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I remember logging onto my AOL account to check my Yahoo email. Now both of these are owned by a phone company.
What major site, that you used to its no longer with us?
I would Ask Jeeves, but I can't be arsed |
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Date from the BBS days here, way before there was an internet.... then fidonet then compuserve and so on....
Remember when 1200 baud was improbably fast and improbably expensive (eg the modem was more than a 4k 60" telly in todays money)
800 quid a quarter phone bills even doing off peak connections.
Miss it? Not that much...lol |
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yeah MSN messenger was the biggest shocker
i set mines up same time i did my first ever email account back in the day. Hotmails gone too now but still have my original email |
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"Me and MsG met through the dating pages on Excite.com...dunno what became of that site but it had some decent pre-Facebook type groups.
Mr G"
Excite is now ask.com. But the most interesting story regarding them, is that......
In 1999, Larry Page and Sergey Brin offered to sell their search engine to them for $750,000, as it was interfering with their studies, and they said no! I wonder what ever happened to Google? |
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"Date from the BBS days here, way before there was an internet.... then fidonet then compuserve and so on....
Remember when 1200 baud was improbably fast and improbably expensive (eg the modem was more than a 4k 60" telly in todays money)
800 quid a quarter phone bills even doing off peak connections.
Miss it? Not that much...lol"
Aah, them we're the days! I remember the squeal of the modem and logging on to bbs's to see what files had been uploaded and getting messages. I had about 10 bulletin boards I'd dial up! Makes us sound like dinosaurs lol |
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"Date from the BBS days here, way before there was an internet.... then fidonet then compuserve and so on....
Remember when 1200 baud was improbably fast and improbably expensive (eg the modem was more than a 4k 60" telly in todays money)
800 quid a quarter phone bills even doing off peak connections.
Miss it? Not that much...lol
Aah, them we're the days! I remember the squeal of the modem and logging on to bbs's to see what files had been uploaded and getting messages. I had about 10 bulletin boards I'd dial up! Makes us sound like dinosaurs lol "
Because of this post, I decided to download the modem sound and use it as my ringtone  |
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nokia. once mighty, now a shell of their former selves. trashed and scattered unto the shores of obsolescence. gutted by microsoft, like vultures on a rotting festering carcass, put out of its misery way too late. the remains of its mobile phone business now not worth the toilet paper nokia once made many many years ago. too slow to react to newer technology, by the time it finally made a move it was too late. like a deer trapped in the headlights of an oncoming big rig, it could do nothing but stand there, watching as its life flashes before its... camera aperture?
before i would covet a nokia device. now, i wouldn't feed one to my shredder.
and windows phone - oh god windows phone. i gave it chance after chance and at every turn it fucked up. fucked up badly. first to have a nokia 800 - felt like ti was their turning point. only to be tossed aside when windows phone 8 came out. unsupported by a phone barely 18 months old. and from there their fate was sealed. 1 good handset out of a sea of utter turds isn't enough to save anybody.
i mean, i've never owned a phone that crashed and froze out of the fucking box harder than the nokia 950. absolute cack. |
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Aah, them we're the days! I remember the squeal of the modem and logging on to bbs's to see what files had been uploaded and getting messages. I had about 10 bulletin boards I'd dial up! Makes us sound like dinosaurs lol "
... and you could tell what the modem was doing just by listening to it, ditto the hard disk clicking away.
you may like "BBS the documentary" in 8 parts, you can find it on youtube
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"Friends reunited. Spent hours nosing about on there back in the pre-Facebook era!"
It sounds silly but I was genuinely sad when it closed - my first real experience of social media and my first chance to catch up with old school friends after all those years!
Give me Friends Reunited over Fakebook any day of the week  |
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"Date from the BBS days here, way before there was an internet.... then fidonet then compuserve and so on....
Remember when 1200 baud was improbably fast and improbably expensive (eg the modem was more than a 4k 60" telly in todays money)
800 quid a quarter phone bills even doing off peak connections.
Miss it? Not that much...lol
Aah, them we're the days! I remember the squeal of the modem and logging on to bbs's to see what files had been uploaded and getting messages. I had about 10 bulletin boards I'd dial up! Makes us sound like dinosaurs lol
Because of this post, I decided to download the modem sound and use it as my ringtone "
Yeah people who download ring tones, how old is that......  |
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I still use my original aol email for most non-work things. It was easier since so many of my friends knew that way of getting in contact with me.
People must think I'm aweful with technology when I tell them my email address. |
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"I still use my original aol email for most non-work things. It was easier since so many of my friends knew that way of getting in contact with me.
People must think I'm aweful with technology when I tell them my email address. "
I've been using my yahoo address for over 10 years |
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ICQ chat rooms. And I miss Joanna Lumley's voice telling me that I had mail. Then my mum's disembodied voice telling me to get off the sodding phone line so she could make a call |
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"yeah MSN messenger was the biggest shocker
i set mines up same time i did my first ever email account back in the day. Hotmails gone too now but still have my original email"
I still have my original email too. And hubby and I met in an MSN chat room 15 years ago  |
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