World Wide Web (or WWW) is too long to say and "The Web" never really caught on, but the Internet is not quite accurate. It feels like we need a word to differentiate IP from HTTP. Though, since we haven't come up with one yet, I guess we will just have to live with the WWW being called the Internet.
Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
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Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#72Around that time is it the plan to move to iso/osi 7 level. Is there migration to that? Is a chairman of a little known committee called ietf …
That is my memory. There is some sort of gov standardisation towards that. Read some ietf papers in u and very confused by that direction.
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#73Funny thing that sending an e-mail to the president (Brazilian president) was one of the first things I did when got online (1995). It was basically Playboy website and this till I found IRC :p
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#74Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
I heard that so many times in the 1990's in France, "les autoroutes de l'information". I knew that politicians were running after what the USA do, but I did not realize that they were also translating and recycling the very same words.
I just realized it while watching that 1994 video :-)
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#75Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#76Maybe it's nostalgia, but there's something calming about CRTs...
I just imagined the static feeling of touching them with your hand. Damn nostalgic...
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I am even more excited by thinking about what the internet will look like in 2031
Based on past experience, it is going to look a lot like the internet of today. Things just don't move that fast that 9 years will make much of a difference.
Like the internet today, but with more ads, more sponsored content, and more AI generated submarines.
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#78I built a retro 486 PC, bought a modem and could not find any dial-up ISPs in Australia. The 19xx prefix is not dial-able using VoIP line that I set up (we don't have POTS lines anymore).
Well, you can built a new internet! Just find some more computers to connect to!
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#79Funny to see the BBC complaining about "letting the market forces" build the internet. The said market forces didn't do too bad.
Didn't Europe, with their combined industry and government coordinated plan, leap frog US connection speeds, where things were left only to the market?
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#80World Wide Web (or WWW) is too long to say and "The Web" never really caught on, but the Internet is not quite accurate. It feels like we need a word to differentiate IP from HTTP. Though, since we haven't come up with one yet, I guess we will just have to live with the WWW being called the Internet.
What exactly is your requirement for ‘the web’ catching on?
It’s used very often on ycombinator in submission titles and comments. I see it used by millennials and gen z on Discord, though more commonly as an adjective, eg ‘oh is it just web or is there an app?’
Sometimes they drop ‘the’ and it becomes “hey i saw this on web.” Online Korean comics are usually just called webtoons instead of manhwa. It’s used on corporate sites, ads, hotel amenities descriptions and in references to ‘the dark web.’
What more do you need?