On August 8, TreasureNet Will BE 20 Years Old

[Simon1]

I vote that would be a good day to try and break old attendance record.

Totally agree ARC1, count me in..

 

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[Msbeepbeep]

There is no holiday in August so this will be ours! HAPPY BIRTHDAY T NET!!!!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

deepseeker ADS, thanx for the nostalgic look back..

In '83, Compuserve had newsgroups for metal detecting, very few and very basic. But we were all using those 300 baud modems, and very few were fortunate to live in a location where the portal was a local call. Today we can post a one meg digital picture in moments, where then it was darned near an hour's upload and download. Digital cameras were not available then, and I didn't buy a scanner until sometime in the early 90's. So, yes, simply because of that there were very few pictures posted, and newsgroups were essentially limited to chit-chat. Internet Explorer was first launched in '95, where Netscape was launched in '94. Prior to that, there were only Telnet, FTP, Gopher, and another or so slipping my mind right now.

Telnet - Introduced in 1968, was a bi-directional communications protocol - We connected with this.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol was introduced in 1971 - I used FTP to bounce around between connected servers
Gopher - Introduced in 1991 as a "search" protocol - Good gracious the things you could find with that!
Mosaic - The first good browser introduced in 1993. There were others prior to that, but Mosaic was the first to take off

With my first dedicated internet connection, we were given these as separate programs, and getting them all together and working properly was in your own hands, not much help available to make it all work. And each program, you have to run separately.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I worked for company that owned UUnet for 10 years, from mid 90s- to about 2005 UUNET built a good portion of the backbone of the internet. Heck with Al Gore I built more of internet than he did....LOL

UUNET, founded in 1987, was one of the largest internet providers and one of the early Tier 1 networks. it was one of the first commercial internet service providers. Today, UUNET is an internal brand of Verizon Business (formerly MCI)

In 1990, UUNET launched its AlterNet service, which provided access to an IP backbone independent of the constraints of those operated by the government. That network lives on in a much larger form and serves as the core of a set of products which include access at dial-up and broadband speeds as well as web hosting.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

To sum this up between TH and I

TreasueNet IS the real deal - the REAL PIONEER!

That they continue to survive and dominate - all others pale - is the true testament as to what TreasureNet is to us today.

They need more charter members! And we all need to really appreciate the free service they provide us otherwise - and follow the rules here, of course

 

[johnnycat]

This a great place! I visit other sites but, I always keep coming back.

 

[WhiteTornado]

Wow, I had no idea T'Net has been around that long! Way to go!!

 

[Bquamb]

I wonder who are the longest active members, aside from you, Treasure!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I wonder who are the longest active members, aside from you, Treasure!

I'm a newbie compared to some members....We have members still here who joined not long after TN started. Mod JeffOfPa I think was one of first 50 to join....

 

[ARC]

I have been popping in here every so often before joining last year since 95.

I will have been a member for one year the day after the 18th.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Here is old TreasureNet webpage from 1996...You can actually click on and read the threads and posts and members on at time snapshot was taken is listed at bottom..

TreasureNet Forum - Index

 

[ARC]

I see Iron patch post... heh

 

[BosnMate]

I hope the mods won't get upset about me using a brand name, but it was for a long time a part of TNet, and that's history, and they aren't here now, but it's how I discovered TNet. I have purchased White's detectors exclusively starting back in the late 60's with a BFO unit. We moved to Oregon, and I went up to Sweet Home and visited White's, went through the museum, found out some things about the BFO, and ended up with a DI Pro 6000. That was all before I owned a computer. My first computer I wasn't on the internet and couldn't email. It was a graphics computer and I could do labels over live analog video with that computer. I remember it had 55K of ram and I purchased two megs of add on memory, and that cost me $700. Eventually in the late 80's or early 90's I discovered MAC video editing, so I upgraded, and as a side benefit the guy helping me get set up put me on the internet. I didn't use the net much even then, it was just to darn slow. But one day I was playing around looking for metal detecting stuff, and found White's web page, and that page was attached to TNet, and I would go there in my spare time --- it had to be spare time because everything was so slow. Then White's left TNet and did their own web page. It wasn't the same, and I stayed with TNet. But I remember the days when it took real time for a picture to down load, some times two or three minutes, maybe even more than that, per photo. Ah yes, the good old days.

 

[SeabeeRon]

I wonder who are the longest active members, aside from you, Treasure!

Hmm, maybe because I am a Mod on another forum, but I can do a membership sort by join date there, but couldn't figure how to do that here.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Hmm, maybe because I am a Mod on another forum, but I can do a membership sort by join date there, but couldn't figure how to do that here.

Can't do it here since new software in 2012...

 

[DeepseekerADS]

When I came back to detecting after too long an absence, I joined another forum to ask questions, and I found nothing really to help. But I did see a lot that discouraged me. I wanted a modern detector versus my 1260X. I figured that had to be very old news and completely outdated. Well, I made a purchase, and chose the wrong one cheapo thingie. On there a few weeks, and Internet searches found TNet.

I haven't been on the other site for a very long time, I can't remember when I went there last.

I found good people here with zero arguments or self righteous crap here. And here I stay. I wish I'd have found TNet earlier, and I wouldn't have wasted green backs on crap detectors.

This site is more than Friendly - it is more Family

You guys are all great, the best I have found.

 

[Keppy]

HAPPY HAPPY..... ... TNET .. Is on fire congrats..

 

[ARC]

Hey I just wanna use this thread to ask a question that has been egging me on to ask...

What ever happened to that Kindle School... the one that got all the free detectors from people here...
And vowed to engage and post the finds ?

Anyone seen or heard from em ?

Did not want to start a thread to ask... and more will see here than another thread.

delete after... or if no response.

 

[flatbutton]

When I came back to detecting after too long an absence, I joined another forum to ask questions, and I found nothing really to help. But I did see a lot that discouraged me. I wanted a modern detector versus my 1260X. I figured that had to be very old news and completely outdated. Well, I made a purchase, and chose the wrong one cheapo thingie. On there a few weeks, and Internet searches found TNet.

I haven't been on the other site for a very long time, I can't remember when I went there last.

I found good people here with zero arguments or self righteous crap here. And here I stay. I wish I'd have found TNet earlier, and I wouldn't have wasted green backs on crap detectors.

This site is more than Friendly - it is more Family

You guys are all great, the best I have found.

Same here

 

[hbeaton]

And just to add a bit of humor, when I did a quick search to see if other forums ever asked the same "origin" question, I did manage to find one and I will post that thread here...if you dont care to read the responses i'll sum it up by saying, the origin question was asked, quickly dismissed, the OP ridiculed for, among other things, having too much time on his/her hands and after about 6 total responses the entire issue was abandoned....

Very telling and maybe a nice underscore to the staying power and active members of TNET.



-H