Some of you might have already seen this....an old CBC report about a great new communications tool called "Internet"...... it's funny cause they keep calling it "Internet" instead of "The Internet"


http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-75-710-...ogy/computers/

 

They didn't mention Algore. Wasn't he the inventor

 

Did anyone else notice the Windows XP machine running in the background?? And to think that XP came out 12yrs ago...

 

whats amazing is how quickly we have adopted "internet" and how odd it is for some people to imagine their lives without it today. 1993 was not long ago.

truly incredible

 

it is amazing how far we have come since 93. i am only 21 years old and it seems like we have made leaps and bounds since i was born, i cant imagine what the next 21 will be like

 

How do think us old farts feel. I remember the first PC I saw that ran off of a cassette recorder. Amazing.

 

Oh man, the memories. Those things were POS's. Talk about SLOW!

 

Hell, slow wasn't the big problem, adjusting the tone and volume on the cassette recorder so it would save and retrieve was the trick.

I learned to program basic on an old Apple Corvus network that had 8 floppy drives as the storage devises. D1, D2, etc.....

 

Commodore 64 baby!!!! Now that was a machine...

 

While I can appreciate the advances made during your short life, I would rather of lived the from year 1900 until present. While the later years provided many refinements to the computing world, think about being around for the invention of the auto, motorcycles, war machines, space travel, supersonic speed, tv.....

What a hell of a 100 years!

 

There's a local classic rock DJ here (Tommy B) who calls it "the interlink". (pretty funny)


Think how far high end audio and video has come in just the last 10 years or so. I think the next generation of TV's and stereo/home theaters are going to be incredible, and probably not that far away.


I remember back when I was around 11 (1974) my mom sent me to a summer school computer programming class to keep me out of trouble. We used the old, telle-types that spit out the 1" wide yellow tape with holes.