He added to the website: “The web, back in ’92 and ’93, was exclusively used by physicists.
Please I remember me and my young friends were looking for free nude pics LOL.
In 1992, I graduated from college. It was the era of 9.6k and 28k dial up modems.
The naked photos took a while to load, but were well worth it.
Yeah, that's a joke. Tons of non-physicists (including myself) were already using telnet to access Usenet newsgroups and other BBS (GEnie, Compuserv etc.) and University systems and using gopher for downloading files.
The WELL, and it's NY-based cousin ECHO were also very active online communities by then.
The MUD world was in full swing, with people building and adding to "You are in a dark room with a single door" sort of adventures like wildfire, complete with dodgy virtual hookups with AIs and other users. All Sims later did was create similar add-on worlds with a graphic interface.
Web was a natural and pretty much immediate add-on to so many people using all of the above.
And there were clearly at least as many other people than physicists online since the late '80s.
I think the CERN physicist quoted above was way out of touch with anything other than his online physics microcosm and that the article was written by someone not familiar with the online scene until the mid or late '90s and without context for a reality check.
Article author, and interviewee, may very well have been born in 1992.
I think i was just past elementary school and started junior high lol. me and my friends were looking for nudes and back then gopher was slight still better than web. and took a few years for the web to take off. gopher died about the same time web took off.
took a god damn long time for pics to load the. i hated the type that loads the picture a little at a time like a strip tease LOL.
I was the go to porn guy back in junior high sold them :p. made money. I was a poor guy but know where money was lol.
I think the guy didn't want to be talking about porn on the early net lol. he just probably wanted to make the good ole days good :p.
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