Experience on the Web/Internet?

Suddenly I feel SO ... mature. My daugher was born in 1970!

 

Don't worry, my mom celebrates her 92 birthday today and she knows what a CD is.

Gerard

 

Your mom is 40 years older than I am. Heck, she's older than my mother is. I'm not sure if I feel better after reading why I shouldn't worry or not!

 

Don't worry I am older than you are,

 

My 2 daughters were born in '79 & '80. When they were maybe 6-7 years old, one of their little girlfriends joined us @ Grandma's house. "Grandma" still had a rotary-dial phone mounted on the wall. It was fully functional, but really served as a nostalgia piece. The little girlfriend did not know what that phone was! I told her that I'd explain it right after I changed the vinyl record on the turntable....

Fossilization is a VERY slow process. We don't realize it's happened to us until the kids (grandkids) point it out in such innocent, funny ways.

 

It's nice to know EVERYone who knows more than I do about these machines isn't so much younger...thank you. Since we are all the same age after living the same number of years, it does balance out.

 

You can count me among the Noah's-Ark generation too -- only about 18 months shy of 60.

As for ability -- well, I was considered fairly expert back in DOS days, but ever since Win became the operating system rather than running under DOS, these days I'm just one more point-and-click-and-pray user, here to learn just like the rest of us.

 

There are SO MANY files now compared to what there were! I used computers before I had any idea they'd eventually be connected to other computers through the Internet. Maybe starting in '88 ('87?)...I had an XL and I think I used that machine for WordPerfect 5.0, which was the first word processor I used professionally. Right around the same time, I submitted work done over a modem using Kermit! I spent a few years in the mountains without electricity, then returned to the city and to more advanced equipment in '97. I've been lost ever since. I didn't really know how lost I was until a little over a year ago, at about the time I joined Wilders.

 

You've got some company Snowbound. Been on the net just about 2 yrs now.

 

Been on the net one way or the other for about eight years.

 

Boy, I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers rotary dial and vinyl. In fact, I think I've still got an old 8-track stashed in the garage. Ahh memories. What about black and white TV? Remember when you would turn the TV off, the screen would shrink to a bright white dot in the center and slowly fade away?

 

and u actually had to get off your butt to change the channel.


snowbound

 

Remote controls are great conveniences. You've brought to mind the test patterns that TV stations would put up at night when they went off the air, after playing patriotic music. I think an irritating noise went out on the airwaves with it.

 

I was a human remote control changer for my dad back in the 50s. TV news was local stuff for 15 minutes & network stuff for 15 more. We somehow survived not knowing every single thing 24/7....

In fact, for the briefest of moments there were actually 4-track players. A few lucky friends had them as we began driving in high school. Few nowadays believe me, but I swear it's true!

 

I think we've wandered slightly from whatever the original topic was. But what the heck, this is triggering some fascinating memories.

I remember the first time I ever saw (and even better, got to briefly borrow and play with) a hand-held calculator, the proud new possession of the chief chemist where I worked at the time. I forget who made it -- simple 4-functions, fixed 2 decimals, no memory, and cost something like $150 (this was back in the early '70's). But it sure beat the heck out of those monstrous Fridens and Monroes that took up the better part of your desk space.

 

Hi ronjor!


I started on the internet on August 2002, not long after I bought my pc. Even though the people in my circle were opposed to my buying a computer, I never regretted it! I find internet very convenient. Strangely enough, about 2 days after I had my AV sending a Ping-- sharp metallic noise coming from the CPU-- warning on a well-known music site where I was listening to music. A window popped up saying someone was reading my files!!! It was quite alarming for a beginner! It never happened after but as a new user I was amazed by all the technical possibilities , which are endless!

 

Hey Ronjor, it was a site in Montreal called Musique Plus (like Much Music). I was told by a guy that it might happen when they scan the content of their programs. And AV's can detect it but might interpret it as a hacker while it is not. Nothing big deal but how could you know when you are just starting with computers? Thank you for the nice words!

 

Well, I fall somewhere in between youngist an' old ... being born in the sixties. I still have a few eight tracks too an' a reel to reel (I got seriously into music really young) ... I remember black 'n white and the lovely "dot" but do you all remember the first tv remote? ... growing up in Montreal we had 'bout 13 channels ... the remote contected to the tv via cable ... the remote itself was approx. 5x7 & 2" thick, had 13 or 14 large push buttons labeled "A","B","C" etc. LOL

Anyway, back on topic ... my first net experience was on a 386 w/ windows 3.1 ... with AOL at a friends house ... been using the net/PC semi-regularly since Windows 95, 'bout 1996 (work) ... although this is my first home PC - with net access ... about 2 1/2 years.

dog -

 

After which you had to do one of two things - adjust the rabbit ears, or go outside and turn the antenna pole (while hollering through an opened window, "How's that?"). Unless you were "rich" and had one of the motorized antenna turners....

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dak

 

I hate to admit it but up in the attic I still have a four track tape player.

 

and a working knowledge of Morris Code and ye' ol' telegraph machine, LOL ... just teasing!

dog -