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    Cool Arpanet

    has meticulously re-created the Internet as it appeared to a command line user over a quarter century ago. Drawing on material from Jason Scott's TextFiles.com, the text-only world of the 1980s appears right in your browser. If you want to show somebody what the Arpanet looked like (you didn't call it the "Internet" until the late '80s) this is it. Using the 'finger' command and seeing familiar names from decades ago (some, sadly, ghosts now) sends a chill down your spine.



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    I remember those days. Funnily enough I also remember when one of the techs at work installed this program on his Windows 3.11 machine called Mosaic (precusor to Netscape). We (few techs, engineers, scientists) looked on and thought wow and I remember one of the scientist comments "that looks nice but it will never take off!!" LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeroyPatrol View Post
    I remember those days. Funnily enough I also remember when one of the techs at work installed this program on his Windows 3.11 machine called Mosaic (precusor to Netscape). We (few techs, engineers, scientists) looked on and thought wow and I remember one of the scientist comments "that looks nice but it will never take off!!" LOL

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    Yeah man...I was in IT at the ANU at the time...I remember this one..when the Macintosh first came out.....

    "No self respecting programmer would EVER use a GUI"

    Hahahaha....

    Interestingly, Usenet is still keeping on....

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