25 years ago today

kefkat

kefkat

Vital Football Legend
Doesn't have quite the same ring as Sergeant Pepper, however it is true! What is true?

The internet went public. Mind blowing fact isn't it? It doesn't seem possible there was a world without the internet. My eldest 3 were 6, 4 and 2 at the time. My youngest wasn't even a twinkle.

How the hell did we live without it? Memories and thoughts please. Time for some nostalgia.

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The world's first website went online 25 years ago today

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On this day 25 years ago the world's first website went live to the public. The site, created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, was a basic text page with hyperlinked words that connected to other pages.

Berners-Lee used the public launch to outline his plan for the service, which would come to dominate life in the twenty-first century.

"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system," said Berners-Lee on the world's first public website. "The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone."

Cont: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/08/06/the-worlds-first-website-went-online-25-years-ago-today/
 
In 1980 my late Mom was in a temporary position haven't downgraded her job from legal secretary to a typing pool because of my late Father health.

Her manager walked into the typing pool of 12 that day, my Mom being included; he told them that he had just seen a machine that would put 11 out of 12 of them out of work in the future. Mind blowing!

Ofcourse that was what was to happen. Technology was to take over so many jobs it would be impossible to have nearly everyone employed again and to beable to walk out of one job into another, as used to be the case
 
Amazing difference it has made to the world and to a lot of our own lives as well.

I first got online 16 years ago. Since then I've made best friends, friends around the world, built a business and got into also sorts of mischief Villa wise also!

When I first bought a computer I was worried I'd find nothing to do with it.

 
LOL I think you have more than found something to do with it! Haha. I know I know. I was a bit cautious of it when we first got one before I left the ex. We got our first one in 1999. I left a year later. Oh boy even then I missed it. LOL

Thanks to the internet I met Mr KK has I met him through the mobile internet which became the age in the early millennium, so I have alot to thank this virtual world for.

Same as you, though I got a husband through it, I have made loads of friends etc. Most importantly it's enabled me to keep in touch easily with 2 of my youngsters abroad.

I remember Star Trek in the 70's and think the likes of video calling etc. were great in fantasy world, however it was just that. Erm nope. I am glad to say.

The world has got just a tad smaller since Tim Berners Lee gave us the world
 
To think the first computer I had came with a 3.5 Gig hard drive.....
Never fill that....

Amazing how far and how fast things are going, these days its difficult to get a phoe out of the box before its last weeks model.
 
Just to clarify from KK's post.

I have not found a husband on the internet. Deanovilla and I are just good friends !!!!!!!!!!!! :82:
 
Amazing that someone could think of an idea that creative and clever, and would have that much of an impact on everyday life for almost every individual on the globe
 
If it wasn't for the internet my matress would be touching the ceiling and I'd need a ladder to get in and out of bed!!!
 
I once sold a 5MB upgrade to a mini-computer for £5,000. It was a refurbished hard drive too.
 
Oddly, I got to see the first "web server" when I visited CERN. It's hard to relate a simple box to the impact it has had.

Then again, Sir Tim himself would probably admit he was only attempting to find a way for scientists to quickly share visual data. The internet itself had been around for years beforehand, but was the preserve of Government, military, big business and computer geeks sitting in their bedrooms on the likes of Usenet - which went online in (and had to check) 1980.

Web basically made global online interaction available for almost anyone, regardless of IT savvy. Just as Windows 95 made home computing available to all without the need for knowledge of DOS command prompt formats.

Previous versions of Windows (assuming there wasn't an auto start in the autoexec.bat file!) still meant:

C:
CD Windows
Win

Ah, they were the days!
 
We always think "before the internet what did we do??!"

But the internet has changed so much over the last 10-15 years, it's now "before Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Vital Villa (of course), what did we do on the internet!!?"



apart from porn I mean

 
Totally agree SJH

Vital is 11. When we launched thr article comments were cutting edge, twitter didn't exist and Facebook was in its infancy.

Sad thing is a lot of what Facebook do we had slated in our development document. We had a massive investment coming in just as the subprime hit. They were a betting and building PLC. We were nearly through due diligence when it went tits up!

Still. We survived the recession and saw off the big boys, sky owned Rivals so we must have done something right.

We are holding our own with up to 1.7m unique users. If that investment had come at that time though. I think we'd have been in 3rd place behind sky and BBC where goal.com reside.

Hey ho. Lol
 
I remember somebody giving me an email address in the summer of '94. Had no idea what it was (and I'm sure the postcard never got to him!). Little did I know then that email would become the bane of many people's lives! Bought my first 1gb computer (boy, were people jealous!) in '96; increasingly convinced that there are as many downsides to the internet as there are good sides.
 
I think that's about right SJH. There is always more good than bad happening in the world. Good doesn't sell media space be it on the internet or otherwise. Always more good happening than bad.

I am remember after I fled the ex and I met Mr KK online, I was knee deep involved in the social service system, the guardian said to me, pompously ''You need to be careful meeting people online. You never know who they are''

He wasn't prepared for my reply which was; ''Where did I meet the ex?'' he said ''I don't know'' I retorted ''well I met him in a night club in Sutton Cold Field in 1984 and look how that turned out! Hence why I am stood here talking to you'' He had no answer to that.

Got to be careful wherever you meet someone: mass nutters existed before the internet and exist outside of the internet
 
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