DEC VT100 displays the world's first ever website using an acoustic coupler at 300bps

The computer museum "Musée Bolo" at the EPFL campus in Lausanne, Switzerland - which took part in "La Nuit des Musées" 2014 on Saturday, September 27th, 2014 from 2:00 p.m. to 0:00 - did exhibit several machines celebrating their anniversary this year, including the Sinclair QL (see www.qlis30.org.uk) and the Apple Macintosh. In addition one could have a rendez-vous with a CRAY-2, an IBM Blue Gene/P, a DISER Lilith, a NeXT Computer and many others.
Equipment:
DEC VT100 data terminal, 1977
Zellweger telephone, 1934
Acoustic coupler, 300bps, 1975
Lynx text mode web browser
NeXT computer
CERN web server by Tim Berners-Lee
Stories
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2014-08-30
Connexion à Internet à 300 bauds
• Video
2014-09-28
Nuit des musées 2014
www.abcm.ch/wp...
Links
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plus.google.co...
bolo.ch/?en&infos
virtual.bolo.ch
www.abcm.ch/
fr.wikipedia.or...
en.wikipedia.or...
www.lausanne-to...
www.lanuitdesmu...
www.ibm.com/new...
www.bolo.ch/dos...
www.lausanne.ch...
greenbyte.ch/14...
Scene filmed on Saturday September 27th 2014 using my Panasonic HC-V727 Camcorder in Full HD format (AVCHD Progessive 1080/50p).
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I created this video with the KZbin Video Editor ( / editor .
YTVE project: 2014 09 27 Bolo DEC VT100 connects to worlds first website on a NeXT Computer 30498 3m09s - AUTOSTAB
This is the third of a series of videos shot at that evening. Watch out for videos, stories and pictures which will be published in the days to come.

[@alanbourke4069]

I started programming in college on VT100s connected to a VAX-11/780. 15 minutes for a Pascal program to compile if the lab was busy. And after 3 hours typing on that sprung keyboard your hands *knew* they'd been typing.

[@TheYassel22]

I love that key tapping sound. So lovely...

[@boblake2340]

My first job was with DEC. 13 years of my life, and the best.

[@oibal60]

I used a VT100, off a VAX 11/780, back in 1983. The numberpad, if memory serves me, had 'function' keys for EDT.

[@daffyduk77]

They were a huge improvement on the VT52, which sucked, the VT100 does trigger nostalgia for me too, using them with PDP-11s then VAXes

[@clangerbasher]

Super!

[@gman83090]

The DCE VT 100 terminal, notoriously linked to the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine's fatal malfunction due to faulty programming code."

[@paniczgodek]

Can I use a few seconds of your footage in a video presentation that I'm making?

[@RetroGamerVX]

Great, I've done similar in the past with my adds regent 25 :o)

[@daffyduk77]

Adds terminals sucked

[@angelicoctahedron3646]

Why is it so slow if it runs at 38400 bauds?

[@sammaniotes]

Its not running at 38400bps because early modems would transmit 1 bit per baud, so a 300 baud modem would transmit 300 bits per second. This was slower than the speed of an average human typing, which explains the performance you noticed on the screen when the information was being displayed.