How the Internet started...(Early days.)

[Altair]

 

[NGJames]

he he. I would get a bus across town in the mid-90's to my dad's workplace just to read up on all my favourite geeky topics online. The days of Altavista, Netscape etc. A real age of innocence!

 

[xxwhite_dovexx]

Oh like my great great uncle lugi invented the tv but someone stole the plans . His name is Lugi Baird a very distant relative on my ma's side .

 

[coffee-time]

I remember the days of dial up modems and PRESTEL

 

[Whiskers]

I remember the days of dial up modems and PRESTEL

Erm im fickle but what's prestel lol

 

[coffee-time]

Erm im fickle but what's prestel lol

PRESTEL was an online version of teletext, run by the Post Office.

 

[Moriarty]

Anyone heard or ARPANET lol

 

[jenarator202]

I remember our internet provider was called Freeserve, which then got taken over by Wanadoo and then by Orange. I also remember Telexes and Word Processers that used to be housed in a freestanding cabinet. I remember once watching my Mum and a colleague having a huge typing row with the Telex Operator.

 

[Words]

Iuse to work on the telexes repairing them

 

[Lex51]

Don't forget about the the CPU's available. 133mhz wow that's a fast one.