July 24, 2006
Back in tha Day
I got on the internets in the fall of 1995, as a young and dumb freshman at Drexel University.
One of these days, my 3 year old daughter will come across this page, and say, "Daddy, in 1996, the internet was LAME!"
... and with a tear in my eye, I'll say to my grown up daughter, "Yes, Veronica. The internet was lame back in the day."
"All I had was a 9600 baud modem and we were glad to have it!"
.... and perhaps some thirty years down the road beyond that day, my grandson will come across that page and say "Grampa, how could use use the interweb back in 1996? It was so ugly!"
"Yes, grandson, it was, but the porn was way easier to find."
But until that day, all I can say, like my parents and their gold / avocado colored 70's era kitchen.... "We didn't know any better."
On the web Posted by AlexC at July 24, 2006 3:13 AM
Have them call "Gramps jk." I was excited to see the (really lame) web pages I had created myself, when the company first went online.
Sadly, mine are too old to register. Their first entry for Spectra Logic is in 1996. I directed this but used a real artist.
http://web.archive.org/web/19961218232019/http://www.spectralogic.com/
(Four ThreeSources have worked for this company. LatteSipper and I work there now.)
Posted by: jk at July 24, 2006 10:21 AMNo, wait, if you follow the links in you get to my lame stuff. Live Oracle backup at 505GB/hour, btw, was a big deal. We threw a mountain of hardware at the problem to get that figure. Ahh, the glory days.
Posted by: jk at July 24, 2006 10:54 AMAh yes, remember it well. My first impression then was, "Is 'gonna' a real word?"
Posted by: johngalt at July 24, 2006 3:00 PMIt turns up 31 times on ThreeSources and 20 times on Berkeley Square Blog. Obviously a real word.
Posted by: jk at July 24, 2006 4:15 PM | What do you think? [4]