What is this "internet" I've been hearing about?

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 4:54pm

early news report of internet.


a look back at internet

Updated On: 8/8/06 at 04:54 PM

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 4:58pm

What about the tubes? WHERE ARE THE TUBES!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 5:06pm

"You need a computer and a phone."

Wow. Dial up is so 5 years ago.

[GuyfromGermany]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 5:07pm

I can't watch it...
I'm too distracted by the pictures on the right.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:00pm

Does anyone still have dial-up?

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:04pm

I think my stepdad does. But they don't use the internet enough to have cable. I think he gets on once or twice a week, and that's just to check his email.

[matt schneider]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:06pm

"not a lot of swears" at about 2:30

No swears my holy sh!t fuc*ing god @ss hole.

That was a long time ago

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:07pm

Dial-up used to drive me crazy! Especially when I was online downloading or printing out something, and then someone would pick up the phone to make a call.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:08pm

Yeah. I remember when it would take me all day to download a song. Not anymore.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:12pm

Internet...

YOU KNOW...

It's that stuff girls used to spray on their hair in the '60s to hold its style.

[matt schneider]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:13pm

matthew in america

this video is pathetic and hilarious.

Dial up was soooo annoying, and was the inteernet only a chat room, back then?

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:15pm

I only got Broadband in the last three months, until then i had dial up. Before then, my was not 'in the broadband area', in otherwords the phone company didn't want to have to run lines out to the outer suburbs. Ireland is so behind the times.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:17pm

I didn't knwo you were in Ireland.
When I lived in Ovilla (outside of Dallas) we had dial up, because broadband wasn't available in the country.
It sucked.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:22pm

Fiction Writer, by "country" do you mean the USA or the land outside cities and towns?

Yes, Linnie is from Dublin, dont'cha know?

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:30pm

I mean land outside the city. Ovilla is about 15 minutes south of Dallas.

[matt schneider]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 7:22pm

With everything else in it, it would still be funny without the dail-up.

And thanks for posting, robbo, I loved this.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 7:27pm

My mom still has dial-up.

[jam_man]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 8:05pm

Wow! Thank you, Al Gore, for inventing Internet. (I am kidding)


And when did we start using the definite article, 'the' in relation to 'the' Internet?

Oh, and a friend of mine still has dial-up. I laugh at her.

[WesternSky2]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:13pm

<-- oh so you tilt your head to the LEFT to understand those things. Crazy crazy world.

[JustChillin8908]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:12pm

I still have dial-up, we don't get high speed where I live

(I guess by 2007 our entire township will have wireless high speed internet though)

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:14pm

"our entire township"


well, there's your problem

[JustChillin8908]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:40pm

Did I make aa stupid mistake that I still can't figure out? (I hope I don't look too niave)

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:02pm

i was making a joke about your living in a township. thats why you still have dial up

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:03pm

I still have Dial-Up at my mother's, but that's only because we can't afford DSL. My dad has great DSL though and I'm there more often than here, so if I need to download stuff I just wait until I'm over there.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:44am

"the files are INSIDE the computer" ZOOLANDER