Internet History?

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Ok who what when?

I hear the US Milatry first used internet

My sisters boyfriend had the Very First Macintosh release (can anyone give model number?) that was able to sign into the airport and book his ticket

But when did the internet become public and popular?

I know prices were even high for dialup in early days and broadband started expensive then reduced prices.

So was the US the first to use internet? Did it go World Wide quickly?

I'm 38 and missed any major release of the internet, so any info may straighten my brain out, ta :)
 
Internet access _costs_ were very different depending on where you lived. For many, many years I had heard of US citizens being able to use free cost local phonecalls to connect to their ISPs, while I paid a hillufalot per hour.

The history is ArpaNet (not TCP/IP yet! US Military -> Universities) -> Internet (TCP/IP) for the USA, but basically, one shouldn't forget that there were other online services before the 'net as we know it today. There was a time when CompuServe wasn't part of the internet, really, and there were BBSs as well as interconnected BBSs (fidonet) etc. for quite a while. I remember using those text-based BBSs as well as the later GUI stuff (TeleFinder on the Mac, for example). The World Wide Web (as in: hyperlink connected "webpages") was invented at CERN in Switzerland, so one can't just say "the internet is a US invention". But this really asks for links. Why not just read up on it on wikipedia, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet ...
 
bobw said:
First Mac was the Lisa Macintosh XL introduced January 1983 for $9,995.00

Internet History and History
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Lisa wasn't a macintosh ( although on the same principle, gee wonder who is lucky enough to have one now), but the release as a Macintosh I'm asking about. Little black and white screen, so cool, he had a device where we had to sit very still to take a snap of us LOL
And Road Runner was so cool then, liked it beter then any other games at the the time where I was hopeless at LOL

And fryke, haven't read the wiki yet, to think yes, banks were connected and social security places too, when we never even heard the word internet, is that what you are saying?

It's actually interesting to ask this, because who does ask, a lot of people are just gunna think it's been around for ever, like TV/microwaves/computers etc.
 
According to MacTracker, LISA was the code name for the Macintosh XL. Probably changed after the 128K was introduced as just 'Macintosh".
The first Macintosh was the 128K (Jan 1984)
 
But those wouldn't be the people who look things up, right? It's not as if the history of the internet is in any way "hidden" or "secret". You get a lot of information by googling "history internet", "history tcp/ip" etc., and there are books about it, too.

And no, I didn't mean banks and social security places specifically. I just meant that there were networks before the internet. Dial-up BBSs (bulletin board systems) with subjects of right about anything (fantasy book fanclubs, hacking, macs, probably about horse-riding, too...). Those early BBSs weren't interconnected, so you _actually_ dialed the phone number of a modem at someone's house with the server computer (which probably was just another home computer, too...). Some had only one modem, so only one user could connect (besides the sysop who was _at_ the serving computer), others used multiple phone lines etc. Then people started interconnecting BBSs in various ways. With fidonet you could actually write messages to users of other BBSs that took days, weeks, months before reaching the final recipient, because the BBSs weren't always connected and the messages had to find their ways to the system the user was actually connected to.

And: TVs/microwaves/computers weren't around forever either. The internet _is_ after all merely another technology that was added in the 20th century, just like the ones just mentioned.
 
Yep, can't really count the Macintosh XL as the first Mac, since that was basically just another Lisa.

According to apple-history.com: [ http://www.apple-history.com/body.php?page=gallery&model=lisa&performa=off&sort=date&order=ASC ]

"In January 1985, the Lisa 2/10 was renamed the Macintosh XL, and outfitted with MacWorks, an emulator that allowed the Lisa to run the Mac OS. The XL was discontinued later that year."

So, it was merely a Lisa 2/10 which *after* the Macintosh's introduction tried to "live on", although Lisa's days were already numbered, because the Macintosh was far more popular.
 
The one little fact I like about the WWW is that the first browser was made on a NeXT computer, obviously in Objective-C!

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html

Also at the bottom I found this:
At the time, the "X" close box was unique to NeXT, before Windows copied it. The broken X in the "Tim's home page" window means that the document has been edited and not yet saved. (A "dirty" flag).
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I didn't know that NeXT was the first OS to have the X for closing out a window..
 
kainjow said:
I didn't know that NeXT was the first OS to have the X for closing out a window..
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Once more thing MS stole for it's Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/etc,etc. operating systems. ;)
 
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