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Originally Posted by Mutt
nope - internet was not a 'wow', it evolved slowly. I remember getting on the Internet in 1997 on a slow modem, nothing exciting about it. bunch of simple websites with boring information, a tiny mpeg would take hours to download.
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I disagree. I got on the internet in 1989, before the world wide web. I had access through the University of Minnesota, the inventors of the gopher system that kind of predated the web. I was accessing gopher sites in Korea, and that was just mind blowing to me. Also chatting with people all over the world on irc was amazing. All for the price of a local telephone call.
Another tech that amazes me is my android phone, with the whole web and ssh access in my pocket
