Hahahahahahaha, these are all so funny! I've been using a computer for 30 years. I remember when the internet had absolutely nothing on it but crappy looking websites for businesses. I thought "Who will ever make use of this crappy feature?"
They are all great. I began with my step mother's computer running Windows 3.1 but once we bought our own that came with Windows 95, it was life changing and everything about the internet became very clear. Of course I had all the issues with computers that people at the time experienced, including slow dial up, the need for two phone lines etc, never mind the crashes and the worms that could easily affect your computer. Now things generally just work.
Oh yeah, that horrible dial-up modem screech! But all this going down memory lane has reminded me of something even earlier. In 1978, I did a quantitative analysis of data class in university and we had to write and keypunch a huge stack of cards to run our program with. Everyone had at least 2 or 3 elastic bands around their stacks of keypunched cards, terrified of dropping them and then having to put them back in order again, LOL! The computers were huge and filled their own big room in the Engineering Building. Wow, that takes me back. Haven't thought of that in years.
It was about 1978 when I was taking a university course in programming, and same thing, those crazy keypunched cards! But oh the thrill when your coding worked. I even liked debugging.
Hahahahahahaha, these are all so funny! I've been using a computer for 30 years. I remember when the internet had absolutely nothing on it but crappy looking websites for businesses. I thought "Who will ever make use of this crappy feature?"
ReplyDeleteMy fave cartoon is Norton and McAfee, LOL.
Me, too, over 30 years! I learned to program in Fortran!! Remember dialing up to connect!!
DeleteThey are all great. I began with my step mother's computer running Windows 3.1 but once we bought our own that came with Windows 95, it was life changing and everything about the internet became very clear. Of course I had all the issues with computers that people at the time experienced, including slow dial up, the need for two phone lines etc, never mind the crashes and the worms that could easily affect your computer. Now things generally just work.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, that horrible dial-up modem screech! But all this going down memory lane has reminded me of something even earlier. In 1978, I did a quantitative analysis of data class in university and we had to write and keypunch a huge stack of cards to run our program with. Everyone had at least 2 or 3 elastic bands around their stacks of keypunched cards, terrified of dropping them and then having to put them back in order again, LOL! The computers were huge and filled their own big room in the Engineering Building. Wow, that takes me back. Haven't thought of that in years.
ReplyDeleteIt was about 1978 when I was taking a university course in programming, and same thing, those crazy keypunched cards! But oh the thrill when your coding worked. I even liked debugging.
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