A salute to all those

[gator_in_Ontario]

who make all this possible...:yourock:
to all the "geeks" who made the internet possible:yourock:
You made the world my home, and made me learn the different time zones:yourock:
For all the friends I have made across the globe:yourock:
Thank you all...:yourock:

[Melodybe]

1. We should all thank Al Gore as well for "inventing the internet"

Well for helping to make the internet possible to be correct.

But most definitely god bless the internet and the "geeks" who make it possible. We love you all!

[Wonk]

2. First time I surfed the 'net was in '91, using LYNX

and a friends University Comp Sci account.

What Al did was cool, though, too.

[gator_in_Ontario]

3. if I hadn't seen it

I never would have done it!

[snobird]

4. Glad You are here..

:bounce:

[buckeye1]

5. I am curious.

What was it like then? What could be done. Graphics? email? Spam?(joking) Virusis? Please give us your tales.

[Wonk]

6. You can still see it with Lynx if you really want to.

http://lynx.browser.org/

Most modern sites look like complete shit with it, btw.

[scottcsmith]

7. My first Internet account

It was a Unix shell, and it must have been 1994. I remember logging on and showing my friends this thing called the "Internet." So I'd gopher into a library system in Germany and say "Look at me, this is a library in Germany!" and for some reason my friends were not that impressed.

I think it was 1995 when I had an account to access the WWW, and I created my first homepage in '96.

I also had an AOL account back then. And as easy as it is to make fun of AOL, in the early 1990s they were experimenting with adding Internet access, such as FTP and Usenet. This would have been '94 or '95. AOL didn't really go out of its way to announce or promote FTP and Usenet, I just happened upon them by chance one day.

Here's a bit of nostalgia:

My first PC was a 486 DX 25. It had 2 MBs of RAM and a 20 MB hard drive. The modem ran at the blazing fast speed of 2400 bps. I remember logging onto AOL to download the shareware version of Apogee's "Blake Stone" which was about 1.4 MBs. It took at least six hours to download. I just now downloaded it with my cable modem and it took nine seconds.

An, those were the days.