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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva there has been mention of bbses here -- started in on those in 1983-4, so i guess if we are counting that, it would be ~43 years. ðŸ˜
but what i would truly count as internet would have been around 1986-7 when i was using mts(!) and usenet, etc. i think i still have some email around from 1988 approx when i got onto proper un*x system.
Oldest program that can still run: A natural language understanding system that maps English sentences to an integrated semantic graph, which can then answer questions about what it's been told, connecting the dots between different pieces of information. It's about 20 years old now.
Oldest program that other people still run: An implementation of the XCS algorithm, which uses genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning to find the minimal set of rules that map from inputs to outputs reliably in the data set. It's a little over a decade old now. Unlike the NLU system, this one is open source:
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