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Agree. (1994, not 84 tho.). Add to your learning list: Usenet reader, Gopher, and Archie.

by russfink 3y ago

dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
1994 had the web. That's what is was actually like in 1984.
- ta1243 3y ago
  Yes, 1993 was the year everything changed. Mosaic was released, online services started connecting to the internet, the new Vice President was pushing the "Information Superhighway", and people (the media) were listening and repeating it far more widely than when he was a senator. Eternal September occurred, websites like Bloomberg came online, Wired launched, and the internet was no longer a niche thing but the future. By 1994 usage exploded and companies like Apple and Microsoft launched websites, Media outlets like the Telegraph, BBC and the Economist started making content, various international governments had a presence, and web commerce picked up -- you could subscribe to Britannica, you could buy pizza and flowers, and some random guy called "Jeff Bezos" started a new internet company, as did now-defunct sites like Yahoo and Lycos, and The internet was talked about on prime time TV in the UK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5STahhPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5STahhPE) I didn't touch the internet until 1994, but my feeling is that the internet of 1984 was very different to that of 1994
  - dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
    Yahoo isn’t dead anymore than RadioSnack is…they’re just not obvious anymore…and most people don’t go there…
  - dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
    To me it doesn't seem that different. Downloading software, (cough) images, and documentation using ftp, reading news and discussions from uucp or nntp is much the same as stuff on the web, it's just a different interface. The novelty and magic was being able to do it in the first place. Obviously the speed, scale and variety is different, but the basics remain the same: it's bits over a pipe with global reach.

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Agree. (1994, not 84 tho.). Add to your learning list: Usenet reader, Gopher, and Archie.

by russfink 3y ago

Agree. (1994, not 84 tho.). Add to your learning list: Usenet reader, Gopher, and Archie.

dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
1994 had the web. That's what is was actually like in 1984.
- ta1243 3y ago
  Yes, 1993 was the year everything changed. Mosaic was released, online services started connecting to the internet, the new Vice President was pushing the "Information Superhighway", and people (the media) were listening and repeating it far more widely than when he was a senator. Eternal September occurred, websites like Bloomberg came online, Wired launched, and the internet was no longer a niche thing but the future. By 1994 usage exploded and companies like Apple and Microsoft launched websites, Media outlets like the Telegraph, BBC and the Economist started making content, various international governments had a presence, and web commerce picked up -- you could subscribe to Britannica, you could buy pizza and flowers, and some random guy called "Jeff Bezos" started a new internet company, as did now-defunct sites like Yahoo and Lycos, and The internet was talked about on prime time TV in the UK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5STahhPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5STahhPE) I didn't touch the internet until 1994, but my feeling is that the internet of 1984 was very different to that of 1994
  - dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
    Yahoo isn’t dead anymore than RadioSnack is…they’re just not obvious anymore…and most people don’t go there…
  - dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
    To me it doesn't seem that different. Downloading software, (cough) images, and documentation using ftp, reading news and discussions from uucp or nntp is much the same as stuff on the web, it's just a different interface. The novelty and magic was being able to do it in the first place. Obviously the speed, scale and variety is different, but the basics remain the same: it's bits over a pipe with global reach.