I knew the internet before it was called that ...

I knew the internet before it was called that. That is what i say to the kids. I think i feel like my nanna use to when i would talk to her about microwave ovens (both what they are for and how they work). Except i am not that old. Well time is relative. Just i can’t help feeling that i have gotten use to things being “part of everyday life” that i never even imagined would even exist.

When i first went to Uni we had this thing called Usenet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet) and Email. It was awesome. I Still talk to some people i met (on the other side of the world) from all they way back then. Infact Usenet and Email were all i ever needed. I loved downloading stuff from monty python and talking to geeks like me on the other side of the world. Sure the conversations probably weren’t that interesting but they were with PEOPLE ON THE OTHERSIDE OF THE WORLD. I do live on a small island at the arse end of the world so it meant a lot.

In fact when i was a third year student i helped build my own multi-talk. Text based. That’s right. You called have a window open and chat “instantly” with people from anywhere. It use to randomly crash the university computer system. But that wasn’t the only time i did that. No sir. Many a time that happened. Well, it was all so new.

The biggest problem i think i caused was when i forgot to log out one day and the “boys” posted a personals Add for me. Imagine back then that there were not many actual girls online. And people didn’t lie yet about being a hot, young chick when they were in fact a fat, old guy living in his mother’s basement. I did actually meet some nice people that way. I sooooo wouldn’t do that now.

Needless to say i became know to the SysAdmin. Nice bloke. Got my first job when i did a little hacking to get me some email access. No joke. Probably get chucked out of Uni now!!
What bought all this nostalgia on? Well it was an article that was drawn to my attention via twitter. About the fact that they are going to stop making disks ( http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363108,00.asp )

It just bought home how much has changed and how quickly.

I found this cool site for nostalgic computer nerds. Museum of old computers: http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM It cheered me up. My first computer was an Acorn BBC’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro).

Go i am going to have to stop.