The Official 2015 2nd Gen Ram OT Thread
#331
04-07-2015, 03:03 PM
I too am older than dirt these days and yes I remember being a beta tester for it when it was brand new,...
It blew away all the others, you could just type in actual words not the numeric thing anymore.
It blew away all the others, you could just type in actual words not the numeric thing anymore.
#332
04-07-2015, 03:32 PM
Grand Champion
Wow. I never even suspected that the internet might be gay. Ya learn something new every day, huh?
Last edited by jkeaton; 04-07-2015 at 03:52 PM.
#334
04-07-2015, 03:49 PM
Grand Champion
What were you using for a browser before Navigator? I've never seen or even heard of a web browser that didn't do DNS lookups. Mosaic, which was essentially Navigator's dad, certainly did -- it's what I used to use before Navigator. Made sense, since DNS predates the web by several years.
#335
04-07-2015, 07:17 PM
When I first started 'getting on line' there was no internet like there is now.
There were some colleges that had a local net on campus and some of them had a number you could dial into access it from pretty much any where. I built an acoustic coupled modem that ran at a screaming 1200 baud {which was one of the faster ones around at the time.}
You entered a long string of numbers that would take you to a 'site' then you could search that site for information.
It's been so long ago now that I really don't remember what it was called.
Before that I was a Phone Phreak and had my blue box and coveted list of numbers I could use to callplaces {domestically and all around the world} without being detected or paying toll charges.
The blue box generated the tones that touch tone phones use now but, they did it back when most of the world had rotary pulse phones.
When Netscape came along it blew away all the other web crawlers {as they were called back then} because you could just enter real words instead of the long string of numbers and periods.
Every now and then I will enter one of the strings of numbers and the old site {or the updated version of it} will come up just like in the old days.
There were some colleges that had a local net on campus and some of them had a number you could dial into access it from pretty much any where. I built an acoustic coupled modem that ran at a screaming 1200 baud {which was one of the faster ones around at the time.}
You entered a long string of numbers that would take you to a 'site' then you could search that site for information.
It's been so long ago now that I really don't remember what it was called.
Before that I was a Phone Phreak and had my blue box and coveted list of numbers I could use to callplaces {domestically and all around the world} without being detected or paying toll charges.
The blue box generated the tones that touch tone phones use now but, they did it back when most of the world had rotary pulse phones.
When Netscape came along it blew away all the other web crawlers {as they were called back then} because you could just enter real words instead of the long string of numbers and periods.
Every now and then I will enter one of the strings of numbers and the old site {or the updated version of it} will come up just like in the old days.
#337
04-07-2015, 09:43 PM
Grand Champion
The assertion that IP addresses were required by web browsers before Navigator, and/or that they were called crawlers, are either false memories or intentional BS.
#339
04-07-2015, 10:59 PM
Grand Champion
Nope. Though it's no defense at all, I admit that I react angrily to falsehood, remember the internet before the World Wide Web was invented, and dial-in BBS'es when acoustically coupled modems (the kind into which you placed your telephone handset) were all there were.
