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Article #679Re: HOW OLD are you?
From: SFTV_troy
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:14
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:14
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Brenda Ann wrote: > "David Kaye" <sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com> wrote in message > > > > 10 to 15 years ago there weren't Web-based forums..... > > Sure there were. I was using web based forums at least as far back as 1983, > with my Commodore 64 and a 300 baud acoustic modem Sorry hun, but that's NOT the world wide web (which is based-upon multiple servers & using Hypertext Markup Language & active point-n- click links). What we used on the old commodore 64 was a SINGLE server called a BBS, and it didn't use hypertext, or a mouse.. It was just plain-jane text. (Yes even on the C64, it was text.... but it was drawn to look like pictures.) That's what Usenet is - all text It's like visiting an old BBS. The world wide web was not invented until circa 1993, and did not "boom" until around 1995 (with Windows and Mac-based Mosaic & Netscape). And thus was born web-based forums which slowly but surely drew people away from the "boring" Usenet. > (even the crude graphics of the era took forever to load) Yeah. There's a huge difference between 56k and 0.3k. It used to take me an hour to download a 170 kilobyte floppy. Now I do it in about 5 seconds.
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