Don't know why. There are not 16 pages (at present), the final post added is the one that shows.
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"What a facinating modern age we live in"There's a newfangled device called a calendar that might help with that, Phil.
Mid 80's. But it wasn't really the internet then. Mostly just bulletin boards and usenet groups. There was no WWW back then. Ran on Commodores and Amigas with 9.6 or 14.4K modems (forget which now). My first computer had no hard drive. All programs ran from 5.25" floppys. To put it in perspective when the movie Titanic came out in 1997 most people were running a 33K modem. Most ISP's couldn't even connect to a 56K modem then. Today almost seems unbelievable to me...with down speeds available in the gigabyte range. When 5G gets up and running its going to change pretty much everything. At least in the bigger cities everything will be done over the air. There wont be a need for satellite or cable modems anymore. Pretty much everything will just go thru your smartphone which will be a hotspot for your home. And many outlying areas your smartphone will just connect to sats directly.When did you have the internet?
You see I wouldn't have a clue what 33 modem is lol. I do everything on my phone. The only time I touch a pc is at work.Mid 80's. But it wasn't really the internet then. Mostly just bulletin boards and usenet groups. There was no WWW back then. Ran on Commodores and Amigas with 9.6 or 14.4K modems (forget which now). My first computer had no hard drive. All programs ran from 5.25" floppys. To put it in perspective when the movie Titanic came out in 1997 most people were running a 33K modem. Most ISP's couldn't even connect to a 56K modem then. Today almost seems unbelievable to me...with down speeds available in the gigabyte range. When 5G gets up and running its going to change pretty much everything. At least in the bigger cities everything will be done over the air. There wont be a need for satellite or cable modems anymore. Pretty much everything will just go thru your smartphone which will be a hotspot for your home. And many outlying areas your smartphone will just connect to sats directly.
Well to put it in perspective for you..today I have a 100MB modem. Thats 3000 times faster than the 33kb modem I had in 1997. But even though it was 33kb the actual download rate was about 20-25K. In other words you would click to download a 1 min long video file, get up go get a cup of coffee and some chips let the dog out and go back and see if it was done. Today I can stream 3 different HD movies to 3 different tv's with no buffering. That was science fiction back in 1997.You see I wouldn't have a clue what 33 modem is lol. I do everything on my phone. The only time I touch a pc is at work.
I See you've been here since 2005. Wow long time ago.