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Post by caseagainstfaith on Jul 30, 2011 10:21:30 GMT -5
Wow has the times changed in technology.
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 30, 2011 10:31:51 GMT -5
This internet thing is a fad.
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Post by terri on Jul 30, 2011 10:44:08 GMT -5
Yeah, much has changed in 16 years! Still remember the first new computer I bought, in '96: a Packard Hell with 100MHz Pentium, 16MB RAM, a 14.4 modem (soon upgraded to 33.6)... and it was $800... Remember the AT&T "You Will" commercials narrated by Tom Selleck? Nearly all the things predicted in them are now available.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 30, 2011 10:46:00 GMT -5
I was watching Buffy and because Willow is the computer geek we got to see a lot of screens showing off webpages and whatnot. I know they were all fake but they also copied the general style of webpages back then.
Wow. It's so weird thinking about what the internet looked like.
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Post by nickiknack on Jul 30, 2011 11:07:17 GMT -5
This internet thing is a fad. Thats what they said about talking pictures circa 1927
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Post by nickiknack on Jul 30, 2011 11:11:45 GMT -5
Techrat & Eric Raymond invented Google circa 1987, but Eric took all the credit
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Post by the sandman on Jul 30, 2011 13:52:12 GMT -5
Yeah, much has changed in 16 years! Still remember the first new computer I bought, in '96: a Packard Hell with 100MHz Pentium, 16MB RAM, a 14.4 modem (soon upgraded to 33.6)... and it was $800... My first computer, a TRS 80 Model 1: Yes, that's a cassette drive as memory.
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Post by tygerarmy on Jul 30, 2011 14:39:59 GMT -5
The Times They are a-Changin
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 30, 2011 14:54:47 GMT -5
I remember the first time I used the internet in the early 90s. My dad is the quintessential "IT guy", so we had an internet connection long before any of my friends did. My dad would get my brother and I to dictate e-mail messages for my god parents, being that we were young and thus shitty typers, which he'd type into a blue-screened e-mail client. The first time I used a browser, which would have been some time in the mid 90s, was when my dad found an X-Files (my favourite show at the time) website for me to browse.
I also remember my dad scoffing at me when I suggested that wireless internet (or "air signal internet", as I put it at the time) would be cool.
Our first family computer (we'd had one around since I was born, but those were used for my dad's job & school courses) had Windows 3.11, which had to be booted from DOS, and a "turbo" button the front that never actually seemed to affect the computer's performance. The games were awesome. Anyone remember Chip's Challenge? Or those cheap CDs loaded with tons of trial & shareware games that you could pick up at computer stores?
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 30, 2011 14:56:30 GMT -5
I was watching Buffy and because Willow is the computer geek we got to see a lot of screens showing off webpages and whatnot. I know they were all fake but they also copied the general style of webpages back then. Wow. It's so weird thinking about what the internet looked like. I loved how so many shows in the 90s used computers in such a ridiculous way. At a time where barely anyone was connected, you could magically access the schematics to the building you need.... Or hack the DMV, which would clearly need to be online in the 90s.... Great stuff.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Jul 30, 2011 15:01:18 GMT -5
Man... I remember being on AOL...
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 30, 2011 15:03:30 GMT -5
TV and movies still pull that crap. One of the worst I've seen was a clip from NCIS, where someone was hacking into their computer system (indicated by random charts and text documents flashing on and off), and two of the agents pounding away at a single keyboard at the same time in order to stop the hackers. Of course, there wasn't a mouse in sight.
And then there's the infamous "I'll create a GUI interface so I can track the IP" line from CSI.
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 30, 2011 15:28:26 GMT -5
TV and movies still pull that crap. One of the worst I've seen was a clip from NCIS, where someone was hacking into their computer system (indicated by random charts and text documents flashing on and off), and two of the agents pounding away at a single keyboard at the same time in order to stop the hackers. Of course, there wasn't a mouse in sight. And then there's the infamous "I'll create a GUI interface so I can track the IP" line from CSI. CSI is the American Right's view of science: Science is magic. They do it with EVERYTHING, not just computers. But yeah, I understand they still do it in movies and on TV, but I think it was particularly more ridiculous back in the days where nothing and nobody was even connected to the internet. It's one thing to fudge things, which is the case for most movies these days, and it's another to completely make the stuff up. Which, admittedly, CSI does at least once a week. Per show. Not counting syndication, at which point I can no longer count that high.
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Post by nickiknack on Jul 30, 2011 15:41:00 GMT -5
Man... I remember being on AOL... I still have an AOL account, but it's just e-mail, I used to hang out in the Star Wars chat room back in the day...I miss my fellow Star Wars roomies(what we called ourselves) they were cool, geeky but cool.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 30, 2011 15:47:09 GMT -5
But yeah, I understand they still do it in movies and on TV, but I think it was particularly more ridiculous back in the days where nothing and nobody was even connected to the internet. Hackers being the Most Triumphant Example.
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