{"id":650881,"date":"2013-04-05T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=224033"},"modified":"2013-04-05T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:41:20","slug":"the-internet-of-1995-wasnt-just-for-anti-social-geeks-it-was-for-getting-email-from-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650881","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Of 1995 Wasn\u2019t Just For Anti-Social Geeks, It Was For Getting Email From Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/internet\">Internet<\/a> is an area of study that&#8217;s woefully ignored by the modern generation. I was part of the generation that grew up just as the Internet was just getting started, and the generation before me can even remember a time when the Internet wasn&#8217;t even a thing. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those who came after us take the Internet for granted. Their formative years were spent with broadband speeds and unlimited access. They didn&#8217;t have to live through an era of dial-up modems and AOL installation discs littering the computer desk. For that generation, here&#8217;s an episode of Computer Chronicles, a PBS-produced series on technology, that explores the Internet of yesteryear. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XluovrUA6Bk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Beyond giving the young &#8216;uns a history lesson, this particular episode is also incredibly prophetic in how it predicted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/the-free-internet-survived-2012-but-will-it-be-that-lucky-next-year-2012-12\">coming war between copyright and the Internet<\/a>. It also predicted the rise of amateur musicians making it big thanks to the Internet through video uploads and music sharing through multiple avenues. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=XvQSEv0UhLY:itXKzUSLh4Y:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=XvQSEv0UhLY:itXKzUSLh4Y:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=XvQSEv0UhLY:itXKzUSLh4Y:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=XvQSEv0UhLY:itXKzUSLh4Y:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=XvQSEv0UhLY:itXKzUSLh4Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=XvQSEv0UhLY:itXKzUSLh4Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=XvQSEv0UhLY:itXKzUSLh4Y:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=XvQSEv0UhLY:itXKzUSLh4Y:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=XvQSEv0UhLY:itXKzUSLh4Y:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/XvQSEv0UhLY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of the Internet is an area of study that&#8217;s woefully ignored by the modern generation. I was part of the generation that grew up just as the Internet was just getting started, and the generation before me can even remember a time when the Internet wasn&#8217;t even a thing. Unfortunately, those who came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}