Me...a booth at winter Comdex of '94 or '95 (not positive) strangely enough I don't recall the vendor or product but spent tons of time picking his brain to learn more about the net & the web. (edit I was 28 or 29 years old) - Mark Krynsky
I miss mosaic... I miss the web being 80% text and 20% graphics... sometime around 94 for the www... I was on usenet and IRC before that - Sean Reiser
home computer, 93-94, accessed via local BBS, then through winsock and netscape 1.0. game changing moment for me - sean percival
the sysop had to walk me through the whole thing via 2nd phone line, it was rather involved, and man was he proud - sean percival
Sean...cool...when I returned I went through Microtimes and saw ads for several ISP's and ended up signing up with this tiny outfit called Earthlink. They had to mail me a floppy with the TCP/IP stack for windows 3.1 then fax me a page with all the settings (DNS, Gateway, Mail etc.) I still needed to call support to get it going but it was Awesome! Oh yea, I was one of Earthlink's earliest customers, they had just opened up shop. - Mark Krynsky
NCSA Mosiac on my Mac LCII back in 1993. Before www, back in mid-late 80s, used archie, gopher, lynx, usenet & bbs's on my Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III using 300 baud modem. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I was on AOL for years. I don't remember even realizing that BBS was a thing. But when I got into high school I remember seeing some kids looking at... um... interesting pictures of some young ladies. And I decided to explore the net. I found a lot more than just... um... interesting pictures of young ladies and slowly got hooked. So it must have been around 95-96 when I got outside of the walled garden. - Occasional Headbanger
In the university office of one of my dad's friends (who died recently), he had Mosaic running and showed us this new thing called the World Wide Web. Fond memories. - Vincent X
I was quite the Compuserve trial package abuser back in the day. Also had a blast on those early multi-line dating BBS'. - Mark Krynsky
AOL, 1994. The Internet blew my mind from day one. - Steve Isaacs
1991, Austin, TX, having just started a job with a company called Evolutionary Technologies (though I had been on the 'net earlier via telnet/nntp/mail). - Glen Campbell
I also ran a BBS on my Atari 800 in '83. My handle was "The Banshee" and my BBS was called Ban's Dark Castle...as my wife sometimes says...Nerdtron! - Mark Krynsky
I saw the WWW well before I ever had access to Mosaic. I was using lynx on an Ultrix machine in the late 80s/early 90s. Don't remember the exact time. - Akiva Moskovitz
Wow...you guys are some hardcore old schoolers...make me feel like such a newb :) - Mark Krynsky
October of 1996. I know this because it was the month before the Romeo and Juliet movie came out and I saw an ad in a magazine for a website associated with the movie. I really wanted to look at the website and my dad had the internet at his office so one day after school, I went over there and used his computer at his office to check out the website. - Rochelle
Mark: Ran a BBS at some point too, it was called CyberDream... Was just for friends though. - Vincent X
'92, college job, "monitoring" the students on the mac classics & some NeXts. I showed some friends how to look up phone numbers and addresses of students at other schools using gopher. I remember seeing the coffee pot video at MIT. Aw... Best thing was infrared satellite images of Earth, though, that was my default screen for a long time. Job was until '94 - anna
The ISP I used to dial into, Primenet, had a text gateway. This was back in 1993 or early '94. (http://web.archive.org/web/*/h... archive only goes back to 1996.) WWW was an option under one of their menus. I was mostly on USENET back then. I'm not sure how I stumbled upon the web. I remember using Mosaic, then Netscape while it was in beta when I started going to Cal State Fullerton. Good times! - Oliver Ortega Chua
I can't remember. I had an Apple II with floppies growing up but never really used it. In 1992 I was in the 1st English class at my college that was computer based. I remember having to format the discs before using them. It must have been 1993 or 1994 when I was shown the wonders of the WWW. - Miranda
1994 in Berkeley. Dual booting Win 3.11 and Linux 1.0 (Slackware FTW!) No ethernet, just 14.4 kbps and PPP. We were doing all our web browsing and gophering with Lynx, either directly from Linux, or telnetted into an Ultrix or BSD server on campus. The guy down the hall showed us Mosaic 0.9 on Win 3.11. He was already browsing pr0n. The first site he hit was www.playboy.com. LOL I think he was the reason why the computer labs immediately came up with usage guidelines. Ah memories. - Victor Ganata
It was Feb 1996. I now the date because I recently discovered the first site I went to, which still exist. It lists the month and year they started, and I sign up sometime that month. I was on compuserve in the late 70's my mosaic looked just like that. but I first logged on the web with an Amiga! - Michael Fidler
I don't remember the exact date but it was probably when I was in college. I've been online since 300 baud though. First with Quantum Link on the Commodore and then on to BBS's. - Rodfather
The web didn't officially start until Jan 1995, which is hard to believe, It seems older, but that was compuserve. The only reason I waited until 96 was for an Amiga port of Mosaic! - Michael Fidler
Yeah Q-Link is *old* school. It was the Commodore 64-only predecessor to AOL. Even my dad got hooked. 300 baud. 170k floppies. 1 MHz CPU. 38k RAM. How did that all work back then? But in terms of the Net, I was on GEnie in 1992 and only had access to e-mail via UUnet or some such hackery. Didn't meet the actual Net until 1994. Does anyone still run a Gopher server somewhere? - Victor Ganata
I bought option in UUnet, and six weeks later MCI bought them. It was a nice return! - Michael Fidler
I was addicted to downloading SID music. I typed in code from a fat book to use the composer. There were some amazing composers on Q-Link. I remember DrJ5 was the shit. Any new song releases that came out, he would turn it into a SID song all from ear. Guitar solos and all. Like he would hear 'Welcome to the Jungle' and make it into a SID in a day. - Rodfather
Um, sorry, Michael, but the "web" as we know it (HTML over the HTTP protocol) was available in late 1989. The WorldWideWeb (1st browser) was released in 1991. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... - Glen Campbell
People have differing opinions about what the "launch date" of the Web was, but most people agree it was sometime in 1993. - Victor Ganata
Yeah, the graphical web gained momentum with the launch of Mosaic in 1993 but existed in text-only format for at least a few years before. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/h... (I remember watching a History Channel documentary about it, too.) - Oliver Ortega Chua
Um, no. I was using Viola back in 92 (http://bit.ly/WLh3). Back then it was interesting hearing rumors of this fancy new browser called Mosaic. - Jauder Ho
Internet Explorer is the first browser I remember using. I've been on the net for at least 10 years if not more. - Shawn aka ringking
Jauder, the Wikipedia entry you linked to says that Viola was popular "to a limited audience." I think most people can agree that Mosaic, if not Netscape Navigator (which gave props to Mosaic), was the killer app. - Oliver Ortega Chua
There was no version of Viola for either Windows or Linux. Although I don't think my machine at the time was capable of running X11 anyway. - Victor Ganata
It was in 1993 at "Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan" in Stockholm, Sweden. That day I also tried CuSeeMe for the first time and was blown away by the fact that I could speak with someone in San Francisco over video conference. Within in a year I'd purchased my own modem and started my own foray into the Interrubes. - Eiwe Lingefors
Akiva: Gopher and WAIS were both launched/released in 1991 ;-) - Ken Sheppardson
Oliver, the question was not what was the killer app rather where and when one first saw the WWW. Besides, I have never heard of the assumption that the popularly held idea of the launch of the WWW was sometime in 1993. - Jauder Ho
Eiwe, I haven't heard CuSeeMe mentioned in ages =) I remember working with nv and the mbone around 95. - Jauder Ho
Jauder, I don't think we're on the same page. :) I assumed you were replying to me when you said, "Um, no." Now I guess you were replying to Victor. I think we're all in agreement that the web was created before 1993. I'm assuming what Victor meant by "launch date" (he put them in quotes, too) is that that was when the web took off. Think of it as a car. When you start the car, it's already working but it hasn't "launched" until you hit the gas! :) - Oliver Ortega Chua
Yeah, I sort of meant the earliest time that people not attached to academia in any way had easy access to the web. Up until Mosaic, it seemed like you had to be running some form of Unix to have direct access, and you were probably attached to a university or worked at a company that was contracted with a university. I do realize that Berners-Lee already had things running by 1990. - Victor Ganata
Spaces is great although it does minimize the use of Exposé. - Akiva Moskovitz
Robin - How do you use it? I can see if you are video or sound editing and want to keep work spaces separate, but when I gave it my shot, it just made me annoyed after a while. - Steve Isaacs
Steve, you might want to try it with Warp. Being able to quickly switch spaces by bumping the cursor against screen borders is really helpful. - Akiva Moskovitz
I use it and feel quite annoyed without it. I separate my spaces into "contexts". One space for browsing, chat and internet related things. One for music production apps like Ableton Live etc, another for music and file browsing. Lastly, the fourth space is for Miscellaneous. - Eiwe Lingefors
I can sympathize with your frustration. But, it is in fact a good idea for security. It's pretty commonplace to require passwords to be changed every 30 days. But, I'm an IT security guy so I'll stop now :) - Eiwe Lingefors
Thank you e3r. "In summary, forcing periodic password changes given today’s resources is unlikely to significantly reduce the overall threat—unless the password is immediately changed after each use. This is precisely the nature of one-time passwords or tokens, and these are clearly the better method to use for authentication, although they do introduce additional cost and, in some cases, increase the chance of certain forms of lost “password.” " - ·[▪_▪]·
As with any field, there are multiple opinions. I'm just going to step out. It's your gripe and I didn't mean to step on it. Sorry. - Eiwe Lingefors
“Nobody believes me when I tell them this but the real twist in The Sixth Sense is was that it was a lousy, ass-dragging, morbid, suck fest with an over-hyped failed unwatchable child actor”
From io9: "Actually, Blade Runner does BSG one better, or worse - I’m supposed to accept that Dr. Eldon Tyrell is a genius, but it never occurred to him that making robots that look just like humans was a bad idea? At least the human-looking Cylons built themselves.
If I’m ever in charge of building robots, I’ll tell you what: They won’t look just like humans. They won’t even have skin. I won’t explain why. I think it’s pretty obvious.
Anyhoo, who was in Blade Runner? That’s right: Edward James Olmos.
So I think it’s fair to say that he unequivocally sucks at handling Robot Threats." - Mark Trapp
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Funny, that, but reading the article, I think he was looking for camp, wanting camp. BSG is definitely not camp... - Michael W. May
Surely everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But if the write of that article is such a stickler that he can't get past some really, REALLY minor detail like that, so be it. I'm hands down a BSG fan boy but I don't need to waste my time on someone who can't see the brilliance in the show. - Eiwe Lingefors
I have to admit that I've wondered why Cylons don't get detected; they must be purely organic machines or something - Mark Dykeman
“God I hate fucking earbud headphones. Nothing hurts my ears more. Now just about anything I buy requires I get a new set of headphones for it because now they all want to have unique "jacks"”
How do the earbuds hurt your ears? Are you talking volume or comfort? - Monique
Try the sony ear buds they are comfortable! - orionstarr
I'm talking comfort. I have no idea why, but they push the tragus out and the whole thing starts to ache down the canal. It might be just the shape of my ears but I have never had a pair I can tolerate. Tragus (http://www.westone.com/content...) - Lindsey
Oh I see those are nice, I have these sony ones that fit nicely into my ear and they are loud. The apple ear buds are uncomfortable and weak! - orionstarr
Have you tried the kind of earbuds where they use compressible foam that you smush down before inserting into your ears? They might feel better since they mold to the shape of your ears. I have a couple pairs of Shure earbuds with these foam buds (e2cs, IIRC), and I love them. I can't stand the earbuds with the hard plastic buds because they do hurt my ear canals after a while. - Cheryl Jones
I have the same problem. The only ones I've found that don't feel like torture are the Sony Fontopias with three different cushions. - ha3rvey
@ha3rvey... until you lose the freaking cushions. I did. - Ian May
I'm actually kind of fond of big dorky headphones that cover my whole ear. Earbuds are physically painful for lots of people, I don't understand why they're so common. - Jason Wehmhoener
I use over-the-ear headphones exclusively. Mind you, I've tried many, many earbuds. They just don't work for me. Either they hurt my ears or fall out at the slightest head movement. Besides, I enjoy the *much* better sound of my big clunkers :) - Eiwe Lingefors
To me it's still within the realm of fantastical make-believe as to why anyone would go see this movie. Yet it made 30 million dollars on opening weekend. - Eiwe Lingefors
Those are nice wheels. How do you like the Swobo? I'm thinking of maybe getting a "Del Norte" or "Sanchez". I was looking at a "Trek Soho S" but I'm digging the Swobo look. - Eiwe Lingefors
i'm LOVING my Swobo. so if you were looking at Del Norte or Sanchez, you must be a single speed guy, eh? i thought about it, but decided i wasn't that hardcore and went with the Novak which is a 3-speed. and let me say, the SRAM 3-speed gears in the hub is AWESOME. i also was looking at the Soho, but am really happy with my choice. i can confidently recommend Swobo! - Brad Warren
I ride a Trek 1000 to work every day now. It's a 24-speed road bike. I love it but something about the simplicity of a single speed appeals to me. The lighter frame and ease of maintenance etc. We shall see what happens :) - Eiwe Lingefors
Never got the term swell. There are some American expressions that don't travel well. Neat is another. - Toby Graham
Back in the day it would have been "gee, that's swell"...but these days it's more like, "yo...that's swell, G". :) - Bonita Garrabrant
I'm a champion of all retro-expletives. No one cares if you swear, but if you call someone a 'blockhead', or cry 'jeepers!', you'll really get their attention. - stretta
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That's so BOSS! You're so KEEN, Steve! - Josh Haley
Anywho...this thread is filled to the brim with goodness. - Alex Scoble CISSP
Instructions: Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with the picture. - Eiwe Lingefors
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Good idea. I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer but I have to say, the execution is pretty poor. - Eiwe Lingefors
I have a feeling it's a kid that made the movie. Eiwe, why don't you just kick him in the teeth while you're at it. But I have to agree. It could have been made better. :) - Sam Ee
I just watched his Yo-Yo movies. Now THAT is awesome. He's got some crazy yo-yo skills. - Eiwe Lingefors
That old NES is just too bulky. Why not fit the whole thing into an NES cartridge and have the hippest portable gaming device there is? - Eiwe Lingefors
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