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New invention called "internet"

#1 Postby P.K. » Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:56 pm

How things have changed since then! :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFzS3phx9-s

You could always try this new version of windows on it as well......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLRf4L8HAvI
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#2 Postby GalvestonDuck » Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:14 pm

*snicker* I remember back in the old days. I had a Commodore64, that lasted exactly 91 days (1 day longer than the warranty from Sears) and used a TRS-80 (Radio Shack) in school. I belonged to a BBS that my best friend's dad ran from his home computer (he worked for IBM). The bulletin board was called Pyroto -- it was a "mountain" that you could climb to higher levels by answer trivia questions.

Then when the Internet took off, I used to get so confused. You couldn't "read" a website like a book and go page after page after page in order (1, 2, 3, 4...). I had to learn to click back to the homepage and click on other links, and then navigate around to various other pages.

Now it's a breeze. :)
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#3 Postby JonathanBelles » Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:17 pm

haha wow that video was horrible.
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#4 Postby brunota2003 » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:01 pm

What is windows and internet? must be some new craze that is going to destroy the world...:lol: The world to end at 10:59, details at 11
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#5 Postby Aslkahuna » Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:17 am

Commodore 64 was the first computer in our house too-retired it. Before the Net there were the online services like Compuserve (where I signed up in 1989) you paid for online time by the minute and had these really fast modems at 300 Baud. Then of course we had the first hard drives on the PCs which were 10 MB because we would never need more than that.

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#6 Postby Kim_in_MN » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:07 am

My brother had one of the first Apple computers. How cool - SOLITARE! We spent hours playing it.

My son loves my stories about taking "computer class" in high school. There were about 5 of us in there, and we learned simple DOS programming. No Windows, nothing back in the early 80's!

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