Internet-stalgia Friday
Do you have a story
bout yer first experience with The Internet?
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I remember around 92-93, I was
working in the scary Citicorp building (yes, it really is an alien
spaceship), and some cool college-girl I was working with hooked up
to this thing where you could go to different universities and look
up recipes for stuffed noodles and whatever. She called it the
internet and it was so cool that I begged to borrow her password so
I could look around. I thought it was the coolest thing to peruse
weinerschnitzel recipes on the U of Berlin Library site. A while
later, an even cooler friend showed me "Mosaic", which was the same
thing, only with PICTURES on it. YIKES! It was the coolest thing
I'd ever seen since the introduction of MTV in 1980.
Now kids have email at 5--I feel like such an old fart. But an
alpha geeky one though....
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Hi Todd
Great subject.
I remember when the internet first “came out”; I was 15 or 16 so just at college. The first series of X Files was just screening over here and so the only thing I could think to search for was “UFOs and aliens”; well, I guess I was a pretty gullible type because I believed the whole deal, about Project Bluebook and Area 51 and the Men in Black and the whole thing. I also remember I could only use the internet at college or the local library so I would spend several sweaty hours a day trying to look at rude ladies without getting caught. Oh, and Christian-baiting in Chatrooms.
Simpler times eh?
Ray
London, UK.
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