First time I ever saw a video in 144p on Youtube. Was this ever the main video format on Youtube?
What the Internet Looked Like in 1995 [video]
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#12I'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…
It's interesting how the problem of getting too many emails is still a problem 18 years later and the solution of 'filtering things into different folders' is still the best we can do.
I think we have better solutions. Most of my social contacts are on Facebook with an optimized ranking system so I see what's important. Much of my work is handled on wikis instead of people emailing me documents. Links people might have emailed are now posted on twitter or other websites. Quick questions and answers are now in IM. Job inquiries are left on LinkedIn or HR management software.
If your inbox is jammed with work email, then you have a bad job. If your personal email is jammed, then you need to click 'Unsubscribe' more. Or you're a public figure, in which case they always have gotten mail, postal or electronic. The internet just let a lot more people become public figures, so be careful what you wish for.
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#13I know it's slightly off topic, but with the risk of being downvoted:
you want to see some really old-looking pages and feel some nostalgia? Just go to DMOZ - http://www.dmoz.org/ - and click through the categories. They have hundreds of pages that felt right out of 90s. (If they work at all.)
Re: What the Internet Looked Like in 1995 [video]
#14You can find more episodes of Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe (the spin-off) on the Internet Archive:
Re: What the Internet Looked Like in 1995 [video]
#15How it looked some years later: http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/
And because of Bootstrap, it’s responsive! Best of both worlds.
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#16Did anybody notice that the average internet user today is pretty similar to the one presented in the video? Users still need a lot of hand holding and guidance to use the web. Back then they used only a handful of sites which is still the case today with Facebook, Twitter and maybe a couple of other sites (news sites, craigslist, Youtube).
On another note I somewhat wish we could go back to a (slightly) less interactive web. Everywhere you go you are overwhelmed with social media plugins and calls to various actions (WE WANT YOUR ANSWERS! [taken from mentalfloss]).
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting how the problem of getting too many emails is still a problem 18 years later and the solution of 'filtering things into different folders' is still the best we can do.
I think we have better solutions. Most of my social contacts are on Facebook with an optimized ranking system so I see what's important. Much of my work is handled on wikis instead of people emailing me documents. Links people might have emailed are now posted on twitter or other websites. Quick questions and answers are now in IM. Job inquiries are left on LinkedIn or HR management software. If your inbox is jammed…
Im curious to know what kind of job you have in which you don't get lots of emails? Maybe its because I've always had jobs working with customers but from my experience customers love sending emails.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting how the problem of getting too many emails is still a problem 18 years later and the solution of 'filtering things into different folders' is still the best we can do.
I think we have better solutions. Most of my social contacts are on Facebook with an optimized ranking system so I see what's important. Much of my work is handled on wikis instead of people emailing me documents. Links people might have emailed are now posted on twitter or other websites. Quick questions and answers are now in IM. Job inquiries are left on LinkedIn or HR management software. If your inbox is jammed…
Admittedly I haven't used Facebook for a few years, but using it as a replacement for email would be social (+ time) suicide for me. Many of the most interesting relationships I've begun through the net occurred because of anonymity and a general lack of ad hominem. When someone is just a random handle then they call the shots on how much information is available about them online, and ad hominem is harder. It is a sort of natural human thing to be curious about other people, but it's funny how knowing more (in terms of facts) can make your more subject to your own prejudices. I am reminded by a quote from Werner Herzog "Truth is not the facts. Facts are norms. Truth is an illumination."
Then there is the whole time aspect: Facebook was engineered from the beginning to be a place where you spend time so it can display advertisements.
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#19How it looked some years later: http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/
Man I miss those under construction signs :'(
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#20I lived for Computer Chronicles in the 80's, but lost track of it in the 90's (when I didn't have a TV). This episode on UNIX from 1985 (with a bearded Bill Joy) is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7P16mYDIJw
Unix, mainframes, and people with beards. What more does a TV show need?