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December 29, 2016

Episode 18: What Was Your First Time on the Internet Like?

30 minutes

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.

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.

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By Brian Baggett, Jim Graham, Jason Young, Brad Tarver, Josh Hogan

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