent on the Internet right now. Without Internet you wouldn't have a lot of medicine you take for granted right now, everyone would suddenly get sick and die without knowing the causes which is what happened with the Spanish Flu and Asian Flu.
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We'd be fine without out.
Perhaps, but a lot of us would now be on unemployment if the Internet weren't available.
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Yeah! And we couldn't post on Slashdot instead of doing our job!
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Posting on Slashdot IS my job, you insensitive clod!
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And how many rubles do you get per post?
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You are BS (Score:2)
We'd be fine without out.
How many more would be without jobs without internet?
Or dead because they could not realistically self-isolate and had to go physically to work.
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I know you can live without it .. but why would you want to? I grew up, in rural Oklahoma, before it existed .. I have no desire to go back to the 'Good Old Days'.
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I dunno. I'm approaching 4 decades of having computer network access. Not at home of course, direct internet at home that isn't about dialing into a server is new and different. We had the Hayes Smartmodem which put dialup into the affordable range for consumers; so we've had the potential for tons of people to work from home for that long (whether or not it would overload the phone system is another matter). We wrote a compiler for classwork in 1985 on a 300 baud modem with an ADM-3A; yes it was slow c
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Says the guy posting on Slashdot.
Nietzsche said God was dead. Can't speak to that, myself, but I know for certain that irony is dead. Maybe that's the same thing...
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We'd be fine without out. Some people would have withdrawals, but having grown up without the internet and survived entire summers without my friends around (I lived in the country) before I was old enough to drive, I know it can be done.
Without the Internet, I would be unemployed right now, along with my partner, my brother, almost all of my friends who are technology workers, and almost all my other friends who are other white collar professional types.
I take your point about surviving without the Internet, but its existence is helping to keep at least some of the economy ticking along as smoothly as possible.
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Plenty of individuals as well as large companies depend on internet for existence today. You think Google would exist with no internet, Facebook, Amazon,....?
Internet is infrastructure, like electricity, society depends on it. Plenty of people survived their entire lives without electricity in the past, but if you were to cut US from the grid for a year, you'd see chaos like never before.
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As a child you have the tendency to find entertainment for yourself no matter the circumstances.
For example I spent part of my childhood in socialist Romania in the 80's. People had little. Living in a rural area my family had little. We didn't even have a sewage system, running water, or reliable electricity (we were more often without than with it, making appliances like refrigerators useless). But as
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Porn (Score:5, Insightful)
Amateur Radio Service (Score:2)
To patchwrite the late great Frank Zappa, "Amateur Radio Service isn't dead, it just smells funny."
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What the hell would we do right now without the internet?
What's going to be interesting is to see what the birth rate is going to look like come December and into next year.
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This graph [medium.com] from "The Limits to Growth" (from 1972) seems to be a very good prediction. Birth rates sky-rocket, but population drops nevertheless.
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Birth rates sky-rocket, but population drops nevertheless.
Not from Coronavirus. This is a flu, it's not smallpox. We need to flatten the curve, but it's not the end of the world.
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I count myself lucky to be employed in these dark times.
I am a coder - I wasn't always, once I put pen and ink onto plastic film and paper, my first career as a draughtsman (yes, I'm am old).
I count every day as a blessing that I chose the path I did, from early days as a teen, spending hours in front of the TV - not consuming, but creating, on my less than trusty ZX Spectrum. Those early days would turn out to be my saving grace in these times.
The internet - hah - I recall visiting a buddy who wasn't even into computers as far as I knew, back in 1993, he had a 9600 modem and was demonstrating to me some plain text websites on Mosaic. I recall being unimpressed at the time - I was 25, I had better things to do with my time. (more fool me)
Two years later, still a draughtsman, but now using CAD, my company at the time had 'fast' internet access - a 128k dedicated line shared between 100+ employees, most of whom never used it.
I downloaded Doom & started making levels, followed by Quake - oh my god, Quake Shareware - what a time to be alive!. I upgraded my work computer from Windows 3.1.1 to Windows 95 over the company network, without anyone realising. To this day, I have no idea why I wasn't fired for doing this - probably because the IT support were so impressed I managed to achieve it on a 386.
My days on the ZX Spectrum suddenly became rather useful - I was a natural at this.
At home, back in '95, I still had no computer, so I would haul my work computer back home with me under the guise of getting work done. I had no telephone, so I would literally hack into the wires running through the block of flats I lived in to find a 'live' connection to connect my modem to. At one point, I climbed up a telephone pole and crocodile clipped connections to get a connection, with a buddy in the house manning the modem - "Yep, we got a dial tone!"
I recall occasionally, hearing voices through the modem "What are you doing on my line?" "What is going on?" - quick, disconnect, find another.
It was only later that I realised there was a world of wonder for this kind of activity - we just wanted to get online.
God only knows what bills we raked up for unsuspecting households - we didn't care - we were on the internet.
IRC all the way baby - who are all these people online? This is like ham radio with text!
Fast forward to my career as a web dev, to real audio, to flash, to the early days of video online - so exciting.
Then a long period of stagnation, nothing new happening - queue super fast broadband - now anything was possible, everything was possible.
It always was, of course, but now it was faster, now we could get more types of data shunted across the world - and then - well, then it was just normal.
Taken fore granted, kinda boring, like switching on a light or running a tap.
And here we are, in the darkness, with this beacon of connectivity making things bearable.
I love you, internet, you are my little earner, my livelihood, my inspiration and my consumption.
Rock on!
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To be honest I switched over to WinNT asap and avoided Win95 like a plague since it had issues with large hard drives and could not support an Oracle instance
Beyond that I also moved from draftsman (in the US obviously) to CAD, then to GIS and finally Oracle products, which I support to this day.
My most hackerly moment was when the CAD manager refused to let me get access to his system (this was 1988 and microstation was a hot commodity), so I broke into his office (credit carded the door), got the key to t
Hey, you're welcome! (Score:4)
Really, it was no problem.
Yes, I am God. I know this because when I talk to Him, I find that I'm talking to myself.
(shamelessly stolen from someone else)
Stupid Question (Score:2)
"What the hell would we do right now without the internet? How would so many of us work, stay connected, stay informed, stay entertained?"
We would do exactly what we did before the Internet.
Work from Home? What's the problem? Used to do that long before this new-fangled Internet thing.
Stay Connected? What's the problem? Used to do that long before this new-fangled Internet thing.
Stay Informed? What's the problem? Used to do that long before this new-fangled Internet thing.
Stay Entertained? What's the
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that will resonate with a lot of rural Americans:
"Nature knows no boredom. It is an invention of the city folks."
If we didn't have the Internet, people would just go on longer walks, out into nature where nobody else is,
and come back much happier than we will ever be now.
Using email without internet? (Score:2)
In 1988, I was in India and my college had email facility. This is how it worked. you create email on whatever machine you had. This gets copied to floppy disk and then we take this to the main computer which was connected to 1200 bits/sec modem. The modem is only turned on after midnight to save the telephone rate. All the data will be transmitted/received at that time and the received email will then be sent back to receivers on floppy disk.
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We also had "snarf", which would let you queue a download from a BBS that exchanged messages with the one you were currently on. These would also be downloaded the next time the two make contact, and then either held for you, or added to the BBS's own files to be downloaded at your convenience as well as everyone else's.
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I use the internet for almost everything. But I think I could survive without it. Back to bike rides in the parks for relaxation. Take up fishing again. Families would be tighter due to people would not always be wrapped up in their personal electronic device.
The internet is good, it has done a lot to improve lives. But it has been at a loss for other things that were just as important.
Hyperbole (Score:5, Insightful)
"Everything is so dark..."
Oh please.
Yes, this COVID-19 situation is serious and we're finally taking somewhat drastic short-term measures to contain it. But COME ON. Do people know nothing about history? We're claiming that "everything is so dark" because we're stuck in our homes for a few weeks to control a virus? We have enough food, we have shelter, people aren't dropping bombs on us or sending us to gas chambers or slaughtering us because we're educated (or, if they are, it is unrelated to the coronavirus situation). We're not going to lose 1/3 of our population due to the disease, like happened in Europe during the plague.
Get some perspective.
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You're dismissing out of hand what may very well be the most defining moment of this decade, if not generation or century.
Decade, may well be. Century? No. Climate change is going to hit us harder. The dynamics will be completely different, the economic toll will be of redirected economic activity more than shutting down economic activity, and a lot of it will look like a series of large-scale wars that don't necessarily appear to be climate-related, but it'll be worse.
Maybe we should solicit the opinions of the 10 to 50 million americans about to be without a job with zero savings instead of some cloistered d bag.
That's a distribution problem, not a fundamental problem. Fundamentally, we have enough housing and food and energy, etc., to keep everyone going. If we ca
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You would probably benefit from reading some history. Wikipedia might be a good resource.
give me a break (Score:4, Insightful)
We'd be watching TV, or playing board games and cards. We'd be doing the things that we did before the internet. Why suppose that without the internet, we'd be lost on what to do? See, it's the vast amount of attention given to the internet that's made us question the world without it.
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We'd be watching TV, or playing board games and cards. We'd be doing the things that we did before the internet. Why suppose that without the internet, we'd be lost on what to do? See, it's the vast amount of attention given to the internet that's made us question the world without it.
But what I'm doing now, during this stay-at-home crisis, is working, pretty much the same as if there were no crisis. That wouldn't really be possible without the Internet.
This? (Score:2)
I was 12 the first time I logged onto whatever was called the internet then. There were no websites to speak of, not really.
This whippersnapper is what counts as a wisened sage nowadays?
In my day, we didn't have no stinking baby Internet. We didn't even have dial up BBSes, except for some universities, which were long distance and $200 a minute phone bill after inflation, and only your school had one teletype terminal anyway that they let you use for a half an hour every year.
You had to go run the fields by factories or the woods and once every four years you found a Playboy or maybe a Hustler IF YOU WERE LUCKY! Oh Sears catal
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"You had to go run the fields by factories or the woods and once every four years you found a Playboy or maybe a Hustler IF YOU WERE LUCKY!"
Hmmm. I always thought that was what Barbershops were for. You got to read all the good magazines and paid for it by letting the shopkeeper cut your hair.
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lol, when I was 12, the grade schools started having paper drives
There was a new apartment complex next to my parents house and my friends and I would take grocery carts there and fill them with the daily news papers.
We won the paper drive in an overwhelming manner, and also learned about all the other nasty stuff that people throw away
Never underestimate the value of dumpster diving, and conversely, never throw anything away that can be used against you without shredding/burning etc...
God?? (Score:5, Insightful)
How about thanking Vint Cerf, Claude Shannon, Vannevar Bush, Larry Roberts, Elizabeth Feinler, and yes, even Al Gore. Those people actually did stuff.
But "god"? God had nothing to do with it and the very mention of that kind of horsecrap demeans the work of actual pioneers of the internet.
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Yeah, except for maybe that "Let there be light!" part.
Maybe if he hadn't rested on the 7th day he would have had time to finish the world. What a slacker.
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Dark? Not yet. That's to come. (Score:2)
Us here, during Korea, Vietnam, Gulf Wars I and II, and Afghanistan, don't know dark.
Dark is 5 gallons of gas a week. Can you live on that?
Dark is living in the Tube, getting bombed at night, every night.
Dark is having no coffee, no sugar, meatless tuesdays.
Dark is coming, folks. Perhaps all you sunny-side-up fellas should bone up on history. We tend to forget the bad quickly, this is essential to survive.. but that's why we write down the bad bits too, because they're also essential to survive. Or rath
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I have had "The Net" long before "The Internet". And several business partners and family members had these too.
From 1985 to 1995 I have been using a lot of dial-up BBS. There were tens of thousands around the world.
From 1990 to 2000 I have been using for thousands of hours FidoNet with Millions of Users, thousands of discussion groups and access to millions of files.
I also used Usenet frequently from 1990 to 2010 but I guess that already qualifies as "The Internet" even if I connected to it using UUCP inst
God is the Internet (Score:2)
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Or Fredric Brown's (very) short story "Answer"
Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe -- nine
Use corporate BBSes (Score:2)
Paraphrasing Homer, the Internet is like Beer (Score:2)
I'm 56 and never logged on (Score:2)
"I was 12 the first time I logged onto whatever was called the internet then"
I am 56 and have *never* to this day logged onto "the internet" (or the Internet either, for that matter).
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"Get your own dirt."