[HN Gopher] EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet circa 1994
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EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet circa 1994
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 72 points
Date : 2024-02-16 05:55 UTC (17 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.whitman.edu)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.whitman.edu)
| vargr616 wrote:
| love that you had to check the schedule of the place you wanted
| to visit, most were only open between certain hours
| dkjaudyeqooe wrote:
| Here's my guide to the internet circa 1984:
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| - get a 2400 baud modem, terminal, TCP/IP, PPP and zip software
|
| - be a student, know a student or hassle your local university
|
| - learn the Unix or VMS CLI for the account you got
|
| - learn mail, ftp and uucp
| jasongill wrote:
| I'm sure it's a typo, but this article is from 1994, not 1984.
| 2400 baud (not bps) modems, PPP and Zip files didn't exist in
| 1984
| ok123456 wrote:
| The 1984 version would be how to use kermet.
| dkjaudyeqooe wrote:
| No I'm talking about 1984. But yes I did get it that wrong.
| It was just a terminal, and I really can't remember what
| speed the modem was.
|
| It was such a long time ago it's all a blur.
| russfink wrote:
| Agree. (1994, not 84 tho.).
|
| Add to your learning list: Usenet reader, Gopher, and Archie.
| dkjaudyeqooe wrote:
| 1994 had the web. That's what is was actually like in 1984.
| ta1243 wrote:
| Yes, 1993 was the year everything changed. Mosaic was
| released, online services started connecting to the
| internet, the new Vice President was pushing the
| "Information Superhighway", and people (the media) were
| listening and repeating it far more widely than when he was
| a senator. Eternal September occurred, websites like
| Bloomberg came online, Wired launched, and the internet was
| no longer a niche thing but the future.
|
| By 1994 usage exploded and companies like Apple and
| Microsoft launched websites, Media outlets like the
| Telegraph, BBC and the Economist started making content,
| various international governments had a presence, and web
| commerce picked up -- you could subscribe to Britannica,
| you could buy pizza and flowers, and some random guy called
| "Jeff Bezos" started a new internet company, as did now-
| defunct sites like Yahoo and Lycos, and The internet was
| talked about on prime time TV in the UK
| (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5STahhPE)
|
| I didn't touch the internet until 1994, but my feeling is
| that the internet of 1984 was very different to that of
| 1994
| sys_64738 wrote:
| I remember my email address was in that big book of email
| addresses which was published circa. 1994.
| jason-phillips wrote:
| Do you still have it?
| sys_64738 wrote:
| I have neither that email address nor the book.
| dash2 wrote:
| Interesting that the WWW gets only 2 pages, and is described as
| "a system that bears playing with".
| rudyfink wrote:
| 1994 was still pretty early on for the web. This timeline of
| web browsers, which is very well done btw, illustrates the
| clients that were available at that time:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_browsers. And I'd
| say the timeline does not tell the full story, since many of
| the early browsers were on hardware that was not common (e.g.,
| the original launch was on Next and other early browsers were
| on AIX).
| fader wrote:
| I tried all the entries under the `telnet` section.
| Interestingly, one of them still works! telnet
| india.colorado.edu 13
|
| Still gives the current time!
| sillywalk wrote:
| This looks sort of like Yahoo when it was a hand-curated
| collection of Links.
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