MrBishop
Well-Known Member
*Yes...my 10k post*
How the internet has changed your life
I jumped onto the internet around 1990 or so, with a dial-in local BBS called GameMaster and eventually through Genie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange). The internet was still fairly small then…certainly not the world-wide network that it is today. The people that you chatted with and played mostly ascii games with were often local (in the case of BBSs) and small groups at best (limited by bandwidth far more than the internet is today).
If you were online, it cost you a bundle/minute and you were tying up your phone line. Now, rates are dropping and people are using the internet AS their phone line…and it’s certainly not a local thing anymore.
I’ve gone from a 300BAUD dialup modem to 100MBps and still can’t type any faster.
I know people from literally around the world, many of whom I’d call friends despite the fact that I may never meet any of them IRL. I talk with, joke with, argue with and cheer on people from different cultures, backgrounds, and religions than I would even have been exposed to had the Internet not existed.
I can see news events developing almost immediately after it happens, post about it, read about it, argue about it and get sick of it long before most (unconnected) people see it on their nightly TV news or read about it in their local paper. I get my weather forecast from the internet, can do my banking from the internet, pay bills, buy stuff and sell stuff on the internet.
Internet as a source for more eclectic music, art, drama, movies … internet as a source of really bad jokes and side-splitting ones. The Internet as a hobby almost as much as a divertissement. The internet as a tool for learning, creating opinions, changing opinions and learning again. Hell, I even earn some spare change fixing people’s web-pages. on the internet...not to mention the pr0n!!
All together, I’d say that the internet has made my life that much richer.
How has the Internet changed your life?
How the internet has changed your life
I jumped onto the internet around 1990 or so, with a dial-in local BBS called GameMaster and eventually through Genie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange). The internet was still fairly small then…certainly not the world-wide network that it is today. The people that you chatted with and played mostly ascii games with were often local (in the case of BBSs) and small groups at best (limited by bandwidth far more than the internet is today).
If you were online, it cost you a bundle/minute and you were tying up your phone line. Now, rates are dropping and people are using the internet AS their phone line…and it’s certainly not a local thing anymore.
I’ve gone from a 300BAUD dialup modem to 100MBps and still can’t type any faster.
I know people from literally around the world, many of whom I’d call friends despite the fact that I may never meet any of them IRL. I talk with, joke with, argue with and cheer on people from different cultures, backgrounds, and religions than I would even have been exposed to had the Internet not existed.
I can see news events developing almost immediately after it happens, post about it, read about it, argue about it and get sick of it long before most (unconnected) people see it on their nightly TV news or read about it in their local paper. I get my weather forecast from the internet, can do my banking from the internet, pay bills, buy stuff and sell stuff on the internet.
Internet as a source for more eclectic music, art, drama, movies … internet as a source of really bad jokes and side-splitting ones. The Internet as a hobby almost as much as a divertissement. The internet as a tool for learning, creating opinions, changing opinions and learning again. Hell, I even earn some spare change fixing people’s web-pages. on the internet...not to mention the pr0n!!
All together, I’d say that the internet has made my life that much richer.
How has the Internet changed your life?
Does he look younger?
..but you do make friends on here, you spend "time" together, thoughts, jokes, chat etc ... and where ya can, you DO try and help em out if ya can ...
