digital equipment corporation,dec Glimpse of the Future (Internet, circa 1994)

Glimpse of the Future (Internet, circa 1994)

posted by mlx

1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1512 views

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From the submitter: "This video was created by me (Richard Seltzer) and Berthold Langer in February 1994, when we worked at DEC. NCSA (creators of Mosaic, the first Web browsers) and dozens of other organizations, distributed thousands of copies of this video, using it to help spread the word about the business potential of the Web, which, at that time, many business people found difficult to imagine. Thanks to David Wecker and Gene Kusekoski for converting it to avi."

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At least somebody saw it coming...

written by Prospero | 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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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.

written by viewer_999

| 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Pretty sure that's Mosaic, precursor to Netscape.

written by mlx

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

written by Zifnab

| 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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

written by brennan

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Oh sweet memory...

written by chicar | 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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

written by AnimalsForCrackers

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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.

written by jmd

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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.

written by daxgaz