Gadgetory

this is the way information travels across the Internet today there are three different conversions from analog to digital signals between your internet service provider your telephone company on your computer my first internet was taking a black rotary phone getting my acoustic coupler having anything hooked up to my Tandy 1000 desktop computer you dial the phone on your rotary phone then you plug the handset into the acoustic coupler and then you had like this little all text menu which is where people got together with red messages and les messages key key takeaway here I really old when the internet was brought into my house was this strange notion of oh well you can look at a thing that you like but it's a new way to look at it I think I had like one of those like clamshell like tangerine MacBooks and you could plug the internet in it was early after you're like hmm okay I captured the Internet how am I gonna use this I remember my dad getting AOL and sitting me down and explained that this was something you pay for by the minute and so we can only go on it in short amounts of time if you've spent any time on line you know how painfully slow it can be waiting for graphics and audio and video to download oh yeah back then you had to negotiate between talking on the phone time and using the phone to call your local access provider time the internet came over the phone line and you paid a monthly fee for it just like anything else oh man logging on that's right it took forever and the oh the fact that you were basically the first people online you could tell like and I would just be sitting there like looking at like a blank white screen and that was when I first started that I was like why is it taking so long there was dated times of like hey this is internet time but like also we need to call your grandparents so get off the internet and that lasted for a really long time god help you if your mom picked up the phone because then it's all over you gotta start again cuz we had one phone line in the beginning and mom would pick up and hear that you're like oh no I'm kicked off I was in the middle of an AOL chat room game think of the information highway as a real highway for a moment audio video and other information is broken up into little packets like cars and then sent along different lanes and highways to be assembled at the other end the internet for us especially the beginning of the web browsing era of the internet was so amazing so one of the first things I read on the internet was look up Sailor Moon I would just look up Sailor Moon pictures and images and then I would print them whole like print the web pages then I would put them like in binders and then in a three-hole punch binder or like in sleaze and I was just like look and flip through them and I was pretty much all I did big part of my early internet days was like sound bites from movies and we were just like download then you download a 15-second audio clip and you finally get it and it would just be like chris farley singing like a little COO and that's it and you and you'd be like thank you humanity we've done it we got this I looked up the status of my friends online we could sounds of dirty you can finger people so you would just type in finger and then their login name and it would tell you whether they were online cuz they did not your fingering No if they were there you knew they were there haha I fingered you I know there's no way to respond to this I think I was like 12 years old so I think I'm mostly hung out in chat he was talking to their 12 year olds or people pretending to be like 14 or 15 years old I would find these mysterious things called things about fishing with pH and I just poke around and see people were talking about and they would be like ASL you know how old are you and I'm like oh well I'm 13 and oh well you even know what fishing is I do too it's a band I totally know what it is the bigger the file you want the more cars or packets you force onto that road and everything ends up traveling on what's known as the Internet's backbone the super high speed network that connects all the other networks I remember somebody we were sitting in like a in a class I remember that couple kids in front of me and they were laughing and giggling and I remember them just typing and naked people and I don't know what came up I mean the internet was so slow back then probably they didn't see anything so we definitely had moments where like there would be like a stray a message like in the background that I forgot to close and was like oh why are your friends cursing a window open on accident yeah no good when I just recently went to visit my parents I found old AOL CDs they kept them hey Ken 300 CDs it's crazy I mean this is one of the older ones it's a well 9.0 optimized and I blessed my parents hearts that they that they thought that they may need this and and they kept it