kinda quiet today in here...

[chadizzy1]

Yes my child. A whole amazing world where you ahd to use the phone to call a particular site.

for those too young to remember....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

wow, like...how did you buy stuff? pay bills? find useful information? i think i saw a cave drawing about something called a library....but it was too faded to figure out what the hell that was.

:lol:

[sagedil]

What is so funny Chad??

When I was a kid, I lived out of libraries. They were the most amazing thing to me. That carried all the way through college. It is sad now, how long it has been since I have been in one.

I started banking online and paying bills online in 1995. I was a very early adopter. But I knew then that the world had changed. And I was probably one of Amazon's first 10,000 customers as well.

But the world still worked OK before the internet. :wink:

I always laugh as I was the cusp generation. My high school finally got ONE PC when I was 17. Mac came out my freshman year at Berkeley. My first few years at Berkeley, no professor would accept a paper done with a computer, pre laserjet days. The student computer center got it's first laser my third year. Had to drop out for a few years until I was 24, and could get financial aid. My last 3 years at Berkeley, everything was done on computer.

But I is the generation that both remember what it was like before, and quickly adopted it as it came. Kind of a unique place I guess.

[chadizzy1]

I drove by a library the other day and was wondering how much longer they'd be around, not many people use them anymore. There is never anyone at our local library.

[daruckis]

dude i love libraries. i still spend a fair amount of time at them. free wifi when im out and about, all the books you can handle, and 1 dollar rentable movies. long live libraries.

[dupee419]

holy shit. I never thought I'd ever hear about BBS's again. God those things were cool for the time.

[sagedil]

I drove by a library the other day and was wondering how much longer they'd be around, not many people use them anymore. There is never anyone at our local library.

That's just strange. Our local libraries are busier than ever. partly cause they did things right and you can no reserve books over the net.

I desperately would love to get back to reading more. Too much time on SNuson, too little time with a book in my hands.

[Redbeard]

I remember BBS's vaguely. Don't think I've dialed (or telnetted) into one since about 93-94. I used to be really into them around middle school. (I was a young computer geek.) I was actually on quite a few around the Triangle, Sage (not sure if you lived there at the time), as I grew up in Clayton.

[Mullolley]

Libraries are still full, but now they're full of people trying to get on a computer for half an hour. And crazy people. There's only about 3 people looking at books, and 2 of those are probably writing a report on something. I've worked in libraries, they're scary places.

[tom502]

Our public library is the air conditioned lounge with bathrooms for the homeless and crazys.

[mlkramer]

BBS'r too...my "tech" class in high school was punch cards and a 12" floppy drive. Apple iic in college with 128k of ram...and that was the most you could get...don't even want to know what i paid for the damn thing.

[sagedil]

I remember BBS's vaguely. Don't think I've dialed (or telnetted) into one since about 93-94. I used to be really into them around middle school. (I was a young computer geek.) I was actually on quite a few around the Triangle, Sage (not sure if you lived there at the time), as I grew up in Clayton.

I came to town in May of 95, immediately figured out the local BBS scene.

But was maybe 7 months later when I finally got a Pentium computer and got a Netcom account, never dialed a BBS again after I had the net

[badlands]

i still get on easynews..changed alot.

[paulwall9]

You guys have been on the net for a long long time!

[Veganpunk]

Maybe I'm not as old as you guys, but I miss the come home drunk and mess with people in AOL chat rooms days.

[sagedil]

i still get on easynews..changed alot.

Easynews?? The best in the business for a long, long time. Became my go-to usenet service 10+ years ago. Don't use nearly that much these days, but will never cancel my subscription