Neatorama » 2001 http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:10:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How Websites Looked Ten Years Ago http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/20/how-websites-looked-ten-years-ago/ http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/20/how-websites-looked-ten-years-ago/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:12:55 +0000 Joanna Ong http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/20/how-websites-looked-ten-years-ago/

Back in 2001, you’d have to mail in money orders to pay for online shopping. Wikipedia had just launched, and research was probably still done by reading books. Things have changed. What do you remember about the internet ten years ago? (I remember playing Neopets…)

Link -via Look At This

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Why did the HAL 9000 computer sing “Daisy Bell” in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke?

Maybe this video clip, taken from a documentary where Arthur C. Clarke is visiting Bell Labs back in the early 60s, will give you an answer to that question.

Link [YouTube] – via Fanboy

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