This is what the web looked like in 1994

I wish more people understood that "beg the question" does NOT mean "raise the question" or "prompt the question." (And if you stop and think for a minute, what the heck could it even mean to "beg a question"?? The very concept is absurd. Maybe what is meant is "does beg for an answer.") To beg the question is to commit the logical fallacy of engaging in a circular argument by assuming that one's premiss is true. E.g., Abortion is wrong. Why? Because it's wrong to murder. The flaw is that it assumes that abortion is murder, which is the very thing at issue. Please folks - try to improve English, not ruin it.

Digital also created AltaVista, probably the first really usable search engine primarily to showcase their servers. Before Google came along, AltaVista was pretty much the number one search engine out there.

I use to run a DEC VAX back in '94. Just as an example of how things have change, back then the documentation set for these things was still PRINTED and it cost around $3000 to buy. A full set of these docs was really, really impressive to look at.. but of course these days you'd most likely get it on CD or download it directly from the web. Yup, even CD-ROM drives were rare back then.

Why, back in 70s, the first computer I programmed on was a DEC 1170. There was a huge room filled with spinning magnetic tapes to store the information on. There was none of this candy-ass graphical interface. My friend and I used to have to trudge a mile uphill to the computing center just to type something in on the command line. Those were the days. We wrote a program that simulated hand-to-hand combat where an asterisk represented the hero. He roamed on a field of commas. You had to use your imagination back then and it wasn't all done for you with the CGI and such. Those were the days.

Those of you who don't remember the old days of computers need to check out some Computer Chronicles with Stewart Cheifet.

http://www.archive.org/details/computerchronicles

I am a software engineer of the 70's generation and I won't hear a word said against them. Amazingly I never worked for them but used there products, particularly RSX, for ages. I could not believe it when Compaq pulled down Decpark in Reading UK.
It seems silly to to tink in those days we were provided with the source of the operating system. We needed it now and again too.
I feel sorry for modern computer enginners who have to take so much for granted given the complication and other issues.

The best part about the Web back in '94 was that you could actually learn how to write HTML simply by viewing source code. Also, even at the beginning of the popular Web, there were pages that looked better than the ones this video showed.

LOL. "you wouldn't need an iPhone with Safari to surf the web on your phone." Of course since that video is flash, I can't view it on my iPhone here in 2007.

Ah, yes and '94 was at the cusp of the Internet breaking out. I was with Prodigy at the time and still have a Prodigy address. Linked into the Internet around about '87 when it was all DOS and Delphi. Some of Digital's predictions have come true. We've come a long way baby and in such a short time.

bill weaver: No, by 1994 there were genuine ISPs around. I (very much Not a Geek, but dating programmers) got my Netcom account in September or October of 1993, and Mindspring and Earthlink were around within the next year (or possibly even when I started, I'm not sure).

I used lynx until 1996 or 1997, when I switched from DOS to Windows (and lynx to Netscape). I don't miss DOS or lynx, but I do miss the DOS-based version of WordPerfect...

I used to work for my college computer lab in 1989, helping to run the Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX 1180 Minicomputer... a device about the size of two household refrigerators, with a printer the size of a large dresser, and about 200 terminals that time-shared the computer. The PC and Mac networks we had were all of about 20 machines each, and the rest of the space was Apple II and IIgs machines. LOL, how the world has changed!

It wasn't until about 1996-1998 that the having a ".com" domain for commercial advertisers was a big thing.. as part of the logo, now it's only done if there is pertinent information about a company or product.. before it was all about, "we're hip, we're cool, big enough to have a web presence to have a website, so come look". Only now if a company does NOT have an internet presence that is SAYING SOMETHING about the company.

Why would you tell people to go to your website when you are trying to promote the net in general - to people who a majority of, didn't have web.

to #3: which is probably why digital=hp now.

Unless you were at a "wired" university in the late 80's or early 90's, getting online just didn't happen too much. Dialing up through AOL or Compuserve didn't mean surfing the web, it meant reading the content created by AOL/Compuserve. It didn't really go to the internet, per se. At CMU, "surfing" used to be reading messages on electronic bulletin boards (BBS) via a mac or a unix box. I had an email address in '87, through the univ., but it was mostly social (or related to courses). In '89 or '90, I remember getting a call from my friend saying, hey, have you tried this new thing, Mosaic? And there it went. Great to see the vid. Thanks!

43 retro flash intro's.. http://obuweb.com/news/2007/07/14/43-totally-awesome-retro-flash-intros/

I remember when I first got on the Internet I had a 1200 bps modem. Thats 1.2 K, not 1200K. I bought computer, monitor, keyboard and modem for $100 (used). All I could get was text on a green screen. And local message boards. Wow, was I ever disappointed.

Yes, I remember 1994 ... should have bought the name Yahoo! or invested in their stock when they went public.

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