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News report from 1981 about the Internet
Posted on 9/25/23 at 12:21 am
Posted on 9/25/23 at 12:21 am
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A news report from 1981 about the Internet and receiving an entire newspaper through the phone line.
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Posted on 9/25/23 at 12:40 am to rickgrimes
I was barely old enough to avoid having to deal with acoustic couplers. Oddly enough, Captain Crunch whistles were a thing anyway (which would be the cheapest "acoustic coupler" on the planet, along with C64 tape decks.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 1:11 am to rickgrimes
"Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer, but that's a few years off."
Pretty wild how they were actually too far ahead of their time with that idea, considering that an internet that didn't tie up your home phone line didn't become a customary thing in households until the early 2000's. It wasn't until then that the internet truly took over our society.
Pretty wild how they were actually too far ahead of their time with that idea, considering that an internet that didn't tie up your home phone line didn't become a customary thing in households until the early 2000's. It wasn't until then that the internet truly took over our society.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 1:20 am to Broski
I never would have imagined it would suck in the older people the way it did. As a PC tech in the later AOL days, older people just believed anything and everything they say on AOL (I didn't do tech support on Compuserve or Prodigy.) It was the beginning of curated news and feeds, I just was too inexperienced to realize it. The mindless ways retirees would just believe anything served up to them laid the groundwork for Facebook and the current ad machine that is the Internet.
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Brawndo has what plants need!
Posted on 9/25/23 at 1:32 am to rickgrimes
Posted on 9/25/23 at 4:45 am to LemmyLives
Do you think that the willingness to believe anything served up to someone is limited to old people?
Posted on 9/25/23 at 5:31 am to rickgrimes
I remember seeing the first web addresses and email on billboards, and thinking, "Yeah, that is dumb. It is a fad." I also picked HD-DVD over BluRay and the Zune over the iPod, so... 
Posted on 9/25/23 at 5:32 am to rickgrimes
That wasn't really the Internet and was just a dial up service like a bulletin board (BBS).
Posted on 9/25/23 at 5:48 am to rickgrimes
"One day, not long from now, people will be sending letters to Penthouse Forums electronically, rather than by post. Instead of riding his lawnmower down to the mailbox to check for a reply, Peej will be going to the public library to check an electronic mail account on a computer in hopes of being published."
Posted on 9/25/23 at 5:51 am to Locoguan0
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also picked HD-DVD over BluRay and the Zune over the iPod, so...
My man
Posted on 9/25/23 at 6:44 am to rickgrimes
“One day, technology will advance to the point that the sum knowledge of mankind will be in the palm of your hand, but people will utilize it to share photos of their lunch with their friends, or perhaps ask for nude photos of random posters wives and girlfriends.”
Posted on 9/25/23 at 6:46 am to rickgrimes
I remember in 6th grade hearing about the "internet super highway". The teach, an older guy, was absolutely terrified of it. Maybe he was on to something.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 6:56 am to rickgrimes
In the 1950's they expected:
Posted on 9/25/23 at 7:06 am to rickgrimes
You realize people in the 2080s will be laughing at our archaic technology.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 7:15 am to LemmyLives
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As a PC tech in the later AOL days, older people just believed anything and everything they say on AOL (I didn't do tech support on Compuserve or Prodigy.)
Did you do tech support for AOL? I did, in the months leading up to them going to “unlimited hours.” That was a disaster because people would dial in and never disconnect. In many areas they simply didn’t have enough modem lines to facilitate. People were PISSED. Cell phones weren’t ubiquitous at the time so they had to use their land line to call support. We’d give them some different numbers to try, and fortunately had to end the call so they could try them. Fortunate because the other numbers were gonna be busy signals too
They had so many angry people calling in to complain or cancel, I got moved to the “member save” queue. On my first day of that mess, I made it to my lunch break and quit on the spot. Not what I signed up for!
This post was edited on 9/25/23 at 7:16 am
Posted on 9/25/23 at 7:52 am to LemmyLives
The AOL chat rooms were the shite back then.. then came along AIM Messenger which really made the internet amazing back then
Posted on 9/25/23 at 8:12 am to Locoguan0
quote:I still have a working HD-DVD player and about 25 movies.
HD-DVD over BluRay
Posted on 9/25/23 at 8:13 am to East Coast Band
quote:People will be still overcoming WWII in 2080.
You realize people in the 2080s will be laughing at our archaic technology.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 8:46 am to HubbaBubba
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People will be still overcoming WWII in 2080.
Well, they will definitely still be cleaning up bomblets from the cluster bombs all over Ukraine in another 100 years. Just like Viet Nam is still cleaning up land mines laid down 50 years ago.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 8:49 am to Sidicous
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Just like Viet Nam is still cleaning up land mines laid down 50 years ago.
peace agreement was signed in early 1973, baw
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