The World Wide Web, with all its uses, potential, and technologies, is one of the reasons I chose to enroll in computer science. Cloud based systems, and advances in web browsers, have made the internet a much more intersting.
To give an idea of how old I am, I remember a book my parents bought somewhere around 1995: Netscape 2 for dummies. This was back in the day, before Google, or even Hotmail. Netscape 2 for dummies gave a step-by-easy-step explanation of how to surf the web. Many details of that book are now long forgotten, but one phrase still sticks with me: "If it takes longer than the time it takes to brew a pot of coffee, there's something wrong with the network."
That was also the time when surfing the web was event unto itself. Everybody had a dial-up connection, and more than 2 images meant a pee break. Yahoo was the up and coming revolutionary web product, and Alta Vista and Lycos were the leading search engines.
Contrast that with now, Google reigns supreme in search and has produced a better web mail service (with a better name), if a web site has not loaded immediately after we click, we move on, and Yahoo is just barley a skeleton of what it once was.
So there we have it. For those who don't remember the internet before Google, or never experienced it, that was the internet viewed by the masses.
Later,
Mike D.
To give an idea of how old I am, I remember a book my parents bought somewhere around 1995: Netscape 2 for dummies. This was back in the day, before Google, or even Hotmail. Netscape 2 for dummies gave a step-by-easy-step explanation of how to surf the web. Many details of that book are now long forgotten, but one phrase still sticks with me: "If it takes longer than the time it takes to brew a pot of coffee, there's something wrong with the network."
That was also the time when surfing the web was event unto itself. Everybody had a dial-up connection, and more than 2 images meant a pee break. Yahoo was the up and coming revolutionary web product, and Alta Vista and Lycos were the leading search engines.
Contrast that with now, Google reigns supreme in search and has produced a better web mail service (with a better name), if a web site has not loaded immediately after we click, we move on, and Yahoo is just barley a skeleton of what it once was.
So there we have it. For those who don't remember the internet before Google, or never experienced it, that was the internet viewed by the masses.
Later,
Mike D.
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