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Patrick [ASE]
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Post by Patrick [ASE] on Jul 14, 2020 15:53:33 GMT -8
Everyone has it easy today, we send many emails without much thought, but what was it like before we had 'the internet' as we know it.
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Pearson
"a picture is worth a thousand words, a moving picture is worth a million words" Pearson
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Post by Pearson on Jul 14, 2020 18:00:34 GMT -8
I do remember writing letters, addressing an envelope, purchasing the appropriate postage and mailing the letter to whomever. It was tedious, no spell-check, and took an awful lot of thought to do, for that person it was addressed to receive.
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GO NOW Welcome to Pain
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Syko Nachoman
let it all go at once, not piece by piece, but like a whole bucket of stars dumped into the universe
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Post by Syko Nachoman on Jul 14, 2020 20:57:11 GMT -8
This reminds me of the days when other people in your house couldn't make phone calls if someone else was using the internet.
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Chani
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Post by Chani on Jul 14, 2020 21:16:29 GMT -8
It's amazing to think how quickly we've progressed in terms of technology over the last few decades. If you'd tried explaining cars to someone from an age before cars, you might be able to convince them it was within humanity's grasp to accomplish such a thing. Try explaining the Internet, 5G, smartphones, and Siri to that same person...
It's easy to take it for granted since it's become such a vital part of most of our lives, but things like this bring back the wonder for me.
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wildmaven
Fear the Flying Flocks of Fiery Fury!!
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Post by wildmaven on Jul 15, 2020 12:42:11 GMT -8
I do remember writing letters, addressing an envelope, purchasing the appropriate postage and mailing the letter to whomever. It was tedious, no spell-check, and took an awful lot of thought to do, for that person it was addressed to receive. Now that my folks are in their 80's, my dad never gets on the computer anymore and my mom never learned. My dad has macular degeneration, too. I just sent them a letter and used a font size of 16. I remember when Prodigy internet started charging 10 cents PER EMAIL. We quickly figured a way around it, by making a dummy account, then everyone in our group had that account's password. We'd send messages from the account to a non-existent email, the email would bounce back into that dummy account's mailbox, and we could all log in and read them without paying. Can you imagine if they tried that today?!
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Pearson
"a picture is worth a thousand words, a moving picture is worth a million words" Pearson
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Post by Pearson on Jul 15, 2020 12:49:08 GMT -8
BUSTED!!!
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Lynx
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Post by Lynx on Jul 15, 2020 16:09:11 GMT -8
I remember running a Remote Access Bulletin Board System (RA BBS) on an old IBM PC/XT that had just 640K (Yes, the K is correct) RAM on a 14400 baud modem and a green monochrome monitor. I actually still have that system, but the power switch is busted. BBS's were the early means for File Transfers too. I set up some File Areas where users could download files I had and set up a separate area for File Uploads - that would automatically be run through an anti-virus checker. It was fun, but I did have to get my own phone line so I wouldn't tie up the regular house phone.
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wildmaven
Fear the Flying Flocks of Fiery Fury!!
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Post by wildmaven on Jul 16, 2020 10:53:47 GMT -8
I remember running a Remote Access Bulletin Board System (RA BBS) on an old IBM PC/XT that had just 640K (Yes, the K is correct) RAM on a 14400 baud modem and a green monochrome monitor. I actually still have that system, but the power switch is busted. BBS's were the early means for File Transfers too. I set up some File Areas where users could download files I had and set up a separate area for File Uploads - that would automatically be run through an anti-virus checker. It was fun, but I did have to get my own phone line so I wouldn't tie up the regular house phone. Hello, fellow pioneer! I ran a BBS called RipCity on my 300bps modem and my 286k computer. It got so popular that I had to get a separate line for it, too. I would love to "break in" while someone was on and chat with them. I met several of my visitors and we hosted a bowling night once in a while, haha. The local paper even did a write-up on me!
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I forgot you were a person
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Post by User 180565 is taking donation on Jul 16, 2020 11:26:03 GMT -8
Kids of today will never know video game use to be cartridges or on cassette
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Lynx
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Post by Lynx on Jul 16, 2020 14:45:58 GMT -8
I remember running a Remote Access Bulletin Board System (RA BBS) on an old IBM PC/XT that had just 640K (Yes, the K is correct) RAM on a 14400 baud modem and a green monochrome monitor. I actually still have that system, but the power switch is busted. BBS's were the early means for File Transfers too. I set up some File Areas where users could download files I had and set up a separate area for File Uploads - that would automatically be run through an anti-virus checker. It was fun, but I did have to get my own phone line so I wouldn't tie up the regular house phone. Hello, fellow pioneer! I ran a BBS called RipCity on my 300bps modem and my 286k computer. It got so popular that I had to get a separate line for it, too. I would love to "break in" while someone was on and chat with them. I met several of my visitors and we hosted a bowling night once in a while, haha. The local paper even did a write-up on me! Cool! Mine was called At Your Leisure BBS. I had around 200 members on it. Good times! RA is still around, but they've not updated it to work on 64-bit systems.
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Post by ZandraJoi on Jul 17, 2020 6:39:05 GMT -8
I do remember writing letters, addressing an envelope, purchasing the appropriate postage and mailing the letter to whomever. It was tedious, no spell-check, and took an awful lot of thought to do, for that person it was addressed to receive. That did take longer but they were more intimate & well thought out. Now, we get emails from anybody & everybody. There's no real friendships in some of those. They just send out mass emails.
What I used to do is type it out on my Word Processor (remember those?) & then I could do the spell-check, etc. Then I snail mailed it.
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Chani
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Post by Chani on Jul 18, 2020 14:03:22 GMT -8
I do remember writing letters, addressing an envelope, purchasing the appropriate postage and mailing the letter to whomever. It was tedious, no spell-check, and took an awful lot of thought to do, for that person it was addressed to receive. That did take longer but they were more intimate & well thought out. Now, we get emails from anybody & everybody. There's no real friendships in some of those. They just send out mass emails. What I used to do is type it out on my Word Processor (remember those?) & then I could do the spell-check, etc. Then I snail mailed it. Back when we had our old IBM, I spent a lot of time using the word processor for writing my stories and letters. To be honest, I spent more time playing with fonts and other formatting options than anything else. My mother got tired of me always hogging the computer (she wanted to play Minesweeper and Solitaire) so she brought down her aunt's old typewriter and let me use that for my stories and typing my penpal communications. I wish I'd kept it. This also makes me think of how we used to pass notes in class and how hard I labored to have good handwriting just for that. I suppose school-aged kiddos probably just text each other instead these days.
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Caajscot (John)
Life goes on
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Post by Caajscot (John) on Jul 19, 2020 1:06:27 GMT -8
Our first computer I had to get a separate telephone line because our son & daughter plus me and the wife was always on the internet and you could not use the phone, so easy nowadays, our first provider was AOL.
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📚 Dianne 📚
"Never Judge A Book By Its Movie"
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Post by 📚 Dianne 📚 on Jul 19, 2020 3:16:17 GMT -8
Everyone has it easy today, we send many emails without much thought, but what was it like before we had 'the internet' as we know it. I would send via the snail mail -Birthday and Christmas cards, I would use the telephone, and when we got modern I used the CB radio. I'm old what can I say? But with our first computer (it was an old one that was given to us by someone who was going bankrupt) ---believe it or not I was more computer savvy than my husband at the time (now not at all, I'm more luddite than anything else). We, too, had a seperate phone line for the longest time for out internet.
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Will
secretly a moderator
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Post by Will on Jul 19, 2020 8:17:57 GMT -8
I work at a company of 200+ employees; most of them still have 'SENT FROM MY VERIZON SMART PHONE' as their signature. May need to forward this around.
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