She's A Beauty
A news story that I read this week announced that the internet, as we know it, turned 20 this week. Internets, in the strict sense, existed prior to that but the World Wide Web came into existence this month 20 years ago. The funny thing is that about that same time I was taking my first computer course in school and everything we did was done on actual floppy discs. We were writing codes to perfrom functions that you could do a hundred times quicker on a regular calculator. Nevertheless the speed of the web world was soon obvious. A short 3 or 4 years later I distinctly remember being at the Harriet Irving Library on campus and noticing two new computer stations tucked away in a corner of the library. A small sign said they were specifically for web browsing and were limited to 30 minute sessions per student. Normy and I spent hours clicking and waiting, and waiting, and waiting for news on my Dolphins and his Bengals. ESPN was the first site I remember offering rich graphics and all of it was best seen on Netscape. One night while taking up my spot for sports news I saw the user next to me with a blank screen except for a small window minimized in the corner. On that screen was the real reason for the web's boom: porn. He was slyly browsing a porn site and I couldn't believe is audacity. And how I envied him.
Within a couple of years you were in the stone ages if you didn't have a computer (or two) at home and before too long clicking and waiting became a thing of the past. Hi-speed internet is nearly universal (and sometimes free) and the ways in which we use the web continue to evolve. The staggering rate at which information is now exchanged is hard to fathom and makes me wonder how the hell people used to work. But I digress. This post was meant to celebrate the birth of that glorious "series of tubes" that allow me to get me (over)fill of random sports news and surf for porn at the snap of a finger.
And with a snap of my finger I give you the perfect marriage of porn, random sports, and various tubes:
That right there is what the internet is for.
Happy Birthday!
Pace out.
Labels: Flashback Friday
posted by Vitamin S @ 4:10 p.m.
2 Comments:
You forgot to mention the wonderful horrors of the internet like 2girls1cup, tub girl, and of course lemonparty.org which are all important merits of the internet.
ahhh, good times.
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