On 08/10/2012 09:57 AM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
I remember the B.B.S. systems. My first email address was about 80
character long and it was via a B.B.S. network. Now we cannot live
without its descendant, the Internet. Can you imagine your life
without the Internet?
Actually, the Internet predates BBSs, going back to it's roots in the
late '60s. While I used those, my first email address was on a VAX
11/780 system.
The Internet was not the Internet back then. I believe it was ARPANET
or something like that. I do remember that much in my computer
classes. College and businesses had the ability to connect to the
"mainframe" interconnection system that sprang out of the Dept. of
Defense, but it was a long time before a home user could use their
modems to connect to that type of system.
It took a lot of work in the late 80's to get it to become a browser
based World Wide Web, instead of a text based system. Then it became the
Internet we all know of today. I remember the pre-PC days and did not
like it. Then when the first local BBS system was online, having 10 Meg
of a hard drive, people could not imagine how it would ever be filled.
Later, I was working on a project for making a BBS style of system for
the housing market for a local company, based upon a free software
template. A few years later, the Internet came to the common home users
via their dialup systems. That is when I got my second phone line and
started working on a tourism web site. Had to use a text editor to hand
code everything, since WYSIWYG editors cost too much.
I do not want to think would my life would be like without my Internet
connection. I made a partial living in the 90's from it. The FOSS
movement would not exist without the Net being as it is today.
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