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How well do you know the internet.....
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 3:33 am
by waynemorgan
Just reading
http://www.news.com.au and found a quiz relating to the internet being around 40 years. Thought I'd take a shot at it.....WAY too much time on my hands....and apparently for most of my life
Re: How well do you know the internet.....
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 3:52 am
by mike-s
direct page for it is
here. Shame they don't give an actual rating as a number, but i think i *may* have beaten you. Also would like to know which ones i got wrong without having to look them up.
Here's mine.
- mygeekrating.PNG (77.05 KiB) Viewed 974 times
Re: How well do you know the internet.....
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 10:29 am
by Smitty
no surprise here
I was using what was the predessor to the internet (aarpNET from memoryor something similar) at Uni
....in 1975
Connection was via dial up phone in a sound proof box
Re: How well do you know the internet.....
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 12:20 pm
by mike-s
im surprised they didn't include bbs's in that list as that was the major thing to preceed the internet as it curently stands for most people
Re: How well do you know the internet.....
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 12:31 pm
by waynemorgan
I used to run a BBS many years ago - 300bps modem on a computer with a 20mb hard drive. Online games and all
My first experience with the internet was via my upgraded modem - 1200/75 baud. Now that was some serious speed!
Re: How well do you know the internet.....
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 3:02 pm
by aardvark
I think I'm going to go outside and play now.... maybe forever..