Wow, have things changed!
A quick post today, as the Holiday Family Visit begins today, but I just couldn't pass up posting this. Especially in a world where folks tweet most ever facet of their life (anyone else find the "what are you doing" tweets funny? Obviously….you're tweeting!), where we've reconnected with old friends through Facebook, and where email provides an almost instantaneous response, this video from back in the day just really amused me.
(I found a reference online to the NeXt computers, so I *think* this video is from around 1988/1989, especially since the mentioned Sandra B show was released in 1990).
I remember the first time I got on the internet. I'd heard of Compuserve and Delphi, and so one day not long after dh and I were married, I sat on the floor of my home office with my incredibly heavy notebook computer and signed up for Delphi. Black screen. Some prompts. It was quite underwhelming. Yeah, we've come a long way, baby….
What about y'all? Any first-time-on-the-net or first computer stories?
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My dad had a TRS-80 for his accounting business and as one of his data entry personnel (my sister being the other) I spent a lot of quality time with that machine. It would freeze, lose hours worth of work and door random crap to us all the time. Put me off computers for years after. Now I don't know how I'd live with out one.
