Comments for "Glimpse of the Future (Internet, circa 1994)" Video at VideoSift.com

By Prospero

Prospero (http://history.videosift.com/member/Prospero) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:05:50 -0700

At least somebody saw it coming...

By viewer_999

viewer_999 (http://history.videosift.com/member/viewer_999) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:26:28 -0700

Nice! It was so much less polluted back then, simple text pages. Brings back memories of college computer labs, netscape, and windows 3.1. What browser was that in the vid? I've seen the logo but I can't place it.

By mlx

mlx (http://mlx.videosift.com) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:06:15 -0700

Pretty sure that's Mosaic, precursor to Netscape.

By Zifnab

Zifnab (http://zifnab.videosift.com) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:08:52 -0700

Yep looks like Mosaic. I remember when I used Mosaic for the fist time... Brings back memories.

By brennan

brennan (http://history.videosift.com/member/brennan) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:18:57 -0700

Those were the good ol' days - when everything was in Times New Roman.

By chicar

chicar (http://history.videosift.com/member/chicar) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:42:35 -0700

Oh sweet memory...

By AnimalsForCrackers

AnimalsForCrackers (http://history.videosift.com/member/AnimalsForCrackers) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:05:00 -0700

I remember accessing the internets through the hyperterminal. Blue backround with white print ftw. Playboy.com was the first website I ever freely visited.

By jmd

jmd (http://history.videosift.com/member/jmd) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:43:45 -0700

hehe.. I liked how all the web pages had the same background color..ie defaults. I think I got onto the internet around 1995, using win 3.1, mosaic, and winsock baby! slip/ppp ftw.

By daxgaz

daxgaz (http://history.videosift.com/member/daxgaz) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:10:07 -0700

my mom used to use a phone modem (the kind that required a phone be set in it) to get books from a university. I thought that was awesome, but not really practical. Seeing my first browser then made me think the world was getting ready to change. It did, but we are still just seeing the beginning of the change. My guess is that when we hit a good penetration rate of internet service that can stream 640x480 video, things jump ahead.

By cheesemoo

cheesemoo (http://history.videosift.com/member/cheesemoo) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:25:00 -0700

tl;dr

By MINK

MINK (http://history.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:44:49 -0700

the "better" internet pages get, the less level the playing field is. That's a bad thing, but it's unavoidable.