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Nerd of Mouth

Holiday Bonus - The Beginnings of the Internet

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7606 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We've been wrestled away from the studio to spend time with our families, but we couldn't help but to give you a little Wizbru. Please enjoy this bonus episode from our Patreon on the earliest days of the internet.    Did we convince you? Come on over to the Patreon, it's fun and you help out the show!    Los Angeles! Chicago! Pontiac! Milwaukee! You don't want to miss our winter tour with Page 7. Get your tickets here!

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, it's me Jake here to let you know that this holiday week for Thanksgiving, Holden and I are going to be spending time with our families, and so we decided to not release a regular episode as usual. But, you know, not going to leave you hang in, so we're actually going to put out this episode from the archives of our Patreon bonus feed. And hey, if you got a long flight coming up, maybe you just need that hit of

0:21.5

WhizBrew Energy in your life and haven't signed up for the Patreon yet, only $5 will get you

0:26.5

access to hours and hours of bonus content that you've never heard before. So, you know,

0:32.4

maybe now's a good time to check it up. Just go to patreon.com slash whizbrew and see if it's right for you.

0:38.8

Anyway, everyone have a great holiday. Be thankful and we'll see you next week. In the year 3,000,

1:04.4

With America Online, you can access sports, games, and all the latest news. Even ladies, go shopping.

1:11.4

In the year 3,000!

1:15.5

Only comp you serve has full access of the Encarta Digital Library.

1:19.9

That's right, everything from Ardvark to Zay.

1:24.0

I mean, this is just going to age us so completely this conversation right now.

1:30.0

But I thought it-

1:30.5

Our goal of the, listen, if you don't look down at your hands and see them actively turn to dust and bones as we talk, we didn't do our job right on this episode.

1:39.6

Right, right.

1:40.2

This is us essentially just playing with the hilarious concept that we saw sort of the internet begin.

1:49.9

I know Jake keeps saying this is not the beginning of the internet, that we got the internet well into the internet.

1:56.0

And Jake, what do you mean by that?

1:58.4

I just mean that, like, from, that, like like we think that we saw the internet begin, but there

2:04.3

really is like an even older generation connected on 8-bit computers and like weird

2:09.1

Usnet groups and muds and all this fucking crazy stuff that us us young Sprite baboos with our

2:16.7

America online and Prodigy servers. you know, we got to see the sanitized people-friendly version.

2:24.2

There's some grizzled digital warriors that we're not, that's not even within our wheelhouse.

2:28.1

So I have a friend and I'm actually having a weird wash of memory in terms of exactly what friend this was, but I'd have a distinct

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