The Throwback-E-mailing in 1984

[Djole123]

I'm making a new segment called "The Throwback", in which we'll get some tech sources from back in the day!

 

 

So, I just saw something quite unusual. Internet in 1984!

 

Thames TV was digging through their archives, and they found a tape in which was shown some very obscure type of internet. 

 

It shows a BBC Micro connected to a modem and dialing up, connecting to a network service and emailing. 

 

Let the video speak itself:

 

 

 

 

Source: 

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/how-to-send-an-email-in-1984-1764379236

[Howlingwolf101]

my l33t hacking skills tell me his personal password is "1234"

[suicidalfranco]

top kek at: "is it a very simple connection to made?"

"it is extremely simple" 

[Djole123]

14 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

top kek at: "is it a very simple connection to made?"

"it is extremely simple" 

Like

 

1984:

 

1) Unplug the telephone line and connect the modem

2) Go to a program for making connection

3) Dial the computer through the actual phone

4) Connected

 

2016:

 

1) Plug in the ethernet cable

2) Connected

[xwrench3]

wow.i didn't have a computer back then. my first " computer" was a Tandy 1000 TL, which turned out to be a glorified word processor. i do not even know if it had a modem card in it to connect to the phone. i was so excited to get a computer, that i spent a week building a massive computer desk for it.  it took me about 2 months to figure out what a heap of rubbish it really was. when we moved from that house, the entire computer went into the rubbish.

[Neroglance]

I remember my first computer was a Packard Bell with a 100mhz processor somewhere around 8mb of ram and a super small hard drive.  It ran Windows 95 and I remember dial up like it was yesterday.  If you had one phone line like we did you caused either incoming calls to boot you off the Internet if you had call waiting or if you didn't have call waiting they would get a busy tone.  Web pages took a good minute or two to load on a 56k modem.  Games were mostly in DOS so you would have to load up DOS and do command prompts to load some games and others were Windows 95.  How far we have come from those days to gigabyte Internet and always connected where a computer then was a luxury to now it's a necessity for job applications, school work, and so on.

[lonewolf5460]

9 hours ago, Neroglance said:

I remember my first computer was a Packard Bell with a 100mhz processor somewhere around 8mb of ram and a super small hard drive.  It ran Windows 95 and I remember dial up like it was yesterday.  If you had one phone line like we did you caused either incoming calls to boot you off the Internet if you had call waiting or if you didn't have call waiting they would get a busy tone.  Web pages took a good minute or two to load on a 56k modem.  Games were mostly in DOS so you would have to load up DOS and do command prompts to load some games and others were Windows 95.  How far we have come from those days to gigabyte Internet and always connected where a computer then was a luxury to now it's a necessity for job applications, school work, and so on.

I was lucky We had multiple phone lines one to my aunts room one for grandpas faxes one for the regular house number and one for aol, big family not rich. It evolved so quick dial up, dsl ,Ftn and cable I am at 100mbs and they are talking about 500mbs for my area in this video baud was the measurement lmao. I had some old hp with a 200mhz celeron. My dad made me read up on computers because he bought a bunch of stuff and could not get it to work, and I built my first pc. Intel P3 1ghz intel mobo and a 3dfx voodoo 5 5000 or 6000 with a whopping 20gb hard drive seemed like so much space. That was the shit when I was 10 played flight simulator so much.

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

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