 chinesemath
Female, 18-29, Western US
 131 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 6:35:46 PM
mmmm pizza hut |
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 meepmaker
Male, 30-39, Southern US
6716 Posts
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Monday, August 23, 2010 8:34:58 AM
Who knew. |
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 unbanned
Male, 13-17, Western US
1003 Posts
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Sunday, August 22, 2010 3:31:03 PM
fake and gay |
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 eskimo9
Male, 18-29, Australia
710 Posts
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Friday, August 20, 2010 11:26:09 PM
something interesting I found in an e-Commerce textbook: ‎"As was the case for other technologies, such as VCRs and subscription cable television, many of the early commercial users of Web technology were dealers in adult-themed entertainment material... These sites pioneered the online processing of credit card payment transactions and many different digital video technolog...ies that are now used by all types of businesses on the Web." - Schneider, 2009
Porn also went on to run for President of the Internets, and based on site hits, it won in a landslide. |
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 kinjomusashi
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
920 Posts
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Friday, August 20, 2010 11:02:20 PM
only problem with this is IAB isn't mentioned... |
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 PlutoRules
Female, 18-29, Western US
28 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:16:50 PM
I made my first website was I was 9: in 1997..
the highest it got was 23,000 visitors in a month...
it was SO easy to get hits back then! oh how things have changed...
I am now a software engineer o.O |
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 k-two
Male, 40-49, Europe
112 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:43:04 PM
"Ethernet cables are not coaxial, not even close."
They were in 76, and for twenty years to come. Bandwith of 10base2 ethernet was 10 Mbit/s and has been shared between all hosts that tapped the same wire. And if you goofed the impedance matching, everyone on the line lost connectivity.
Twisted pair cabling (as shown in the image) came up in the nineties, along with switched networks. |
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 17945
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
732 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 6:06:38 PM
And to think, I was still on dial-up in '03...
How much faster than things change? |
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 Spider_sol
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1454 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:59:38 PM
Ethernet cables are not coaxial, not even close. |
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 Immanio
Male, 18-29, Europe
63 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:07:21 PM
The thing that struck me was that someone has apparently mixed up CREN and CERN, the latter being where Tim Berners-Lee was working when he proposed the WWW... |
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 SirFerret
Male, 18-29, Southern US
63 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:22:02 PM
I love being brought up in the age of the internet its the perfect excuse for my crap spelling. |
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 margot138
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
323 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:03:26 AM
Thank you Wundt |
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 catbarf
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1314 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:54:20 AM
I'm disappointed that it makes no mention of X-25 or UUCP, or how they joined ARPANET to form the Internet. |
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 Altaru
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
3498 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:21:20 AM
I wanna play .Hack// now...
Kudos to those that get it.  |
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 korahn
Male, 18-29, Canada
860 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 6:00:39 AM
All very nice but where are the important facts? Stuff like - first porn site, or creation of i-a-b? :P |
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 bored-am-I
Male, 30-39, Europe
783 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 5:43:34 AM
So, .com, .org, .gov, .edu and .mil, was proposed in '84.
With the development on the interwebz I guess the next innovation will be .milf in 2011
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 Wundt
Male, 40-49, Southern US
250 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 5:40:02 AM
What Al Gore was referring to was that he was partially responsible for the legislation that funded expanding ARPANET into the Internet. And, without that funding there would be no Internet as we know it. His statement was deliberately taken out of context by political enemies. |
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Homegrown71
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
226 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 3:47:54 AM
Only the future can tell that soon we'll all just have special wires that connect from our cerebrum into a modem where we can just directly inject our personalities and lives and pointless relaying of information about taking a piss to the world. Then the intellect of the world will gap even larger between the smart and the utterly stupid. |
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 Samsquanch
Male, 30-39, Canada
794 Posts
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 3:42:53 AM
I wish people would stop saying Al Gore said he invented the internet. He didn't. What he did do is work on the committee which allowed internet access to become accessible across the US, offer incentives to companies for research to increase the bandwidth, and coin the term, "Information Superhighway". |
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 Swaywithme
Female, 18-29, Canada
2929 Posts
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:19:42 PM
Huh...didn't even mention Al Gore X] |
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tedgp
Male, 30-39, Europe
2923 Posts
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:13:19 PM
Actually hansbo. Webcrawler or ask jeeves were the best search engines before google did theirs. And they both worked jut as well, apart from not allowing wildcard searches. |
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 gatorade777
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1201 Posts
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:12:04 PM
I dont think itunes or gmail should be listed. i also didnt think facebook was available to everyone (have to be 16 or something) |
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 pandabear21
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
150 Posts
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:07:59 PM
wow, they really did source Wikipedia three times? why not look at Wikipedia's sources and maybe see the information in its full context. Just a crazy idea i had about sourcing your info from the source. |
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pandabear21
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
150 Posts
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:57:55 PM
an exabyte is actually 1.24 billion gigs(pretty massive differnece)
supper smash get that many internet points. You can cash them in for, nothing. |
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 Hansbo
Male, 18-29, Europe
903 Posts
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:46:29 PM
I remember using google for the first time. You could tell immediately, that it would change everything.
Before google, finding anything was a chore. There were lots of search engines, but they were worthless and couldn't find anything. Google was... different. Oh man. I miss when internet was mysterious and cool. |
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