Happy 40th Birthday, internet!

GELATINOUS CUBE · 10-29-09, 02:09 PM

Thanks for the info, Dad. So, Dad can I have some money? Or some points? Mom said yes.
Oh wait, you're broker than me.

Dad · 10-29-09, 02:15 PM

Originally posted by GELATINOUS CUBE

Thanks for the info, Dad. So, Dad can I have some money? Or some points? Mom said yes.
Oh wait, you're broker than me.

I had over 90 points yesterday. You should have asked then.

montipoli · 10-29-09, 02:17 PM

And so AOL was born

Mathiasdamouf · 10-29-09, 02:17 PM

Is it 40 already darn time flys alot faster these days.. Welp time to make some mooolla!!!!!!!

poker_dummy101 · 10-29-09, 02:18 PM

i thought al gore invented the internet?

Willie Bee · 10-29-09, 02:28 PM

Originally posted by Dad

BTW, the message was supposed to be LOGIN, but it crashed on the G so it was just LO.

And according to some, we have the same service today that we call SBR Chat. As Paul Harvey, God rest his soul, would say, "Now you know the rest of the story."

Hate to hijack your thread, Dad, but this is related to the thread topic. It was actually 41 years ago that I have my first memory of ever seeing a computer up close and in person. My uncle was leaving SAC and joining the USAF's Tactical Fighter Squadron. After flying B52s he was going to be the tactical specialist in the new F111 (basically the co-pilot in charge of manning the arsenal). This was the first USAF jet that was going to really use the TFR system, and there were a lot of crashes early on due to pilots simply not trusting the system. They even sent the squadrons out of the country to the base near Cambridge, England, for a while to avoid the American media.

Anyway, in 1968 my uncle's squadron was stationed at Cannon AFB in Clovis, and we went out to visit during a period that the F111s were grounded. The crews were expected to log x-hours per week in the simulator and my uncle took me to the simulator and let me climb up into the mock fuselage and 'fly' it with him. I'm a still wet-behind-the-ears teen at this time. The simulator was in a huge warehouse sized building, sitting right in the middle of the floor and surrounded by banks and banks of computers. I ended up spending the day just yacking with one of the computer operators, totally in awe of the machines. I can only guess that the average $800 laptop these days has more power and memory and capabilities than that entire building of computers back then.