RE: 500 Words a Day — Saying Goodbye to Yahoo — 22.7.2020
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Wow, you were there in the beginning. I remember how frustrating the internet used to be during the days of dial-up. It still seemed like magic though. Enjoy your time up North!
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Oh, I was around before that. 😅
The first “computer” I ever used was actually a dumb terminal and I’d pick up a landline phone, dial a “timeshare mainframe” and physically inset the receiver into a 300-baud modem so that I could write a program in BASIC to save to a paper tape device.
Whoa, you were a pioneer! Are we talking late-70's/mid-80's? I bet that was so exciting back then to be about to do that. I remember my first computer, it was a Tandy from Radio Shack. My iPhone probably has 100x the processing power. I would spend hours learning how to write programs to make a pixelated cartoon figure walk across the screen.
The dumb terminal with the 300-baud modem was 1973. A lifetime ago; I’m now 64.