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A trip to the internet in 1996 with The Rough Guide 2.0
- jj-81 3y agoMy first modem was 14,400 bps. So a whopping 1.8 KB/second on a good day :) It sure was fun in those days though. I also enjoyed hanging out in IRC, but even though it's not the same I do find Discord much better.
- remoquete 3y agoBut can you slap someone around a bit with a large trout on Discord?
- enos_feedler 3y ago+kb remoquete
- andsoitis 3y agoAnd as reminder, JavaScript was invented in 1995. Developed for Netscape 2.0.
- intothemild 3y agoAnd we've been paying the price ever since.
- marban 3y agoWe could have ended up with ActiveX, VBScript.
- intothemild 3y agoYears of therapy to remove that memory... Wasted.
- doublerabbit 3y agoOr TCL. How I wish it was TCL.
- ok123456 3y agoDebugging errors with dynamic scope would make web work much worse.
- potsandpans 3y agoso brave
- guestbest 3y agoOne thing to consider when reading these kinds of books is that sponsors pay to have their products listed. Yahoo was big on doing this. Excite was known to do this a lot. > In January 1996, George Bell joined Excite as its chief executive officer (CEO). Excite also purchased two search engines (Magellan and WebCrawler) and signed exclusive distribution agreements with Netscape, Microsoft and Apple, in addition to other companies. Jim Bellows, then 72, was hired by Excite in 1994 to figure out how to present the content in a journalistic manner.[4] He paid good journalists to write brief reviews of web sites https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excite_(web_portal) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excite_(web_portal)
- contingencies 3y agoRealAudio (1995) also spawned RTSP (1996) which is remains a dominant protocol in media streaming for billions of IP based security cameras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealAudio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealAudio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Streaming_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Streaming_Protocol
- marcodiego 3y agoHow I downloaded my first mp3: Went to altavista.com. Typed Dire_Straits_-_Sultans_of_Swing.mp3. Clicked the first link.
- planetjones 3y agoMe too forgot about that. I think it was a few years after 1996 when audiogalaxy arrived.
- d0gsg0w00f 3y agoFor me it was @ mentioning someone in an IRC chat and some bot started sending me "Sad but True" or some such angst.
- marban 3y agoFTPs with strict Up/Down quota.
- pests 3y agoIRC with DCC.
- tkiolp4 3y agoThat’s still possible nowadays with yandex.com (perhaps not the first link, but definitely the first page)
- acheron 3y agoI had a big book called “The Internet Yellow Pages” I believe, from.. 1995? Had websites, Usenet groups, telnet MUDs and BBSs, IRC, etc. Discovery was sometimes tough in those days, so why not get a printed book?
- ok123456 3y agoI remember WINE being listed in that book.
- planetjones 3y agoThe best selling internet book of all time allegedly: http://www.harley.com/yp/home.html/ http://www.harley.com/yp/home.html/
- macintux 3y agoSomewhere I have a copy of one of Ed Krol's early O'Reilly books, The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, I think the 1993 edition that included the WWW nearly at the end of the book. It's somehow fitting that every external link on its Wikipedia page is broken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Internet_User%27s_Guide_and_Catalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Internet_User%27s_Guide_...
- planetjones 3y agoI’d never heard of that. What a strange front cover. I might have to order a copy and write a follow up post using it. Thanks!
- macintux 3y agoIt was actually his second guide to the Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_I...
- mzerod 3y agoThe Modarchive[0] is still around, too. The reviewer’s (shared) password used to be since1996 [0]http://modarchive.org http://modarchive.org