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Tik-Tok - I would STRONGLY advise that you get the hell off it if you're on it.
- Thread starter LePsyber
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Agreed, fkn crazy!
The problem is that tik-tok is taking over from Instagram. It's not so easy to just say "bah this is for kids" when it's not.
Guess you can call me old fashioned. Always considered taking a million pictures of yourself and making prance around videos to be a bit on the feminine side or for children. Im in my early thirties, when i ask my buddys if they have tik tok i get laughed at.
Oh trust me, I agree fully. Things used to be soooo much better than tik-toks and twitters and whatever the crap Trump uses to abuse civility.
Try starting on the internet before pictures. Before Netscape 1.0. When all we had were the base protocols that the internet actually works on top of.
Everything works on top of TCP/IP.
It's not a protocol however I would say that without it, like TCP/IP, there is no internet. DNS-Domain Name Service turns Canadianbrawn.com into a place on to a much more secure and protected content delivery called CloudFlare. Our base ip on CF is 104.26.2.140. With no DNS, we'd all need to know 104.26.2.140 to get to this site because DNS is a database that sites use to make their names user friendly. In Chrome or MS Edge, we enter www.canadianbawn.com, our browser checks DNS and pow, it sends us to something computers understand which is 104.26.2.140.
Other protocols, some which operate along with browsers and email software and some which are there for old purists to use.
SMTP-Mail which still operates just like it did fifty years ago, it's just our email does all the nasty business for us.
This is how you used to have to send an email (more or less, there are some other commands but you need these base ones). Every email required you to type these commands before you could even send a message.
HELO: Introduce yourself
EHLO: Introduce yourself and request extended mode
MAIL FROM: Specify the sender
RCPT TO: Specify the recipient
DATA: Specify the body of the email
Imagine that on a command line, generally in DOS or some sort of unix variant operation system that you needed to type those five commands every single time you send an email. No clicking send in outlook or on a web based email service. Just typing those before typing your message. Oh no ugly flashy beepy graphics either. The base SMTP protocol is only text.
FTP - not the one that transfers files from a website to your computer, the basic line one that allowed you to connect to a remote FTP server that had a pile of files you could access to download to your computer.
Gopher - a way for storing and retrieving documents from a server. You had to ask for permission to use them. Often the server was used by acedemics. Gopher was what we had to use before HTML...no flashy beepy graphics, just text based asking or sending of base documents.
Archie - was an advanced FTP that indexed files on FTP servers so you could search for things versus having to know the name of a file first hand.
SNMP - a way to organize the monitoring and management of devices connected to the internet.
There wasn't HTML of course because HTML and it's sister/brother/aunts/uncles is what the world wide web is. It's what people consider the internet despite it not being the internet. FTP works along with HTML to transfer files although FTP.
Anyways, there's a whole lot more protocols or things that operate on top of protocols. My point to this is the internet used to be a much harsher place to live but it was whole lot nicer place to live. Access was granted based on your reputation/the way you behaved. There wasn't some mouthy piece of shit who got on a site and bashed at people's patience because the site operator would just straight on ban their ip address and they were just gone. There were no vpn's-virtual private networks that allowed you to connect to 150 different providers and hide behind a new ip address so if someone got banned, they changed internet service providers or they stayed banned forever. Most stayed banned because changing was a pain in the ass, tended to cost more.
Trust me when I say that a lot of us who were on the internet before HTTP...we were a whole lot happier than we are now that denial of service attacks force sites like this one to use Cloudflare to keep from being DDOS'd or taken down by someone who's pissed off over something. Bull bans some asshole who keeps calling people names or some other reason and POW, they try to take the site down because of their own actions versus just behaving nicely.
The people were NICE before HTML and not treating other's like garbage all because they CAN treat people like garbage. It was peaceful and it worked....albeit harder to use. If it wasn't for nice things like this chat box in HMTL, I'd beg for the world to smash HTML and force people to be nice again.
OH, if you ever want to see a little bit about what happens to allow parts of a chat like this(they hide the real goodies in scripts) or what your email server/web server are really doing to make it EASY to use the internet, generally there is a Developer Tools area that show you how things work. It's just as NERDY as this post but if anyone ever wants to know anything on how things WORK versus just using them, let me know and I'll show you NERDY heh heh heh.
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