Re: TI-H: I know I'm going to regret this...
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Re: TI-H: I know I'm going to regret this...
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
> >From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
> >> >hmm, cool site :) We had a Kaypro 2000 too, I used to use it for
> >> >BBS'ing, back before there was such a thing as the web or AOL.
> >>
> >> When was that? (year?)
> >
> >Good question, probably around '89 or so. AOL was actually in
> >business then (for about 4 years), but local access numbers were
> >not available in the small town where I lived. That was ok tho, neither
> >the Kaypro, Epson, or TRS-80 were capable of running the
> >GeoWorks windowing system anyway :)
>
> There was internet back then,
I said web, not internet, 'taint the same thing, as I'm sure you are well
aware.
>and the web (a perimitive form of it.
The HTTP RFC (1945) says that "HTTP has been in use by the World-Wide Web
global information initiative since 1990"
No doubt HTML and HTTP were around in some form before that.
I'm not going to argue nit-picking points about when protocols appeared on
the internet, or when the internet achieved its present form. It wasn't
until about the late '80's that internet access from home PC's started to
become available to most users. It wasn't until about '91 or '92 that I had
any form of access to it, and about the only thing useful to me then was
FTP.
So, until then, I spent time on local BBS's. That was about the same time I
started learning object oriented programming too. One of the local schools
had a programming forum that we developed a game in, called VGA Planets or
something like that (not like the VGA Planets you may have heard of tho,
different concept).
anyway, enough.
DK
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