1981 news report about the interwebs
 

http://www.wimp.com/theinternet/

"it takes over two hours to receive the information"

:1orglaugh

I was born in 1981

Windows hasn't changed much.

I thought that was pretty cool really...

I can't wait to see the next 50 years

Me too :) Will be interesting !

Really good video. Thanks for taking the time to put it up for me and everyone else.

That was awesome.

I had a TRS-80 Model 1 similar to the one he used and a red dial-up phone too. Old tech rocks.

I upgraded my trs80 to 16k ram that year!

I remember acoustic modems, where you put the phone on the modem itself. I started out with one of those bad boys. I used to use Archie search all the time through the early (non-graphical) 'net. Telnet for MUDs, ftp for trading 0-day warez, and many more utilities, on VAX and Unix.

I used to sit the accoustic modem on the table and spin the rotary dial on the phone. The vibrations caused the teleprinter spew out garbage. Hey, when you're like 10 that's a fun thing to do.

56k all day

"Richard Halloran - Owns Home Computer" :1orglaugh

I remember upgrading from a 300bps modem to a 1200 and thought I was king shit. Dialing in to random BBS's and interacting/chatting with people live was a mind fuck back in the day. Also downloading pixelated porn static gifs that took 45 minutes to load up on your screen :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Steve Jobs and Apple in 1981:



:stoned

ADG

That was kewl - thanks for sharing.

This is my favourite - https://youtube.com/watch?v=D_f3uIzEIxo - I don't think the commodore is keeping with me.


Dave

Great clip, thx for sharing. :thumbsup

Genie, CompuServe, Prodigy, BBS's... those were the days.

It was bad, not awesome! I was around (after 1988 really, from commodore and up) and I remember it was damn slow, even I got an HST 9600 which was very new at the time. Also you hit the "busy line" in BBSs this was frustrating, is like 2 people connect is a ddos already. Just it was cheaper than internet since I was using bluebox really, no one of my friends made normal calls.

Ha, 56k came MUCH later. I upgraded to a 300 baud modem and thought it was breakneck speeds.

and we'll watch the same video next week again, and be amazed again

According to some, they'll be downloading our brains in about 50 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/bu...anted=all&_r=0

Wild. I had that in college. :P

I was programming in Basic on a Commodore Pet back in 1980/1 in England. And in 1983 I worked for a NYC bank and wrote an application in Microsoft Cobol that ran on an IBM PC. They were the days, we used to live in paper bag in septic tank... cue Monty Python . . . .