Ooooooold Internet stuff

[KerbonautInTraining]

In the past few weeks I've run across forum posts from 2002 or even 2001. I have no idea how the websites have stayed up all this time but they're still here. 

What's the oldest post/website you've ever seen? (other than the glitched 1969 posts)

Edited April 5, 2016 by KerbonautInTraining

[Dartguy]

I've been a member of VW Vortex since the late 90's.  And I think a fishkeeping forum, too.  The oldest posts I recall seeing were from the mid 90's.

[tater]

2001 is old? LOL.

Old would be USENET groups, back when the signal to noise was better because no one was on the net who wasn't a science or engineering person.

[Tex Mechs Robot]

so a corollary to this question might be "what is the oldest website/post that you can find right now?"

EDIT: I give you the official Space Jam website from 1996

http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

Edited April 5, 2016 by Tex Mechs Robot

[cantab]

Yeah, Usenet goes way back. The Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate in 1992 comes to mind for me. Highlights included "Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix." (Torvalds to Tanenbaum) and "Be thankful you are not my student.  You would not get a high grade for such a design [of Linux]." (Tanenbaum to Torvalds).

But if you want really old, well RFC 1 written before ARPANET, the ancestor of the internet, even existed.

[katateochi]

While is isn't all that old (2006) I'm amused that a decade later it's still spinning away, doing pretty much nothing - http://leekspin.com/

 

1 hour ago, cantab said:

But if you want really old, well RFC 1 written before ARPANET, the ancestor of the internet, even existed.

that is kinda definitively old, as in it had to exist before the internet could exist!

[KerbonautInTraining]

1 hour ago, cantab said:

 RFC 1 

Those documents turn 47 this Thursday 

[tater]

92? LOL. I was thinking about the early-mid 1980s.

[cantab]

Meanwhile, from practically yesterday, a paltry five years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111119110834/http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=22998

[HebaruSan]

Playing a trivia game with family recently, we had to guess when the first email was sent. Family was shocked by the answer (and not nearly as excited as I expected by RFC 822).

[legoclone09]

AirsoftSociety has been around for a while, seen a 6 year necro before. But the oldest post I've seen was from 2004 somewhere. Don't remember anythong but the date.

[cantab]

I remember when you needed a university email address to use Facebook. The good old days, before they let all the riff-raff on

Going back further, I vaguely remember the pre-Google days, when we were searching with stuff like Altavista and Lycos. And Metacrawler that did all the searches or something?

I don't, though, remember Hotmail ever not being awful.

And while it's not part of the internet, I remember Encarta, and the orbits toy/minigame in it. Which in the earlier versions made the planet and moon bounce off each other if they collided!

[razark]

I remember only back to the mid 90s myself, and it's changed a lot since then. I had to use my university account to browse the web in a text-based web browser. (Looking at this site in a text-based browser is just painful.)

Edit:
Ouch.  This is so much better now.
Forum bug report: Quotes don't work properly under the ELinks browser.

Edited April 6, 2016 by razark

[Nibb31]

I have googled stuff that I contributed online back in 1995.

Yep, I've been on the Internet for over 20 years. Back in the days, I used gopher, ftp, email, and usenet on a old Data General terminal. I remember browsing the web with Lynx through a telnet connection.

And then came NCSA Mosaic... I remember writing web sites in HTML and FTPing them to Geocities.

For those interested in history, I suggest using the the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:

https://archive.org/web/

For example, this was NASA's first web site.

This was IBM's first web site.

This was Google.

Edited April 6, 2016 by Nibb31

[Hary R]

The mandatory dial up sound:

 

wow, we were communicating with alien at that time. I will never forget that sound.

[KerbonautInTraining]

7 hours ago, Nibb31 said:

This was Google.

Omg. 

"Index contains ~25 million pages (soon to be much bigger)"

[KerbonautInTraining]

I'm almost tempted to reply to one of these threads... somebody hold me back.

http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4&pp=30&sort=lastpost&order=desc&daysprune=-1&page=8147

[WinkAllKerb'']

1840 ; ) gnagnagna xDr

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/networking/19/406

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[tater]

I've been on the net so long I've never had an email address that wasn't just my first name @, and that includes the iCloud address on my phone, lol.