Before the Internet: Online (was very purposeful

Posted on February 28th, 2010 by admin in internet networking | 12 Comments »

This is a mediawatch broadcast of the work I was doing in the early 90’s in using Bulletin Board System (BBS) technology for helping people. This was pre-internet world. It was fun then, learning and networking. Today we now have “Social networking” in the Web 2.0 era. How time have not change!!

Duration : 0:3:17


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12 Responses

  1. Chaniyth Says:

    1:28 – 1:42 was a …
    1:28 – 1:42 was a new BBS technology called RIP Script, it really was amazing for it’s run, it required specialized terminal software such as Ripterm or a compatible terminal in order to view, but it was all point and click which really was amazing for it’s times especially for BBS systems. It had a short life span, however in the 90’s BBS software such as Excalibur and Worldgroup really revolutionized BBSing bringing near AOL quality interfaces to the BBS user [client side]. :)

  2. TheCowboy277 Says:

    these guys are the …
    these guys are the early ones when it came to the net….they had no clue what they were on the brink of!!!

  3. xmileena Says:

    peepl can assess by …
    peepl can assess by dollup

  4. pmgodfrey Says:

    That looked like …
    That looked like all the hardware “Rusty and Eddies” BBS from the early 90’s.

  5. james42519 Says:

    what would happen …
    what would happen if someoen from the future did that to you? question answered.

  6. BoogsterSU2 Says:

    lol!!! Pause at 1: …
    lol!!! Pause at 1:11. They misspell “Access”! XD

  7. elgavilan2000 Says:

    The internet is 40 …
    The internet is 40 years old, but this is not the internet. This is a network of BBSs that this guy runs out of his house, all connected by people dialing into them via modem. These networks were really big in the 80’s and part of the 90’s too I think, but most of them were separate from the internet.

  8. 586guest2 Says:

    are your computers …
    are your computers all 256″s with 4 megs of ram, and 32k dial up?

  9. bobbobato Says:

    If you sold todays …
    If you sold todays tech five years ago, you’d get the same result. No Youtube or iPhones, then.

  10. 17R3W Says:

    I don’t think the …
    I don’t think the title is correct,

    This is still the internet,

    I think it should say “world wide web”

    The internet is 40 years old this year.

  11. elgavilan2000 Says:

    what’s an “assholel …
    what’s an “assholel”?

  12. CabalaCicero Says:

    Oh. How good for …
    Oh. How good for you.. assholel

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