When history is written, what year....

[techs]

will it say was the beginning of the "internet"?

I got the internet in 1998 but I think it really took off in 2000.
However, it went bonkers when WinXP came out in 2002.

 

[Dirigible]

Internet or the web with browsers 'n' such?

I first started using email a lot in 1990, and did some other internet stuff then too. No idea how long it had been around before that, and too lazy to google it.

 

[HeXen]

you mean when it got popular? or felt needed?
i'd say 1998 was a huge start. Computers and its marketing really changed and people saw what they could do and how easy it was.
But mainly thats when internet sites became a useful tool of knowledge for the curious.

1993 was when i started seeing websites on company advertisement commercials.

 

[Schadenfroh]

1997, the 14th year of The Anand

 

[KlokWyze]

History is already written. Read up on ARPANET and DARPANET. Late 70's or early 80's?

 

[IronWing]

1993 with the release of Mosaic. All else was prologue. The pieces were in place with email, gopher, ftp, usenet, xmodem, etc. but Mosaic was the spark that changed everything.

 

[Printer Bandit]

the year that AOL became popular.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I had dial-up on Win 3.1 before Windows 95 came out and it was really getting a lot of buzz then, everyone was looking for an "on-ramp to the information superhighway". so 92 or 93 or so.

 

[lxskllr]

As was already said, history has been written, and the internet's roots are clearly understood. I think the 2000s will be known as the beginning of the information age though.

 

[Iron Woode]

I was on bulletin boards with my C64 back in 1985.

 

[IronWing]

As was already said, history has been written, and the internet's roots are clearly understood. I think the 2000s will be known as the beginning of the internet shopping age though.

Not much has really changed internet-wise in the 2000s other than greater bandwidth to support all the crap that people tried and failed with in the dial up era.

 

[Nintendesert]

What's this internet you speak of?

 

[Crusty]

Not much has really changed internet-wise in the 2000s other than greater bandwidth to support all the crap that people tried and failed with in the dial up era.

Youtube
Netflix
Twitter
Facebook

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[lxskllr]

Not much has really changed internet-wise in the 2000s other than greater bandwidth to support all the crap that people tried and failed with in the dial up era.

That edit works too, but it's only a subset of the changes that have happened. I'd rank the internet with the automobile for the change it has made on society.

 

[IronWing]

Youtube
Netflix
Twitter
Facebook

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Only because of bandwidth.
Messaging systems more sophisticated than twitter were established in the 90s. Netflix and youtube had to wait for bandwidth. I don't really see anything innovative about Facebook other than maybe the extent of their data mining.

 

[coldmeat]

History is already written. Read up on ARPANET and DARPANET. Late 70's or early 80's?

Don't forget HERPANET and DERPANET

 

[Crusty]

Only because of bandwidth.
Messaging systems more sophisticated than twitter were established in the 90s. Netflix and youtube had to wait for bandwidth. I don't really see anything innovative about Facebook other than maybe the extent of their data mining.

So you're saying that none of those sites had any impact on how the Internet has developed over the past decade? More resources certainly does make more things possible on the Internet, but that doesn't mean that those ideas don't deserve merit on their own.

How about BitTorrent as a protocol? Wikileaks distributes their content via torrents, and Wikileaks certainly is doing things right now that will change the Internet forever.

 

[DrPizza]

I was using the Internet to chat with people, use a bulletin board, etc., in 1985. You seem to be off by quite a bit.

 

[nanette1985]

History is already written. Read up on ARPANET and DARPANET. Late 70's or early 80's?

I graduated from college in 1971, and I remember this cool thing "email" while I was still in college. And CompuServe was already in existence then too. Pong started while I was in grad school. So I would say early 70's. It was a great time to play with computers. I was really geeky back then.

 

[TallBill]

I must have started in '98 after I got my first job at the age of 16, bought my own computer, and bought my own internet.

I used it a little bit before that but it definitely wasn't an age where every household had a computer.

 

[Cattlegod]

I started using IRC and the rest of the net heavily around 95

 

[IronWing]

So you're saying that none of those sites had any impact on how the Internet has developed over the past decade? More resources certainly does make more things possible on the Internet, but that doesn't mean that those ideas don't deserve merit on their own.

How about BitTorrent as a protocol? Wikileaks distributes their content via torrents, and Wikileaks certainly is doing things right now that will change the Internet forever.

Note the topic of this thread. My point is that the release of Mosaic was the beginning of what most people think of as the internet. Of course there has been innovation in the past ten years but it has been evolutionary development, not revolution.

 

[mmntech]

I remember being introduced to it at school sometime around 1996. We first got internet at home around 1994. My parents owned a business so email drove them to get it. At first it was one of those portal services, think AOL without the web. Ok, exactly like AOL. Actually had that at one point too, briefly.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

I was using the Internet to chat with people, use a bulletin board, etc., in 1985. You seem to be off by quite a bit.

I wasn't even born at that time, but the Tandy 2000 I had with the modem still worked on many dial-up message boards in early 1997. I also had a huge phone bill.

Weren't MUDS around back then too?

 

[Crusty]

I wasn't even born at that time, but the Tandy 2000 I had with the modem still worked on many dial-up message boards in early 1997. I also had a huge phone bill.

Weren't MUDS around back then too?

Absolutely, well before then as well. One of the popular code bases(DikuMUD) has been around since at least 1990, and a derivative work CircleMUD was published a few years down the road.

The first 'officially' recognized MUD was called 'MUD' and released in the 70's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1