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Fantastic word game

Crowded though it may be, we still have to show up here regularly during the day, not just the morning hours, so that we can continue on our course of internet history.
 
Our course of Internet history covers the events from the eventful day in 1969 when that mysterious "L-O-G" was transmitted from Stanford to UCLA via trunk, the ARPA-Net era, and ends at around 1994, when Al Gore decided to effectively kill off the paradise that was the Internet as we knew it then.

[size=8pt]The scientifically-oriented early world-wide-web era (and Gopherspace) is also covered under this course, but for the most part WWW history is actually covered seperately under both Marketing 101 and Advanced Commercial Exploitation 207.
 
The internet as we knew it then was much different that it is today where we can get through a couple of pages or more today but, back then, it took a couple of weeks just for one contribution to get through.

Just think what they had to do to get one of Miss Silkie's patented elongated contributions to get approved. ;D

And for quad and the TPS Reports?? I don't even want to think about all the headaches he suffered back then. :eek:
 
Just for one contribution to get through probably would have taken a couple of minutes, not weeks (see footnote), considering the state of technology back then.

[size=8pt]ARPANET was a packet-switched network (using TCP-IP - - look it up on Wikipedia) just like the "Internets" are today. Same technology, just implemented differently. At best there'd probably be a couple minutes' latency, mostly depending on how fast (or not) your modem was and how busy (or slow) the mainframe or box you were accessing was. Remember, almost all of it was done using the Telnet protocol (look it up on Wikipedia as well. Or, remember those old "character cell" terminals that used to be everywhere a couple generations ago? Think of them) which is nothing but text--text is much, much faster to transmit a screen at a time over a network than the graphics and other junk webpages are cluttered with these days (and all seem to want to load all at once.)

Packet switching has always been faster than, say, UUCP. If something like this were to have been done on the "old" Usenet (before the days of NNTP) it wouldn't have been unusual to encounter latencies of several hours up to a couple days. Although now that packet switching has also been supported in UUCP since about the mid-90s at best, this is kind of a moot point today.
 
Considering the state of technology back then, I wouldn't be surprised if it took a couple of weeks but you know best, Darth, so I will accept your explanation even though I didn't even bother to read it.
 
I didn't bother to read it either because that might be showing that I need mental help.

Still not sure how all that mess works. Just didn't want to trod on any baselines I wasn't aware of there.
 
Showing that I need mental help could be considered a sign of weakness, but, if getting help is what I needed, doing so would be more beneficial than worrying about any notion of weakness and would certainly be beneficial to all the people I know, love and encounter in the course of the day.

I'm only slightly nuts (lol), but not to the point where anyone needs to worry if they should encounter me! ;)
 
Challenged by a competitor, Herbie ran with all his might until his challenger wore out and had to sit down on the track, allowing Herbie to run past said challenger and win the race.
 
The next day, or days after days of research even, the library interns have informed us that "all your base are belong to us" was a poor translation by the groupies of Eagle Beak Row, who try real hard to interpret Japanese.
 
Try real hard to interpret Japanese and you'll come up with something like DTTJ did but, fortunately, we have Miss Silkie and those lovely library interns to set the record straight.

Thanks Miss Silkie ;)
 
We have Miss Silkie and those lovely library interns to set the record straight and we have me to bump us back up to the top of the Off The Air board.

Because that's where we belong!
 
Take great pride in being part of the only thread in internet history that has lasted nearly 6 years and thousands of pages.
 


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