[HN Gopher] Keith Lynch's timeline of net related terms and conc...
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       Keith Lynch's timeline of net related terms and concepts (2006)
        
       Author : CharlesW
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2023-02-22 19:34 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | troelsSteegin wrote:
       | From the early '80s, I have nostalgia for "talk" and "finger".
        
       | swyx wrote:
       | i had no idea that GIF dated as far back as 1989, purportedly
       | before images on browsers were a thing, and 2 years before JPEG
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       | wouldve loved for all these to come with sources.
        
         | Isamu wrote:
         | There were dialup BBS sites all over before the web took over.
         | And sharing images was popular.
        
         | teddyh wrote:
         | GIF is from 1987, even.
        
         | xnx wrote:
         | I think the full name of the common format is gif89a
        
           | tannhaeuser wrote:
           | Actually, there was GIF87a before (not to be confused with
           | SN1987a).
        
       | pizzlefree wrote:
       | Fun timeline. However, I have to disagree with this one:
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       | 91 3 cyber (as a prefix referring to the net)
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       | "Cyberspace" was coined by sci-fi author William Gibson in his
       | 1984 Novel, Neuromancer.
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer.
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       | The term described his vision of a VR-like, immersive "internet"
       | of sorts. The book became a cultural touchstone for many reasons.
       | For example, the Wachowskis cited it as a major influence of
       | their vision for the Matrix.
        
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       | yesenadam wrote:
       | (2006) last update, by the look of it.
        
       | plastic3169 wrote:
       | I'm surprised that Gopher does not really predate WWW.
        
       | 1970-01-01 wrote:
       | I love how it stops at YouTube, however Facebook and
       | GMail/webmail definitely deserve to be included. Nothing else
       | important happened after this. Maybe iPod, since podcast is
       | already on the list.
        
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