I'm so old that when I wanted to learn about the internet in college there was no curriculum to do that. Had to do an "independent study" (guided by the CIS dept head). Learned about the backbone and TCP/IP and other protocols.
Ask that was stellar Learning then. Most people now don’t know shit about the internet even though they use it. App doesn’t work? Just install a new one. Nevermind how the app gets from them to you or any of the sessions in between etc.
I was born to where when I was old enough I was shoving kool-aid packets into 5.25” Disk drives on Apple IIEs and learning to debut x86 computers to play “games”. Computers were fun puzzles. Never did I imagine I could work one day using them and fight for information freedom. Here j am now.
They don't even have within their brains the notion of their brains ability to function without computers. I pray the Almighty Creator of All continues to heal them as he has healed me, when they consent to the healing.
Our generation (Gen X) were also TV addicted couch potatoes who mostly had no idea how the TV technology actually worked. Vacuum tubes made a moving image? Whatever, Gilligan's Island is on.
I'm from Gen X. We were born at the end of the analog age and the beginning of the digital age.
I was the kid who could not only program the time on the VCR but also help the teacher set up the projector on movie days.
Learned Basic programming on a TRS-80 but didn't own a home computer until 1998, so I wasn't online during the BBS days.
With that being said, I quickly learned about IRC and figured out how write simple HTML, take over the microphones in the Yahoo chat rooms with a combination of Yahelite and custom HTML scripts, and even wrote my own custom scripts to boot people out of the chat rooms.
And I read so many books as a kid and even spent a lot of mandatory time outdoors.
As far as music, moved from vinyl and reel to reel to cassette tapes to CD to mp3s. Had an iOmega Zip Drive and loaded it with music downloaded from Napster.
And we had 4 local channels when I was a kid (later 5 when FOX came out). My dad happened to buy one of the earliest satellite dishes so we had access to everything before they started scrambling the signals on the pay channels. I wasn't allowed to watch TV all day though.
And played pinball in the 70s, spent rolls of quarters at the arcades in the 80s thanks to my grandfather, and then acquired an Atari collection from garage sales after everybody else was getting Nintendos. My sister bought our family an NES and I played every game I could get my hands on.
I happened to have a stay at home mom so we got to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings but then had to play outside for at least 3-4 hours a day. I was from a large family so we had to take turns playing video games. I ended up playing more than my brothers and sisters because I was good and they wanted to see the games being beaten. There was balance in my childhood for the most part.
Me and my friends were running pirate radio and TV as well as hacking pay phones and old dial up PBX Systems. We wrote automated programs to manually page thousands of people to a single number. We could shut businesses down hehehe
What does SUN in Sun Microsystems Stand For?
Stanford University Network - where the first network packets were moved over ARPANET €^^
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_Network
ARPA = DARPA
Also remember there are multiple internets and new ones forming all the time. Both physical, virtual, and otherwise.
Excellent comment, Anon.
I'm so old that when I wanted to learn about the internet in college there was no curriculum to do that. Had to do an "independent study" (guided by the CIS dept head). Learned about the backbone and TCP/IP and other protocols.
Ask that was stellar Learning then. Most people now don’t know shit about the internet even though they use it. App doesn’t work? Just install a new one. Nevermind how the app gets from them to you or any of the sessions in between etc.
I was born to where when I was old enough I was shoving kool-aid packets into 5.25” Disk drives on Apple IIEs and learning to debut x86 computers to play “games”. Computers were fun puzzles. Never did I imagine I could work one day using them and fight for information freedom. Here j am now.
Mortified that young kids don’t want to know.
We need to pray for the young people daily+.
They don't even have within their brains the notion of their brains ability to function without computers. I pray the Almighty Creator of All continues to heal them as he has healed me, when they consent to the healing.
My church has been taking them camping for a week and keeping them from electronics.
They come back and don’t even want to look at a tv. It’s wild.
Apolocypse is going to be great
Don't forget having to configure your Trumpet Winsock and all your AT/DT commands.
First computer I ever learned any programming on was an Apple 2e and networking as well. First PC was an 8088 in a middle school Library!
Fun times!! OH.. and Fidonet before email. :D
TRUMPet WINsock
Future proves past yet again.
Nice! I remember a whole score of Public intralan setups like Prodigy
If you think that's important and understand it, then this one is going to blow the fucking doors off of your mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=080b2xaA0RE
Our generation (Gen X) were also TV addicted couch potatoes who mostly had no idea how the TV technology actually worked. Vacuum tubes made a moving image? Whatever, Gilligan's Island is on.
I'm from Gen X. We were born at the end of the analog age and the beginning of the digital age.
I was the kid who could not only program the time on the VCR but also help the teacher set up the projector on movie days.
Learned Basic programming on a TRS-80 but didn't own a home computer until 1998, so I wasn't online during the BBS days.
With that being said, I quickly learned about IRC and figured out how write simple HTML, take over the microphones in the Yahoo chat rooms with a combination of Yahelite and custom HTML scripts, and even wrote my own custom scripts to boot people out of the chat rooms.
And I read so many books as a kid and even spent a lot of mandatory time outdoors.
As far as music, moved from vinyl and reel to reel to cassette tapes to CD to mp3s. Had an iOmega Zip Drive and loaded it with music downloaded from Napster.
And we had 4 local channels when I was a kid (later 5 when FOX came out). My dad happened to buy one of the earliest satellite dishes so we had access to everything before they started scrambling the signals on the pay channels. I wasn't allowed to watch TV all day though.
And played pinball in the 70s, spent rolls of quarters at the arcades in the 80s thanks to my grandfather, and then acquired an Atari collection from garage sales after everybody else was getting Nintendos. My sister bought our family an NES and I played every game I could get my hands on.
I happened to have a stay at home mom so we got to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings but then had to play outside for at least 3-4 hours a day. I was from a large family so we had to take turns playing video games. I ended up playing more than my brothers and sisters because I was good and they wanted to see the games being beaten. There was balance in my childhood for the most part.
Me and my friends were running pirate radio and TV as well as hacking pay phones and old dial up PBX Systems. We wrote automated programs to manually page thousands of people to a single number. We could shut businesses down hehehe
It's all fun and games until you turn that electron gun into an x-ray generator and start collecting beryllium foil for a neutron gun.
...then the govt comes knocking. 😑
Eek... Giving me flashbacks to setting up PPP between the university and my Atari 1040 ST...
And I thought my 1200bps modem was lightning fast!
Good times.