Do you Know What Anniversary It is Today?  

Hi there Beautiful!
Me too Sudipta my friend...as bare bones as I am about everything else, if I were to lose my 'dot.com' world, needless to say I would be heartbroken.

and just imagine, we'd never have 'met' without the dot.com

Hi Ambie Dear!
I didn't get online til not that long ago really..say around 10 yrs or so?
I was amazed at all the things I could accomplish!
And now that I have the most wonderful friends in the world here..I am over the moon even with it.
Hey, put your pic back lol!

I think I've haunted everyone enough with my picture already.

I also remember the first website I went to. Tide.com! That was the only website I could think of, because I had just seen it advertised on TV.

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That is very funny Irish, yeah that guy did like you..that is what they do for attention huh?
Me too Irish, I was aged by the time I got online, but I made full use of it believe me when I saw what I could accomplish!
Wish I could be accomplishing more of that now though hahah xo

Hello Climber
Indeed it is Climber and that is why I posted. I knew my friends would reminicse on technology and be glad of what gifts we have today..yes, you remember the cards then hahhaa with the holes..omg I hated that class! But now I am so happy I got to do it!

I can't believe they even had a class on how to read them things LOL I think I had just skipped it. But soon after that I remember the new apple computers and programing in basic, and having to review and apply DOS.

DOS!!! Wow amazing! I do remember learning that in business school!

oh yes those were the days, that and basic, turbo pascal and fortran, remember those?

http://encyclopedia2.thef...

Here was me in American high school Bill yep right as if I were ever in class!
No but this is what we learned to do..the cards that were inserted had holes in them, so that the data could be read.

That's cool what you told me, well not cool you couldn't get on..Wow!

Oh I know dear friend..if we would have but one of us got in on that dot.com thing, we would be filthily rich by now haha

I'm glad you asked that question, I thought I would've been the only person not knowing

That is odd. I have not only never heard of one, but now that I have seen one, it still is not familiar to me! I must be too young!

Be careful what you are saying around me Bill..you are old enough to talk with me! Hhahaah Bill! "Sit and talk with me"~ did you see the movie Legend?

Yes I am old enough!

Legend? No, I don't know that one.

Hi Basqui
Oh yes indeed..I do remember first getting online.
I am so glad we have easily accessable internet now from nearly everywhere in the world my friend.

yes, indeed i can even browse the web using my mobile, it's a nokia n73. Although Mylot does not allow posting using the opera mini mobile browser. amphff! It says that mylot does not support copy and paste whenever i post using my mobile browser!

Really?
That is an interesting thing to know but too bad it does not work on your phone?
I wonder if certain sites are not good for mobile? Hmmmm, dunno my friend but thanks for that now!

Wait can you not copy and paste because you don't have 500 posts yet..that is the required amount of posts to copy and paste in myLot..maybe nothing to do with mobile.

I could access all sites on my mobile. It's just that mylot detects that I'm using copy-n-paste on my mobile browser whenever i post a comment.

I wish i could reach my 500 posts mark so that i could post comments using my mobile.

Well at least it wasn't in the 1890's El..hahahah my friend!
See that link above for a view of a really old keypunch machine in the 1800s.

yep - that IBM machine was much like the one I did it on

have you see the First ever Ad of IBM computers Elic

quite possibly, Austin has an IBM center here, we used to make typewriters, I don't know what they do today, but there is a big shopping/living area on the grounds now too

Here is the link of one Apple's Ad in 1984 ----it was coooool

ja forget the link?

I was already into my 4th year of working for the state at that point - they had a separate "word processing" unit in the office at that time

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxShzoUjiAQ

I vaguely recall that - but sure didn't see it on the Super Bowl

El and Sunny

Hi Vlws
Time flys when you are having fun, isn't it my friend?

Oh yes Sunny guy friend..I bet you played soccer am I right?

I would have cricket and volley ball

Cricket Oh man I looveee that game! I used to play volleyball in school!

Alice
There is a link to see the old keypunch machines in one of the responses above.
Have a look if you like my friend.
I would surely fade away without the net Alice.
It is my only contact with friends.

Those look so weird lol. Don't you telephone friends, or go out with them?

Alice
I don't go out like I used to!
I move so much, I don't have many local friends you see..
I prefer to stay home too Alice!
But one day maybe I will phone YOU, when I get a phone that is!

Alice..remember the moments whereby we have to type manually on typewriters.. ugh! I hate those times.. never been good at the typewriters.

Make sure you get a good package for long distance calls then Oshy!
zed: I wasn't into typwrites much in the old days, so thankfully I don't remember too much about them