Nothing has quite been the same for me since I first got online. My first ventures online were across a 14.4 Kbps modem downloading Grand Funk guitar tabs and fooling around with Back Orifice over mIRC – running up ludicrous Telkom bills that I’d have to explain to my parents at the start of every month.
I’m one of those people that are never bored online, and I’ve been online long enough to watch it evolve from a lackadaisical cesspool of spam porn and webpages with way too many gifs, into a veritable goldmine of logic, ideas and latent potential.
Here are a few terms which aren’t tossed around quite as frequently as they were in the 90s:
Oh yeah, but I could never put Napster on that list. Have to be respectful.
But Kazaa will do!
Posted by Damian on 2007/11/23
dont' forget "baud".
my first modem was a 2400 baud external fax modem that plugged into the serial port. if i remember correctly, this was about 1993/94. EISH!
Posted by thescott on 2007/11/24
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Do you remember watching the clock in the evenings? Waiting for it to hit 7pm... Telkom's CallMore Time = online time = no homework time = no sleep time :)
Napster was also tossed around quite a bit just before Y2K.
Posted by Rafiq on 2007/11/23