#earlyinternet — Public Fediverse posts

Comedian struggles to accurately explain how people used to get online with AOL

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/comedian-struggles-to-accurately-explain-how-people-used-to-get-online-with-aol/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=comedian-struggles-to-accurately-explain-how-people-used-to-get-online-with-aol

Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible, not the stuff invented with the birth of the world wide web in the late 1980s, 2013 for flip sale. An interesting stroll down memory lane.

Via the bbc. My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?at_objective=awareness&at_ptr_type=email&at_email_send_date=20250808&at_send_id=4424793&at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2ffuture%2farticle%2f20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet&at_bbc_team=crm

#EarlyInternet
#DigitalHistory
#WebArchive
#DialUpNostalgia
#LostWeb

Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible, not the stuff invented with the birth of the world wide web in the late 1980s, 2013 for flip sale. An interesting stroll down memory lane.

Via the bbc. My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?at_objective=awareness&at_ptr_type=email&at_email_send_date=20250808&at_send_id=4424793&at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2ffuture%2farticle%2f20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet&at_bbc_team=crm

#EarlyInternet
#DigitalHistory
#WebArchive
#DialUpNostalgia
#LostWeb

Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible, not the stuff invented with the birth of the world wide web in the late 1980s, 2013 for flip sale. An interesting stroll down memory lane.

Via the bbc. My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?at_objective=awareness&at_ptr_type=email&at_email_send_date=20250808&at_send_id=4424793&at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2ffuture%2farticle%2f20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet&at_bbc_team=crm

#EarlyInternet
#DigitalHistory
#WebArchive
#DialUpNostalgia
#LostWeb

Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible, not the stuff invented with the birth of the world wide web in the late 1980s, 2013 for flip sale. An interesting stroll down memory lane.

Via the bbc. My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?at_objective=awareness&at_ptr_type=email&at_email_send_date=20250808&at_send_id=4424793&at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2ffuture%2farticle%2f20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet&at_bbc_team=crm

#EarlyInternet
#DigitalHistory
#WebArchive
#DialUpNostalgia
#LostWeb

Wayback Proxy Lets Your Browser Party Like It’s 1999 https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/ #internetarchive #Retrocomputing #retrocomputing #internethacks #earlyinternet #rasberrypi #geocities #proxy #web

Wayback Proxy Lets Your Browser Party Like It’s 1999 - This project is a few years old, but it might be appropriate to cover it late sinc... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/ #internetarchive #retrocomputing #internethacks #earlyinternet #rasberrypi #geocities #proxy #web

I have now repeatedly heard the claim that #ADVENT was spread over #ARPANET. I'm pretty sure that this is a modern misconception since bandwidth was so limited in the 70s that 100s of kilobytes or even megabytes surely couldn't just be transferred at will.

Can anyone shed more light on this? A proof one way or the other?

#earlyinternet #filetransfer #DECUS

AI today is like the internet in 1988: Salesforce AI CEO - The AI industry could be on the brink of a significant breakthrough, acc... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-today-like-internet-1988-salesforce-ceo #aibreakthrough #earlyinternet #aidevelopment #vivatechparis #salesforceai #aiautomation #aiindustry #clarashih #aifuture