[CW] Internet at 20 - Off Topic

[Artmouton]

Heck we (I bought a Radio Shack TRS 80 in 1978 or so) were trying to 
figure out how to get a Model 28 to interface with the darn things.  
Then we had wondrous thoughts of them actually reading RTTY and even, 
God forbid, CW.
Art K5FNQ


David Ring wrote:
> The Internet is 20, I mean the WWW - World Wide Web.
>
> The original "first page" of the Internet is lost to the memories of 
> those who were there (I was just playing with e-mail and using my IBM 
> PC - a supercharged 10 MHz 8088 chip with a 1200 baud modem and CD-ROM 
> to telephone connected computers - BBS - nearby - until I got 
> interested around 1993 in getting a faster modem - 28 k at the time.
>
> Take a look at the 1992 Home Page of the Internet (the 1990 version is 
> lost) 
> http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
>
> Here is a time line - and be sure to check out the links at the bottom 
> of the page.
> http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp
>
> Gopher?  WAIS?  Veronica? Archie?  What is a Gopher Hole - and how 
> deep can you borrow?  These questions are known to very few these days 
> - the WWW took over.
>
> Mac Users still have Gopher access for all their  browsers - but in PC 
> world, Internet Explorer and Opera have dropped Gopher and WAIS abilities.
>
> Archie was the first search engine - and still indexes about 200 
> Gopher holes. 
>  http://www.isrl.illinois.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1990archie.htm 
> <http://www.isrl.illinois.edu/%7Echip/projects/timeline/1990archie.htm>
>
> Jughead   gopher://hal3000.cx:3000/7 <http://hal3000.cx:3000/7>
> Veronica  gopher://hal3000.cx:2347/7 <http://hal3000.cx:2347/7>
>
> Try those links with Seamonkey or Firefox!
>
> Here is another OLD web page still in use - http://sdf.lonestar.org/
>
> Telnet, Shell account?
>
> Spark sets?  CW?  We start to sound old.
>
> Another fun thing to do is telnet into your SMTP and POP server  and 
> send and receive email with just a prompt.
>
> 73
>
> C:\>
>
> Daddy what's that little glyph?
>
> DR
>
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