OneAndOneIs2

Thu, Aug 23, 2007

Frightening...

Something that occurred to me recently...

Remember the days before the Internet?

Remember the days when only geeks and nerds knew what it was?

Remember the web before the dot-com era?

Scary thought for the day #1: When I start teaching, I'll be dealing with kids aged 11 up. And they won't remember any such time. The Web has always been there, as far as they're concerned.

Scary thought for the day #2: I first went online when I started university, which was 1995. That means I'll have been using the Internet longer than those kids have been alive.

On the plus side, it means I have less to worry about than some teachers when it comes to the "Spotting when they've downloaded their homework off the web" types of things.

On the down side... it's quite a scary thought...

7 comments • Categories: Omni, My Life

Comments:

Comment from: sokuban [Member]

I was born into the internet too though. I'm pretty young.

I probbably started using it around 1998 or 1999 when I was 8 or 9. I knew of the internet's existence before then, but I wasn't allowed to use it. (I've been using a computer when I was much younger, playing games before I knew how to read)

But I just want to ask you, what was the web like before the dot com era?

Permalink 24/08/07 @ 05:06

Comment from: alison [Member] · http://www.creativehedghog.com

We have an 80s night coming up for the youth group. The scary thought: besides some of the year 12s, all the kids were born AFTER the 80s. Scarier thought: anyone over seven was born last millennium. ARGH!!

Permalink 24/08/07 @ 10:07

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

The Internet before the dot-coms?

Cruder. Less useful. More text-based. Less Web-based. Much more HTML, with occasional bits of java.

Slower.. much slower...

Much, much more geek-oriented

Check out a few pages at archive.org someday - it goes back a few years. Dilbert.com and Google were both noticeably different in the early days, for starters...

Permalink 24/08/07 @ 10:12

Comment from: sokuban [Member]

They only have google back to 1998 and Dilbert back 1997.

I was thinking that if you say 'before the dot com age' websites won't have .com on them and there would be some other system going around. Why does almost all websites have .com, .org, .net or stuff like that. Is it even possible to make a .ads website. (random letters.)

Permalink 24/08/07 @ 10:40

Comment from: andrewtheart [Member]

· http://www.freewebs.com/andrewtheart/

Generic top level domains (.com,.net, etc) are generally controlled by commissions like the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

Permalink 25/08/07 @ 01:35

Comment from: Victoria [Visitor] · http://advicefromasinglegirl.blogspot.com/

Must be how our parents feel.

Like, we all grew up with tv and movies. My parents certainly didn't.

Permalink 26/08/07 @ 21:25

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

"And you try telling the young people of today that. And they won't believe you!" :)

Permalink 27/08/07 @ 14:48