how did the chicken cross the road?
Slowly, my friend. Slowly.
I'm officially an old geezer. I was looking through the reunion website someone set up and found out that now the kids are required to own laptops that can connect to the campus wireless network. I actually said, "Holy shit!"
This was technology back in my day, Sonny: Get up early, go to school and run like hell up the stairs to the library to be the first one to get on the one computer with the one modem on the whole dang campus. We were each allotted 5 minutes to take care of business (which for me, Leece and No was 15 collective minutes of Saimin - 300 bps, baby!). The librarian would diligently kick us off once our 5 minutes apiece were up. She was mighty sick of us - and "the internet" - by the time we graduated.
Our e-mail address was the SCHOOL'S e-mail address, and each of us were each given a folder into which the librarian would dump our personal messages, IF the subject line contained our full name. If not, she would open the message and read it to try and discern who it was for. More than once she read us the riot act because the message contained something like "Hey, how come your stupid librarian made you get off Saimin this morning?" ... Bless her for putting up with us, I hope someone invited her to the party.
Good times. Good primitive times. C/O '96 represent.
4 comments:
2400baud baby! woo! we were rich. we had two lines and call waiting too. pimpin' huh? i had a pager and a cell phone with 15 free minutes a month. you're jealous, i can tell. in 96 i had my own computer which didn't have internet access, i think it was a macintosh. very bad ass, i think it had like 16MB hard drive. it also had a 3" floppy drive, i still have those floppy disks somewhere. *sigh* the good ol' days.
hahaha. i used to burn through 500 minutes in the first week, which wasn't as bad as some. the best $5 a month we'd spend.
/z
I currently use my Commodor 64 with logos program running 24-7 so I can have cirles, pentagons, and squares all triangulating to the 47th vector, 26 degrees north of Pluto. This is all transmitting live off my 14.4 kbs dedicated line. No call waiting or it may disconnect my computer and I'd have to start the triangulations all over again.
-Me, mai self an Eye
oh, the pager ... remember getting your first "143"? ... oh the star-tac phones ... oh the little logo turtle, RT 90 FD 10 ...
and oh the RAGE when call waiting kicked me off Saimin. sometimes i would turn off call waiting and forget to turn it back on ...
487-7256 always and forever. or 637, in pagerspeak. hehe.
ah, pager talk. when you'd spend days looking at a message trying to figure out what it said. i wonder who has our old pager numbers...
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