Willow ,'Storyteller'
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Oh yes. Telnet, Gopher, WAIS Archie and Veronica searching. NCSA Mosaic, and then also using command line Lynx on my local library dial up.
I also remember discovering I could explore other libraries and universities with the gateways in the library.
I remember just as Mosaic came around that there was a graphic based gopher client, and then a 3d browser I loved. GopherVR, IIRC....
Before that there was fidonet, WWIV BBS, Kermit protocol and... what?
Old.
Yeah, I used Gopher and Mosaic. When Netscape was released, the organization I worked at had 200 staff members and only 5 Netscape licenses, so you had to wait for someone else to get offline before you could get online.
hee! I remember working in Palo Alto in 1994 and running into people wearing Netscape shirts in our local bagel shop. I revered them the way Aims reveres royalty!
Early 90s, my dad's observatory was an early adopter/pioneer of remote (remote-control as it was called back then) observing (over the internet!) and so had basically the fastest connection available outside defense. First time I went online was up there. I remember mosaic and looking through the vatican library (?I have no idea why) and JCrew. And again, I have no idea why.
I so totally didn't get the appeal. Hahahahah.
Remember phone? Used that to chat with my hs buddy at Harvard. On VAX.
Ha! I remember VAX. Oy. I feel old. Is this our generations version of "uphill, in the snow, barefoot"?
So? Why did my cheap-o new laptop with Win7 come with a phone modem built in?
today's Woot, while it lasts,
TiVo Series 3 High Definition 250GB THX Certified DVR $169.99 + $5 shipping
Condition: Refurbished
Product: 1 TiVo TCD648250 250GB Series 3 HD THX Certified DVR
Great, I have been sucked in to buying a new TiVo. :)
Be aware, that is the model of Tivo that requires two Cablecards, it will not work with a single multistream card.
My aging 5th gen (30GB) iPod won't hold a charge, and now the click wheel is becoming increasingly unresponsive. Worth taking to the Genius Bar to have the battery replaced, or should I just recycle it and buy a new one?
[Feh - And now I've realized it won't sync either - I've got it plugged in now and it's alternating between the apple logo and the sad-face Mac error message.]
[edit2 - Okay, I was able to restore it after all. Fingers crossed it will be able to play music again once it reloads everything!]
Nope. Click wheel still not responding. Time for a new one, I think.