The internet is only 30 years old????????

[fuzzybuddy]

While the internet may have been a military secret in the 1980s. In 1993, the internet was born for all of us. That's only 30 years ago. Who would have thought those nerds with their computers would amount to much. My first computer had Windows 96- Wow. Today, every eight year old knows how to get online. By the time, they're nine, they've memorized their parents credit card numbers. If you're reading this on a laptop, in 1993, would that technology have floored you? Today, the internet is just as natural to us as wearing clothes-but it's only been 30 years.

 

[katlupe]

I remember being on bulletin boards and using DOS.

 

[MarciKS]

i was never on dos but i remember the bulletin boards. i miss those. i got sat down in front of the desktop and was told to figure it out and an internet addiction was born. fortunately i don't have that issue now. lol!

 

[Quackers]

It worries me where it will all go. So much info people put online about themselves now, I couldn't imagine sharing so many details.
Robots, AI, I'm sure there's lots I'm unaware of.
Makes me wonder if another 30yrs where humans will be on this earth and if they've completely lost the art of communication in real life, caring and being concerned about fellow humans face to face.

Oh, I do wish when I leave this earth there is the ability to look in a font full of water where we can see where the world and humanity will end up and the mistakes we made to end up if everything goes belly up and how t'internet/social media had it's hand in it.
Gosh Quackers, such negative thoughts

 

[JeeperDon]

My current phone incoming call ringtone is a dialup modem with touch tones followed by the connection hash sound.

 

[Nathan]

I still remember getting those AOL CDs in the mail. I remember wondering: those are pretty, what do they do? What's an AOL?

 

[hollydolly]

I still remember getting those AOL CDs in the mail. I remember wondering: those are pretty, what do they do? What's an AOL?

I still have those AOL Discs unused in a CD case I have in the loft... I kept them after an Antiques expert about 20 years ago said that future antiques are going to be throwaway or disposable items..,

 

[Quackers]

Does anyone remember the Office assistants - little dog Rover and the smiling paper clip?

I could only quickly find this:

Clippy lives! Microsoft's animated Office Assistant returns

 

[Magna-Carta]

While the internet may have been a military secret in the 1980s. In 1993, the internet was born for all of us. That's only 30 years ago. Who would have thought those nerds with their computers would amount to much. My first computer had Windows 96- Wow. Today, every eight year old knows how to get online. By the time, they're nine, they've memorized their parents credit card numbers. If you're reading this on a laptop, in 1993, would that technology have floored you? Today, the internet is just as natural to us as wearing clothes-but it's only been 30 years.

??...

I've been wearing clothes for more than 30 years! Well, off and on.

 

[JustBonee]

While the internet may have been a military secret in the 1980s. In 1993, the internet was born for all of us. That's only 30 years ago. Who would have thought those nerds with their computers would amount to much. My first computer had Windows 96- Wow. Today, every eight year old knows how to get online. By the time, they're nine, they've memorized their parents credit card numbers. If you're reading this on a laptop, in 1993, would that technology have floored you? Today, the internet is just as natural to us as wearing clothes-but it's only been 30 years.

Not a military secret in the 80's .... I had AOL .. America Online internet service provided on my first Mac computer in the 80's.

 

[NewlySenior]

I was on BBS and Compuserve and Prodigy in the late 80s...Compuserve was entirely text based, but we upgraded from a 300 baud modem to a super fast 14400 modem and got Prodigy

 

[NewlySenior]

I still remember getting those AOL CDs in the mail. I remember wondering: those are pretty, what do they do? What's an AOL?

We hung them in our fruit trees to deter deer from eating all the fruit!

 

[Supernatural]

At work we had an internal dial up service in the 80s. At home internet became available in November of 1994

 

[VaughanJB]

One of the fun things I look back on is that I was right at the start of home computing. From DOS/UNIX and on. I played a (teenie tiny) part in the first corporate networks, the adoption of protocols, and we were amazed at the first color screen. It's come a long way, and has a long way to go.

Not that I ever had the vision of what it would become, that was for the brains far larger than my own. But it's been a great journey.

 

[horseless carriage]

If you're reading this on a laptop, in 1993, would that technology have floored you?

It still does.

Today, the internet is just as natural to us as wearing clothes-but it's only been 30 years.

Really, I still hand write letters, have never sent an email, even though I needed one to join this forum and my smart phone is too smart for me. Text and voice calls are about my limit.

 

[Murrmurr]

30 years and most seniors are still on the learning curve.

But the internet today isn't what it was 30yrs ago. Or even 10.

I still have 4 or 5 downloadable programs and resets on discs. I could have thrown them out 10yrs ago, I just haven't yet.

 

[Rich]

My first computer had Windows 96- Wow.

It was probably either 95 or 98.

 

[Nathan]

But the internet today isn't what it was 30yrs ago. Or even 10...

The internet of the 90s was exciting, easy to navigate...if you knew where you were going. Search engines were pathetic(pre-Google), MSN, Lycos, AltaVista and Yahoo search were pretty hit & miss.
I loved Web 1.0....Web 2.0 stinks. I shouldn't really say that, Web 2.0 is amazing, but some websites I just despise because of the design, and all the horrendous code that is deployed, that chokes even a powerful computer and up-to-date browser.

 

[Paladin1950]

I got my first computer in 2002. It was Windows 95.

 

[Marie5656]

I got my first desktop in 97 or so. The only site I was aware of at first was AOL....back when there were a lot of things you could do there. I am kind of glad I learned there, but was also not fully aware there was an internet outside of AOL. But I am better now

 

[hollydolly]

It was probably either 95 or 98.

95 for me...

 

[hearlady]

While the internet may have been a military secret in the 1980s. In 1993, the internet was born for all of us. That's only 30 years ago. Who would have thought those nerds with their computers would amount to much. My first computer had Windows 96- Wow. Today, every eight year old knows how to get online. By the time, they're nine, they've memorized their parents credit card numbers. If you're reading this on a laptop, in 1993, would that technology have floored you? Today, the internet is just as natural to us as wearing clothes-but it's only been 30 years.

So, think of the exponential growth and what that means for AI.

 

[JeeperDon]

I started on on an IBM PC with DOS in 1983. I was an engineer with IBM at the time.

 

[Rich]

95 for me...

95 was a huge change from the previous version (3 or 3.1?) and it's when the "documents" folder was introduced. My favorite Windows release was XP. It was fast, less bloated than most, and didn't blue screen as often as previous versions.

 

[Rich]

I started on on an IBM PC with DOS in 1983. I was an engineer with IBM at the time.

I learned to use Lotus 123 on a DOS system. Holy smokes.... no "undo" key. If a mistake was made and it messed up your work you had to fix it keystroke by keystroke. I quickly learned to hit "save" prior to "enter" to avoid catastrophe.