Do you ever feel like there’s just no getting away from the texts, emails, and Slack messages? Like life would be so much easier if there were a dedicated place you could go to talk with people, rather than feeling your pocket buzz at every single moment? Well, break out the cringey screen names and Away Messages, because this week, we taking AIM at a topic that’s sure to warm the modems in every early Internet kids heart. Just make sure no one needs the landline for the next few hours.

Ray teaches Rob how the Internet grew from a DARPA military project to a breeding ground for a new frontier of instant communication; how the CB radio was an integral part of early marketing for chat rooms; what Richard Nixon might’ve used chat rooms for; and who’s still using these outdated forms of communication today.

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TEAM

Ray Hebel

Robert W. Schneider

Mark Schroeder

Billy Recce

Daniel Schwartzberg

Gabe Crawford

Natalie DeSavia

ARTICLESEPISODE CLIPS

Aol (Sign on - Dial Up)

CompuServe - First Internet Commercial - October of 1989

Aol- the Sweetest Sounds

Early Aol Commercial (1995)

Yahoo! Jingle (Yodel)

Msn Messenger Message Sound

Cb Bears Intro

ADDITIONAL MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS

“Happy Bee” and “Feelin Good”

• Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

• Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Additional Sound Effects from Final Cut Pro, iLife, and Logic Pro