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Web at 25

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Buck, Mar 7, 2014.

  1. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I had a professor junior year who would send assignments out by email. It was done specifically to make sure everyone had an email account. It wasn't a big deal for me, because I used my email regularly during college, but for a lot of people it was a major pain in the ass for them, having to go to a library to check their email...
     
  2. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    In 1983, 74 percent of respondents agreed that ability to shop online would leads to buying 'too many things that aren't in the family budget.'

    That's wild.
     
  3. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    The Wire Service Guild used a CompuServ message board to post AP contract negotiation bulletins in 1989.
     
  4. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    It's only 31 years ago, and only 1.4 percent US adults used the Internet.

    That is mind blowing.

    In 1995, it was 14 percent.

    Now it's 87 percent.
     
  5. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I think the first concept I had about the Internet was seeing Matthew Broderick change his grades and nearly start a nuclear war in War Games.

    In high school, the dad of one of my friends had one of the early modems that looked like a phone. We asked him a couple years later when we all had internal modems and he said, "Not only did I never use that modem, I never plugged it in. They just gave it to me for work."
     
  6. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    Seems like it must have been mid-1995 for me, when I went to work in a D.C.-area public relations office.

    Not sure that I had a non-AOL, non-work e-mail address until 1998, though.
     
  7. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Late 1996 or early 1997, and it's been a major time suck ever since.
     
  8. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Two pages in, and not much discussion of PORN yet.

    One word: WIFEY
     
  9. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    I also remember telling my father about the internet in '94 and he scoffed about it. Until one night, when we were watching an NFL game and they put up a graphic promoting something and included and email address. I turned to my Dad and said, "see, I told you."

    I also kick myself that I'm terrible at technical stuff and didn't think about either inventing something to do with the Web, or investing in somebody like Apple or Microsoft.
     
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