I've been in IT for 14 years and using the internet since we were able to. But I've never had reason to look for these other levels of the web. And by the way, there are MANY... many more than you may think. I heard or read somewhere a while back that government has its own secret level of the internet that requires a certain browser using a certain encryption, etc in order to access it. I don't know if that's true, though I wouldn't be surprised. I can tell you that I will stay my happy ass on the "surface" internet and continue to live in the "Mickey Mouse" world we have there (and I say that because compared to what's in the darker side of the net, where we are now truly IS a "Mickey Mouse" world LOL). Personally, I don't want to see beheadings and have absolutely no interest in underage pornagraphy (or any-ography). There is nothing I would buy there, and surely no one there I want to meet. For those of you who will brave the dark world and venture forth into the unknown - Have fun with that!! LOL
Many people think the World Wide Web is the Internet. Well, it ain't. Many of us were using the TCP/IP internet for a decade before the web emerged. I still open up a terminal and do command-line UNIX and Net for certain tasks. The internet has always been a network of networks. It does not surprise me that many dark systems exist on the internet.
THIS. Exactly... we used to telnet into bulletin boards before the www got off the ground. Like before "56k" dial-up... 4800 baud should ring some bells LOL
You didn't have to wait for Al Gore to invent the internet? Were you using it in 1962? For anybody interested enough to read it here is good explanation of the history of the internet. Give the credit to MIT professor J.C.R. Licklider. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
Understand.... but I felt the 4800 would be a more suitable example because it was a lot more popular at the time.
LOL... I remember downloading funny .wav files on AOL... start the download then go watch TV for a while and come back to see if it ever finished. It was the same with pictures. And sometimes the damn modem would disconnect before the download finished. Of course, this was before a downloaded file could be appended so you would have to start all over.
My first computer was a Packard Bell 386 with Win 3.1. After booting it up and clicking on the AOL icon it took 10 minutes for the AOL software to load.
I had a 386 too... it had a 15MHz CPU and 4MB of RAM. I can't remember what size the hard drive was but I remember running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. I had a 286 before that. My first computer was a Commodore VIC 20.
