Episode 18
What Was Your First Time on the Internet Like?
December 29th, 2016
30 mins 39 secs
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About this Episode
It's the holidays and there's no news to talk about so the guys reminisce about the early days of the Internet and what their first experiences were on it.
Episode Links
- Wired's archive from 1993 — One of these issues was Brian's first introduction to the word "Internet"
- Netscape Navigator - Wikipedia — The First Browser!
- Usenet - Wikipedia — Basically what made us computer nerds in the early 90's
- Internet Relay Chat - Wikipedia — This was Slack before there was Slack ... back in the early 90's
- Gopher (protocol) - Wikipedia — For us old folks, THIS was the web in 1994
- WebCrawler - Wikipedia — One of the first search engines ever
- MTV v. Curry — MTV had to sue Adam Curry to get mtv.com
- Dell Wyse - Wikipedia — How we would get on the primitive internet
- Season One Sketches - The Cause of Cancer — My mid-90s contribution to the Kids in the Hall FAQ
- PowWow (chat program) - Wikipedia — Brad's first chat program
- Yahoo! - Wikipedia — Our landing page for "the Internet" in the early 90s
- HANDOUT: How to Use E-mail at Ole Miss — How to use email from the early 90's at Ole Miss ... this is what we had to go through way back when.