1994: 'What Is the Internet?'
NBC Fires Employee for Posting 'What Is the Internet' Clip
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An NBC worker who posted old footage from the "Today" show of the hosts wondering, "What is the Internet anyway?" has been fired, the network confirmed, saying the person had a history of distributing material without permission.
The footage, in which Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel and Elizabeth Vargas try to figure out the Internet and e-mail addresses, made the rounds via said Internet last week, posted and re-posted to Facebook pages and sent via e-mail.
Filmed in 1994, the clip features Gumbel demanding, with a befuddled expression: "What is the Internet anyway?" and Couric stumbling to define it as: "that massive computer network, the one that's becoming really big now."
Comment: I was using the Internet back then but it was in it's infancy. I had a Prodigy account. As I recollect we had a 9600 baud modem. Click article link for video.
That's a great clip.
ReplyDeleteMy first experience with the internet wad as I started college in 1995...we could connect in the dorms at 14400. I communicated with my family via email - they had an AOL account they used with their 2400 baud modem.