Look In Awe...the Internet Exists!
I was buying airline tickets for my mom last night and well sit back and look at the internet. Such a vast ocean of knowledge and a daily tool for millions. Just sit back stop thinking of the internet as a daily thing and look at the wonder of it and how amazing a feat it was to get it created and going.
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wow it really is amazing
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ok i'm done, perhaps nobody feels the same way of how great a thing it is, but well it is amazing
<sit back>
wow it really is amazing
</sit back>
ok i'm done, perhaps nobody feels the same way of how great a thing it is, but well it is amazing
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Those companies that got in early really hit it off big, IE amazon
and who can really honestly say they don't like pornography?
Originally posted by Bancho
I would like to point out that pornography played a sizeable role in popularizing the Internet. Keep that in mind next time you are looking up airline fares!
and who can really honestly say they don't like pornography?
Yes, I can totally testify to this!
Back in the day, (about 5-7 years ago) Our company took our Amateur Line to the net. With precise marketing from a DB that we aquired of people who would rather purchase Adult Natured material from the comfort and PRIVACY of their own homes, stating that they would purchase materials online, ... well ... it was literally "GOLD" for us.
Within one week of the store bring opened, we sold more than DOUBLE what we did with printed catalog material, not just in quarterly sales, but within the time frame of our whole existence. So, not only did our talent make more money from contract sales, we were able to shift more money into R&D for our customers to get their Adult Material in a more expediant manor via online purchases.
And, yes, I do agree to a certain extent, everybody does like to look at a naked woman or man every once in a while.
The holy grail was securing an FTP account for purposes of "research" (largely into naked female anatomy, from most of the users I saw). IRC wasn't available to us for bandwidth reasons.
No WWW, no HoTMaiL, no forums, no eBay and definitely no online ticket ordering.
Of course, now I sit here with an always-on broadband connection, as many toys as I want to run at any given time and able to do all manner of stuff that just wasn't conceivable 12 years ago.
Yes, the Net is truly a wondrous thing. Not perfect, by any stretch, but pretty damn cool.
Fast forward to sitting with your 6GHz MegaMac, young son asking you "Daddy, what did people do before the Internet?"
But I remember when my family was first buying into the internet maybe 1995? I still remember this one discussion with my parents and a neighbor, I was only 11, and it went something like this:
"Yeah I heard that typing in caps is symbolic to yelling and you can get into trouble for it"
I dunno thinking about the internet makes me feel old
PS: I miss my amiga
/me goes to spnak some WebTVers for old times' sake...
(in a variety of forms from abstract through geographic, including historical maps and more)
visit Cybergeography.org and check out the Atlas
1986, a Cyber mainframe at the University of Washington, sending mail to a friend at Washington State University.
VT100 terminal (Heath Z19, I believe).
No GUI.
No mouse.
No WWW, no graphical email.
But we did have IM (The 'talk' command... 'mtalk' let you talk to multiple people simultaneously.)
The utter coolness of it hit me one night a couple years later when I was chatting (via talk) with a guy and asked him how he liked winter... (it was Feb). He said "What are you talking about? It's summer! I love it!" He was in Australia.
It suddenly hit me that I was talking to someone in real-time, at the far opposite end of our entire human sphere of influence... and it was effortless.
If Big Media doesn't derail it, full motion video to the household!
iMovie will become the Pagemaker of the 21st Century.
Anybody know how long till Internet 2 reaches the general public?
Originally posted by tonton
Anyone remember before free www porn, decoding the entire contents of alt.binaries.pictures.nakedyuppieprincesseswithveg etables?
guess i'm too young for that...then again i was never really into porn on the internet...or any other way for that matter
haha funniest movie about porn ever...orgazmo (its a commedy not a porn movie)