Jurassic Web

Slate by Farhad Manjoo | Feb. 24, 2009 (Special Report)
The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today

It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online. Crank up your modem, wait 20 seconds as you log in, and there you are—"Welcome." You check your mail, then spend a few minutes chatting with your AOL buddies about which of you has the funniest screen name (you win, pimpodayear94).

Then you load up Internet Explorer, AOL's default Web ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: Internet, Technology
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Posted by: Posted by David Fox - Feb 26, 2009 - 4:17 PM PST
Reviewed by: David Fox (review), Ezra Fox (review)
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Edited by: David Fox - Feb 26, 2009 - 4:17 PM PST

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David Fox
3.7
 by David Fox - Feb. 26, 2009

Fun, but brief overview of the Internet's evolution over the past decade plus.

Fun to see how far the Web, er World Wide Web, has come in 14 years.

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 by Ezra Fox - Feb. 26, 2009
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