It was even better when BBSes migrated to the internet and offered the same great service via Telnet. Now THOSE were the days. Thats why I paid $20 a month, to connect to local BBSes on Telnet and not worry about busy signals.
1969: x10 proposes a world wide computer network capable of poping up advertisements on users workstations. The DOD shows interest and tags the name ARPANET on it.
1981: Lary Flint and other Porn big shots support the effort.
1982: IBM turns down an offer to control the new born ARPANET, they're too busy licensing C:\>.
1986: Buttered popcorn beats out Gummy Bears by 20% in the first ever international email survey. Thus spam is invented.
1989: Playboy releases first ever Playmate gallery in ASCII on Gopher.
1991: Al Gore changes the name of the project by inventing the term "internet". Later NCSA releases the first browser, mosaic.
1993: The warez pups populate the Internet with copies of Doom and give users a reason to get online.
1994: The motion picture "Hackers" captures audiences with its amazing 3d representations of the internet, thus VRML is invented.
1995: Windows 95 hits store shelves hyping Plug and Play. ISA 28.8's fly off the shelves.
1998: Windows 98 is released with an integrated web browser, courtesy of Microsoft, and everyone forgets who Netscape is.
2000: Slashdot posts a story about about how cool slashdot is, and is instantly slashdotted as people reload the page.
2002: Grandma finally gets it when you tell her the internet isnt on the AOL cd she got in the mail.
2003: Linux becomes THE buzzword, instantly making it the #1 os to brag about and will inevitably dominate the desktop forever. Resistance is futile.
2004: Since AOL decides not to port AOL 8 to Linux the huge ISP fails and Time Warner starts talks with X10 about new and improved "Popup Commercials" for Cable TV.
Of course I missed a few minor things, like how WAP became the dominant authoring language, IRC put AT&T and MCI out of business, and how SCO ranted and raved about nonsense until they were beaten by a giant penguin.
I too am facing the same decision. For the longest time now I have looked down at consoles as kid toys while enjoying my adult gaming PC.
My how times have changed. I dont think its the ability to play in the living room thats making me want to hop the gaming platform fence (Got a nice game/mp3/divx box hooked to the tv), but the actual games.
Used to be that games came out for PC and then got stripped down and ported to the consoles. Now i'm debating shelling out for an xbox or waiting for an emulator in order to keep my TV-PC alive for another generation.
"Apple is like a strange drug that you just can't quite get enough of," the musician Barry Adamson told the Guardian newspaper. "They shouldn't call it Mac. They should call it crack!"
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The Internet was invented by SETI in an attempt to obtain free processing power.
It didnt become popular until later when Playboy registered their domain.
It was even better when BBSes migrated to the internet and offered the same great service via Telnet. Now THOSE were the days. Thats why I paid $20 a month, to connect to local BBSes on Telnet and not worry about busy signals.
1969: x10 proposes a world wide computer network capable of poping up advertisements on users workstations. The DOD shows interest and tags the name ARPANET on it.
1981: Lary Flint and other Porn big shots support the effort.
1982: IBM turns down an offer to control the new born ARPANET, they're too busy licensing C:\>.
1986: Buttered popcorn beats out Gummy Bears by 20% in the first ever international email survey. Thus spam is invented.
1989: Playboy releases first ever Playmate gallery in ASCII on Gopher.
1991: Al Gore changes the name of the project by inventing the term "internet". Later NCSA releases the first browser, mosaic.
1993: The warez pups populate the Internet with copies of Doom and give users a reason to get online.
1994: The motion picture "Hackers" captures audiences with its amazing 3d representations of the internet, thus VRML is invented.
1995: Windows 95 hits store shelves hyping Plug and Play. ISA 28.8's fly off the shelves.
1998: Windows 98 is released with an integrated web browser, courtesy of Microsoft, and everyone forgets who Netscape is.
2000: Slashdot posts a story about about how cool slashdot is, and is instantly slashdotted as people reload the page.
2002: Grandma finally gets it when you tell her the internet isnt on the AOL cd she got in the mail.
2003: Linux becomes THE buzzword, instantly making it the #1 os to brag about and will inevitably dominate the desktop forever. Resistance is futile.
2004: Since AOL decides not to port AOL 8 to Linux the huge ISP fails and Time Warner starts talks with X10 about new and improved "Popup Commercials" for Cable TV.
Of course I missed a few minor things, like how WAP became the dominant authoring language, IRC put AT&T and MCI out of business, and how SCO ranted and raved about nonsense until they were beaten by a giant penguin.
And I thought the internet just evolved from multinode BBSes running WildCat and Discussion Board Sync software.
:)
Who knew?
Where would we be today had Al Gore never invented the internet?
My first ever first post, due to insomnia, great :)
That really blows. No, really.
R2D2 can now be a proud soccer mom
Imagine this: NY USA to Sidney Australia via Shuttle. AKA Yesterday Delivery.
I saw this done many years ago at a LAN party.
Actually, it was a Pizza Hut box, and most the parts were held together by duct tape.
Its amazing what people can do with VIA's EPIA motherboards. One look at this picture and you'll get the idea.
;)
Nice exaust
If SCO is correct, what does this mean to Linux as we know it today?
If scripters are regarded wish such a low level, why isnt perl considered a low level language?
10 Echo Starting Application
20 system "start iexplore -k http://localhost/index.php"
30 goto 10
40 profit
I too am facing the same decision. For the longest time now I have looked down at consoles as kid toys while enjoying my adult gaming PC. My how times have changed. I dont think its the ability to play in the living room thats making me want to hop the gaming platform fence (Got a nice game/mp3/divx box hooked to the tv), but the actual games. Used to be that games came out for PC and then got stripped down and ported to the consoles. Now i'm debating shelling out for an xbox or waiting for an emulator in order to keep my TV-PC alive for another generation.
"Apple is like a strange drug that you just can't quite get enough of," the musician Barry Adamson told the Guardian newspaper. "They shouldn't call it Mac. They should call it crack!"
Cant the same be said about linux users?