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Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Bambino — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:46:42 GMT

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/world-wide-web-turns-25-years-old-20140310-34gc0.html

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:48:20 GMT

And with it all the good and bad it has unleashed.

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:52:06 GMT

I feel overwhelmed when I think how much it's changed my life

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:10:31 GMT

I couldn't imagine being without it now

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:11:49 GMT

Agreed Damien

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

jonsie — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:46:53 GMT

The world has changed beyond anyones imagination from 25 years ago.

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

gemz4the1 — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:41:30 GMT

Oh gosh I feel old now 😞

What did people do without the internet?

Imagine school kids these days trying to do homework without Google

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:32:06 GMT

We must ask ourselves this question.

Where were we before Google?

Whilst the Internet has problems yes, it has been a wonderful invention that has changed the world forever

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:36:19 GMT

We were looking things up in encyclopaedias we couldn't just google it

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:55:45 GMT

Or boot up the old Encarta CD-ROM.

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:37:39 GMT

My giddy aunt Wanty showing your age now lol

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:40:21 GMT

Encarta was the dogs lol, was much quicker than waiting for the dial up to connect, though I was only allowed that after 6pm because it was 1p per minute and less chance of missing a phone call.

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:42:44 GMT

Encyclopedia? There is a forgotten word lol @Anonymous

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:45:26 GMT

I remember the early days of NTL (ntlworld) when you got tv and a phone line and dial up Internet for just a tenner a month.

Those were the days

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

jonsie — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:45:46 GMT

...and a forgotton job. Door to door encyclopedia salesmen!

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:48:26 GMT

Dial up.

Wow.

Every time I got a voicemail it would knock my internet off.

Me and the family were allowed so many hours each from the allowance we got.

To top up for further time was very expensive.

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:58:00 GMT

My first ISP was Freeserve, and I got a free mouse mat, t-shirt and set of business cards with my own website address on haha.

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

aldaweb — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:34:04 GMT

I remember being on Compuserve years ago, which you had to be on for support from several manufacturers before it got spread to the wider internet. Had a second line from United Artists as it was then to avoid blocking up the line for voice calls.

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Toby — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:26:30 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Encarta was the dogs lol,

I had a medievil Encarta game! You had to travel through the castle talking to characters.

As you can tell, my childhood was MENTAL

Re: Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:43:38 GMT

Toby, you are hardcore dude, I can't compete.