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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2010-12-02 05:11 am
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Massive advertising fail.

From an AT&T radio spot I hear at least 20 times a day:

"The internet was originally called the World Wide Web."

Excuse me, I have to do some Gopher searches of FTP sites for a way to express just how utterly wrong this is on every level. Shouldn't take long, I have a 56.6K modem!

[identity profile] guruwench.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Gnar... idjits! I remember 1200bps modems (which we called 1200 baud at the time) and thinking 2400 was zippy. And I was a latecomer to the game, seeing as how I know folks who used the acoustic coupler style upon which you placed your telephone handset....

[identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
*raises hand*

Yeah, I had one of those and I remember thinking how FAST 1200 was compared to the 110/300 choices I usually had!
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[personal profile] seawasp 2010-12-02 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn skippy! 300 baud was blazingly fast when you started at 110!

I sent my first email in 1976, before people were using PCs at all, let alone getting online. :)

[identity profile] capplor.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember LAN & WAN systems & being amazed that I could electronically "talk" to someone at another college. I remember seeing my first desktop machine & wondering how the guy who had it managed to hook up to the university LAN account from his dorm room.

I also remember using ARPA-net from the DEW-line Base in Northern Alaska to send a message to Moffat field &, from there, have someone phone my mother, so that I could wish her a happy birthday in almost real time.

All of that was in the 70's.

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember the beginning of the WWW, back in my college years... when it was just black text and blue links, with the occasional lonely image, floating in a sea of grey.