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Tuesday, May 21, 2002 I was reminiscing today about the good old days on the internet. It was eight years ago that I made my first forays onto the wicked web. Well, only then I didn't have the web, I only had access to a dialup BBS. Wow, I am almost ashamed to admit that. Anyway, it was soon after that I got a "real" internet account ... well ... sorta ... it was a freenet account (and I still have a freenet account, for nostalgia's sake, there is nothing better than telnet I tell ya!) I remember the good old days of the web when there were NO ADS and NO SPAM EMAIL. I remember when ya had to use a text based browser (Anyone remember Lynx? Anyone still *use* Lynx? ::grin:: Besides me?) I remember when to view a graphic you had to select on a link, download it to your computer, open it up in an image viewer and look at it. Then, as now, 99.999999% of graphics on the web were a waste of bandwidth. But at least then people bothered to put descriptions on their images. I remember when a new browser called Mosaic came out. It was earthshattering. Well, maybe not, but now you could view something called "inline images" which meant you could actually see pictures *within* the web page! *And* get this, you could change text sizes and stuff! ::faint:: It was really very exciting lemme tell you. And the fact that all webpages had dull icky grey backgrounds didn't bother me at all. Then later there were more improvements made, stuff like font color tags, background color tags, background *image* tags, and my most favorite *transparency* in .gif files! And to think that years later, only the lowly .gif file has transparency. ::sigh:: Oh well, I hear they're coming out with a new fangled .jpeg format soon ... I think they've been working on it for about 7 years. I think it used to be called .png ... well, maybe not. Anyway, I remember when Netscape first came out, when Java was new, when Internet Explorer didn't exist, when there was no such thing as a banner ad or a pop-up ad or a pop-under ad ... and none of them were patented, either. I remember when the only thing bots were used for was good things, I remember when you had to pay $4.95/hour for internet access ... wait, that's not a good thing. Hehe well I guess there's ONE good thing about the internet now. :P
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Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!
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