I just reached the end of the Internet....

I've been online since 1987 but a few minutes ago I think I browsed to the final webpage on the Internet. Cruising through Craiglist a few minutes ago I came across this gem: For Sale

It could be a prank since a phone number is listed but I have to wonder....

LOL that is a true gem.....

That made me lol haha. Nice find! A ltitle off topic but they had the internet in '87? (I was born then which is why I ask )

ni$mo350 wrote in post #13210527
That made me lol haha. Nice find! A ltitle off topic but they had the internet in '87? (I was born then which is why I ask )

Back then, it's BBS with 9600 baud modem

The days of late night IRC

ni$mo350 wrote in post #13210527
That made me lol haha. Nice find! A ltitle off topic but they had the internet in '87? (I was born then which is why I ask )

Hey, a youngun!

Actually, the Internet began as a Department of Defense project in the '60s, then was released to colleges/univerities, so into the '80s had made it into major companies.

The Web got developed in Switzerland, I believe, as a college project. It wasn't until the early '90s that it began popping up over the Internet, at least in any "common" sense.

Windows had not adopted the Internet at the time, although they got up-to-speed, at least by the mid-'90s if I remember correctly.

ni$mo350 wrote in post #13210527
A ltitle off topic but they had the internet in '87? (I was born then which is why I ask )

The Internet has been around for decades: History of the Internet

However, it wasn't until the introduction of the Web browser in 1991 that it really became popular. I became a member of Compuserve in 1987; my account number started with 71234 so you'd know I was one of the really early members.

Back in those days the Internet consisted mostly of bulletin boards and Usenet and Internet Relay Chat for the geeks. If I remember correctly modems ran at around 1200 bps and you were billed by the length of your connection to Compuserve and the speed of the connection. So to save money people would set the modem to really slow speeds.

This was even before AOL existed; I remember companies like Compuserve and Genie providing connections to the internet. I bought an IBM PS/2 computer and it came with coupons for signing up with Compuserve and Genie. When AOL came along in the early '90s we looked down on their users.

Back then buying a PC was like buying a car. You went to a dealer, ordered the computer and it took a day or so for them to configure it with DOS before you picked it up. That PS/2 cost me about $4K so since then I've built my own computers.

Now we all know the dirty little secret behind the phrase "Drop The Chalupa!"

They didn't want people finding the end of the internet so now you're marked man who will forever be hunted by a small but highly-trained special ops team from Liechtenstein tasked with silencing those who've seen "that which should not have been seen."

I'd lay low for a while if I were you...

LOL... I'm tempted to buy it but its about 30 miles from where I am and must be cold by now. I wonder if he's selling the one he's showing in the photo.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #13210656
Now we all know the dirty little secret behind the phrase "Drop The Chalupa!"

They didn't want people finding the end of the internet so now you're marked man who will forever be hunted by a small but highly-trained special ops team from Liechtenstein tasked with silencing those who've seen "that which should not have been seen."

I'd lay low for a while if I were you...

PixelMagic wrote in post #13210688
LOL... I'm tempted to buy it but its about 30 miles from where I am and must be cold by now. I wonder if he's selling the one he's showing in the photo.

Go for it if you're hungry. A second or third nuking won't hurt it . . .

http://www.1112.net/la​stpage.html

At the end of the internet, the answer is "42"

displaced texan wrote in post #13234543
At the end of the internet, the answer is "42"

This.

And I once saw someone selling used children's underwear on ebay. They had been washed and all but I thought it weird and I wouldn't have dreamed of buying them for my kids.

PixelMagic wrote in post #13210487
I've been online since 1987 but a few minutes ago I think I browsed to the final webpage on the Internet. Cruising through Craiglist a few minutes ago I came across this gem: For Sale

It could be a prank since a phone number is listed but I have to wonder....

Well, now that you've seen it all, you have an opportunity to do something else.

Like go outside and discover the real world.