300baud if you were lucky
The Internet has lost its original purpose
- Thread starter Shut Up Legs
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Mobile. From the top of a bus it's not uncommon for the phone screensaver to kick in before the average web page finishes loading.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
Sounds like you need to upgrade network or phone or both ...
I started with 110-baud, then 300, then a new-fangled dual-speed 300 / 1200/75 for this new Prestel thing. Then 2400-baud, which felt amazing, and 9600-baud which was crazy speed ...300baud if you were lucky
luckyfox
She's the cats pajamas
- Location
- County Durham
Wafer
Veteran
- Location
- Somerset/Devon border
Yeah, it was so much better when, instead of using Google, you spent time on Alta Vista, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and whatever other search engine and still couldn't find what you were after....
And with stuff like the whole Netscape/IE thing it was all about platforms then too. The ideal of web standards is still something of a pipe dream, but it's better than it was.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Funnily enough I was just thinking about this old sketch from The Adam & Joe Show last night.
it's quite dated now but hey.... oh and probably NSFW
it's quite dated now but hey.... oh and probably NSFW
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
No!
I was off work for a week once and spent most of that time online. Doing anything took ages, and I paid by the minute. I ran up a £100 bill in less than 7 days!
Broadband made such a difference. I am looking forward to upgrading to fibre in the future and getting > 10 times the speed I get now, which varies from about 3 - 15 Mb/s.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
It's developed into a giant shopping catalogue.
Getting information is quite hard and provenance is an even bigger problem.
The likes of wiki cannot be relied upon, although I accept most of what's on there is about right.
Getting information is quite hard and provenance is an even bigger problem.
The likes of wiki cannot be relied upon, although I accept most of what's on there is about right.
Glow worm
Legendary Member
- Location
- Near Newmarket
Viz magazine when the internet first appeared changed radically.......' We're on the Internet!! Send your letters to the usual address, marking the envelope 'The Internet Department'' 
Nigel-YZ1
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere else... maybe soon.
I thought the internet was created so that Mike Vandeman could spread his hate of mountain bikers.
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
Even if that were true, it's a very big 'it', which is far from self-explanatory, and which contains all kinds of other things.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
"...and the porpoise?"
"That'll be along later sir."
"That'll be along later sir."
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Wikipedea can be relied on if you follow the citations and source material... some I've found to be most dubious.
Wafer
Veteran
- Location
- Somerset/Devon border
Better than relying on Encarta and stuff like I had to in the 90's!
There have always been people trying to "embrace and extend" it, but the underlying standards have meant that hitherto they've failed. The IE monopoly was eventually toppled by Mozilla, and mozilla was possible because HTML and HTTP are open. 1990s search "portals" lost to Google Search, and Google Search also was possible because HTML and HTTP are open. These days ... try writing a search engine that indexes Facebook and see how far you get. Once you're big enough to be a threat they'll turn you off or buy you out
