Vintage Tech

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Vintage Internet Sound

Kids! You don't know you're born! What with all this broadband coming out of your ears, you probably don't even realise there was a time when internet use involved dialling up to your ISP, and surfing the Web at a sluggish 56k speed. And what's more, it sounded like this. Like I said, you don't know you're born... [Source: TechDigest]

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Mario theme...




What do you get if you cross hip-hop, computer games and classical music?
Watch this video of some beat boxing through a flute whilst doing the Mario theme!

beatboxing flute super mario brothers theme

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...with the hair pulled back,
revealing a rack of cheap networked PCs,
circa 1999.

It pre-dates the Google Master Plan.

Today, Googleplex.

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Apparently, there's a new technological revolution going on in the world right now and it's called the Internet. Have you heard of it? Do you think it will catch on?

A Look to the Past: The Internet

The network gained a public face in the 1990s. On August 6, 1991 CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few Web pages at CERN.

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PSA (Public Service Announcement) from 1992
against illegal copying, with a rapper singing

"Don't Copy that Floppy!"

How funny it is that the argument is the same now as it was back then. Get ready to laugh.