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| HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY!!! |  | Category: Misc
Thursday, May 17th, 2001 @ 10:26 pm
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 Ya, you may read the title and think this is another self gratifying birthday celebration on my part, but its not. For most of you, whom I know reads slashdot, you already know; its the World Wide Web's 10th Birthday today. Now, haven't been on it that long, I was still into BBS's in those days, but around 92-93 I started dabbling in it by proxy through said BBS's and getting into email and the such (which I know was created long before the WWW). Its hard to imagine May of 91', I was a freshman looking forward to a long summer with no girlfriend to speak of and armpits that barely had hair in them. The Doors movie had just come out and I was all jazzed about it due to the fact that all my musical influences before then had been classic rock. Man, that was long ago.
So, today at work, I started thinking of things that I was really excited about back when I first started using the internet in earnest (which would lie in the area of 94'), back when only super geeks who could compile NCSA Mosaic on unix could see the WWW for what it graphically looked like, and the rest of us scrubs relied on lynx to help us envision it through the world of ASCII.
Jason had told me about webcams then, and one night I spent countless hours searching for different ones, although "different" isn't the term I would use, most were fishtank cams because there was still a "geek stigma" back then and no one in their right mind would show their computer dorky ass face on a camera. In lynx (the text based web browser) you would basically find the page with the link to the cam image, download the image, then shell to dos and load up and image viewer and look at it. If it was a cam that was updated often and you wanted to see the progress; you would go through this procedure every 30 seconds or so to see what changed. Man, sounds like shit now, but back then, it was like seeing what the future was going to be like.
So in honor of this, I did a little search to see where the webcam genre was like these days... man was I surprised.
This is a LIVE, MOVING camera at Times Square in New York. Due to its live nature, you have to time share it a minute at a time with everyone else looking at it, but it rocks! You can move it around, zoom, pan, everything! This is the same sort of thing, but a plethora of cams, all with the same functionality, but it just gets still pictures. Somehow it seems cooler, but not (be sure to check out the ITEC contruction site, boring but has a lot of people and shit running around and doing constuction). For a list of different cool cams, check out this site. It's chock full of shit like that.
Well, that's about it. Happy B-day WWW. You've gone a long way in 10 years.
On a side note, I'm Number 1 in searches for 'Vulva Pump' on Google.
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