Was it really only 25 years ago.

I first encountered "the internet" in college, 1983. It was just on campus, connecting the various "computer labs". Remember them? It was almost unheard of to own your own computer, so you went to rooms where computers were available to use.

Some of the computers were connected to phones lines that could (GASP!) contact computers all over the USA. I never played on those... err, I mean do research.

AOL and Commodore 64... forever ago. @ 300 baud. mid 1980's.

then at work.. 1988,,, Dos... then Windows 3.1.......

and YES, we also used the "Next" cube...

the first time i ever heard of hypermedia and links was in relation to a Lisa ? or Mac computer

i remember Netscape, internet explorer came long before firefox
and there were a lot of 3rd party browsers that use the IE engine code but added features IE did not have, i used a number of them until IE improved, then started using IE, until I switched to FF

and as i recall the 'interweb' evolved from the government operated ARP net
which was connected to colleges, research institutes, and major government contractors

1996. I stop into a restaurant. Little did I know it was an "Internet Cafe" with Internet Service Provider (Frame Relay Connection) replete with nerd operators, in the back room.

"Hey! You just GOTTA play this online game!" someone shouted at me as I munched a sandwich "It's called QUAKE!"

I had never been online. My business used Linux.

The US Army (Well Military) Created the internet long before Gore got into the act

I've been on line for at least 31 years.. Think about this.. The internet did not become "The Internet" till 1988 per Wikipedia. I've been on line since 1983 with my own comuter and 1977 with computers at work. Work computer was a combination of local, state and nationwide nets

Personal was international, From day one.

First was Mosaic, a bare bone browser then Netscape, then Mozilla (Firefox)... I think.

According to Amazon, I've been a member for 20 years now? Don't recall if there was even a decent browser back then, though probably was Netscrape? :h

Well, some things don't change... my screen still looks like that

Here's his (Tim Berners-Lee) browser- I believe it is on a Next system:

Fizz wrote:
Why must this argument always pop up?

Read and learn.
Al Gore and the internet

Lighten up, it was said tongue in cheek.;)