LGR - How To Find ANYTHING On The Internet
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Derek
That was both hilarious and fascinating. I think the most surprisings aspects of it for me were: (1) It's pretty clear that they recorded this on someone's REAL workstation rather than a clean install, and (2) Despite sounding like a ridiculously useless product, it was very professional, and, from what we saw, actually quite pleasant to watch. Remembering how much more difficult -the Web- was to use back then (I graduated high school in 2000, I can easily see a lot of people, especially non-techies, learning a lot from this at the time.
At least they had Google by then. Having first used -web portal- search functions around 1995 or so, I can soundly say that all -web search- was garbage before Google. Switching to Google when it came out was like a breath of fresh air. Such a simple site, you didn't have to wait for your (dial-up) connection to load all the categories, headlines, stock tickers, and other junk when you KNEW you wanted to search for something. And, when you did search, it actually managed to find what you were looking for in some of the early pages of results! No more finding the One Thing You Wanted on the fourteenth page of Yahoo / Hotbot / Altavista / whatever results!
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That was both hilarious and fascinating. I think the most surprisings aspects of it for me were: (1) It's pretty clear that they recorded this on someone's REAL workstation rather than a clean install, and (2) Despite sounding like a ridiculously useless product, it was very professional, and, from what we saw, actually quite pleasant to watch. Remembering how much more difficult -the Web- was to use back then (I graduated high school in 2000, I can easily see a lot of people, especially non-techies, learning a lot from this at the time.
At least they had Google by then. Having first used -web portal- search functions around 1995 or so, I can soundly say that all -web search- was garbage before Google. Switching to Google when it came out was like a breath of fresh air. Such a simple site, you didn't have to wait for your (dial-up) connection to load all the categories, headlines, stock tickers, and other junk when you KNEW you wanted to search for something. And, when you did search, it actually managed to find what you were looking for in some of the early pages of results! No more finding the One Thing You Wanted on the fourteenth page of Yahoo / Hotbot / Altavista / whatever results!
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Robert
Ah yes, Reverse Lookup.
January 2000, met a girl in a Napster chatroom. we exchanged ICQ numbers seconds before the damn Napster server changed (that was a thing. Then, after a few days of regular chatting, we exchanged numbers and had many expensive long-distance phone conversations. Then, a few weeks later, on my birthday, the doorbell rings. Flowers? Who the hell sent me flowers! She had looked up my home address on the reverse lookup! Freaked me the hell out! lol
Turns out she was 1300 miles away, and harmless. Until recently, we'd travel once or twice a year, her to Montreal, me to New Orleans. Who knew the Internet would be so damn costly! Coming up on our 22nd Long Distance relationship anniversary! ;-]
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Ah yes, Reverse Lookup.
January 2000, met a girl in a Napster chatroom. we exchanged ICQ numbers seconds before the damn Napster server changed (that was a thing. Then, after a few days of regular chatting, we exchanged numbers and had many expensive long-distance phone conversations. Then, a few weeks later, on my birthday, the doorbell rings. Flowers? Who the hell sent me flowers! She had looked up my home address on the reverse lookup! Freaked me the hell out! lol
Turns out she was 1300 miles away, and harmless. Until recently, we'd travel once or twice a year, her to Montreal, me to New Orleans. Who knew the Internet would be so damn costly! Coming up on our 22nd Long Distance relationship anniversary! ;-]
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GC1CEO
I've seen much simpler where it was just auto-loading videos on a playlist so all the person had to do was turn on the computer, open the cd tray, put the cd tray, and close it. It explained what a personal computer was, what those -things with the wires- were, and what the Internet was. was made for middle-aged working-class people who thought computers were -just for nerds- and had no practical usage. The same people I dealt with who got mad that the purchase price of a computer didn't include electricity rebates for the electricity required to power up the computer.
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I've seen much simpler where it was just auto-loading videos on a playlist so all the person had to do was turn on the computer, open the cd tray, put the cd tray, and close it. It explained what a personal computer was, what those -things with the wires- were, and what the Internet was. was made for middle-aged working-class people who thought computers were -just for nerds- and had no practical usage. The same people I dealt with who got mad that the purchase price of a computer didn't include electricity rebates for the electricity required to power up the computer.
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Terry
-LGR John Rocker was the guy who was interviewed complaining about sitting next to a -queer with AIDS- on a public bus, among other bigoted epithets, but his career sure didn't take any damage from the sounds of Wikipedia. Julie McGee didn't seem to mind. Schools across the country told students not to emulate him, as if he was famous or something. I guess today people would just say he was -based- or -woke- or -lit---one of those. Some people used to mind being called homophobic or racist slurs.
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-LGR John Rocker was the guy who was interviewed complaining about sitting next to a -queer with AIDS- on a public bus, among other bigoted epithets, but his career sure didn't take any damage from the sounds of Wikipedia. Julie McGee didn't seem to mind. Schools across the country told students not to emulate him, as if he was famous or something. I guess today people would just say he was -based- or -woke- or -lit---one of those. Some people used to mind being called homophobic or racist slurs.
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P. H.
We had one of these at the school were i worked at the time. It was a little different because de cdrom was filled with 'websites'. If you opened one you could click on hyperlinks and the cdrom would load that page as if you were browsing. This was all in a time when internet was by telephone lines and rather expensive and inconvenient. Well, it gave students an idea of what is was like to surf the internet. This video brought back some nice memories! Thank you for that Clint!
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We had one of these at the school were i worked at the time. It was a little different because de cdrom was filled with 'websites'. If you opened one you could click on hyperlinks and the cdrom would load that page as if you were browsing. This was all in a time when internet was by telephone lines and rather expensive and inconvenient. Well, it gave students an idea of what is was like to surf the internet. This video brought back some nice memories! Thank you for that Clint!
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Aero01
Back in the late 90's, I used to have my own little notebook full of websites. Every day on the net was an adventure and I would spend hours exploring new websites and keeping a record in my notebook. Also, chatting in the early hours of the morning with people from different parts of the world. So many fond memories of Netscape, Geocities, Ask Jeeves/Dogpile and AOL internet provider.
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Back in the late 90's, I used to have my own little notebook full of websites. Every day on the net was an adventure and I would spend hours exploring new websites and keeping a record in my notebook. Also, chatting in the early hours of the morning with people from different parts of the world. So many fond memories of Netscape, Geocities, Ask Jeeves/Dogpile and AOL internet provider.
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Iv-n0
Common screen resolution back then was 800x600 and most web browser used 1/3 of the screen for UI controls a user barely use or even need like the File menu bar or the status bar. What a uncomfortable, what a waste, it was very annoying to switch from Window to Fullscreen to do text search, Opera was so heavy for my 166 MMX Pentium. Bad days.
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Common screen resolution back then was 800x600 and most web browser used 1/3 of the screen for UI controls a user barely use or even need like the File menu bar or the status bar. What a uncomfortable, what a waste, it was very annoying to switch from Window to Fullscreen to do text search, Opera was so heavy for my 166 MMX Pentium. Bad days.
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K.
In the early 00s, I had clients pay me to teach them how to search/research on the Internet. It was so new to many.
The key is understanding how and when to narrow a search using clues attained from prior searches. This recursive action is foreign to many, especially then.
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In the early 00s, I had clients pay me to teach them how to search/research on the Internet. It was so new to many.
The key is understanding how and when to narrow a search using clues attained from prior searches. This recursive action is foreign to many, especially then.
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Sub
Oh CallWave! I remember that. Yeah, you'd be online and then the application would tell you when some left a voice message and you could play it on your desktop. I think it was like, $10 a month. Very much needed if you only have one phone line and have unlimited dialup.
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Oh CallWave! I remember that. Yeah, you'd be online and then the application would tell you when some left a voice message and you could play it on your desktop. I think it was like, $10 a month. Very much needed if you only have one phone line and have unlimited dialup.
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emm.
American goodwill stores sound so much more interesting than the ones we have here in the UK at least when it comes to computer stuff. There's only one local store out of many that has anything related to old computing and that's mostly late 90's programs/games.
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American goodwill stores sound so much more interesting than the ones we have here in the UK at least when it comes to computer stuff. There's only one local store out of many that has anything related to old computing and that's mostly late 90's programs/games.
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