Hello rtm3039;
What you shared about the original idea and history of the internet is new to me and it's good to know. When I first heard of TCP/IP the internet communication happened so fast in the professional environment.
We didn't have personal internet in our home until 2000, and what we did with it was brought upon ourselves - email, online banking, spreadsheets and documents that could be sent to others, etc...then later video communication like ZOOM and Google Meet.
My first experience with a Christian forum was back in 2004. The sites were so cluttered and some still are today. XenForo software came out about 14 years ago and is what Christian Forum Site uses today.
Thank you for sharing, Ray.
Hey Bob,
I do not recall when we first got internet, but it would have been close to when it was available, as I have always been a "geek" and got int this as soon as possible. I remember having to "dial up" and hearing the now historical "You've Got Mail." So, this would have been very late 1980s or early 1990.
Move forward to 2000 and we get the
"M-DCPS Announces Districtwide School Closures Effective Monday, March 16, 2020." This was initially set for a week, then spring break, then back to normal. We ended up not opening for the rest of the year and, for the following year, we had this dual modality thing where some went back to class and most went on-line. Just to make it more fun, less than a month after starting the dual modality, this happens "
Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth-largest school district in the U.S., faces a barrage of cyberattacks that disrupted virtual classes and locked students and teachers out of the online learning platform. Local police, the FBI, and the U.S. Secret Service probe the matter." It ended up being a 16 y/o student who got the program, for free, from the Dark web. It cost millions of dollars to fix what he broke. He was arrested, but the district decided not to press charges.
At the time I was not in charge of anything but was apparently the only person at the office who knew anything (aka: the Geek). Had to introduce people to what a VPN was, how to use video conferencing (aka: Zoom), had to create a virtual office via Teams, and even had to research available services to get documents signed (DocuSign). The boss at the time did not think this would last, so she left her work PC at the office. Three other people had no reliable internet service. To take events even crazier, the stress was too much for the boss, who resigned via a text message. So, from Marh 17, 2000 until August 18, 2021, it was a struggle between unused software and untrained software users.
So, the moral of the story is that the internet would be a much greater issue, if most people knew just how powerful this tool is.