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NPR Listeners Remember the Early Days of the Web

by Warren Riddle on December 7, 2009 at 08:10 AM


The Internet is officially over-the-hill at the ripe old age of 40. After all these wonderful years, sometimes it's easy to forget those early, first-time online experiences, particularly for the aged people who weren't born, but were instead thrust, into the Information Age.

To celebrate those halcyon days (gloriously filled with shrieking, interminably long waits to get online), National Public Radio (NPR) is hosting feedback about the loss of its listeners' Internet innocence. The Net nostalgia includes an amazing tale about a 1992 online chat with someone who was an astounding 12 miles away, and an even more impressive 1990 event which involved the miraculous downloading of a weather forecast.

So, wipe away those cobwebs and relive your own first online encounters. Maybe it was shelling out $20 to the Sierra Network for 10 hours with the Web's first multiplayer online gaming experience. (And only half that time would be spent waiting on dial-up!). Or, maybe it was an insane college professor who wanted you to turn in an assignment through some crazy new postal service called "e-mail." Even it was just a few years ago and someone Rickrolled you, let us, and NPR, know about it! [From NPR and Url-y Riser]

Tags: history, Internet, internet birthday, internet birthplace, InternetBirthday, InternetBirthplace, npr, top

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