Internet fifteen years of internet

[fort]

As the title says :

http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/...ernet-un-retour-en-images_1446512_651865.html

 

[Urwumpe]

How stupid is that? I already have Internet access for 16 years here, the Internet protocol is much older, The HTML standard and HTTP are over 20 years old...And since CERN is partially inside France, Le Monde should really know that.

 

[fort]

This is there the inconvenience of a topic of which the link results on a text in French. The commentaries that accompany the pictures do not contradict what you say Urwumpe that of which the reading of the pictures only does not really return counts. I suppose that you read french language but take a little more time for them, you will see.

 

[Urwumpe]

My French is purely virtual... :tiphat:

 

[fort]

...and my English purely insane. As says Hielor about another subject in another topic: that promises...:facepalm:

 

[Urwumpe]

I had French for 4 years at school, and I had been very happy that I was able to strike it from my schedule in year 12... I am not the best in learning foreign languages, and German, English and French had been two too much.

It is not like I didn't like French... you can say the worst news in it and it sounds still lovely. Even the most impolite curses sound poetic in it... contrary to German, in which even the most romantic poems sound like a war chant.

(But the German foreign language has other strengths, if it comes to the sheer expressionism of it. Where other languages draw fine elegant lines in the air with their poetry, the German language creates blueprints.)

 

[Grover]

i did french for 5, and theres no way i could read a fraction of that.

and if you are trying to say "german is similar to french" IE you can understand one better fro knowing the other, i also disagree with that

okay, so maybe languages werent my strong point at school

 

[Ghostrider]

The piece is purely a look back to the last 15 years of teh interwebz, it doesn't claim that it's 15 years old. But from 1995 to 2010 the changes have been way bigger than from 1991 to 1995, style- and content-wise.

 

[Urwumpe]

and if you are trying to say "german is similar to french" IE you can understand one better fro knowing the other, i also disagree with that

I would never claim something like that. But knowing lower Saxon makes it easier to learn English...and likely the other way around.

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The piece is purely a look back to the last 15 years of teh interwebz, it doesn't claim that it's 15 years old. But from 1995 to 2010 the changes have been way bigger than from 1991 to 1995, style- and content-wise.

True... I remember the first AOL CDs... January 2011, my user name will be 15 years old, maybe a reason for a small party, it is just that I don't remember the exact day... :facepalm:

 

[fort]

It is not like I didn't like French... you can say the worst news in it and it sounds still lovely. Even the most impolite curses sound poetic in it...

Is this this reason that does that, for a time, passed, the French was chosen as language of the diplomacy?

( Not to talk about a currently subject somewhat burning...:uhh: )

...contrary to German, in which even the most romantic poems sound like a war chant.

I've read the Niebelungen, Rielke, and certainly others, Heiddeger, Habermas...but, if i remember :hmm:, it was in French translations, so, it's difficult for me to judge

 

[Brycesv1]

took french for 2 years and honestly i still cant really understand or read it very well

 

[Urwumpe]

Is this this reason that does that, for a time, passed, the French was chosen as language of the diplomacy?

( Not to talk about a currently subject somewhat burning...:uhh: )

In the current situation, it would have been wiser to have the diplomatic cables "encrypted" as French language audio files... :lol: I am sure, even the statement "Putin is an alpha male" would sound less unfavorable in French.

I've read the Niebelungen, Rielke, and certainly others, Heiddeger, Habermas...but, if i remember :hmm:, it was in French translations, so, it's difficult for me to judge

Well, you can try it against one of the most often translated German poem...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/de/wiki/Herr_von_Ribbeck_auf_Ribbeck_im_Havelland_(Fontane)

I am pretty sure, even the popular scenes from "Faust" are less often used in schools.

If you need a real challenge...there is a famous folk song version of it:

This is then really for the advanced tongues.

 

[Quick_Nick]

I can still hear the haunting sounds of dial-up. *shudder*
And heh, I found an old Windows user manual with an 8" floppy on my bookshelf.

 

[Wishbone]

Some of us still use dial up after all these years... (used FIDO in the far away past, too)

 

[Ghostrider]

And heh, I found an old Windows user manual with an 8" floppy on my bookshelf.

Can it be that old? I though we were already in the 5.25" HD floppy era with Windows.

 

[fort]

This is then really for the advanced tongues.

Let's nevertheless remain reconciling :lol: ...advanced tongues are my job my survival.

 

[Urwumpe]

Let's nevertheless remain reconciling :lol: ...advanced tongues are my job my survival.

LOL, sounds like a dangerous job. :thumbup:

 

[Izack]

My French is good enough to read that, but don't ask me to say it out loud. :lol:

I've been using the Internet since 1999, but until more recently I was too techno-illiterate to be able to notice much of a difference between then and now. I've been on dial-up until a few years ago when we got highspeed, but I've since gone back down to a transfer speed comparable to dial-up, and similar restrictions on usage, due to several factors. It's amazing what a pile of dirt and a lack of a hole in the wall can do to such technology. :lol:

 

[Quick_Nick]

Can it be that old? I though we were already in the 5.25" HD floppy era with Windows.

Oh, sorry you're probably right. My bad. But it's still about as old as me.

 

[Lucy]

Windows 1.0 came on two 5 1/4" 320KB FDDs (per http://toastytech.com/guis/win1983.html, if you care, the line which indicates the capacity of the disks).

MS-DOS 1.1 would have come on an 8", because the 5 1/4" drive was too new to be widespread at time of release. My research indicates that by MS-DOS 3.0 support for 1.2 MB floppy disks was implemented, which I think would be 3.5" disks.