25th anniversary of the Internet - Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates

25 years www Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates, real estate, appraiser, appraisal

Today is the 25th anniversary of the Internet which began March 1989. The first website was made in 1991. I remember my first email account in 1994. It was numbers. I made one of the first real estate websites from raw html code at http://www.MaryCummins.com. We didn't have html editors back then. There weren't even classes to learn html. You had to learn as you went. #web25

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The Internet was incredibly slow. I think the baud rate for dialup was 9600 then 14400 then 28800 then 56000 then high speed cable by 1999. We would not let a start page be over 50K in the beginning because of load rate. It was too slow to really surf or load photos. Video was years off because everything was so slow.

Our first printers in 1984 were dot matrix with the wide paper with holes on the sides. First computer I worked on in high school was an Apple 3c. We learned TTY, CRP and DOS.

In college we had an intranet at the University of Southern California. We had to go to the library to log on. In 1984 was the beginning of phone answering machines. These things were huge like an old VCR.

Finally 1998 things started to speed up. My first computer I bought at Best Buy. My second I built myself from components. Now it's cheaper to buy them bundled with software and services. Back then we had huge bulky monitors with towers under the desk.

In 1999 I beta tested Google search engine. I knew it was the future. Yahoo, AOL, Altavista search were not as streamlined. They were a homepage with a search engine. You couldn't search a specific website or search minus words.

My first defamation lawsuit for my online posts was 2000 I think. My case set case precedent for Internet Law which was in its infancy. My second defamation lawsuit was 2002 I think. That case also set case precedent for deep linking and trademark issues.

We have come a long way in 25 years. Where are we headed for the next 25 years? I predict more people working from home, less commuting. Online video meetings, conferences, schooling will increase. Business travel should decrease. More litigation can take place with phone, online hearings, digital filing of documents. More books, textbooks, images, music will be available free online to view or download onto an iPad, iPhone or saved to a cloud. I'm basically just predicting more of the same.

Information on the inventor of the Internet (No, Al Gore did not invent the Internet), Sir Tim Berners-Lee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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