Aussie Geek Podcast #50 :: The Internet is for Geeks
Welcome to the AGP Episode 50!
We have a great show lined up. This is a special edition of the show with appearances from some special guests and a heap of fun! We take a step back in time with cuts from very old shows with Dr Evil as well as the first edition of the Mac Lab Rat - that’s Keith’s first podcast!
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Show Notes
Welcome
Special: The Internet is for Geeks
Links to Some of the Stuff that we Mentioned
Farewell
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Featured Music
Blame Herne… well and truly… seriously Herne!
Don’t Stop Believing - HD - Acappella Multitrack
By: Vance Perry
"I Want To Be a Celebrity"
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Congrats on the 50th show, guys!
I started out writing Fortran on punch cards and then I moved up to using the Commodore PET in the school library. Around 1984 I bought my first Commodore 64 with a 300 Baud modem, and then set up my own BBS a couple of years later. I went through a few modems… 300 Baud, 2400 Baud, 14.4, then I got a 54k modem. From the C64 I moved up to the Amiga2000 where I surfed the Internet using the Lynx text browser! It used to take me 30 minutes just to download and compile your average JPG image, so porn was teeeedious! ;P
In 1999 I got me first “PC,” a Pentium II I think. I remember it had a HUGE 12GB hard drive…
I tried to leave this in audio - but can no longer find your link to do that. Anyway, thanks for the great trip down memory lane. And the music at the end was perfect for the tone of the show.
First: the past - skipping quickly through the years. I had been on connected computers at work - and then there was the personal computer.
Finally, we had one on most of our desks at work.
Then, I wanted to talk to people around the world online. I found discussion lists.
Remember those days? There were hellish digital fights back and forth.
Then, came the first graphical user interface - Mosaic.
That was where everything Internet took off. More and more websites came online.
That’s when I started following certain personalities who took up the baton and developed their tech websites - then came the first podcasts.
I also remember the first cell phones. It was cool to see a guy walking down a street in Washington DC holding a brick to his ear - actually talking to someone while moving!
Then (skip some more years), I went to get a new cell phone - and I asked for something that would do Internet as well as calls. They said there was nothing like that.
Not more than a year later, the first smartphones came out.
Now, the future: Eventually, barring some planet-wide catastrophe, and I have been saying this since before you guys were born - but most of you are into sci-fi - so this is not so strange (although still repugnant to most of us) - we will all be chemically hooked into a world - ahh, computer - for lack of a better word.
All our thoughts will be read chemically; we will all know what others are thinking, eating, breathing. But here is the really scary part. Into a vacuum, there always steps a person/entity who wishes to exercise control. Someone or something will monitor all these electronic/chemical impulses and filter them, possibly control them. Will this happen before actual humans move out to explore the stars, I don’t know. Liking the idea of the free will of the lone wolf - I hope there will still be independent thinkers changing history. Ciao, Brie
Hey guys,
Just got through listening to EP50 of the AGP - congratulations!
This brought back some memories for me listening to the screech of my first modem (2400bps) as I dialled up the local BBS’ - but only after 9pm in case anyone called.
Unlike most others, I missed out on the Commodore/Amiga bandwagon, instead I ended up with a Dick Smith unit as my first computer. Think of the Tandy TRS-80, but without the colours! Loading games off tapes was excruciating, particularly when the tape had stretched and you weren’t sure it would load.
Like you Dave, the first IBM PC I had access to was the XT my parents purchased. It was on this I learnt the ultimate rule - command.com is GOD. And you don’t delete it when you are cleaning up space on the massive 10MB HDD.
Anyways, great work on the show.
Cheers,
Matt.