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Posted by: msaleem 1 year, 5 months ago

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kctrixter1 year, 5 months ago

I would love to know when that clip was made. I loved that shot of all the phones on the wall of the ISP.
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  misanoel1 year, 5 months ago
  
  1993, according to the person who posted the video.
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    kctrixter1 year, 5 months ago
    
    Thanks I missed that, and thanks msaleem for the post, I enjoyed the look back.
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    ETproductions1 year, 5 months ago
    
    Wow! 1993 is when we launched ET Productions. I'm pretty sure that makes us one of the oldest surviving Wed design firms, at the ripe old age of 14!
    The clip kind of takes me back.
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msaleem1 year, 5 months ago

Couldn't have been 1993 because Windows XP is visible on a monitor in the back. Look closely.
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  kctrixter1 year, 5 months ago
  
  not sure that's XP, if your talking about the desktop, you could use pictures and screen savers even back in windows 3.1, and it been a long time since I've see chat come up letter by letter as you type. Also they didn't seem to be using any browser, that puts it way before XP.
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    Bacalao1 year, 5 months ago
    
    It must be win 98 then.
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  pagey1 year, 5 months ago
  
  It was broadcast Oct, 1993
  http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-75-1738-11981/science
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    kctrixter1 year, 5 months ago
    
    by any chance to u know when Netscape first came out? I know I was using Netscape before version 1.0 came out, don't remember if it was a beta or a 0.x, ( think it was just Netscape beta) but I think that was 94 or 95, and I believe that was on windows 3.11
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      pagey1 year, 5 months ago
      
      October 13, 1994
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetScape#History
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        kctrixter1 year, 5 months ago
        
        Thanks, I really have to start using wikipedia, I never think to go there.
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      chevydog1 year, 5 months ago
      
      I still have a copy of Netscape 3.0 in my personal archives (othwise known the junk drawer). Ran on Windows 3.11. This video takes you back to text browsers, BBS's, and all those older things. There actually was a use for the TAB key.
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        kctrixter1 year, 5 months ago
        
        I still have unopened boxes of Netscape 1.0
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  jonmaverick1 year, 5 months ago
  
  The operating system that allowed the internet to become what it is today was UNIX, not Windows. The internet couldn't have grown nearly so quickly if it had to be constantly restarted, like early versions of Windows. I began building and selling computers in the mid '80's, when Windows came on three low-density floppy disks.
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tehranchik1 year, 5 months ago

I'd like to know where they sell internet for $200 a year.
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  Bacalao1 year, 5 months ago
  
  I hear ya. I pay almost 1200.00 per annum. I'm a speed phreak.
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Methysmenos1 year, 5 months ago

Fascinating, where can I get one of these internets?
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  kctrixter1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Just get one of your friends to make a copy for ya.
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    IcCaRus1 year, 5 months ago
    
    but wont all those tubes get in the way?
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Bacalao1 year, 5 months ago

WOW, I can still remember when we had to use BBS's. That is pretty much how it looked. I was using an Apple IIe plus. Many ppl were using TRS80's, commodor 64's and such.
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jonmaverick1 year, 5 months ago

It's a nice documentary, but totally false. The internet is actually a series of tubes...
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Bacalao1 year, 5 months ago

Some day the internets will reach us too. golly I can't wait =}
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Amazing11 year, 5 months ago

Things change so quickly. It's hard to believe that was little more than a decade ago. And I remember the first time I ever saw a television or a flush toilet. Wow.
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RedDwarf1 year, 5 months ago

Lol...you conspiracy nuts. It's obvious that this internets rumour is just that. a rumour. it Doesn't really exist. how ridiculous. they want us all to believe that we can communicate with eachother and find a wealth of information using a typewriter, television and box of fandangled gizmo's.!
some people will believe anything.
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  jonmaverick1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Oh yeah? Then where does all that porn come from?
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    RedDwarf1 year, 5 months ago
    
    Blockbuster
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  IcCaRus1 year, 5 months ago
  
  mark my word... its all a government conspiracy... these internets are really a cover for tracking and mind control...
  oh yeah, they can watch you through that tv screen, its got hidden cameras in it. (they dont call it a monitor for nothin' ya know)
  next thing you know theyll be trying to tell us that phones dont need wires. hogwash i tell you, hogwash!!
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    bonaroo1 year, 5 months ago
    
    You obviously haven't upgraded your tinfoil hat to the new and improved aluminum gallium arsenide model that I use.
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      protoham1 year, 5 months ago
      
      You should see the globe he has in his house, it is flat!!
      LOL
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braveone1 year, 5 months ago

another great invention by our hero ALGORE
all hail to the GORACLE....
he'll save us from ourselves,
send your money to the box listed.
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  kctrixter1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Oh give it up, Gore never said he invented the internet!
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TheHour1 year, 5 months ago

The story ran on Oct 8th, 1993 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The anchor is Peter Mansbridge, the reporter, now deceased is Bill Cameron.
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