The World Wide Web is 16 years old (on August 6th so we're a bit late).
Can anyone live without it?
What did people DO in the 80's
I can only speak for myself.. but I wrote games on my ZX80 (and later My ZX81 and Later still my Spectrum !!)
I was destined to be a geek !
In early 90's I ran a Dial up BBS which had a door program to allow people to download files from our shareware CD-roms (650mb? on one disk? Unheard of! )
And we also allowed people to send text mail messages via Fidonet (I think memory fails me) and once a night we would connect to our nearest node and pass on all the messages and download the new ones.
Ah.. it was cutting edge in those days !
Played with Transformers
On a side note today is the 25th Birthday of the compact disc
My first proper computer was the Spectrum, having played with a friends zx81 and coded some basic, and very quiet, games from magazines. 1k is not a lot.
48k seemed enormous.
I just co-sysoped a bbs i couldn't afford that sort of equipment. Discovered my old email address when clearing out the other day - from 1992 i think - also had a Fidonet one but cannot recall the number I used to bluebox to the US to get the good stuff and 0 day warez unavailable on UK BBS's - those were, indeed, the days dammit, knew this would turn into a nostalgia thread. Again!In early 90's I ran a Dial up BBS which had a door program to allow people to download files from our shareware CD-roms (650mb? on one disk? Unheard of! )
And we also allowed people to send text mail messages via Fidonet (I think memory fails me) and once a night we would connect to our nearest node and pass on all the messages and download the new ones.
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