Today is Internet Day

The Internet is everywhere these days, being accessed on phones and tablets, tied into our cameras and our TV’s. Wi-Fi is accessible from everywhere these days, from city buses to your local McDonald’s, and the world grows smaller every day as a result. Internet Day is a celebration of this culmination of computing and communication technology, and they way it has brought all our lives together.

The first letters ever transmitted across the prodigal internet, which consisted of two computers, were “L” and “O”. This was as far as they got before the ‘Net crashed, and they had to reboot to get things in running order. We’ve been resetting our routers ever since, just to keep our beloved lifeline running ever since.

It's hard to think what life would be like at the moment without the internet. Think how much time we'd all have.

 

We've had it meltdown here ,printer not talking to anything ,internet radio timed out,etc
After3 hours of faffing about and in desperation ,I unplugged everything and hey presto the whole lot worked when plugged back in !

 

It’s easier and quicker,to say World Wide Web, than it is to say WWW...

just thought I’d mention it...

 

I kind of miss the sound of a dial up modem. Just like the rotary dial on the old telephones, it's an every day sound now confined to history

 

Yes but it's also easier and quicker to say veedub than veedoubleyou so it's easier and quicker to say dub dub dub than world wide web.

DYB DYB DYB!

 

Not sure when I first used the internet -we had an INSET day at school around 1999 when we were brought up to speed on using the internet as a teaching aid - but probably around 2000 when I got my freeserve dial up at home .

 

I had a Demon email address from 1995 to 2017.

At work at Philips Research Redhill in 1985 we hooked up to Imperial college and the fledgling JANET network.
Before DNS and routers.

Something like..

Mike!workstation!redhill!imperial!brussels!eindhoven!mailserver!jens

That would be a colleague called Jens in Eindhoven. To return email, reverse all the words in the address..

 

Where’s your woggle?

 

I still use my aol email addy...

I don't use the internet any more

 

Aah, V25 Answer Tone. Those were the days.

 

The internet is for losers and social misfits.

 

Is it true that in Norfolk, emails are actually carried by wheelbarrow?

 

No.

 

What I keep in my Y-fronts is a personal matter!

 

My first experience with internet was just Kampers forum ...

A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then

 

I got my first email address in 1987 when I went to Uni, happy days.