lie about being the first person to ever have internet
Jan 31, 2021 0:45:26 GMT -5
Post by 40oz on Jan 31, 2021 0:45:26 GMT -5
I was there when it all started. Some of you take all this social media and tiktok videos for granted. We didnt always have all the fancy gadgets and gizmos we have today. You had to be a little more tech savvy to access the cyberwebs as we called it. You used to have to connect to the internet with a typewriter. You got on the internet by soldering two household telephones together, then use a magnetic antenna to transmit the wifi signals from radio towers. This was before cars had bluetooth, so people had to listen to broadcast radio in their cars. That's what the radio towers were for.
There were a lot of hackers back then. They would do this with payphones back in the day to protect their identities. They would intercept people's signals and swipe people's personal data and replace it with gangbang porn.
Back then you needed three people to get the internet going. You needed one person to dial IP addresses out of a reference manual into the telephone keypad, The second person would hold both handsets up to their ears and listen for tones. If you enter any of the IP addresses wrong, the thing would reset. But if an IP address was dialed in from the reference manual correctly, the tone would go up an octave. People mistakenly call it "dial UP" internet because you dialed up an octave each time until you couldn't hear the tones anymore. But these are uncultured swine who are too stupid to know it was actually "dial-ip" for "dial IP." There's a youtube video with Thomas Edison talking about it for the first time.
Once you're all dialed up, you were almost ready to start browsing the internet. But not without first initializing your connection. You had to go to brick and mortar computer hardware stores. They sold individual websites on floppy disks. The typewriter had a six disk changer, so you'd put in the disks one at a time, and when connection to the website was established, the disks would come out one by one, ejecting in a wave-like manner. They called it "surfing." "Surfing" the web.
After that, your social media news and memes were printed out to you on paper. They called these "newspapers" I think we still have some in the attic. here's a picture of one
There were a lot of hackers back then. They would do this with payphones back in the day to protect their identities. They would intercept people's signals and swipe people's personal data and replace it with gangbang porn.
Back then you needed three people to get the internet going. You needed one person to dial IP addresses out of a reference manual into the telephone keypad, The second person would hold both handsets up to their ears and listen for tones. If you enter any of the IP addresses wrong, the thing would reset. But if an IP address was dialed in from the reference manual correctly, the tone would go up an octave. People mistakenly call it "dial UP" internet because you dialed up an octave each time until you couldn't hear the tones anymore. But these are uncultured swine who are too stupid to know it was actually "dial-ip" for "dial IP." There's a youtube video with Thomas Edison talking about it for the first time.
Once you're all dialed up, you were almost ready to start browsing the internet. But not without first initializing your connection. You had to go to brick and mortar computer hardware stores. They sold individual websites on floppy disks. The typewriter had a six disk changer, so you'd put in the disks one at a time, and when connection to the website was established, the disks would come out one by one, ejecting in a wave-like manner. They called it "surfing." "Surfing" the web.
After that, your social media news and memes were printed out to you on paper. They called these "newspapers" I think we still have some in the attic. here's a picture of one
