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by romanhn
2593 days ago
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That reminds me of the first time I accessed World Wide Web. Back in '96 I was browsing a computer magazine and happened upon a listing of useful mailing lists, one of which returned the contents of web pages for a requested HTTP address. Same magazine had an install CD for the free Juno email service. Being a teenager, the first web page I ever requested was www.doom.com, which returned a gibberish of text to Juno's email client. It was an HTML file full of IMG tags (one of those "Click here to enter" gateway pages), but I had no idea what I was looking at at the time. Somehow figured out to open the file in IE2 and saw... a bunch of broken images :) I still vividly remember the sense of wonder that the early Internet evoked. EDIT: Just checked the Wayback Machine. Looks like www.doom.com was not affiliated with the game at the time, so I must have browsed to www.idsoftware.com instead. |
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In my case, it was at the public library. The lone internet computer was constantly booked. But by watching over a library clerk's shoulder, I was able to see the password needed to unlock the text-based library catalog terminals (which terminals were plentiful and always available). (My parents worked at the library, or else I never could have pulled that off.) Once unlocked, I was able to use Lynx to telnet into my favorite MUD game. Unfortunately it didn't last long until a librarian caught me, which I think resulted in me being grounded from the library for a month or something like that.