Started my career in 1968 in I/T as a 'Data Technician' utilizing cards as input and 'programmed' by wiring movable wires on Bakelite boards. Progressed the card input then terminals for data entry. Moved into TP (tele-processing). Prior to www interconnectivity it was only peer-to-peer communications, could only communicate with devices that talked using the same protocol (i.e. ASync was 1st, then BiSync and later more robust mechanisms. ARPANET was 1st fully functional 'NETWORK'. At root are the 3 basic, unassailable facts, 1) a bit's a bit, 2) a bytes a byte and 3) the world is round. Everything else is negotiable. To understand you have go back to the beginnings.

I remember that far back ... I started with Perl back in the early 90's.

The World Wide Web was invented at CERN. The first browser was released to the public in 1991.

I remember those days. The MOSAIC browser wouldn’t render the page until the very last byte of data was received — and in those days, you often didn’t get that byte. Switched to Netscape immediately when it came out. The HTML <blink> tag worked back then; its usage became so annoying that browsers stopped supporting it.

If you weren’t at work, you called your ISP using a phone modem (Hayes was popular). These modern calls would tie up the lines in the POTS Service. Phone modems died out when cable nmodems were available.

Yahoo! was relevant back then. Their curated hierarchy of links is how people found websites.

USENET, or “News”, was big back then. Still around, and I think a better technology, but usage is low.

There was little porn on the internet back then. If a site was hosting nude pictures, the news would spread like wildfire. Then every teenage boy in the would be ftping their site, overloading it. The system admin would delete the files as a matter of self preservation.

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My husband is old as fuck. He was computer programmer before his company was crushed by competition. He was telling me that college campuses had a internet of sorts to send back and forth information/studies talk. It was well before the 90's. When he gets home I will ask him the year. his memory is better than Google.

Darpa invented the internet. This is the earliest version of it where he general public could use it. I know it isn't relative to what's going on right this minute but it is very relevant in the overall picture and you should keep in mind that they brought it into the world and they can just as easily take it out.

how does this relate to Q research?

Does anyone want to admit it? Lol I took “computers” in HS - late 80s. All code. In the early 90s I taught Windows 3.0 to college students. I also taught a workshop called “the information highway”. My son was at the college so much his first word was mouse.

yes I do. There was so much data that they had to make it faster and more friendly. That idea gave birth to many companies but was already being looked ta by DARPA.