Your Internet Virginity Lost

[citizen]

The first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by January 1, 1983, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. (This date is held by some to be technically that of the birth of the Internet.)

[MadScot]

Ah the carefree days of teleprinters, acoustic couplers and 8" floppy drives. I remember how thrilled I was when the college got a thermal printer terminal. Monitors were still a couple years away. My first real modem was 600 bps. What gets me is how fast the weather radar used to load with my jury rigged AT&T 1200 bps modem and how slow it loaded 15 years later with a 56K modem.