View Full Version : What is the Internet anyway? c. 1994



MadMonk
02-01-2011, 12:20 PM
Ahh, the early days of the Internet. I love how they have an "enclosed a" symbol instead of the @ sign in the graphic.
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Pete
02-01-2011, 12:31 PM
That's hilarious! And only 7 years ago.

Already, it's very hard to remember life without the 'net.

For that matter, personal computers have only been around since the late 80's. Amazing to think about.

Kerry
02-01-2011, 12:36 PM
LOL - "you don't need a phone line to access the internet". You did in 1994.

Pete
02-01-2011, 12:45 PM
I worked for a commercial real estate firm in Leadership Square through '88, and up until the time I left we still had a "secretarial pool" where we would take our dict-a-phone tapes back to a room of people (stereotypically, all female) who then used IBM Selectric typewriters to create the correspondence.

It was like a scene straight out of Mad Men, but in 1988! Shows you how little things changed for decades and then accelerated exponentially starting in the 90's.

BBatesokc
02-01-2011, 12:45 PM
That's hilarious! And only 7 years ago.

2011 - 1994 = 17 (I think your '1' key got stuck)

kevinpate
02-01-2011, 02:15 PM
Makes me smile, as did a freecycle note this am from someone looking for a new home for their old TRS-80, condition unknown.