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One most wonder that with all the data available, as standards and technology change, some might become lost and forgotten. Have you played any avi files or view a gif photo lately? Have you typed your assignment on Word Perfect or updated your spread sheet in QuatroPro? These are bits of our history fro future generations to rediscover

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My first practical email address domain, the-college.iwctx.edu, and  about a year later it became uiw.edu when it transitioned from a college to a university.  

You can visit the WayBackMachine to visit snapshots of my Alma Mater's website, but unfortunately they do have a copy of it of the the-college.iwctx.edu. The one that is available advises visitors to visit www.uiw.edu.

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The first time I heard about the internet from the Nova episode, ConFusion in a Jar,  about cold fusion. They talked about a discussion board or newsgroup where individuals discussed the issue such as how the scientists were holding the fusion experiment with their bare hands.

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The first webpage is back online!

Here a look at it:

Purchased Wing Commander III as a Christmas gift for myself after it was released in 1994. I had CD's to play the movie scenes based on your decision and the goals of the game.

Now,  you can download it for less $10 at Origin. 

Here's one of the ships!

A screenshot of picking your wing-man:

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Here's a good way to experience the time before internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing, it is The Internet Yellow Pages. It was published in 1994 and was a guide to resources available at the time.  You could purchase a copy at any bookstore or your favorite computer software/hardware store of the era such a Egghead Software. It is available for purchase through Amazon for letting your "fingers do the walking". As with progress, this book has followed the Yellow Pages phone directory.

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FrontPage was discontinued by Microsoft but it was one of the first application I used to create a web page. Here is a screenshot of the application (sample shot, not a site I built)

It was a great "WYSIWYG" (What You See Is What You Get) editor for building my first site hosted by EarthLink which provided hosting a personal website for each subscriber. This was also the time I was introduced to FileZilla to transfer the files to my provider.

Please free to share your experiences.

The HTTP standards have been update to provide a more robust experience and streamlined coding.

You can find more at this link:

HTTP/2, the first major change to HTTP in 16 years, has been finalized

Innovation is fun!

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One of the first browsers used I used outside of the GUI's provided by the internet service providers such as Prodigy. It was available to use through my university account and allowed user friendly search. Mosaic and Netscape were also available but not support by Prodigy.

Here is a link about the Lynx browsers:

Lynx text based browser.

Here is a screenshot of it:

Feel free to share your experiences.

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Bought a CD-rom at Radio Shack and signed up for it. One of the first companies to offer unlimited internet access and a reasonable speed which was at least 14K up 56K.

Read this link for more information

Netcom.com

They were acquired by MindSpring in the 1999, at it later merged with EarthLink in 2000. The good ole dotcom days!

Here is one of their logos: