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For this to be true, HTML5 would have to be finalized. It's still a draft and this there are no standards. There's only proposals which have been adopted.
Most browsers and devices already support it to some degree and the basic implementation in the HTML document will most likely not change.
1997: I used AOL as my service provider, connecting to the Internet using a US Robotics 33K modem (dial-up). Only used the Internet for email back then. We have come a long way.
My first Internet connection from home was in 1995/1996.
Sitting in a darkened room after the wife had gone to bed, watching the Netscape icon on the upper right, little comets passing by the "N" as my 28.8 modem struggled to download more porn.
LOL! I love how some people brag about being on the "internet" in 1983. But if we're talking about the World Wide Web, it wasn't really developed until the very last part of the 80's. I'm sure someone on here will talk about playing Pac-man on Arpanet. </TIC> But for most people, home based internet wasn't really offered to the majority of people until the early to mid 90's - at least not where I lived. I remember being introduced to the WWW in 1993 - my first year of college. I didn't get home based internet until about the mid 90's, but I do remember spending countless hours online, usually late at night because we were too cheap to get a second phone line, surfing the web. Yahoo was my search engine of choice. We dialed up using a company called Digital Data. I think they were the first ISP to leave or go out of business in my area. We then went with a company (that is still around believe it or not) called Kimbanet. Even though it was still dial-up, it was quite reliable and the speeds weren't too terrible. Then we finally bit the bullet and got hooked up with Adelphia Cable around 2000 - 2001.
But as far as my fond memories of the WWW 1997, probably looking up pro wrestling rumors, surfing Yahoo and stumbling upon some of the most fantastic, bad looking "homemade" websites I have ever seen, creating my first website (which actually looked pretty good I thought), and being excited about getting emails through my Hotmail account. I also seem to remember getting to a dating site that was connected to Hotmail. It was free. I used to get on there and "play". I would make up some pretty outrageous profiles just to see who would respond. I don't even think you could upload pictures to it back then. It may have been the early protocol to match.com, I'm not sure, but it provided hours of entertainment!
LOL! I love how some people brag about being on the "internet" in 1983. But if we're talking about the World Wide Web, it wasn't really developed until the very last part of the 80's. I'm sure someone on here will talk about playing Pac-man on Arpanet. </TIC> But for most people, home based internet wasn't really offered to the majority of people until the early to mid 90's - at least not where I lived. I remember being introduced to the WWW in 1993 - my first year of college. I didn't get home based internet until about the mid 90's, but I do remember spending countless hours online, usually late at night because we were too cheap to get a second phone line, surfing the web. Yahoo was my search engine of choice. We dialed up using a company called Digital Data. I think they were the first ISP to leave or go out of business in my area. We then went with a company (that is still around believe it or not) called Kimbanet. Even though it was still dial-up, it was quite reliable and the speeds weren't too terrible. Then we finally bit the bullet and got hooked up with Adelphia Cable around 2000 - 2001.
But as far as my fond memories of the WWW 1997, probably looking up pro wrestling rumors, surfing Yahoo and stumbling upon some of the most fantastic, bad looking "homemade" websites I have ever seen, creating my first website (which actually looked pretty good I thought), and being excited about getting emails through my Hotmail account. I also seem to remember getting to a dating site that was connected to Hotmail. It was free. I used to get on there and "play". I would make up some pretty outrageous profiles just to see who would respond. I don't even think you could upload pictures to it back then. It may have been the early protocol to match.com, I'm not sure, but it provided hours of entertainment!
Before 1993 there was archie, FTP, telnet, IRC, NNTP, and a bunch of other text-based utilities and protocols to use on the internet. IRC (internet remote chat) and NNTP (net news -- forums) were the fun ones.
I guess it was ~1992 when I started using the internet at my university as a CS grad student. They had a modem bank so we were able to get a console from home.
Around late '93/early '94 I remember asking fellow students and faculty in an SGML class what these *.htm files were for on a server.
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