OK Matt,
I'm back.
We're talking 25 years or so ago here now.
I was one of the VERY FIRST purchasers of the incredible 4K Radio Shack TRS (Trash) 80 units from my local Radio Shack.
I paid $549 for that sucker, and still have it!
HAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHHHAHAHAHAHA!
It's a 'Smithsonian Hopeful' now.
About 6 months later, I added a 'so called' Dial up Modem to the system for Internet Access on the then PRE AOL HOT Commodore Internet Access. Back then it took about 8 minutes to connect to the Internet and once there, all there was were the BBS groups that Bob so often speaks of.
Once there, and very excited, I would type a friendly ...
HELLO
About 2 to 3 minutes later someone would respond.
HELLO BACK
Then I would type
HOW ARE YOU
and wait 3 more minutes to read...
FINE. AND YOU?
Yes, back then everyone typed in all caps. It seems we felt that we had to YELL in order to speed up the transmission. How times have changed. LOL
It was all nothing more than a telegraph machine back then. But finally Al Gore came along. (LOL....totally just kidding here!)
I bought MSNTV (Then WEBTV) about 5 years ago. I'm pretty much a couch potato. hehe.
But a cool thing happened this last Christmas. My sister in law's nephew got a brand new puter and she connived him into giving me his old one!
With my new job, I will soon see the need to have 'puter access' as I cannot access my new company's database on MSNTV....(JAVA crap, and all!)
I've self trained to purty good at HTML coding to build pages, but I don't hold a candle to Bob's programming skills and you are likely far more advanced than I am.
But I like the Internet. I always have. And I believe in it.
OK...there's my story.......I don't promise that I'll stick to it though!
HAHAHA!
