This has been doing the rounds but I thought I'd link to it in any case. In January 1995, Internet World published its "Best and Worst of 1994" along with predictions for 1995. You can read the article here. If you remember Canter & Siegel, Gopher, setting up SLIP, alt.rec.somethingorother, cancelbots, or Netcom Netcruiser, this link
is for you.
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I loved this:
"Favorite telnet, FTP, and especially Gopher sites" is incomprehensible to 97.8% of Web users now. I feel old. :(
Am I really that old?? I'm only 32 and haven't even thought of Telnet in years, even though my first 2-3 years on the net was spent using it exclusively.
I think Telnet is my generation's version of "You children have it so easy! Back in my day......... "
I also liked how prominently Usenet is mentioned.
Most netizens today have never even heard of Usenet.
-Rob
I'm struck that "the more things change, the more they stay the same". Yeah, Gopher seems gone, and FTP has largely been absorbed into the WWW. But Usenet is still around, so standardized that it lost its trademark and became generic "newsgroups". (And Google indexes it!) And if telnet is mostly irrelevant, so are line settings and shell accounts (to all but a few UNIX diehards).
Spam and security are still raging problems, and usage continues to expand to fill bandwidth, "Newbies" are still clueless, sometimes in public. Even so, E-mail is going strong, with less sophisticated users tossing around megabyte-sized passalongs. (Hi, Mom!) For someone who started before the grand merger of E-mail addressing schemes, the fact that my (late) grandnmother could send me E-mail was pretty impressive.