A "web page', as it is technically called...

[Sergeant Pluck]

This leaves me gobsmacked. It's not that so much has changed since 1994, really, more that the time has passed so quickly.

https://twitter.com/AngryChrisH/status/356161414760640513/photo/1

[Pancho]

I'm left dazed by the passage of time and the speed of tech.

As a boy I was a sci-fi fan and a 1980s bedroom hacker (acoustic coupler and all). At first felt I was in my element; my future was actually happening. But reality has overtaken my 15 year old's imagination now. I look around society and technology and feel that I live in a (rather dystopian) comic book.

And, yeah, where did the years go?

[Rhys W]

I remember writing a piece for the club newsletter in about 1995  about the handful of cycling websites I'd discovered, I think one of them was about the Tour. Before then it was all rec.bicycles.racing...

[robgul]

PRESTEL ran a primitive news service that had some cycling stuff (can't remember the provider) back in the mid-1980s - all text and a few very blocky graphics using the Teletext style display format.

What goes around comes around - conceptually the WWW is not really much more than a better presentation (with more interaction) of videotex/viewdata that we had in the UK as PRESTEL and the French had with their MINITEL terminals - they were both around in about 1981/82.

Ah, nostalgia.

Rob

[hazeii]

Of course, one (good) difference between Minitel/Prestel and the Internet is that you don't need to spend a bunch of money and deal with a pile of bureaucracy to get your service online.

[Pancho]

Even  in 1200/75 days, you had a range of free[1] and subscription "bulletin boards".

I used to hang around here a lot:

[1] Apart from prohibitive telephone bills. I have a strong belief that my parents sent me away to school as it was probably cheaper than the phone bill had I stayed at home.

[Jaded]

Prestel had Micronet had Shades.

Which some members here may remember 

[hazeii]

Guilty as charged.

Still online too (ah, if only I'd done the other 49....).