Usenet looks a lot like Reddit.
What the Internet Looked Like in 1995 [video]
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#22Then there was my era of "modern computing", the 80's. My favourite show back then was Bits and Bytes:
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#23For those wondering, the cafe in the youtube video is now Azucar Lounge, at the corner of 9th and Folsom. It's becoming a somewhat popular place for the people who work at the startups that are crammed in down here:
http://www.netline.be/presse/cybertaire/news/ccafe.htm#icon
The more things things change...
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#24"Who says online users are a bunch of anti-social geeks?"
People online, in my experience.
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#25I'm not one to usually watch videos online, but this one is well worth watching. Check out around 5:00 when they start describing the first live band to stream a concert online--a group of geeks from Xerox PARC in Palo Alto! And one of them, in the interview, says "If 100 bands tried to do [live streaming] at the same time, disaster would ensue. It may not be possible to do what we did in another couple years." But p…
And none of the emails in his inbox were spam. Which was in itself notable.
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#26Usenet looks a lot like Reddit.
I was an avid Usenet user back in the 90's and an active redditor today, and only now I realize how right you are...
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#27One thing I remember from those days is how fast the web changed. Every new browser version brought new features that people immediately started using.
Nowadays, a 5 year old site can still look and feel like it was made today. Back then, a 5 month old site was already outdated.
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#281995: "How concerned should I be about information I put online?"
2013: "very concerned... In about 6 years."
1995: "...and this is usenet which is a collection of computer 'conferences'"
2013: "what? When I first logged on at Purdue, 1993, I thought of usenet as a public email inbox. Oh and hey 1995! Sell SUNW and buy AAPL.
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#30Am I the only one disturbed by the AT&T Unix PC being mirrored on the intro?