I just got a new AOL email address this morning. Please use that
I wasn't on the net during the heyday and never used AOL.
I joined up around 2003 and got a package from my phone provider and had to put filters on every phone jack in the house and then use a specific dual line from the phone jack to my modem. Guy from work was supposed to come over at 7 after work to help get me on to the internet and he was late, arriving after 9pm.
By then I had it put together/figured out and just dove in headfirst searching from yahoo or some dodgy provider home page.
Yes that was it My phone provider gave you a little home page where you could add and remove little programs like weather, horoscope etc.
I remember going into work the first months after getting onto the net and everyone teased me because apparently I looked tired.
- the internet has an off switch hal
- did you even sleep last night?
- the porn will be there when you turn on your pc next time hal
I heard it all
But they didn't realize that I got tired of the porn/death pics etc within the first couple of weeks. I was absolutely amazed a person could type a question in and find info about almost any subject on the planet
I liked to read and remember discovering that most tech manuals, books, encyclopedias, stories were online in some form.
For example I used to have a monster of a book that reviewed over 1000 movies and would use it before going to the video store. Internet obsoleted that beloved resource in a heartbeat
Teh One Who Knocks (08-13-2019)
Remember when all you had was a 14.4k modem and then the faster and more powerful 28.8k one came out?
I insulted my brother last night. He has the latest and greatest iPhone and wanted to show me a video on it.
Wanna lose my interest real fast? Just search your phone for 10 minutes while I sit there waiting and then make me watch a shitty video.
I watch for about 10 seconds and then hand the phone back to him.
Him - What's wrong?
me - Nothing.
Him - Isn't that a cool video?
me - I have a nice 27 inch monitor downstairs because I still remember watching videos on a shitty little 4 inch screen back in the early 2000's. We've moved on since then and smartphones are just a giant leap backward in that regard.
Him - *pouts*
me-
You're so mean
Teh One Who Knocks (08-13-2019)