So I was 29 when it was invented. Probably 34, 35 when I started using it. I certainly don't ever remember wishing there was one before it existed, and everything seemed to go along just fine without it. Funny old game, innit?

To think I wrote an E-Mail program for use with the CPM OS in 1982

Wookiee
To think I wrote an E-Mail program for use with the CPM OS in 1982

Heh, haven't heard of those good 'ol CPM's in a long time.  One place I worked at in the 80's had three called Tom, Dick and Harry.  When they finally were replaced I heard a story about how they were taken on some fishing trip where they "accidentally" fell overboard...  (Note that I don't condone the dumping, but it did illustrate just how much value was left in those things!)

Only 25, and yet it sometimes acts like a crotchety old bastage trying to run the kids off his lawn.

I think you're confusing the World Wide Web with our Straummy
 
An easy mistake to make, I agree, considering his straumaging skills.
 
 
 
Wait... Steve is only 25?

bitflipper
Jeez, how old does that make me? Anybody else remember what a peaceful place the internet used to be before the world wide web came along?

I came to it when the Fido boards started up getting big! At that time, a friend of mine was working with Cakewalk and Todd Rundgren on some computer stuff already.

Wow... incredible. It always amazes me when I take note of how much things have changed in such a short time.
Yesterday there was a news story about some politician who wants to ban the use of some new .**** in particular .sucks, they figure that any .sucks site will be used to mock other sites. As long as they use it to mock .gov sites... I see no problem.
 
On a similar note. I always have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that the US "war between the states" ended in 1865, with horse cavalry, some breech loading canon, some repeating rifles but mostly still muzzle loading black powder guns. No airplanes... and THEN... WW II ended in 1945, only 80 years later with the use of an atomic bomb dropped from a huge airplane. What an astonishing advancement in 80 years. It just seems incredible to me. The world existed for millennia using the horse and cart/wagon. Wood and coal for fuel... then in a couple hundred years we are talking in real time to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world.
Yeah, 35 years of  WWW.. it is all incredible to me. We couldn't imagine all we now have even 50 years ago. I wonder what it will be like in another 50 years. I fear privacy will be forever lost sans some apocalypse.
Those airplanes in the 1940s were jam full of vacuum tubes.
 
Here's to WWW !!! Prost!
 
J