Are you ready for the internet. Apparently, its going to be amazing and I doubt any downsides.

 

 

I've heard some negative people say this new fangled "internet" will be 30% porn and people will use it to argue about the climate, and babble on about how awesome cats are.... surely not! And oh yes, that stars, planes and swamp gas are aliens. 

Before the internet we had none of this 😞

Takes me back to my Packard Bell Pentium 66 MHz with a V34 phone modem and 40 MB hard drive.  The 90 MB hard drive was considered excessive and only necessary for corporations.  I remember just about everything over-heating back in those days.  None the less, exciting times experiencing the birth of the internet and the "World Wide Web."  Everything was painfully slow, but also a vast new experience.  I almost forgot to mention good old Netscape😉

We've come a long way from me playing Zork 1 on my Apple IIe.

BTW, excellent post Martin!

Edited October 6, 2025Oct 6 by tdflightsim

 

1 hour ago, Mike A said:

 

As pitiful as it good be at times, those dial up modems and that sound are forever etched in my memory.  It meant you were on your way to exploration, who knew what you would find.  And yes, just about no matter what you searched for, it came up porn😟

According to Al Gore, we have him to thank for the internet?

All down to a brilliant Brit. Tim Berners-Lee. 👏

Berners-Lee later moved to MIT...

 

7 hours ago, tdflightsim said:

Takes me back to my Packard Bell Pentium 66 MHz with a V34 phone modem and 40 MB hard drive.  The 90 MB hard drive was considered excessive and only necessary for corporations.  I remember just about everything over-heating back in those days.  None the less, exciting times experiencing the birth of the internet and the "World Wide Web."  Everything was painfully slow, but also a vast new experience.  I almost forgot to mention good old Netscape😉

We've come a long way from me playing Zork 1 on my Apple IIe.

BTW, excellent post Martin!

Still have mine...

Axcel 46CD

3 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

All down to a brilliant Brit. Tim Berners-Lee. 👏

I knew Al Gore way lying.  He had to claim he did something!

 

3 minutes ago, TuFun said:

Still have mine...

Axcel 46CD

That looks pretty familiar.  I'm thinking Smithsonian. 

7 hours ago, tdflightsim said:

Takes me back to my Packard Bell Pentium 66 MHz with a V34 phone modem and 40 MB hard drive.  The 90 MB hard drive was considered excessive and only necessary for corporations.  I remember just about everything over-heating back in those days.  None the less, exciting times experiencing the birth of the internet and the "World Wide Web."  Everything was painfully slow, but also a vast new experience.  I almost forgot to mention good old Netscape😉

We've come a long way from me playing Zork 1 on my Apple IIe.

That's pretty old school, man.  I remember those days. 

I can go back even further to my Commodore 64 days in the early 80s.  I played text-based adventure games like Zork and a few old D&D games with graphics.  At first I had a cassette tape drive for saving and loading files, and then upgraded to a 5.25in floppy disk drive in 1985.  I even had a 300 baud modem and dialed in to some local BBSs to share various files and games.

My first IBM-style PC was a also Pentium 66 MHz like yours, but was a tower made by Digital Corp.

Things have come a looong way since then.  We're pretty lucky.

Dave

1 minute ago, dave2013 said:

That's pretty old school, man.  I remember those days. 

I can go back even further to my Commodore 64 days in the early 80s.  I played text-based adventure games like Zork and a few old D&D games with graphics.  At first I had a cassette tape drive for saving and loading files, and then upgraded to a 5.25in floppy disk drive in 1985.  I even had a 300 baud modem and dialed in to some local BBSs to share various files and games.

My first IBM-style PC was a also Pentium 66 MHz like yours, but was a tower made by Digital Corp.

Things have come a looong way since then.  We're pretty lucky.

Dave

Even though that old stuff is really antiquated, we probably had some of the best times of our lives😊

3 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

All down to a brilliant Brit. Tim Berners-Lee. 👏

The computer networking systems and protocols were developed by American scientists in the 1960s and 70s.  The first computer communication network was known as ARPANET. 

Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP protocol, all of which form the software foundations of the Internet.  A truly brilliant man.

Dave

5 minutes ago, tdflightsim said:

That looks pretty familiar.  I'm thinking Smithsonian. 

I bought it new at Target Stores and don't remember what version of MSFS is still on it, but I played Call of Duty co-op with my son.

Behold, The Internet: