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There has been a lot of stories about the 25th anniversary of the Web and talks with people who were there from the beginning and what they thought it was going to become..
I think we have quite a diverse member base here ranging in ages from those that saw the progression of the Internet and Web and those who just knew that it existed for all time..
Me, personally, I started my "online" career through BBS' and had one of my own for a couple of years before I went off to college. I used the Internet a little bit through FTP/Telnet/Gopher and so on..
When NCSA Mosaic came out, I used it and HTML to create my first static webpage that had ALL the required flashy/shiny/bouncy things that people needed to put on their web pages. With the advent of animated gifs (someone should have stopped this guy! ), I saw the grotesque ways our poor little pages devolved into a sea of animated gifs with no content, but just crazy headers, footers, bars, lines and rotating stars, circles and what not..
I remember Geocities..
I went through the progression of browsers..Mosaic->Netscape->Firefox->Chrome..
I went through the progression of search engines..AltaVista->Lycos->Excite->AskJeeves->Yahoo->Google..
What about you?
I think we have quite a diverse member base here ranging in ages from those that saw the progression of the Internet and Web and those who just knew that it existed for all time..
Me, personally, I started my "online" career through BBS' and had one of my own for a couple of years before I went off to college. I used the Internet a little bit through FTP/Telnet/Gopher and so on..
When NCSA Mosaic came out, I used it and HTML to create my first static webpage that had ALL the required flashy/shiny/bouncy things that people needed to put on their web pages. With the advent of animated gifs (someone should have stopped this guy! ), I saw the grotesque ways our poor little pages devolved into a sea of animated gifs with no content, but just crazy headers, footers, bars, lines and rotating stars, circles and what not..
I remember Geocities..
I went through the progression of browsers..Mosaic->Netscape->Firefox->Chrome..
I went through the progression of search engines..AltaVista->Lycos->Excite->AskJeeves->Yahoo->Google..
What about you?