[HN Gopher] A trip to the internet in 1996 with The Rough Guide 2.0
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A trip to the internet in 1996 with The Rough Guide 2.0
Author : planetjones
Score : 60 points
Date : 2023-06-11 11:35 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| guestbest wrote:
| One thing to consider when reading these kinds of books is that
| sponsors pay to have their products listed. Yahoo was big on
| doing this. Excite was known to do this a lot.
|
| > In January 1996, George Bell joined Excite as its chief
| executive officer (CEO). Excite also purchased two search engines
| (Magellan and WebCrawler) and signed exclusive distribution
| agreements with Netscape, Microsoft and Apple, in addition to
| other companies. Jim Bellows, then 72, was hired by Excite in
| 1994 to figure out how to present the content in a journalistic
| manner.[4] He paid good journalists to write brief reviews of web
| sites
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excite_(web_portal)
| contingencies wrote:
| _RealAudio_ (1995) also spawned _RTSP_ (1996) which is remains a
| dominant protocol in media streaming for billions of IP based
| security cameras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealAudio
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Streaming_Protocol
| acheron wrote:
| I had a big book called "The Internet Yellow Pages" I believe,
| from.. 1995? Had websites, Usenet groups, telnet MUDs and BBSs,
| IRC, etc. Discovery was sometimes tough in those days, so why not
| get a printed book?
| ok123456 wrote:
| I remember WINE being listed in that book.
| planetjones wrote:
| The best selling internet book of all time allegedly:
| http://www.harley.com/yp/home.html/
| jj-81 wrote:
| My first modem was 14,400 bps. So a whopping 1.8 KB/second on a
| good day :) It sure was fun in those days though. I also enjoyed
| hanging out in IRC, but even though it's not the same I do find
| Discord much better.
| remoquete wrote:
| But can you slap someone around a bit with a large trout on
| Discord?
| enos_feedler wrote:
| +kb remoquete
| marcodiego wrote:
| How I downloaded my first mp3: Went to
| altavista.com. Typed Dire_Straits_-_Sultans_of_Swing.mp3.
| Clicked the first link.
| marban wrote:
| FTPs with strict Up/Down quota.
| tkiolp4 wrote:
| That's still possible nowadays with yandex.com (perhaps not the
| first link, but definitely the first page)
| planetjones wrote:
| Me too forgot about that. I think it was a few years after 1996
| when audiogalaxy arrived.
| d0gsg0w00f wrote:
| For me it was @ mentioning someone in an IRC chat and some
| bot started sending me "Sad but True" or some such angst.
| macintux wrote:
| Somewhere I have a copy of one of Ed Krol's early O'Reilly books,
| The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, I think the 1993
| edition that included the WWW nearly at the end of the book.
|
| It's somehow fitting that every external link on its Wikipedia
| page is broken.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Internet_User%27s_Guide_...
| planetjones wrote:
| I'd never heard of that. What a strange front cover. I might
| have to order a copy and write a follow up post using it.
| Thanks!
| macintux wrote:
| It was actually his second guide to the Internet.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_I.
| ..
| andsoitis wrote:
| And as reminder, JavaScript was invented in 1995. Developed for
| Netscape 2.0.
| intothemild wrote:
| And we've been paying the price ever since.
| marban wrote:
| We could have ended up with ActiveX, VBScript.
| intothemild wrote:
| Years of therapy to remove that memory... Wasted.
| doublerabbit wrote:
| Or TCL.
|
| How I wish it was TCL.
| ok123456 wrote:
| Debugging errors with dynamic scope would make web work
| much worse.
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