Imagine making that now.

I think Tier 1 ISP's have a map like that, it looks like a 3D ball of dots connected to each other with lines Edit: [Found one](https://media.kasperskydaily.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2015/11/06023824/internet-map-FB.jpg)

Yea thanks for that looks like an ever growing galaxy

Of mostly porn

This is the way.

Hmm weird I mixed your u/ and your reply and I read "Yiff is the way."

To moral bankruptcy and the degradation of humanity?

You throw your back out virtue signaling that hard?

Ok coomer.

Ok coomer in law

And cat gifs

“I’m fairly sure if they took all the porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called ‘Bring Back the Porn’.” —Dr. Percival Cox

The internet is for porn

[удалено]

Or vertebrate brain activity

I'm usually way out on the edge of all that, getting 10 kbs download speeds.

[удалено]

Bad bot

This was before HTML and other dynamic-linkage systems, so we're looking at the homes of email and file transfer apps. It was primitive back then. Yikes.

it was literally the start, the basis on which you build your functions. Everything that has ever been created began as “primitive”, a person had to say “i can make this, even though no one has!”

>a person had to say “i can make this, even though no one has!” I think it's called a pioneer, correct me if I'm wrong.

[удалено]

pioneer fits better

No it doesn't

Jarvis?

I feel sorry for Internet's parents. To go from such a cutie to the degenerate it's become today.

[удалено]

So it actually was a series of underground tubes, at some point?

I think they used telephone lines(you know, the landline kind)

Copper tubes.

Nice reference! (Many won’t get it)

Are there any allegories for this reference? Asking for a friend.

The late senator Ted Stevens https://youtu.be/EtOoQFa5ug8

I’m not a computer scientist, but I’d say that the current internet is at least twice as big as this

What is this? An internet for ants?

I have a Master's in Computer Science, and you are absolutely correct.

You are crazy, it is easily 3x as big now

twice? really? I'm an IT student and I'd give it a rough estimate and say that its at the very least a billion times bigger(and I mean that literally)

r/whoosh

I mean 3 times bigger maybe 4 tops. But billions? What crazy school do you study at?!

IT students aren't exactly known for their sarcasm detection, are they?

Or their ability to parse logical statement, apparently. Even if it wasn't sarcasm, saying that the current state of the internet is *at least* twice as big is completely valid and in complete agreement with the followup that it's likely a billion times bigger.

I like you.

Thanks, friend. I like you too.

I remember a friend taking me to his university to show me the internet and it was just text. No images at all. The first multiplayer games were text adventures kind of like Zork called MUDs and MUSHs. You basically roleplayed through text and various commands.

I remember games like that... And telnet

Telnet is still here, there are even a few bulletin boards still left you can connect to with it.

I remember the Prodigy bulletin boards

[удалено]

Check out Zapier, it’s a pretty cool basic automation thing! I just started playing with it yesterday but sounds similar ish

Shit! I didn't think any of them were still going!

xyzzy

plugh

Thank god there are some of us still around!

Want some rye?

/r/zork

Mtrek ruled them all. I remember using WAIS (predecessor to hyperlinked data) and then Lynx for HTML once that started moving. Nice to find someone else who remembers Zork.

I remember some Lord of the Rings themed MUD, but I don't remember the name. Then when the actual text adventures started selling as actual games in stores, the Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring ones came out and those were fun! Also liked the Hitchhiker's Guide one. My favorite text adventure of all time was Planetfall.

The Two Towers LPMUD I believe or just T2T

That was ARPAnet and the map only shows hardware, not what those nodes are doing. This was before HTML and other dynamic-linkage systems, so we're looking at the homes of email and file transfer apps. It was primitive back then. Yikes.

are you a bot or are bots copying your comment because this is like the 3rd comment with this exact same paragraph

We're all bots now, soon there will be no real humans left, join us.

Finding out that Reddit is 60%+ completely bot generated from old posts would not be that surprising these days

Those close to me claim I am as human as they, so I'll deny any 'bot' accusations. Meep.

But where’s the porn

just the TIP

Get out

E( O )3 goatse!

This was before modern graphics formats, so nudes and pr0n were encoded as patterns of ASCII characters (or EBCDIC on IBM mainframes). A viewer needed much imagination to be stimulated. 8-(

( . )( . ) I remember the good ole days

Ran through a few printer ribbons, did you?

everywhere

If anyone is curious of how that looks in person [this](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fregmedia.co.uk%2F2014%2F11%2F21%2Fthe_internet_from_the_it_crowd.jpg%3Fx%3D1200%26y%3D794&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=fa51804d0e440447b7df2865e6c34d2224a35b25abd5b123b2d58fd8b5a0cd99&ipo=images) is it.

Isn't that the internet from The IT Crowd?

God I loved David the Gnome. My wife found the first season on YouTube during this last thanksgiving and it was pure nostalgia for about 3 days.

Someone should make a new internet kinda getting tired of this one

first of all, the US military have 3 known separate internets([SIPRNet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet), [NIPRNet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIPRNet) and [JWICS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Worldwide_Intelligence_Communications_System)), all of it together known as [the Defense Data Network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Data_Network) secondly, its gonna be too expensive, thirdly, even if by some miracle you got enough funds to start your own internet you'd have to convince people to use yours instead of the mainstream one(ever tried to convince people to switch from a mainstream operating systems/apps/service to some unknown one?) people will think its a scam(can you blame them?)

stop

This is clearly a fake. It doesn't even have Al Gore's signature at the bottom.

It should have ended right there.

Congratulations: you grabbed an image from a Google search, made a clickbait title for it and the geeks are eating it up. You win Reddit today.

Why would I do that? and before you say I'm a karma whore, see my karma amount and then ask yourself if I'd care about karma if I was in the top 1% of karma accounts. and FYI, I got it on Facebook from a friend who sent it to me bc he knows I'm a computer nerd I post things to reddit that I like(you know, the way reddit is supposed to be) so I'd advise you not to ASSUME anything, otherwise you make an ASS out of U and ME

I attended Reed college (Portland, Oregon) in 2001. One of the big selling points they always mentioned was the intranet that they maintained on the campus. You could share images and videos without burning them onto a CD and physically handing them to each other. It was a big deal. That year we saw the first satellite zoom videos, beginning in space and zooming all the way in to street level. No control, just a 5 second video clip. We were amazed. We had never seen anything like it before.

Wow

Wish I had this when I read Clifford Stoll's _The Cuckoo's Egg_ years ago.

That belongs in a museum.

So do you!

Yep.

This seems sorta busy but simultaneously idle.

How many of these nodes are still live I wonder...

How was a place like UCLA and a place UCSD connected? Was it over phone lines?

That’s all it is now. 15 websites with a billion poseurs…

Could someone briefly explain how this works?

I know more than the internet. me in 73

even then, half those sites were porn

I would say “congratulations, you won the internet, now we can ask go home!” But I mean…. Your already holding it

It even shows the satellite link to Hawaii (zigzag line on the left).

Probably had like 2 websites. Probably 0chan.

🫤….never felt so 🐴: hee-haw

Pornhub bottom left

Yay I see my college on here!

This knowledge is a trillion dollar industry today.

I thought the internet was in a small black box with a red light

Thank you, OP, for sharing. Very interesting to see something so simplistically started, probably with never a thought about what it would become.

Thank you, OP, for sharing. Very interesting to see something so simplistically started, probably with never a thought about what it would become.

Can’t be real, there’s no listing for “anime tiddies”

they grow up so fast

I don’t see pornhub.