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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