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johnx993
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Heck, I remember Gopher.
daver2
10k Member
I'm old then!
Dave
Dave
SomeGuy
Veteran Member
Heck, I remember having to read BOOKS to get information. A set of encyclopedias and a tiny public library. "Look it up in your Funk & Wagnalls."
Why am I not dead yet?
Why am I not dead yet?
duly noted
I could never get Netscape to fly on my feebly outfitted PC's back then, too much overhead I suspect and it seemed overly complicated for the casual user. Mindspring worked for me. There may have been a few other in between but I can't remember what. I didn't like paying for AOL either.
g4ugm
Veteran Member
Ah such luxury. I can remember when the BitNet link from the UK to the USA was saturated during the day and you had to wait at least 24 hours to get files. We didn´t even have FTP you had to use e-mail to get directory listings and file content...
... pretty sure that was how i got GCC onto my Atari ST... It came as UUENCODED to our IBM Mainframe, then I could use the file transfer program to put it on 350k floppy disks.
... pretty sure that was how i got GCC onto my Atari ST... It came as UUENCODED to our IBM Mainframe, then I could use the file transfer program to put it on 350k floppy disks.
Al Kossow
Documentation Wizard
And now, it is information overload. People freak out if you don't reply to them instantly.
No one is going to ask you what it was like waiting for the next issue of Byte to show up in the mail
A good friend of mine's father was a pioneer in retail catalog computerization in the 50's, and I
asked him what it was like working with computers then
"about the same, just a LOT slower"
It's 5AM on a Sunday where I'm composing this, and I already feel guilty about not getting
something USEFUL done today.
No one is going to ask you what it was like waiting for the next issue of Byte to show up in the mail
A good friend of mine's father was a pioneer in retail catalog computerization in the 50's, and I
asked him what it was like working with computers then
"about the same, just a LOT slower"
It's 5AM on a Sunday where I'm composing this, and I already feel guilty about not getting
something USEFUL done today.
And before all of that there were the bulletin boards. My 1st home working pc was my Tandy 1000SX with its R/S 300 baud modem. I was working for the feds in the D.C. area and lived in Germantown, MD. The only time I could connect to the BB was around 11 PM to midnight. Slow and dragged out on that dialup but what a great experience at the time. How many remember "you're shouting!" if you typed in caps?