I made my very first internet connection in 1994. I had a 486-sx 25 mhz with 4mb internal memory and a harddisk of 108mb running windows 3.1. The VPRO, a dutch broadcaster offered a free connection, you first had to download some software (trumpet something for making a slip connection i think) from a bulletinboard and then you could dial in (us-robotics 14k4!) and run a new program: a browser (mosaic).
I just found my copy of ‘internet for dummies’ which i bought in 1994. Of the 350 pages there are 7 pages about the world wide web! It’s discussed as something new and it explaines how and where you can download the lynx browser using telnet… The rest of the book explaines the use of Archie, Gopher, usenet, wais, e-mail and ftp.
We have come a far way and the whole world joined us since. Will we, in our lifetime, ever see another lifechanging technique that will change the way of living of so many? I wonder…
I know this. The first connection to internet was thru trumpet Winsock and Mosiac (the version of Internet Exporer before Netscape took over) (if this is not right, please correct me
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Read this : http://learning.lib.vt.edu/wintcpip/trumpwsk.html
Anyway … those were the good old days
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