What looks like step 1... Just the next step in a long sequence from 1995
In summer of 1995, StoneSpring.org was one of the first 20,000 domains registered on what is currently known as "the internet". In those days, there was no domain registration alternative other than what is now "Network Solutions" part of Verisign, the government-authorized monopoly that charged $35/year for domain registration. My first ISP was Aimnet, staffed by local and knowledgeable people, (since aquired by multiple companies, now via Mindspring a part of Earthlink). There were no web-based blogging or site authoring tools back then; I used emacs via a shell account (and ange-ftp) to manage the site.
I've been through many ISP's. In 1993 I was one of Bob Parson's first customers at Netcom. I tried AOL back before they became notorious for shiny coasters, when they used to send the stiff "floppies". I was one of PacBell's first DSL customers, signing up the very first month that was available in my neighborhood. (Since I was within 5000 feet, I was able to get 1.5Mb downlink right away on a standard retail account. I was also given a static IP; this was before they standardized on DHCP to their DSL customer.). I've been through Aimnet, Netcom, AOL, Compuserve, Mindspring, Earthlink, PacBell, SBC (now AT&T), GoDaddy, and probably many others I've forgotten to mention.
I was "blogging" on StoneSpring.org before it was even understood by most of the current bloggers. I remember being awarded a "10" rating by site rating services, back when encouraging good site content and design was a way to support the growth of the internet. I used StoneSpring.org as a family blog site, posting updates on the kids, easily accessible by other family members (every family member was in a different time zone, even back then), and then extending to the larger family network of my grandfather's descendants (on my dad's side).
And to add to some more trivia: I was a witness to emails sent when the internet was only a handful of non-government nodes (other than the government sites when it was Arpanet): sitting in HT Kung's office at Carnegie Mellon University while he was sending email to someone at Stanford, in the summer of 1976 (and sitting in on an APL class there that was one of the most turgid and incomprehensible hours of my life).
So, yes, I've seen "the internet" evolve, devolve, become useful, become abused, and yet it is still only a sliver of its potential for peoplekind...
I've been through many ISP's. In 1993 I was one of Bob Parson's first customers at Netcom. I tried AOL back before they became notorious for shiny coasters, when they used to send the stiff "floppies". I was one of PacBell's first DSL customers, signing up the very first month that was available in my neighborhood. (Since I was within 5000 feet, I was able to get 1.5Mb downlink right away on a standard retail account. I was also given a static IP; this was before they standardized on DHCP to their DSL customer.). I've been through Aimnet, Netcom, AOL, Compuserve, Mindspring, Earthlink, PacBell, SBC (now AT&T), GoDaddy, and probably many others I've forgotten to mention.
I was "blogging" on StoneSpring.org before it was even understood by most of the current bloggers. I remember being awarded a "10" rating by site rating services, back when encouraging good site content and design was a way to support the growth of the internet. I used StoneSpring.org as a family blog site, posting updates on the kids, easily accessible by other family members (every family member was in a different time zone, even back then), and then extending to the larger family network of my grandfather's descendants (on my dad's side).
And to add to some more trivia: I was a witness to emails sent when the internet was only a handful of non-government nodes (other than the government sites when it was Arpanet): sitting in HT Kung's office at Carnegie Mellon University while he was sending email to someone at Stanford, in the summer of 1976 (and sitting in on an APL class there that was one of the most turgid and incomprehensible hours of my life).
So, yes, I've seen "the internet" evolve, devolve, become useful, become abused, and yet it is still only a sliver of its potential for peoplekind...
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