Are you older than the internet?

[darkxshade]

Birth of the internet in 69 you say

 

[nanette1985]

Yes, I'm older than ARPANET. Get off my internet, you young whippersnappers.

 

[Amused]

I was 2.

 

[Epic Fail]

Al Gore was only 21 when he invented the intertubes.

 

[Kwatt]

Originally posted by: princess ida
Yes, I'm older than ARPANET. Get off my internet, you young whippersnappers.

:thumbsup:

I am older than the "internet". I am older than "DARPA".


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[lxskllr]

I beat the internet by about 11 months. Assuming people used the posted dates, I'm surprised at the number of geezers here :^D

 

[zinfamous]

I am not older than Al Gore.

So, no.

 

[FlashG]

I am older than the dirt that the internet plays in. Get off my grass.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Not only am I older than the intarweb, I'm older than velcro.

 

[spacejamz]

wow...i am 2 months older than the internet...

 

[Jadow]

I consider 1982 the birth year of the internet (the year TCP/IP was created)

 

[KoolDrew]

no

 

[erub]

nope

 

[Muse]

I predate the printing press. I was here before the 10 commandments. Sheeit, when the peel back the universe, they'll find me smiling before the big bang.

 

[SummerDream]

DAMN!

 

[aircooled]

7 days older

 

[shortylickens]

1969 was not the real internet. BBS's dont qualify either.
The real internet used a web browser and was able to pick up almost any kind of cool stuff you wanted just by using a search engine. It was when almost any schmuck could get on (assuming their system and ISP was already set up for them) and find cool shit with a minimum of hassle.
I would suggest the mid 90's was the start of the real internet. Win95 was a huge boon to the regular world. Even though it was full of bugs it was a hundred times better than Win3.1. And it was a hell of a lot more accessable than DOS. It made regular people get seriously interested in home computing. One of the most important features was its ease of accessing the mysterious internet, which most folks had only dreamt of.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

In '69, my high school had a half ton, 10ft. long, tube driven, card punch computer. When the teacher wasn't around we would hook it up the phone line, and download scenes from, "I am curious yellow."
What, you didn't ?

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: runzwithsizorz
In '69, my high school had a half ton, 10ft. long, tube driven, card punch computer. When the teacher wasn't around we would hook it up the phone line, and download scenes from, "I am curious yellow."
What, you didn't ?

What is I am curious yellow

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Quintox

Originally posted by: runzwithsizorz
In '69, my high school had a half ton, 10ft. long, tube driven, card punch computer. When the teacher wasn't around we would hook it up the phone line, and download scenes from, "I am curious yellow."
What, you didn't ?

What is I am curious yellow

Ask Bob, Ted, Carol and, Alice.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Using that date...I was in high school when teh intarwebs were invented. Less than 90 days later, I was in boot camp...and heading to Vietnam.

The real question if there is anyone on AT older than BoomerD?!?!

BTW, I, also, am older than the internet, but I was probably still in diapers when the internet was born. (And, no, that does not mean last week.)

MotionMan

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Using that date...I was in high school when teh intarwebs were invented. Less than 90 days later, I was in boot camp...and heading to Vietnam.

The real question if there is anyone on AT older than BoomerD?!?!

BTW, I, also, am older than the internet, but I was probably still in diapers when the internet was born. (And, no, that does not mean last week.)

MotionMan

So are you in them again?

 

[woodie1]

In 1969 I was working for NASA at one of their tracking stations in the West Indies.

 

[rbV5]

Led Zeppelin II had been released the previous week....and I was 9 years old. I'm older than the internet, but much younger than BoomerD

 

[BoomerD]

HEY! Fuck you guys...I resemble that remark.

BUT, IIRC, there are a few people on here who are older than I am. (not many, but a few)

They may however, be at the activity session in the retirement home and can't reply to this thread.