I recall in the winter of 1993 I was a teenager at a hospital visiting my grandfather and I picked up a magazine and read an article about the internet. I was beyond intrigued. People going to a cafe and getting onto computers (“Internet cafe” the term later came about) and chatting with folks around the country, and around the world. There were no computers at my house and I thought we’d never be rich enough to have that so it seemed at that time to be something totally out of my reach. Boy, times have changed.
You come from a place where you understood internet and could read about it which still makes you privileged than more than half the world at that time. But I understand how evolution of this must have felt :)
Wow, the web was first made public in 1993, that seems like eons ago! I built my first web page in 1995 and by 1998 had a website that was in the top 100 most popular (#98, but still it was something). Now twenty years later all the kids have their RUclips and Facebook and their smart phones and smart watches - the pace of change has just been astounding!
I first started accessing the internet in Sept of 1990 when i started college. The idea that I could e-mail, or chat, with someone on the other side of the world (and for free..long distance phone calls were super-expensive back then) was amazing. We used to have to FTP everywhere back then, before the days of HTTP. And Usenet was the place to be, lol.
Old timey modems made it impossible to log on to the Internet secretly when I was grounded due to high phone bills (due exclusively to my spending too long online). I used to press my hand against the ventilation holes in the pc case to try to muffle the noise, to no avail. You could hear those ungodly screeches from the other side of the house. Man I love broadband.
Cool video! Small thing worth mentioning: at 8:35. HTTP is not used to read documents, but instead to fetch data from internet domains/addresses. In turn, HTML is the "language" read/interpreted by browsers in order to display documents with hyperlinks on them.
I was deeply involved in getting a major public University onto the Internet and designing a model for representing all the parts of the University as a website, so I was around at the beginning and this video is an excellent summary.
1:30-Compunet 2:40-NSFNET 2:55- 3:32-ISPs: 4:30- 4:43-Dial Up:- 5:24- 5:51-Modem Working 6:20-What is Internet 7:27- 7:54-HyperText 8:10-Hypertext was the primary way of navigating which forms the basis of world wide web 8:35-
Actually assuming you're using a search engine which uses HTTPS (like Google) that's not true. ISPs may know that you're using Google, but they can't get the search terms themselves as those are encrypted. Google (or whatever other search engine you use), on the other hand, probably does know what you search at 2 AM.
Andrew Meyer As a system network engineer that statement is completely false Andrew and I have worked in ISP's since 96 on and off. If your traffic crosses my network I can see it and see the pages you pull up but under https i can see the pages but not the data.
Several companies sell appliances that allow companies, including ISPs or your employer, to decrypt HTTPS in real time. Do a search on SSL Proxy Servers. The only issue is legalities. Usually, in the U.S. it's totally legal for your employer to see everything. Depending on how internet privacy laws turn out, your ISP may be able to do so also, and give a feed to others.
First got online at my rural school in BFE Tennessee in late 1994. Mosaic was introduced to us as outdated with the better web browser being Netscape. Learned to program in FORTRAN 77 for the government subsided class Adventures in Supercomputing. The local phone company was given a huge grant to provide internet service to the school and later the area which it did two years later. I got so much out of that class including my love affair with computers in general, the internet, MUDDS, and chat programs.Telneting into university chat rooms was awesome.
Excellent. This has been my line of work and study since around the time that NSFnet went away. You guys are doing a great job of summing up the history!
1989 is also known among us old fogeys as "the September that never ended." That's because before then, new students getting online each September were a bit of a noticeable annoyance. When internet access became available to the public the flood of noticeable annoyances no longer stopped. :-)
I remember first accessing Compuserve in the mid 80s in the science building on campus. Was studying chemistry, et al and could access info from other universities. Still so cool!!
Didn't know the internet has been around for that long, this is mind opening! I thought it started around early 2000s considering it was fully available for me back in 2012. Whoa.
My first taste of online was in college at the end of the 80's via a closed network to other colleges in the state and later the early web. I ran my own BBS (Bulletin Board System) that provided forums for discussion, games, private local email and then network mail covering multiple states and dozens of small BBS. Single user, dialup. Paid for multiple phone lines and all that. Started out at 2400 baud, then 9600, 14.4, 28.8, and finally 56.6. To get on the internet after losing my access at the local college (my data and time usage was frowned upon) I skipped AOL, CompuServ, and all those other services instead choosing a local ISP for direct access. Used internet connection sharing in Windows to allow my computer and my partner's to use that single 56k dialup connection so that we could play Asheron's Call together. All of it was terribly slow and a pain in the ass to get working. It's so easy now! :)
I remember listening to an interview with Tim, I think it was the anniversary of the web or something... he said the second slash in is pointless, and he only put it there because it looked like it needed to be there
“So that you can go from the table of contents to chapter 10 without scrolling all the way there.” I have concluded that hyperlinks/hypertexts are wormholes for documents
The first commercial company to be offered access to the internet was called Delphi. It happened in 1992. I know. I am an oldie. I was there that night. Days earlier It was given to us something called email, but that was pretty much like the text messages we use to send to other members of Delphi network; not many -certainly not me- understood immediately the implications of being able to send messages outside of our provider network. That night I remember being given several protocols called gopher, wais, and FTP. Obviously, the world wide web was still in the future. The other two big providers were America Online and Compuserve. But Delphi was first. Well, given that the previous comment to this vid was posted 3 years ago, I very much doubt me reminiscing that night will be read by anyone. Nevertheless, that is what happened.
88 baby, family was poor, we were refugees. We bought a type computer type writer from my older cousin in 1996. My cousin had an antique type writer. Then in 1999 we were able to afford our first Windows 98 PC. It took 1 or 3 days but I was downloading Japanese version of dragon ball GT on real player. watching videos how to do 360 flip on a skateboard! All done on 56k modem. What a time to be alive.
you all prolly dont give a damn but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot my login password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me
I had my first internet access in 1989 using IBM's gateway, only for email and net news. 2 years later I had a dialup connection with a fixed ip when the first isp appeared in my part of the world. I recall the backbone overhere getting upgraded from 10 to 100mbit. Insane to think my home connection has 10 times that bandwidth now. It has been a bit of a wild ride... I recall a time without spammers, also the first mail spam...
I remember using dial-up and i also remember thinking it was awfully slow and very expensive not magic. It took 15 minutes to download a 3 Mb file! And the billing was by the minute. Using the internet just a couple of days a month costed the equivalent of ~$30 in today's money and it was a lot of money in my country at the time. And there were whole days of trying to go online, clicking redial, because you got a busy tone from the ISP's server. Now, 17 years later, maybe more, we have 500 Mbps fiber in the home with unlimited traffic and it costs the equivalent of $8. Now it seems closer to magic. :)
1:08 The cost of using these standalone networks was tremendous, in the realm of dollars per hour; GEnie, one of Compuserve's competitors, charged $6/hr for evenings/weekends and $18/hr during business hours around 1992. That gave us plain text access at 2400 bps, a speed at which you could comfortably read text as fast as it could arrive, in what we would call today a "walled garden" of forums, chatrooms and file libraries hosted only on that service. But to share that walled garden with thousands of people, hundreds of them at once, from cities all over North America, was pretty special compared to a bulletin board with a couple dozen people in your town, only one at a time. By the time they started offering internet email around 1995, most major cities had local dial-up ISPs that had settled on $20-$30/month as a going rate.
When a friend of mine got the first broadband service available here back in the 90's I was soooo jealous... a whooping 256Kbps speed for all your internet needs...
It's weird to realise the internet became a thing only shortly before I was born (1996) but that even between then and when I started using it and learning to make websites (2004) it had already changed so dramatically. Looking back, that rate of growth is mind-boggling. Even in 2004, I was studying off of a book written in 1996, and it was already very outdated despite being on HTML 4.5, yet it took about another decade to get to wide HTML 5 acceptance. In that sense, the rate of change has also slowed down somewhat. I kind of miss how the internet was kind of a wild west when I was a kid now. It's too corporatized and dumbed down now.
Thanks for the memories. I started on the Internet/Web in 1995, using Windows 3. My boss had just bought a used computer, and had no manuals or documentation. Had to teach myself everything (Windows/Netscape/Eudora/Agent....) Still use the same clients today (Firefox.) Trained hand-eye coordination by playing Minefield, and Solitaire.
1994, college professors going on about how this new internet would replace library cards, and that someday you could use a laptop to listen to music, watch TV and movies, or chat with someone in another country. 1995, my first Netscape ready Compaq laptop with one of those modem lines. This is while Mac users had better stuff like that new up and coming Prodigy, Ha. Still using a version of Netscape called Firefox. Lol. also bacxk in 1995 this much text would have taken at least 14 mins to process.
GWC there in the middle of the country - that's where I worked in the '80s and early '90s. Before the thing became 'open'. But Tim didn't invent DNS. Stanford Research Institute invented the first method to lookup / translate names to IP addresses, and Jon Postel (also of California) Paul Mockapetris invented DNS. Tim gets too much credit, and others seem to be forgotten along the way.
I can still recall as a child using AOL (America Online) version 3.0!! and even though AOL was far from the only internet provider, it was easily the most common and most simple way to get on the internet for the average user at that time. Back then it was as simple as inserting a floppy disk (which held LESS THAN 5mb mind you..) , installing, and purchasing a membership and username. In addition to Netscape Navigator Internet Explorer and other early web tools, on our state of the art 14.4k modem. I remember when we upgraded to it 28.8k... and I even remember convincing my dad to upgrade us to a 56.6k modem... reasoning that it's additional speed would save us time online, and therefore money. You see... back then (using a model that seems absolutely ludicrous today!!)... America Online tended to charge by the hour. so when you were online you typically had to keep track of how long you were online or face an incredibly large bill. Back in those days, there were also certain online features that allowed you to buy or pay for things by adding them to your phone bill. (as you were already using the phone line to get online in the first place) Many of the EARLIEST ORIGINAL America Online start up sample disks, would offer you something in the area, of anywhere between 5, and 1,500 free hours if you signed up immediately. In addition to giving a free hours to whoever it was that referred you... you would also very often use America online servers to find chat rooms that coincided with your interest. that was back when we were still using Mac OS 7 & 8... when Mac OS X came out I still recall upgrading to it and marveling at how awesome it's Graphics were. and as I stated previously I do recall how amazing I thought our 56.6 K modem was when we first begin using it. most kids today have no idea what that whining and screaming noise that the modem would make upon connecting to your ISP isperiod although it can often easily be explained as the same sound a fax machine makes when you call a "fax line" by accident. truly the nineties was a new and very exciting time in technology. New Innovations were constantly being released that offered its users more convenient access to information social networking in its earliest forms, as well as some basic entertainment.. Hell.. from the moment the internet became something accessible to so many people within the privacy of their own homes, pornography has been a very large part of the internet. I still recall being very young, and having internet access when my parents were still at work . And using the internet to access and find pornography that had never been available to me in the past. this was, of course, prior to most of the safety nets that now are so pervasive in our modern culture. Back then, there was less fear of children being on the internet without supervision. Back in those days, for a horny teenager, your only real hope was either, A. Find a way to obtain a nudie magazine, (Playboy, Hustler, etc.) or B. Spend your time cruising HBO, Showtime, or Cinemax (dubbed SKINIMAX for obvious reasons ;) ) and HOPING for a movie with partial nudity in ONE scene. Keeping in mind that there was no DVR back then... so all you could get was a glimps! In any case... this comment has now exceeded all of my expectations with its length, and with its very wide digretion into the topic of internet porn in the 90's..
I remember Netscape. You could never tell whether it was working or not. Then IE came and if it didn't find the website, it would add www. to the front and .com to the end. I set off to read my e-mails once. When I came back IE was searching for www.www.www.www.www.travel-net.com.com.com.com.com. The internet was down that day.
Go to Bletchley Park and learn how the internet, together with packet switching, was taken from them by the Americans and claimed as their own. The film of he actual inventors describing how they felt is very upsetting.
I remember I used to use a Toshiba laptop that could to call waitng or something like that. While I was on dail up a window would pop up and say that someone was trying to call my land line and let me click answer and basically switch off the modem and answer the phone call. It's was like witchcraft.
I started using computers I believe it was 1994 when my mom bought a computer running Windows 3.11, so that would have been a year before the web was public. When I first started using the Internet it was the web over dial up that I was introduced to first.
You pretty much skipped a major history point: the creation of NCSA Mosaic. The first graphical web browser AND father of both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. It was created by Mark Andreessen and was a major success, spawning huge attention to the then still uninteresting text-based only web of the time.
Leonardo Otaviano Pedrozo I got the impression that will be covered next time. It seems like the next one will be the rise of Internet 1.0, the .com boom and bust, and the new rise of internet 2.0 that followed. It needs to cover AOL, Mosaic, the Microsoft antistrust case, the PETS.com bankruptcy, and then the rise of Google and Facebook and others from the ashes of the bust.
I was born in '93. I'm among the first people to have lived their entire life in a world with internet. I literally don't know what it's like to not have it.
Such a handy trick. Also so glad to have Hank, was rather disappointed I couldn't watch the previous one. Shame too, as I rather like all of the other hosts.
You forgot to mention MOSAIC. I remember when my sons got annoyed with me because I had a 300baud modem whereas they were both stuck with 110baud acoustic couplers.
Since I was born in 2000 I remember getting my first multi-gigabyte cellular data plan after anguishing with only 500 MB of total data per month, that day was a good day.
Oh, god, that modem sound. MEMORIES. (not necessarily good ones. Dial-up sometimes crashes if the phone rings unless you have a splitter. We found that out...the hard way. :P)
imagine doing business by without internet and email and servers to conect to... one time i at my workplace we had to send a fax with some ppw for a transaction because the other company's internet wasn't working... there was one person who knew how to send a fax... and it took 3 tries and 3 different phone numbers to get it through... we almost missed the courier and would have failed to ship out the order...
No, a modem converted an electrical signal to an audio signal (and vice/versa) , It was STILL DIGITAL. It was just digital represented by different sounds instead of by different voltage levels. Or more accurately, it MODULATED a digital signal onto an analog one. The data was still digital.
I recall in the winter of 1993 I was a teenager at a hospital visiting my grandfather and I picked up a magazine and read an article about the internet. I was beyond intrigued. People going to a cafe and getting onto computers (“Internet cafe” the term later came about) and chatting with folks around the country, and around the world. There were no computers at my house and I thought we’d never be rich enough to have that so it seemed at that time to be something totally out of my reach. Boy, times have changed.
I was 8yo in 93. We had a second hand macintosh power pc, then when AOL came out, i've been online since...
Now you probably have a computing device capable of accessing the Internet in every room of the house.
@@mutestingray now, a macbook, ipad and iphone trinity lol, as well as an android for good measure 🤦🏽♂️😭
You come from a place where you understood internet and could read about it which still makes you privileged than more than half the world at that time. But I understand how evolution of this must have felt :)
Here, seven years after this was published, for a class in software development. Thanks, SciShow!
" IMAGINE THE PAPER ON YOUR COMPUTER " I remember when that was mind blowing and not normal at all
btw i am only 20 😂😂😂
but we didn't have internet intill 2005 or 2006
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“WHEN WE WERE FIRST DOING IT, IT DID NOT SEEM SLOW, IT SEEMED LIKE MAGIC!” Lol that’s so funny and true. I used the time to go get snacks 😂😂
I remember when we upgraded from a 28.8k modem to a 56k modem. Good times.
"Youve got mail" I'm having flashbacks....
And when you was downloading mp3, and then someone calls ...
28.8k was light speed compared to the 2400 baud modem I started with
beep boop - modem, probably
And now days I get annoyed when 1080p HD video doesnt stream perfectly lol
Wow, the web was first made public in 1993, that seems like eons ago! I built my first web page in 1995 and by 1998 had a website that was in the top 100 most popular (#98, but still it was something). Now twenty years later all the kids have their RUclips and Facebook and their smart phones and smart watches - the pace of change has just been astounding!
What was the website about?
@@chrisaugustin9181 It was a listing of all of the live webcams on the internet - not a very big list to start with but it grew pretty quickly.
@@RedwoodGeorge thats a million dollar idea back in those days.. . hope something big came out of it
too thick????? tim berners lee (a brit) invented the internet.....(p.s. AEONS---)
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Funny until you realize how many companies won't accept a physical resume.
I first started accessing the internet in Sept of 1990 when i started college. The idea that I could e-mail, or chat, with someone on the other side of the world (and for free..long distance phone calls were super-expensive back then) was amazing. We used to have to FTP everywhere back then, before the days of HTTP. And Usenet was the place to be, lol.
Old timey modems made it impossible to log on to the Internet secretly when I was grounded due to high phone bills (due exclusively to my spending too long online). I used to press my hand against the ventilation holes in the pc case to try to muffle the noise, to no avail. You could hear those ungodly screeches from the other side of the house. Man I love broadband.
Cool video! Small thing worth mentioning: at 8:35. HTTP is not used to read documents, but instead to fetch data from internet domains/addresses. In turn, HTML is the "language" read/interpreted by browsers in order to display documents with hyperlinks on them.
I was deeply involved in getting a major public University onto the Internet and designing a model for representing all the parts of the University as a website, so I was around at the beginning and this video is an excellent summary.
1:30-Compunet
2:40-NSFNET
2:55-
3:32-ISPs:
4:30-
4:43-Dial Up:-
5:24-
5:51-Modem Working
6:20-What is Internet
7:27-
7:54-HyperText
8:10-Hypertext was the primary way of navigating which forms the basis of world wide web
8:35-
History pt. 3
"Now ISPs know what I search at 2 AM, I'm fucked"
Actually assuming you're using a search engine which uses HTTPS (like Google) that's not true. ISPs may know that you're using Google, but they can't get the search terms themselves as those are encrypted.
Google (or whatever other search engine you use), on the other hand, probably does know what you search at 2 AM.
Andrew Meyer As a system network engineer that statement is completely false Andrew and I have worked in ISP's since 96 on and off. If your traffic crosses my network I can see it and see the pages you pull up but under https i can see the pages but not the data.
Future of the internet should be meshnet Battlemesh Hammesh... Say bye to your isp
David Moritz he's talking about the new law being passed allowing ISP's the right to use your personal information without your consent
Several companies sell appliances that allow companies, including ISPs or your employer, to decrypt HTTPS in real time. Do a search on SSL Proxy Servers. The only issue is legalities. Usually, in the U.S. it's totally legal for your employer to see everything. Depending on how internet privacy laws turn out, your ISP may be able to do so also, and give a feed to others.
First got online at my rural school in BFE Tennessee in late 1994. Mosaic was introduced to us as outdated with the better web browser being Netscape. Learned to program in FORTRAN 77 for the government subsided class Adventures in Supercomputing. The local phone company was given a huge grant to provide internet service to the school and later the area which it did two years later.
I got so much out of that class including my love affair with computers in general, the internet, MUDDS, and chat programs.Telneting into university chat rooms was awesome.
Less known fact, Xerox was one of the first companies with Internet.
Excellent. This has been my line of work and study since around the time that NSFnet went away. You guys are doing a great job of summing up the history!
A series about the history of operating systems and the capabilities they had at those times would be cool.
Yeah! That'd be great!
That would be fascinating!!
1989 is also known among us old fogeys as "the September that never ended." That's because before then, new students getting online each September were a bit of a noticeable annoyance. When internet access became available to the public the flood of noticeable annoyances no longer stopped. :-)
I remember when I was young my parents would call our landline from work to make sure my sister and I weren't spending all day online. Good times.
I remember first accessing Compuserve in the mid 80s in the science building on campus. Was studying chemistry, et al and could access info from other universities. Still so cool!!
Didn't know the internet has been around for that long, this is mind opening! I thought it started around early 2000s considering it was fully available for me back in 2012. Whoa.
Well done, Young man! Thanks for sharing.
My first taste of online was in college at the end of the 80's via a closed network to other colleges in the state and later the early web. I ran my own BBS (Bulletin Board System) that provided forums for discussion, games, private local email and then network mail covering multiple states and dozens of small BBS. Single user, dialup. Paid for multiple phone lines and all that. Started out at 2400 baud, then 9600, 14.4, 28.8, and finally 56.6. To get on the internet after losing my access at the local college (my data and time usage was frowned upon) I skipped AOL, CompuServ, and all those other services instead choosing a local ISP for direct access. Used internet connection sharing in Windows to allow my computer and my partner's to use that single 56k dialup connection so that we could play Asheron's Call together. All of it was terribly slow and a pain in the ass to get working. It's so easy now! :)
"Ever used Netscape?" Nah, before my time,
"That became Firefox!" Oh, that's what I'm on!
In 1989 Compuserve was already offering internet service to the public. Tv spots were on and even retail boxes at Sears stores. It was on.
I remember listening to an interview with Tim, I think it was the anniversary of the web or something... he said the second slash in is pointless, and he only put it there because it looked like it needed to be there
Interesting…
I'm a 1991 baby and I can remember Netscape like back in the day
“So that you can go from the table of contents to chapter 10 without scrolling all the way there.”
I have concluded that hyperlinks/hypertexts are wormholes for documents
The first commercial company to be offered access to the internet was called Delphi. It happened in 1992. I know. I am an oldie. I was there that night. Days earlier It was given to us something called email, but that was pretty much like the text messages we use to send to other members of Delphi network; not many -certainly not me- understood immediately the implications of being able to send messages outside of our provider network. That night I remember being given several protocols called gopher, wais, and FTP. Obviously, the world wide web was still in the future. The other two big providers were America Online and Compuserve. But Delphi was first. Well, given that the previous comment to this vid was posted 3 years ago, I very much doubt me reminiscing that night will be read by anyone. Nevertheless, that is what happened.
88 baby, family was poor, we were refugees. We bought a type computer type writer from my older cousin in 1996. My cousin had an antique type writer. Then in 1999 we were able to afford our first Windows 98 PC. It took 1 or 3 days but I was downloading Japanese version of dragon ball GT on real player. watching videos how to do 360 flip on a skateboard! All done on 56k modem. What a time to be alive.
Back in the early 80's I would connect to a BBS using my Commodore 64 with a 400 Baud dial up modem. LOL
you all prolly dont give a damn but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account..?
I stupidly forgot my login password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me
@Eli Nehemiah Instablaster ;)
These two videos were very nice. Thank you.
I'm surprised he didn't mention AOL discs!
I still have the Lego Creator CD that came in a box of Chex that was offering AOL somewhere at home.
Matkat Music what are does? Pls answer.
Interesting video, as a computer guy, didn't no most of this. You learn something new everyday.
Shoutouts to Tim Burners-Lee, he indirectly helped write this comment.
Basically SciShow covered everything I learned in a college web history course.
Why do people expect us to pay to go to college, again?
The piece of paper shows that you’re good at being disciplined/ desperate enough to spend literal years chasing an attenuated bag
I had my first internet access in 1989 using IBM's gateway, only for email and net news.
2 years later I had a dialup connection with a fixed ip when the first isp appeared in my part of the world. I recall the backbone overhere getting upgraded from 10 to 100mbit. Insane to think my home connection has 10 times that bandwidth now.
It has been a bit of a wild ride... I recall a time without spammers, also the first mail spam...
I remember back in 1894 me & the boys were talking about creating something very similar to what we know as modern day internet...yep...yes sir..
"Remember Netscape?"
*OMG I'm so old!!!* 👵
VariantAEC no your not
Remember the old search engines? WebCrawler, Excite, Lycos, ... I kind of miss Yahoo's Useless pages.
VariantAEC lol, askjeeves
you browse on them?
I remember using dial-up and i also remember thinking it was awfully slow and very expensive not magic. It took 15 minutes to download a 3 Mb file! And the billing was by the minute. Using the internet just a couple of days a month costed the equivalent of ~$30 in today's money and it was a lot of money in my country at the time. And there were whole days of trying to go online, clicking redial, because you got a busy tone from the ISP's server.
Now, 17 years later, maybe more, we have 500 Mbps fiber in the home with unlimited traffic and it costs the equivalent of $8. Now it seems closer to magic. :)
I literally WAS WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG, I NEED TO DO A TALK ABOUT IT TODAY!!
1:08 The cost of using these standalone networks was tremendous, in the realm of dollars per hour; GEnie, one of Compuserve's competitors, charged $6/hr for evenings/weekends and $18/hr during business hours around 1992. That gave us plain text access at 2400 bps, a speed at which you could comfortably read text as fast as it could arrive, in what we would call today a "walled garden" of forums, chatrooms and file libraries hosted only on that service. But to share that walled garden with thousands of people, hundreds of them at once, from cities all over North America, was pretty special compared to a bulletin board with a couple dozen people in your town, only one at a time. By the time they started offering internet email around 1995, most major cities had local dial-up ISPs that had settled on $20-$30/month as a going rate.
It took you long! Now I'll have to go watch again Part 1.
Very interesting, can't wait for part 3!
When a friend of mine got the first broadband service available here back in the 90's I was soooo jealous... a whooping 256Kbps speed for all your internet needs...
I love that I have lived most of the public history of the web and internet
Studying all these almost makes it feel like studying alchemy and cult science
Why do I need to write a easy about this for my homework
It's weird to realise the internet became a thing only shortly before I was born (1996) but that even between then and when I started using it and learning to make websites (2004) it had already changed so dramatically. Looking back, that rate of growth is mind-boggling. Even in 2004, I was studying off of a book written in 1996, and it was already very outdated despite being on HTML 4.5, yet it took about another decade to get to wide HTML 5 acceptance. In that sense, the rate of change has also slowed down somewhat. I kind of miss how the internet was kind of a wild west when I was a kid now. It's too corporatized and dumbed down now.
wow Hank is on another level of hosting
Thanks for the memories. I started on the Internet/Web in 1995, using Windows 3. My boss had just bought a used computer, and had no manuals or documentation. Had to teach myself everything (Windows/Netscape/Eudora/Agent....) Still use the same clients today (Firefox.)
Trained hand-eye coordination by playing Minefield, and Solitaire.
1994, college professors going on about how this new internet would replace library cards, and that someday you could use a laptop to listen to music, watch TV and movies, or chat with someone in another country. 1995, my first Netscape ready Compaq laptop with one of those modem lines.
This is while Mac users had better stuff like that new up and coming Prodigy, Ha. Still using a version of Netscape called Firefox. Lol. also bacxk in 1995 this much text would have taken at least 14 mins to process.
Please make part 3 soon!
Man, i remember when AOL came out...changed the world
Please do a video explaining how dryer sheets can clean scorched pots.
8:26-8:53 Because there are other transfer protocols, (like ftp or... ftp...), and browsers can search off the web if needed.
9:13 I remember using Netscape and Internet Explorer in the early days.
To think how new the net is still and its come along damn way in that 30+ years
Wow. I remember dialup. This is all a huge blast from the past. I'm only 31. Am I old? I don't... FEEL old...
Thanks for bringing back some pretty cool memories, like how it used to take 4 hours to download a 3MB file. lol
Did you mention Gopher. It slightly predated the web and introduced some of the stuff that ended up in the web browsers.
GWC there in the middle of the country - that's where I worked in the '80s and early '90s. Before the thing became 'open'. But Tim didn't invent DNS. Stanford Research Institute invented the first method to lookup / translate names to IP addresses, and Jon Postel (also of California) Paul Mockapetris invented DNS. Tim gets too much credit, and others seem to be forgotten along the way.
on 00:10 HANK is like " do you have a smartphone " in a weird manner
That make me say "YEAH"
I love your shirt.
My first browser was Mosaic. I still have original versions on 3.5 floppys from the early 90s.
Ahh the era of internet caffe, wasting time in irc rooms lying about your age.
I remember all of this. To me, it was yesterday, and that's what lets me know how fucking old I am.
I can still recall as a child using AOL (America Online) version 3.0!! and even though AOL was far from the only internet provider, it was easily the most common and most simple way to get on the internet for the average user at that time. Back then it was as simple as inserting a floppy disk (which held LESS THAN 5mb mind you..) , installing, and purchasing a membership and username. In addition to Netscape Navigator Internet Explorer and other early web tools, on our state of the art 14.4k modem. I remember when we upgraded to it 28.8k... and I even remember convincing my dad to upgrade us to a 56.6k modem... reasoning that it's additional speed would save us time online, and therefore money. You see... back then (using a model that seems absolutely ludicrous today!!)... America Online tended to charge by the hour. so when you were online you typically had to keep track of how long you were online or face an incredibly large bill. Back in those days, there were also certain online features that allowed you to buy or pay for things by adding them to your phone bill. (as you were already using the phone line to get online in the first place) Many of the EARLIEST ORIGINAL America Online start up sample disks, would offer you something in the area, of anywhere between 5, and 1,500 free hours if you signed up immediately. In addition to giving a free hours to whoever it was that referred you...
you would also very often use America online servers to find chat rooms that coincided with your interest. that was back when we were still using Mac OS 7 & 8... when Mac OS X came out I still recall upgrading to it and marveling at how awesome it's Graphics were. and as I stated previously I do recall how amazing I thought our 56.6 K modem was when we first begin using it.
most kids today have no idea what that whining and screaming noise that the modem would make upon connecting to your ISP isperiod although it can often easily be explained as the same sound a fax machine makes when you call a "fax line" by accident.
truly the nineties was a new and very exciting time in technology. New Innovations were constantly being released that offered its users more convenient access to information social networking in its earliest forms, as well as some basic entertainment.. Hell.. from the moment the internet became something accessible to so many people within the privacy of their own homes, pornography has been a very large part of the internet. I still recall being very young, and having internet access when my parents were still at work . And using the internet to access and find pornography that had never been available to me in the past.
this was, of course, prior to most of the safety nets that now are so pervasive in our modern culture. Back then, there was less fear of children being on the internet without supervision.
Back in those days, for a horny teenager, your only real hope was either, A. Find a way to obtain a nudie magazine, (Playboy, Hustler, etc.) or B. Spend your time cruising HBO, Showtime, or Cinemax (dubbed SKINIMAX for obvious reasons ;) ) and HOPING for a movie with partial nudity in ONE scene. Keeping in mind that there was no DVR back then... so all you could get was a glimps!
In any case... this comment has now exceeded all of my expectations with its length, and with its very wide digretion into the topic of internet porn in the 90's..
Amazing! Part 2
I remember Netscape. You could never tell whether it was working or not. Then IE came and if it didn't find the website, it would add www. to the front and .com to the end. I set off to read my e-mails once. When I came back IE was searching for www.www.www.www.www.travel-net.com.com.com.com.com. The internet was down that day.
Great series!
Go to Bletchley Park and learn how the internet, together with packet switching, was taken from them by the Americans and claimed as their own. The film of he actual inventors describing how they felt is very upsetting.
Him looking nostalgically back on the start of the internet and me nodding along as if I wasn’t born in 2005
It's HANK! AWESOME!
Your shirt is intriguing.
what a great video!
This is good summarised research work and words
I remember 300 bps.... Bonus points if you know what GENIE stood for...
Remember Netscape Navigator? Shoot, I remember using Encyclopedia Brittanica on compact discs.
I remember I used to use a Toshiba laptop that could to call waitng or something like that. While I was on dail up a window would pop up and say that someone was trying to call my land line and let me click answer and basically switch off the modem and answer the phone call. It's was like witchcraft.
May we get another video on social engineering and other forms of scams/viruses?
My first modem was a telephone that sat in a cradle. I wrote my own dial-up programs... as we all did. Good old ATDT...
I started using computers I believe it was 1994 when my mom bought a computer running Windows 3.11, so that would have been a year before the web was public. When I first started using the Internet it was the web over dial up that I was introduced to first.
7:27 - I thought Caillou was a good for nothing, I was wrong.
You pretty much skipped a major history point: the creation of NCSA Mosaic. The first graphical web browser AND father of both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. It was created by Mark Andreessen and was a major success, spawning huge attention to the then still uninteresting text-based only web of the time.
Leonardo Otaviano Pedrozo I got the impression that will be covered next time. It seems like the next one will be the rise of Internet 1.0, the .com boom and bust, and the new rise of internet 2.0 that followed.
It needs to cover AOL, Mosaic, the Microsoft antistrust case, the PETS.com bankruptcy, and then the rise of Google and Facebook and others from the ashes of the bust.
Sam I understand. What got me surprised is that Hank even mentioned Netscape, but no Mosaic. Well, guess we'll know when the next video come out. :)
I was born in '93. I'm among the first people to have lived their entire life in a world with internet. I literally don't know what it's like to not have it.
I needed to watch this for my ICT exam D:
I can tell by the like to dislike ratio that Hank is hosting this one
Nicolas Gleason-Boure I
Such a handy trick. Also so glad to have Hank, was rather disappointed I couldn't watch the previous one.
Shame too, as I rather like all of the other hosts.
Nicolas Gleason-Boure yes sir I am.
It was really tough getting through the last one.
I remember when I went from 1terabyte per second to 100tb per second good times
your not talking about your speed are you?
You already in future?
You forgot to mention MOSAIC.
I remember when my sons got annoyed with me because I had a 300baud modem whereas they were both stuck with 110baud acoustic couplers.
Since I was born in 2000 I remember getting my first multi-gigabyte cellular data plan after anguishing with only 500 MB of total data per month, that day was a good day.
That shirt is trippy
for sure include a link to part one in the comments
Oh, god, that modem sound.
MEMORIES.
(not necessarily good ones. Dial-up sometimes crashes if the phone rings unless you have a splitter. We found that out...the hard way. :P)
Shirt is fire
imagine doing business by without internet and email and servers to conect to... one time i at my workplace we had to send a fax with some ppw for a transaction because the other company's internet wasn't working... there was one person who knew how to send a fax... and it took 3 tries and 3 different phone numbers to get it through... we almost missed the courier and would have failed to ship out the order...
No, a modem converted an electrical signal to an audio signal (and vice/versa) , It was STILL DIGITAL. It was just digital represented by different sounds instead of by different voltage levels. Or more accurately, it MODULATED a digital signal onto an analog one. The data was still digital.
4:40 of course you don't, you made it in ascii art
I remember having to get off of AOL so my parents could use the phone, LOL!
the www in the URL does not mean that the page is part of the WWW, but its just the name of the server. you can give it other names too.