Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet.Submitted by TriggerTough t3_10kdpgl in newjersey
namean_jellybean t1_j5td7ld wrote
Omg my dad worked for bell / nortel during that time period and told me about the cisco systems team! I remember being the only kid in school with internet at home (what was before 56k, 14kbps?) in like 1991 but it was just ‘message boards’ and was not interesting to any regular people.
TriggerTough OP t1_j5tdthp wrote
Correct!
I had the internet from 1989 as well. All green screen stuff with commands. No real "websites" either. No one wanted to use it. It wasn't "user friendly." It was a "joke" at the time.
Then about 1993 when the WWW hit everyone wanted it. It was not for just "computer nerds" anymore. It sold like hotcakes!
namean_jellybean t1_j5v8qsq wrote
Yes!!! I remember having ‘internet’ at home for a couple years before our school got it. A teacher told me I was lying when I said I had already been had that at home for a while. Didn’t matter to me, it was only him using it anyway (for work? For dorky telecom things? 16 bit naked ladies?) so it’s not like I knew what it was.
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