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Happy 25th Birthday to Algore's Internet!

Maximus
Maximus Posts: 12,256 Member
edited February 16 in Chit-Chat
Let's all thank Algore for inventing online porn and travel booking!!

What's your greatest memory of internet history? Was it the first time you heard "you've got mail"? Or the first time you signed up for an email address (some stupid name, I'm bet). Or the first time you entered an AOL chat room?

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  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    My first forum argumet was probably my favorite memory...
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
    i guess i must have imagined my first e-mail account back in 1985... because that was 4 years before algore invented the internet. :huh:
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    First movie. It took 18 hours on a dial up connection and was poor quality (240p and low bitrate), but I did it!
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
    I liked when Algore used the internets to prove the existence of Manbearpig...
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    I'm glad he's moved on to bigger and better things though.

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  • Escloflowne
    Escloflowne Posts: 2,038 Member
    My first forum argumet was probably my favorite memory...

    That's sad on so many levels...

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  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    Ah, the early days of the interwebz... who doesn't remember when the first page of every internet search was connected to porn websites? and all those sex popups that crashed the desktops?
  • sheenarama
    sheenarama Posts: 733 Member
    Well... my worst memory was having to disconnect from the interwebs in order call someone.
  • will2lose72
    will2lose72 Posts: 128 Member
    Let's all thank Algore

    Um...no! But I'll thank Vint Cerf or Robert Kahn :wink:

    We used a dial up mail connection at work where you had to connect, then type in all the information. If we were working on a long report it was notorious for breaking the connection or worse adding/losing characters on the send transmission. I once sent a Shift report that became the *kitten* report. Got teased about that for a long time!
  • x311Tifa
    x311Tifa Posts: 357 Member
    Al Gore didn't invent the internet....http://www.technewsdaily.com/17229-who-invented-the-internet.html
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  • x311Tifa
    x311Tifa Posts: 357 Member
    Let's all thank Algore

    Um...no! But I'll thank Vint Cerf or Robert Kahn :wink:

    We used a dial up mail connection at work where you had to connect, then type in all the information. If we were working on a long report it was notorious for breaking the connection or worse adding/losing characters on the send transmission. I once sent a Shift report that became the *kitten* report. Got teased about that for a long time!

    THANK YOU!
  • OllyReeves
    OllyReeves Posts: 579 Member
    I'm missing the hilarity. Maybe because I'm not Murican.

    Is this hilarious because Al Gore said something he didn't say? Or even nearly say...Or even come close to saying? Is that why this thread is hilarious?
  • KinoM
    KinoM Posts: 359 Member
    Having to set the character width right on the telnet software to access direct dial BBSs legibly. Loong time ago.
  • geebusuk
    geebusuk Posts: 3,348 Member
    Mid 94 - bulletin boards and compuserve.
    More FTP/gopher sites than websites when I did venture on to "the internet" I'd say.
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  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    I'm missing the hilarity. Maybe because I'm not Murican.

    Is this hilarious because Al Gore said something he didn't say? Or even nearly say...Or even come close to saying? Is that why this thread is hilarious?

    did you get your sense of humor shot off in the 'Murican-Canadian war?
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    nozzy48 Posts: 232 Member
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  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
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    so all those other scientists.... just took Al Gore's word for it?
  • rowlandsw
    rowlandsw Posts: 1,166 Member
    Making the world stupider and less civil a day at a time for 25 years. Given the damage done so far another 25 years we'll be wired to the computers and social media 24/7 straight to the brain.
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