Beginning of the internet

[TysonLPrice]

This is the prelude in this link:

https://theconversation.com/how-brit...internet-45404

British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was commissioned by then Conversation technology editor Michael Parker (now director of operations) to write an in-depth piece originally intended as part of a special series on the internet. It wasn’t published at the time, as the series was postponed, but now to mark Professor Kirsten’s contributions we are delighted to be able to publish his reflections on the challenges he faced connecting the UK in the early 1970s to the forerunner of what would become the modern internet. The article was edited by Michael with oversight kindly provided by Professor Jon Crowcroft, a colleague of Professor Kirstein’s.

It is interesting and says it was the beginning of passwords.

Here is an early network. If you look closely, or open the link, you can see the things connected. Colleges, Pentagon, UK.

[Arnoutdv]

And this was the first page:
https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

[TysonLPrice]

And this was the first page:
https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

That seems way too sophisticated. I would have expected the old "green screens".

[yereverluvinuncleber]

- and this is the last page: http://www.internetlastpage.com/

[gaouser]

- and this is the last page: http://www.internetlastpage.com/

Banner/logo's style reminds me of old Microsoft branding around 2000's

[Arnoutdv]

Banner/logo's style reminds me of old Microsoft branding around 2000's

That's not possible, you always state that you are only 11, maybe 12. NOT!

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's not possible, you always state that you are only 11, maybe 12. NOT!

He was stating that a looooong time ago. Some of us are getting older over time. I was young when I signed up here, though not THAT young.

[Arnoutdv]

No, he was “9” when he joined…

[TysonLPrice]

- and this is the last page: http://www.internetlastpage.com/

Ha! I remember that

I never saw you could click to the first internet page in that link...

[dilettante]

https://www.merit.edu/about/history/

Created in 1966, Merit Network has been a leader in networking and internet technologies for 50 years. Founded by Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan, Merit established networking in Michigan long before the term “Internet” was invented.

Merit pioneered many of the practices and protocols used in today’s Internet.

[dilettante]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comput...Dream_Machines

Prior to the initial release of Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Nelson was working on the first hypertext project, Project Xanadu, founded in 1960. An integral part to the Xanadu vision was computing technology and the freedom he believed came with it. These ideas were later compiled and elaborated upon in the 1974 text, around the time when locally networked computers had appeared and Nelson found global networks as a space for the hypertext system.

[Shaggy Hiker]

In Xanadu did Nelson, Ted
A stately dream machine decree,
Where hypertext streaming ran
Through cables measurable by man
Down to a token ring.
So twice five score pages of purpled prose
With double covers were girdled round
And there were pages bright with hackers dreams
Where blossomed many a revolutionary idea
And here were concepts ancient as a heap
Enfolding code of high theory.

[Steve R Jones]

Anyone remember Netscape and 2400 baud modems

And then God visited Earth and gave us the 56k modem.

[TysonLPrice]

Anyone remember Netscape and 2400 baud modems

And then God visited Earth and gave us the 56k modem.

I remember being on call, up in the middle of the night, watching the data slowly paint one line at a time across the screen

[yereverluvinuncleber]

1200/2400 baud, each expensive modems, then 9600baud and 19.2K If I remember rightly.