Subj : Re: Ch-ch-ch changes
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Wed Jan 08 2020 17:43:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 01-03-20  07:15 <=-

 > We just have the wired through the router here, 
 JM> 
 JM> Back in the olden dark ages of the Net, I worked at a plant that was
 JM> closed on weekends.
 JM> I would unplug the cable from the desktop and connect to the laptop
 JM> and download everything I wanted that day.   Then open whatever which
 JM> would load that to the laptop.  
 JM> When I got home I would re-connect and upload mail, etc.  I remember
 JM> thinking there had to be a easier way.  Wifi wasn't thought of yet,
 JM> AFAIK. In the '90s I was chatting online with a sysop and said
 JM> wouldn't it be nice not to have to tie up phone lines and stuff, have
 JM> the Net 24/7, one basic fee for everything, etc.
 JM> Then a few years later cable came along.

Also DSL.... which works just as well... :) 

 JM> Plus there was the time I wished there were graphics to go along
 JM> with text and Windows came along.
 JM> And I was really excited when around Win95 or so some videos became
 JM> available and how exciting that was to be able to watch a tv show or
 JM> movie.  Then YouTube came along.

Some of that is better than other stuff... But I guess you do tend to do
more "cutting edge" stuff than I do... :)  I'm generally content to do
my text browsing, stay in DOS, and not do YouTube or Facebook, etc...  ;)

 JM> Let me think a bit about what other wonders I would like to see...

Dunno if we should turn you loose, or not... <G>

ttyl       neb

.... Be alert, the world needs more lerts....

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