Was it really only 25 years ago.

Fizz wrote:
That's when it hit me, wow this WWW thing is going to be big. This is only the beginning.

And I was still able to lose money in the stock market betting on tech companies.

The first online, live camera I saw was aimed at a coffee maker.
The guy was tired of walking all the way down to the lunchroom only to find an empty coffee pot.
This was way back at the start of it all. That's when it hit me, wow this WWW thing is going to be big. This is only the beginning.

Before the WWW, I ran a Gopher site that provided floor plans of theaters for touring companies. The arrival of the WWW & browsers, along with concerns about posting floor plans after 9/11 killed the service.

Another early WWW site that was interesting was the Rome Labs Snowball camera. Wasted a bit of time playing with it...

When they wear a hypocrite medal of honor with oak leaves and diamonds, that's a tad different. I do not go around bending arms to collect TAX money and tell people how to live. That, sir, is a hypocrite.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
The world hates hypocrites, as well it should..

And darn near every one of us is. Easiest argument in the world.

Pretty easy to dogpile on a megalomaniac. Especially when rising-sea-level Al just bought a beach-front Mansion in Monticello, California. Oops I mean future marine world aquarium. The world hates hypocrites, as well it should. A majority of capitol hill is comprised of failed lawyers.

Legislators get paid to promote ideas. THEY RISK NOTHING. The two genuine gentlemen responsible for a quantum leap in development deserve a monument in Silicon Valley.

And just to clarify the "Al Gore invented the Internet" nonsense, he never made that claim. His exact quote when asked in an interview while seeking the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination what distinguished him from his opponent was:

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

Until then Sen Gore's legislation, the Internet did not exist as a public access entity, only as the limited access DOD sponsored ARPANET. So in that sense, he very much "created" the public Internet when President Bush signed it into law. He never claimed to have "invented" it. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are generally credited with that honor.

mike-s wrote:

bucky wrote:
It couldn't be any easier.

Yes, it could. For many forums, there's an upload link right in the forum software. Click the Image button, select a file, done.

Not here.

You conveniently left out the link in quoting me. Did you even look at it? It's been a clicky on here for years now. The pic only needs to be on your device.

Shucks, when I first got on AOL, it was Steve Case manning tech support

Chuck_thehammer wrote:
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...

Sorry the Commodore 64 (most popular computer ever) never did AOL, it did Quantum link and well.. QL sold both annual (Which I bought) and Lifetime (Some of my friends) memberships.. I got good value out of my annual but my friends got ripped off.

You see, once they got big enough, they changed their name to AOL and AOL was entierly PC/MAC at that time, The 64 Could not access.

Compuserve information service is what I used with my VIC-20, and later with a 64, 128 and Poor Computer (PC) Alas today it too is owned by AOL.