Happy 15th birthday to the Web

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A brief timeline that gave me far too many flashbacks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 August 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Probably the most important technological advance of the late-20th century.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 6 August 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

if carlsberg had made technological advances in the late 20th century...

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 6 August 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

:) I'm not sure what Dolly the sheep would have thought of all this, though.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 6 August 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Bring back gopher.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 6 August 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

if you reckon the time in gaping anuses viewed, the grandeur of the whole thing becomes clearer

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 6 August 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Give me my life back you fucker.

― Son of Spam (noodle vague), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

1/3 of that time spent on ilx

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nabisco OTM

― heavyweight grebt (sanskrit), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

haha this reminds me of my senior year business class final project where i created an online video rental site which won me a C+ for being "basically unfeasable" :-O

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

THE HALCYON DAYS OF 1996

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

The NeXTstep editor can also browse news.

hahaha. oh, NeXT, you were not long for this world.

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

well it's kinda still around in osX I guess

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Mosaic! The Coffee Pot! Amazon! Where are they now eh?

I remember a whole group of us gathering around the office Mac and gasping in disbelief as a photo downloaded (very very slowly) in front of our very eyes - sent from another room! The the computer crashed. Heady days...heady days...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

¡Feliz Quinceañera!

The web is totally fair game now.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Coffee machine being turned off on Wednesday 22 August 2001 - the webcam's last frame:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/tmp/xvcoffee.jpeg

― beanz (beanz), Sunday, 6 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

And with it the dreams of a generation...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 6 August 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I first got to Internet in Sep/Oct 1995 when I was about 8. The first day we got it me and my parents stayed up all night trying to locate an emailled photo of my cousin by SEARCHING ON THE WEB. How times change.... I also used to think that "Encarta" and "Internet" were interchangeable for the first year. The internet never used to load up half the time and I remember being scolded for trying to find "tesco.com" (learned from the adverts), this I typed in the search box obviously, as I used to do with every URL before 1997 or so.

I miss 1998/9 when Dogpile and Lycos used to cater for all my searching needs. I wanted a black labrador called "Lycos". I never got one :(

The first time I used chat in August 1999 I felt guilty and terrified for days because I thought I'd drained my parents' phone bill... it doesn't worry me too much anymore......

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Amazing how early some of these things were - Ebay in '95? Google in '98? Blogs in '97?

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 6 August 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Probably the most important technological advance of the late-20th century.

And I thought that was the Segway.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

I actually remember life without Google. It was dreary, not being able to find what you wanted to find. Remember when you couldn't do the neat little enclose in quotation marks trick to search for the exact phrase, resulting in an endless list of search items that had tenuous ties to what you were actually searching for? I also remember when EVERYONE had a Hotmail address -- except me, that is. Rebel I was, I went to Yahoo for my first email address. And laughed and laughed when I heard people complaining about how much time it took for them to load up emails. And though this is a relatively new development, I don't know what I did before tabbed browsing via Firefox.

I also clearly remember when you had to deal with direct ftp clients if you wanted to do file sharing. No lovely program to actually do the hard work for you. And ftp + dial-up access = the really dark ages as far as I'm concerned. I'm glad now that Slsk has finally started approximating the greatness of Napster in its prime, though Slsk could never better that. And remember when Geocities was great? It used to be the greatest free website hoster out there. Then Yahoo bought it up and it started sucking BADLY. Yeah, happy birthday, WWW. I already gave you my present in the guise of all those years I spent with you.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

i first found the web in 98 on the free netlounge at my college. i used it mostly to print off guitar tablature for rock songs, and read my email (i knew 5 people with email addresses)

who knew!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

i subbed to COMMPUSERVE. damn was i stupid. i switched providers after a couple of months. this was more than a decade ago.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

of course now i can't imagine life without it. My internet broke down for two days. i wanted to know what was on at the cinema

after some panic, i used teletext, but then gave up and went to bed

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I vaguely remember my... boyfriend? fiance? What was he then? Well, the guy I eventually married showing me evidence of this "world wide web" thing... this would have been 1994 or so. I don't think I saw the potential. The other thing I remember is Alta Vista being the search engine I used... oh how times have changed...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

And with it the dreams of a generation...

Three weeks later, 9/11. COINCEDENCE?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

whoa, easy there Nedward.

― oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I never thought he was a conspiracy nut before, either.

Just when you think you know a person!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

(Trying to figure out who is out-sniding who around here is sometimes a chore.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hostilewitness.com/images/snidely-whiplash.jpg

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

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