Happy Birthday Internet

by goindeep

Posted: 12 years ago 22 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

The Internet is 20 today!

On this day 20 years ago the public or consumer web switch was flicked on

This was the first ever public website; The World Wide Web project

The World Wide Web is 20 years old today | ExtremeTech

I remember hearing about it on TV and at school being a kid, I was in about the 5th or 6th grade when we first got the World Wide Web.

My dad has always been a bit of a tech geek, he loves gadgets and things so we where one of the first people I knew of to ever have the Internet.

We had an old bulky computer in my brothers bedroom and I still remember the old days the the whistle and crackle of the 56K modem.

Being a kid I had no idea what the Internet was. I had heard all of the news and theories and excitement but it made no sense to me.... yet I was still excited. I remember sitting down at the keyboard totally excstatic and trying to think of things I could search for on websites likes "Ask Jeeves" and "Web Crawler"...

I searched for things like "What is meditation" and "Black holes" wow!

Happy Birthday WEB!

#birthday #happy #internet

bmw040 12 years ago

Happy Birthday!
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Jeff Burritt Banned 12 years ago

Here's the sound again.

Der 56k Modem Klang - The 56k dialup modem sound...

Der 56k Modem Klang - The 56k dialup modem sound - YouTube
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- MartinPlatt 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Jeff Burritt
  
  Here's the sound again.
  
  Der 56k Modem Klang - The 56k dialup modem sound - YouTube
  Der 56k Modem Klang - The 56k dialup modem sound - YouTube
  
  56K modems were a few years after that...
  
  9600 baud - those were the days... character building.
  
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- Will Edwards 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Jeff Burritt
  
  Here's the sound again.
  
  Der 56k Modem Klang - The 56k dialup modem sound - YouTube
  Der 56k Modem Klang - The 56k dialup modem sound - YouTube
  
  I want one!!!!
  
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mstrmindmktg 12 years ago

The first thing I bought on the Internet was a t-shirt from the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. I was so sure that I was going to blow something up! :-)
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JSProjects 12 years ago

My first memories of being online:

Prodigy commercial (version 1) - 1990 - YouTube
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Golgo 12 years ago

If you dont mention it,I even not know its here birthday
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twister85 12 years ago

Happy Birthday Internet and Thanks for helping us making money online.

Cheers!
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J Bold 12 years ago

The internet, it's a series of tubes.

Made my first website in 1997. Things sure have changed.
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Reinhart Osmond 12 years ago

Thank you internet, you have helped me make money on the internet.

keep growing.
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rmolina88 12 years ago

I didn't even get the internet until 1996, but I still remember my old 9600 baud modem too!
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Long Beach Nathan 12 years ago

I remember hearing about the web first in 95. Somebody mentioned the internet in class, and I raised my hand and asked what it was. It was still so new that nobody laughed when I asked!
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JohnV88 12 years ago

I was 3 years old when Internet was born but I still remember the day My dad bought me my first PC when I was 12 & later Internet connection too..I screw my Internet bill by using it 12 hours straight as it was too expensive in it's early days.
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talfighel 12 years ago

Happy birthday dear "Internet".

Thank you for all the great things you gave us all through the
years.

And thank you for all the bad things just in case you forgot.
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Surminga 12 years ago

Happy Bday!

I can remember my first PC, it was agonisingly slow and to at the Internet to it, thinking back would have been so painful.
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january14n 12 years ago

Happy Birthday! Without you we will never be here.
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celente 12 years ago

yes my old man introduced our family to the INTERWEB-net back 20 years ago.

however the ARPA-net which was the first form of the internet used by the military is quite old.

Then the HTTP web page, GUI interface replace that.

I still have memories of the bleeps, and clicks on the old clunker 56k'er haha.
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- Jennn 12 years ago
  
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cjagodka 12 years ago

And what a day it is. Happy Birthday to thing that has created us and doomed us!
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CherryAffairs 12 years ago

Thanks for the reminder! Happy birthday!!!! Have a blast~ We won't be here if you are not around.
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- RKeele 12 years ago
  
  Yes, Happy Birthday Internet!
  
  Knowing that the internet is now 20 years old makes me feel old though.
  
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Elvis Michael 12 years ago

Best thread here on the WF.
Great, now I wanna get me another 286, 386 and 486 with barely 4MB RAM.
Oh, and play some Carmen Sandiego while I'm at it.

C:\Congrats!
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