How time flies! And how technology changes!This year marks the tenth anniversary of my usage of the Internet! Ten freakin' years! I remember first running into the World Wide Web back in 1996 when I was a student at CSUN and in my very early twenties. What a truly remarkable creation/invention! Mind you, the Net was really primitive back then, but my first encounter with it left me purty fascinated. I was the last generation to grow up without the Internet; we had to go to the library and search for books, newspapers, magazines, and microfilm for our research papers. Kids and college students have it much easier today doggone it! In my day! Shit, I really feel old now.
I had an old computer my brother Charles passed along to me, and I remember my other older brother N coming to my house lots during that Fall of 96 to work on the ancient thang, basically helping me build it up from scratch. I was finally able to log on from home for the first time ever using dial-up and how sweet it was. Slow as hell, but sweet! There it was! Webpages! News! All kinds of information at my fingertips! And porn! Easy and accessible porn! Back then of course, it was really only still pictures, but that was enough to get me off! It was at the time too, that I was struggling with my sexuality, so this World Wide Wait was a godsend. I could go into chat rooms and talk to people I would otherwise never have met.
Yeah, and those were the days my home computer was still on the Windows 3.1 operating system. And the browser par excellence was Netscape Navigator! HOLY COW MAN! That truly was the Stone Age. Damn pages loaded up real slow though. That was pretty exasperating. I recall the hype surrounding the release of EVITA too. That movie was getting lots of attention as the big Christmas release at the time.
So all these blogs, MySpace, mp3s, iPod, and other cyber innovations, here we are...
Ten years later.
6 comments:
Youn know, sometimes the stills can be even more enticing if they're the right shot. Sometimes the stupid guy is just annoying when he speaks/yells/moans, or just the way he moves.
I used Win 3.1 & Netscape from version 2.0 on until Firefox came along... Netscape always blew away AOL's crappy browser and now Firefox 2.0 is way beyond both...
I bought my first computer in'97; an Apple Imac. It was blue. Really ugly even though I thought it was hot at the time. Didn't even know what to do with it, just knew I HAD TO HAVE ONE!
I bought my first computer in '97 and paid $3000 for it. What a piece of junk it was compared to my MacBook, that was much less. Look at how much the internet is part of our lives now. Everything, including work, requires a connection.
I still go to the library, but I am afraid to sit down in the comfy leather chairs cuz the homeless sleep there and the chairs smell and they probably have lice. So the homeless shuffle through the aisles in the library with their luggage. Ode to the library!
Haha, crazy, can't even remember times without the internet... Seems like eons ago, weird, kinda take it for granted now! and it's helped me so much through my illness, gives me something productive and more engaging than tv to do...
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