"Eric F. Richards" wrote in message
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Mitch Cumstein wrote:

Oh, I've been on the net since the start of the 80's, when the web was
all text. Now go get a clue Mister Slippyfist........

The "web" didn't exist until 1990 when Tim Berners-Lee invented the
WWW.

If you've been on the net since the start of the 80s, perhaps you can
demonstrate your expertise by explaining the great renaming? No
cheating.

I remember the BBSs in the 80s but not the WWW.
B.H.

The msntv/webtv has something called the One Plan which allows useing
webtv and computers but not on the same dial up line at the same
time.There are many people who are on the One Plan and some of them have
DSL broad band for their computers and they use their computers on DSL
broad band and webtv on dial up at the same time.Last year,our webtv
email inbox space was increased to double or triple the space we had
before.If computer users want to hate webtv,that doesn't bother me at
all.They just do not know what they are really missing.
cuhulin

Music on the internet.I often listen to midi's and wav's and mp3's
Scotch and Irish Music useing my webtv set top box.There are Audioscopes
that many webtv users have in their webtv Sig's.Did I say Sig's,Sig's
and Audioscopes and changing back ground colors and useing HTML is
simple and easy with webtv.Keep On Truckin,webtv.
cuhulin

All of my U.S.Army records are on file in that big records center
building on Page Blvd in St.Louis,Missouri.One day,when I was in ARADCOM
(Army Air Defense Command,Nike,Hercules,Ajax Missiles) at Scott Air
Force Base,Illinois in 1963,an Army Seargent and myself delivered some
records to that great big building in St.Louis,West side of St.Louis.For
a while there,I thought I was going to get lost in that great big
building.
cuhulin

Hey y'all.How am I doing so far? I have been behaving myself (at least,I
think so anyway) all day long.I haven't cussed out or insulted anybody
today either.
cuhulin

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Hey y'all.How am I doing so far? I have been behaving myself (at least,I
think so anyway) all day long.I haven't cussed out or insulted anybody
today either.
cuhulin

I think you're doing great! Keep up the good work.

"Brian Hill" wrote:

I remember the BBSs in the 80s but not the WWW.
B.H.


The internet existed, as did services like telnet and ftp as well as
non-internet based services such as usenet and mail, which could be
carried over either TCP/IP or UUCP. BBS's were small potatoes,
except for maybe the biggest fidonet systems.

Most of the internet's component networks (FYI: internet is not
International Network; it is a network of networks, just as an
interstate highway connects other state highways, not homes or
businesses) had names like BITnet, EARN, CSNET, MFEnet, ESnet, NSI,
NSN, SPAN, CITNET, SDnet, AlohaNet... and those were just US-centric
ones. Imagine trying to send mail to someone in the UK on JANET,
where the DNS names were reversed in honor of them driving on the
wrong side of the road:

n-relay

Need to talk to someone in Spain?

C=es/A= /P=iris/O-iris-dcp/S=barbara

....ahh, the good ol' days...


--
Eric F. Richards

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most
experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in;
we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
- Nathaniel S. Borenstein

"Eric F. Richards
But whadda I know... I've got 5 computers up 24/7 with around 300 G
splattered across a half-dozen SCA drives, 1600x1200 res on my monitor
that is used by 4 of the computers via KVM switch, a wireless network,
3 sound cards in one of my machines -- one for high-fidelity output
(24/96), one for WinRadio G303i, one for SkySweeper... I manage my
own news spool, run 3 flavors of Windoze and two of Linux... ad
nauseum.

Enjoy your toy webtv box.

--
Eric F. Richards

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most
experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in;
we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
- Nathaniel S. Borenstein

WOW

Sure makes my three pc laptops and my "Big Mac" look insignificant!!!!

Burr

"Brian Hill" wrote in message
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"Eric F. Richards" wrote in message
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Mitch Cumstein wrote:

Oh, I've been on the net since the start of the 80's, when the web was
all text. Now go get a clue Mister Slippyfist........

The "web" didn't exist until 1990 when Tim Berners-Lee invented the
WWW.

If you've been on the net since the start of the 80s, perhaps you can
demonstrate your expertise by explaining the great renaming? No
cheating.

I remember the BBSs in the 80s but not the WWW.
B.H.

Yes. Perhaps he means Archie.