Back when it was called "The Information Super Highway". I remember hearing mutterings about it a couple of years before it took off. Then you started seeing tv commercials that flashed website addresses at the bottom of the screen. (don't think you see that much anymore)
Heh- remember when the novelty of a "chat room" was exciting. I hate em now. Why are the people in them so cliquey & annoying?
And then your very 1st email address! How cool was That? Do you remember it? (the ones that're long defunct, that is)
2006-11-03 09:47:43 · 5 answers · asked by Fonzie T 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Oh, worse than that. I remember 110 baud modems with acoustic couplers (you'd put the phone's handset in it), single-line BBS's running at 300 baud (some weren't even 24-hour), and when 1200 bps gained popularity. In the mid 80s, there was a 16-line chat system in Texas, each line at 300 baud; ran on two TRS-80's. It's where I met my wife; we're still married. :)
And I remember the "big three" -- CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL. I remember Prodigy's wonky graphics, the ads, the draconian censorship on its message boards... and when they first offered the Internet. While I don't remember my first e-mail address, I do still use the same Yahoo! address I created eight years ago.
If someone had told me twenty years ago that today I'd be sitting on my couch with wireless broadband answering this question, I'm not sure I would have believed them.
2006-11-04 11:51:28 · answer #1 · answered by C&T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heck, I remember the first hand held calculator... The Bomar Brain.... I bought one of the first models back in the early 70's... For $119 you got this amazing hand held machine that could actually add, subtract, multiply and divide! Today, a calculator like that is used as a give-a-way.... I also bought the first Compact Portable Computer in the early 80's. It was about the size of a piece of carry-on luggage. It did alot more than my calculator but it only had 256K memory and you had to know DOS to use it... That cost me about $3,200... Did you know that NASA put a man on the moon using a computer that only had 256K memory.... We have come a long way baby!
2006-11-03 17:58:57 · answer #2 · answered by Dan J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, i didnt know how to use it
2006-11-03 17:49:46 · answer #3 · answered by Simple1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i dont
2006-11-03 17:49:23 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Santa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YOU RULE!!!!
2006-11-03 17:49:46 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋