Posted on 03/26/2007 8:43:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Man, you ARE old as the hills!
I saw the R and figured that stood for Race, so I threw it into Race!
Rejoice, Dear Hearts!
In between brief noises from the recording cycle there was a long period of silence from the phone company, but anyone who had dialed in could talk to everyone else who had dialed in. You could communicate with everyone at once. It was noisy and confusing. It caught on like wildfire. There was no control and you could say anything you wanted: true or untrue - about yourself or anyone else.
We called it the "tunnel" and it was fun to call.
I always thought that the phone company should not have fixed the line but instead they should have promoted it, sold access time and made it into something people could use to sell old stuff in their basement, or sell books, or try to get you to send money because you pretend to have a Cote' de Ivorie bank account...
Who knows? It could have caught on!
Huh?
Most of us didn't even know BigBroMoFo was real b4 we got online...
Well....maybe we can forget reality again--once the state gets around to pulling the plug on us...
Nil Illegitimus Carborundum!!!!!
-D1ck
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A bunch of Americans haven't retired yet.
I have NO conception of what life was like without computers. Nor do I care. Ive been a professional IT consultant for about 23 years now. Made a pretty decent living at something that I love doing too.
Besides, without the internet, where would we get all of our silly little acronyms from? lol roflmao otoh wtf rtfm brb g2g, not to mention the endless spew of emoticons ;)
Ahhhh. The good life. Some don't know what they're missing.
Godspeed
My great-grandparents lived just like that in north Mississippi until my great-grandfather passed away in 1960. I remember visiting with them just about every weekend. When my great-grandfather died at home in the middle of the night, my great-grandmother had to walk about a mile to the next neighbor with a telephone to call the family.
"My wife and I were just discussing the wisdom of giving our parents computers. Besides the headache of maintaining their computers (including two full-blown re-installs on the mother-in-law's pc in one year), they don't want to pay for broadband, so they're still on dialup."
My mother (55 years old) is still on dial-up and her 2nd hard drive. My brother, a computer savvy DemUnderground type fixes it for her monthly....it's really quite sad. He always sets her homepage to DU. Unfortunately she considers it "news" and opinion.
My Dad (58 years old) has never and will never touch a personal computer. The most high tech he has gotten or probably ever will is a nice fish finder in his boat.
I was a student at SDSU in the 70s and I remember picking up my transcripts from the registrar's office. The little old lady behind the window disappeared for about 10 minutes while she retrieved them from my file. Did I mention they were handwritten?
Absolutely boggles my mind.
ROFL!
Good Grief.... I am a generation older ...and still building my own computers ....
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