The_Kitchen_Guy
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The_Kitchen_Guy said:Well, everyone in Ohio is whining about snow over in the other thread, so I figured maybe we could get them to come out and play with something besides snowmen.
merego said:
Oh whining in Ohio are we??? a bunch of whiners??
I am downing some wine right now, but I am not a whiner :angel:
The_Kitchen_Guy said:It is amazing how quickly our perspectives change...when the first microcomputers came out (they weren't called "personal computers" or even PC's until the IBM-PC came out in 1982) they were slow but useful, and amazing. Most people connected to local bulletin boards - those of us who were in the business would use those portals to connect to the Internet, although it was all text based then.)
The first connections to remote servers were at 300 baud (you could actually read text as it scrolled on to your screen) and when the 1200 baud modems came out, we were ecstatic. There were local BBS systems all over the country, and one big service called Compuserv.
The phone company told us we'd never be able to use speeds greater than 2400 baud. AOL came around and pretty much blew Compuserv away.
(You'd dial a local access number to get on to the Compuserv or AOL network. You paid for your connect time per minute, so on and off was the modus operandi.)
Not long after that, we got 9600 baud modems and that was about the same time the graphical interfaces were starting to get popular, so it didn't take long before that just wasn't fast enough.
Compuserv and AOL weren't enough anymore - everyone wanted access to the Internet.
Now, we're connected 24/7 through DSL or Cable or Satellite and we get upset when we lose our connection for one reason or another.
Don't forget that I had to walk 5 miles to school each day, through 15 foot snow drifts, and it was uphill both ways.merego said:
I have to say I really enjoy reading what you post
This one is a tad too deep for me, but you have a point
The_Kitchen_Guy said:Don't forget that I had to walk 5 miles to school each day, through 15 foot snow drifts, and it was uphill both ways.
Oh, wait. That was my father.
The_Kitchen_Guy said:Don't forget that I had to walk 5 miles to school each day, through 15 foot snow drifts, and it was uphill both ways.
Oh, wait. That was my father.
My brother and I got a Pong game when we were kinds - it was the bomb!Chef Endora said:That was my father
I hate to age myself, but I remember standing in Sears mesmerized by "Pong."
JAE said:Here's a picture taken from my phone while DS was outside walking on the beach with my coat on him. Way too cold for me to get out and walk closer. It's not that great a picture and the icebergs are far away, but you can get the idea, I hope.
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