I found this post on Gizmodo with this video about the Internet from 1995. It was hilarious but it got me thinking about how far we have come and all the things I've seen and used over the years in terms of technology.
So I thought wouldn't it be fun to go down memory lane? So come on lets get nostalgic and share those stories about back in the day when you used a computer with a 12" screen and it was cutting edge.
The first computer in our house was sometime in the early 90s it was an Amiga that had a tiny 10 or 12" or so monochrome monitor. It ran off 3.5 floppies and the only thing my older brother knew how to do was load up the Star Trek game which was hours of watching stars on the screen like the screensaver. Then in highschool I took a programming class and learned to use Turbo Pascal, the computers at that time used either 5.25 floppy or 3.5. A couple of friends and I messed with the lines of either "Breakout" or "Pong" and we made the bumper the width of the screen, changed the image beneath the blocks and then just sat and watched the ball knocking out the bricks lol tons of fun.
My very first computer was in 1999 I might be a little fuzzy on the details but I believe it was a Pentium 166 or 200 Mhz. It was running Windows 95 and had a modem. We only had one phone line at the time so I could only use the modem at night when no one was going to call the house. I used the AOL free disks at the library to get online and I remember one night it took about 2 or 3 hours to download MSN Messenger lol The modem noise was un-mistakable and opening a page was painfully slow.
So I thought wouldn't it be fun to go down memory lane? So come on lets get nostalgic and share those stories about back in the day when you used a computer with a 12" screen and it was cutting edge.
The first computer in our house was sometime in the early 90s it was an Amiga that had a tiny 10 or 12" or so monochrome monitor. It ran off 3.5 floppies and the only thing my older brother knew how to do was load up the Star Trek game which was hours of watching stars on the screen like the screensaver. Then in highschool I took a programming class and learned to use Turbo Pascal, the computers at that time used either 5.25 floppy or 3.5. A couple of friends and I messed with the lines of either "Breakout" or "Pong" and we made the bumper the width of the screen, changed the image beneath the blocks and then just sat and watched the ball knocking out the bricks lol tons of fun.
My very first computer was in 1999 I might be a little fuzzy on the details but I believe it was a Pentium 166 or 200 Mhz. It was running Windows 95 and had a modem. We only had one phone line at the time so I could only use the modem at night when no one was going to call the house. I used the AOL free disks at the library to get online and I remember one night it took about 2 or 3 hours to download MSN Messenger lol The modem noise was un-mistakable and opening a page was painfully slow.
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