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The Internet - Mid 90's Web Culture
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2023
- Let's jack into the 'net, surf the Information Superhighway and go visit the global village in this video taking a look at mid 90's Internet culture. Come and see what all the fuss was about before the dot-com bubble even began and people were still trying to work out how to make us of a globally connected network of computers. The concept was so new we still didn't have a consistent name for it.
Features a selection of amusing adverts from the time period and some simulated 56k and T1 period accurate Internet surfing from within Windows 98 using the Protoweb Proxy which lets old machines connect to "The Internet" via the Wayback Machine.
Originally this was going to be a more technical look at 90s web technology, but I got far too distracted experiencing the early Internet again. It's fascinating how the speed of the Internet completely shaped the way it was used. Today people will socialise online or even use it to occupy their time. Back when the Web was new it was expensive - as you'll see from my £200 phone bill! - and going online was a deliberate act. You would plan where to go, what to look at and make a list of things to do. Once that was done, you'd disconnect.
To speed things up we would often disable images when browsing so the text could load faster!
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Contains TV adverts and clips from the following
BT Anytime - British Telecom
1993 CNN Report
Tomorrow's World 1994 "Are you ready for the Internet" - BBC
Freeserve advert from Channel 4
The Computer Chronicles - The Internet 1993
Hayes Modem
Windows 98 presentation where the machine blue screens when plugging in a scanner
Kids' Guide To The Internet - Diamond Entertainment Corporation 1997
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Blog Post - ...
Protoweb proxy - protoweb.org
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I remember the only internet capable PC in our house was my dad's home office computer, which was in his bedroom. We were on some sort of plan where we got free calls at weekends, so I would wait all week until Sunday morning when he went to church, then I would swoop in and download as many Doom wads and freeware games as I could manage before ferrying them up and down the stairs on a single formatted AOL floppy with the write protect hole taped over. Sometimes I had to use one of those file splitter tools to break them into 1.44mb chunks. I spent a lot of time on Planet Quake, Game Hippo and Home of the Underdogs.
I did not pay for WinZip, nor WinRAR.
I joined the internet with Demon Internet in 1993 with a 14K modem. First browser was Lynx on DOS, and then Mosaic V1.0 on Windows 3.1. Used to spend a lot of my time on IRC using the irc client for DOS as it was the only one available at the time. And yes, I remember the £200 internet call bills connecting via dialup. And this was the age of pre-USB, so you had serial connectors connecting it all together. And PKZIP was a thing back then. I did have a paid copy as I remember having labelled disks back then. And the guy who wrote it (Phil Katz) died an alcoholic which surprised me as he made lots of money. As for games, there was DOOM and Quake, but also System Shock (the original) in 1994 which was quite hard to play but it had a really engaging story. And it was quite scary. Best we could do until we started getting decent 3D graphics cards..possibly a future "ancient internet history" episode on how we went from text based displays in the 1980s to PC 3D graphics we have today? 🤔
Now what was it like to use Lynx in DOS? I'm only asking this to learn.
I got so drawn into this video that I was surprised when it ended!
I miss the slow, intentional internet.
In the 90s they invented AOL technology to connect us to the interwebs and deliver endless spam and flame wars
I'm reasonably certain I used that exact photo as my wallpaper for a while when I was doing telephone tech support in the late 90s...
Wew, I haven't heard the phrase "T1 Line" in a long time, Lolz.
I still like the simplicity of pure HTML, that is about as instant loading as possible, unless you had to disable images. HTML, jpg, animated GIFs and txt files abound. Things were still measured in the Kilobytes. You know, I first got a computer in like 2002, an old Gateway with Win98 SE. I still remember the specs. I also had my own PCI wifi card! An Airlink 101 that we bought at Fry's Electronics. I even had a hand-me-down Palm IIIe. Man those were the days.
Ah! The fun of dialing into my ISP at 28 kbps, downloading email on Outlook Express and using IE 5 with JavaScript and ActiveX fully enabled. No wonder my poor computer was always crashing and freezing...
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Brings back a lot of memories 😊 But in Canada, we had Cable Modems @ 220 kbs and they were always on. Spent more time on IRC, Hotline, News groups, then browsing the net. When I was browsing, I used Web crawler and Dog Pile search, both still work to this day 😊 Gaming in the 90's was alot of modem to modem game play, with games like Doom, Warcraft, Duke 3d, EST. If over the internet games usually used a client app like Quake World, which I spent tons of time on 😉 Alot of time while downloading, I would pop open Warcraft or other games, with some tunes using Win Amp, Never a problem 😃 If you used the right config and Apps in the 90's the experience was always good 😃
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I played quake over 14.4 modem. Worked ok when we got it working. Good times!
13:15 "they were worse than Bing" 😂
56k modems were Never 56k.
Same for 28 and 14.
I first got internet in uhh 1999. Thanks to a law passed in NZ in the 80's, local dialling was free so i only had to worry about ISP charges. I think i was paying something like $14.99/month for 10 hours and there was a per hour rate after that which i forget. "I'll only use it for a bit of emailing" I thought.. as soon as i could get a "permanent" connection, i did. At that time, that was a second phoneline to my house that i paid my mum for on top of the internet bill. Yay 24/7 56k interwebs!
Netscape Navigator was good but Communicator stank and was bloated beyond description.
My first modern was 14k4 US Robotics with 7 hours of Internet included and 35USD on my balance. I was supposed to use them within a month and pay $35 if I wanted to extend my subscription. In the end of the month I figured out that provider cannot drop the line, so I've got few more hours free. The problem is that there was nothing to do. I had much more fun in fidonet. It was Russia, Siberia, sometimes in 98-99
I had a 486. Didn't even know how to use it.
It had no sound either.
Managed to get duke nukem 3d installed.
Tried playing the game just using the keyboard I didn't know about wasd and mouse.
Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the evil in this world, God is full of justice, mercy and love.
Justice said we broke His perfect law - causing the world's previous perfection to be destroyed - and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don't think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing - regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others - which is murder in God's perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says "the soul that sins shall die" - if we break one in thought/word/deed it's as if we're guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans
. The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom.
If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us into His image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. We cannot purify ourselves, but Christ lived that perfect sinless, pure life and then allotted it to our "account".
That's where our righteousness comes from. Not from any good, works that you or I could do.
It is not based on the amount of good works we do. God starts the changes, He carries it on, and He completes it in those who let Him.
It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him, again, through His power and instruction).
He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if YOU had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place.
He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, forgiveness, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it.
He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way.
NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER
If you have any questions let me know