Jan 04 2010
A Day In the Internet
Remember the first time you ever went on the Internet? I do. It was pretty damned amazing. It was 1994 and I was in high school. I’ll never forget waiting the 7 minutes it took to download that picture of the naked lady on the 14.4K modem.
I’ll also never forget having my first AIM conversation on the actual America Online site. And how awesome was the “you’ve got mail!” prompt.
Boy how things have evolved since that time. Nowadays if my page doesn’t load in less than .1 seconds I’m a whining lunatic. Check out some of the things that happen in only one day on the internet after the jump (it’s really astounding) and the graphic is thanks to OnlineEducation.net.
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Pretty nuts. I remember signing onto Prodigy (remember that?) on my dial-up modem and feeling like it was the space age.
Oy! I remember in ’92 in my first year of college, we got introduced to this ‘internet’ and ‘email’. All we had was usenet on T100 terminals. I remember liking alt.weird. How far, how high, and how low we have come.
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