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Old 02-13-2020, 08:54 AM   #43
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and for everyone, a brief history of web browsing...
We got the internet at work in 1993 and by 1994 I was on a couple of BBS'. It was awkward and conversations were cumbersome at best





Then in 1996 a whole new world opened up!


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Old 02-13-2020, 09:38 AM   #44
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Year 1992 (if I'm not wrong.)

The year sounds about right. Back then people were running the Chameleon TCPIP stack on Windows 3.1 or WFWG3.11 to get on the internet. I think you may be off on his processor though. I doubt someone who was considered rich would be running a 386 in 1992. That is a little to early for a Pentium. Probably had a 486DX4.
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I doubt someone who was considered rich would be running a 386 in 1992. That is a little to early for a Pentium. Probably had a 486DX4.
Maybe not an individual but corporate systems did. I worked for Siemens (no small company) and we didn't upgrade to 486 until well into 94. Even then some of the production level computers were still 286.
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We got the internet at work in 1993 and by 1994 I was on a couple of BBS'. It was awkward and conversations were cumbersome at best
1994 was when I almost got fired for "pornography" at work.

I was demonstrating the whole WWW thing to a bunch of executives at my company in an impromptu session. In an attempt to play it safe, I went to the Microsoft site. The conversation went something like this:

"You type in a web location call a Universal Resource Locator or URL, here, and it goes to that company's site. Let's go to the Microsoft site"
"Then there are these things called hyperlinks on the page that are underlined words which are hidden URLs. For example, this one says "Interview with Bill Gates. Let's click on that"

Well, turns out the interview with Bill Gates was in Playboy magazine and the URL went to their site with the interview on one side pictures to other more interesting assets on the other. My response:

"Well as you can see, you never know what you'll find on the web"
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1994 was when I almost got fired for "pornography" at work.

I was demonstrating the whole WWW thing to a bunch of executives at my company in an impromptu session. In an attempt to play it safe, I went to the Microsoft site. The conversation went something like this:

"You type in a web location call a Universal Resource Locator or URL, here, and it goes to that company's site. Let's go to the Microsoft site"
"Then there are these things called hyperlinks on the page that are underlined words which are hidden URLs. For example, this one says "Interview with Bill Gates. Let's click on that"

Well, turns out the interview with Bill Gates was in Playboy magazine and the URL went to their site with the interview on one side pictures to other more interesting assets on the other. My response:

"Well as you can see, you never know what you'll find on the web"
Back before the internet it was a total pain in the ass to get Material Safety Data Sheets from suppliers. It usually involved being transferred from phone to phone until you found somebody that could fax it over. Since the fax paper back then was mostly heat activated the whole sheet would turn black in a few months and you would have to go through the whole process again.
When the internet had advanced enough that you could just go on websites and download (slowly) the sheets I was overjoyed.
Unfortunately this also almost cost me my job when I searched for 'Little Boy Blue' printer ink. The search results were not "blue" nor "ink" related and I received a call from corporate in very short order. They did eventually see the humour in it when they tried the same search with the same results.
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I think myself, and some on the FB page (it's chaos, please don't join) were trying to see if we can beef up the infrastructure.

Someone reached out to the admin with no response, and mods tried too I believe.
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1994 was when I almost got fired for "pornography" at work.

I was demonstrating the whole WWW thing to a bunch of executives at my company in an impromptu session. In an attempt to play it safe, I went to the Microsoft site. The conversation went something like this:

"You type in a web location call a Universal Resource Locator or URL, here, and it goes to that company's site. Let's go to the Microsoft site"
"Then there are these things called hyperlinks on the page that are underlined words which are hidden URLs. For example, this one says "Interview with Bill Gates. Let's click on that"

Well, turns out the interview with Bill Gates was in Playboy magazine and the URL went to their site with the interview on one side pictures to other more interesting assets on the other. My response:

"Well as you can see, you never know what you'll find on the web"
I'm mean you were just there for the articles.
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