What were you doing 28 years ago today?

Believe it or not, the first web page went live on August 6, 1991. It was dedicated to information on the World Wide Web project and was made by Tim Berners-Lee. It ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html (and it’s still valid!)

Popular webmail services, like Hotmail, started popping up in 1996/97, and in 2001 more than half of Americans were on the internet.

I was getting ready for Kindergarten…

So I did not know much of anything. I assume I was eating crayons or something.

tucrs wrote:

I was getting ready for Kindergarten…

So I did not know much of anything. I assume I was eating crayons or something.

Ohhh so you were one of those kids…

I wasn’t around yet!

I was shy of 2.5 months old…

Prolly changing the diapers of my twin 3 month old boys

Probably spending a lot of time scouting deer and tuning/shooting the bow in prep for the deer opener. 2 daughters kept me busy as did work with a friend as remodeling carpenters. My 42nd birthday was in a couple months.

Oh jeeze, I may begin to regret this post. Some of you guys are younger than I thought! I was just 8 years old, but coming from a rather nerdy family, we had a computer and started using the internet and webpages long before many of my friends at the time, if my memory serves. We had a computer that ran DOS and only had one or two games on it. One game I enjoyed was called Zork. I don’t remember much, but that it involved a lot of typing. There were no computer mice and DOS was a command-line operating system with no graphical windows. It was basic black and white. And simple as life was for a grade-schooler in the 80s.

I remember that computer. It actually ran windows 3.11, and you guys had it so full of viruses that I ended up beating it to death with a shovel handle. But you learned your way around a computer, and that was the whole point.

28 years ago I was working for an Aerospace outfit. It was the movie “Office Space” in too many ways, an absolutely horrible place to work. Dark days indeed. Glad I finally got the escape tunnel done and made it to the trees.

The first website I ever saw had information about Ham Radio antennas, and it was full of errors.

S.R.

In no particular order….

Going thru the big “D”.

28 years ago??????????? i barely remember yesterday!!!!!!!!

i was married for the second time 1 full year………think we got a puter shortly after?????????

I was 3 years old. So probably breaking all sorts of nice stuff my parents had worked hard for.

I was more than likely running with a skip it trying to get it to “999”, and trying to slang baseball cards for keeps!

I more than likely looked like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoEwM5Ykqmk

Wife and i were salmon fishing in Alaska .

Evan Pheneger wrote:

I was more than likely running with a skip it trying to get it to “999”,

OMG! My sister and I were SO excited when mom finally got us the latest and greatest new toy – the Skip It! Pretty sure I only fell on my face a few times.

I was in college and had just finished an engineering internship that summer. Without a job I did a 21 day Quetico canoe trip.

If I remember correctly, home PCs were probably in the neighborhood of $2000 so there was no chance I could afford one. If you account for inflation you can get a PC for about 1/10th of the cost today.

That was about the time I started making fishing lures with my uncle for my other uncles gun and bait shop. So it was around the start of my fishing addiction. After 28 years I still have a lot to learn. We also had a PC that ran on Lynix or toy box.

I was 10. Like the Root family, we had a pc and got online pretty early. The sound of the modem connecting was so magical. I could definitely still sit down at a DOS machine and do some damage. Del *.* will clear your sister’s floppy disks and cause some serious sibling mayhem.

Anyone an early BBS user? Bulletin Boards were the coolest. I remember waiting like 30 minutes for a JPG of a bikini-clad hottie to load up, like one pixel at a time.

Thanks, now that skip-it song is stuck in my head.

Sitting in front of a computer thinking that it’s too nice to be indoors and I really should be fishing…trout fishing about that time…

We never had a computer in the house. Even if we did our rule was if I want to be inside I can help clean. If not go out side and play. ( I keep that rule for my son now, unless it’s really crappy out). We have a lap top at home that has been touched less then 4 or 5 times in the last year

I was 21. You will have to ask someone who was with me.

I know one thing I wasn’t doing. Considering the impact the internet would have on future society.

I remember using infoseek around 1994 and amazed when a search would get 1000 hits.

I think it was about that time we bought are first computer. It was a apple gII. I can remember the sale person saying they are so easy to run a monkey can run it. Well I guess we struggled to run it. So what ever that means.

I was in my early 30’s working at a power plant in western ND.

Just getting ready to go back to school for my senior year of high school not knowing the future mother of my little girls was about
to be born in two days.

I was 8 as well and we had an old DOS computer around that time. Wasn’t connected to the internet but did have a bunch of games and learning programs on it.

tangler wrote:

Anyone an early BBS user? Bulletin Boards were the coolest. I remember waiting like 30 minutes for a JPG of a bikini-clad hottie to load up, like one pixel at a time.

Possibly.

I was going to be a senior in high school and I predicted the Halloween Blizzard that was coming in a few short months so I was preparing for that.