10 print “what is your name”

By shaden

Today Craig and I decided to change things up a bit.  Rather than our typical Starbucks meetup, we changed venue to Chilis.   I arrived a good bit before he did, and decided to play on my Storm to keep myself occupied while waiting for his arrival.

I clicked on my Ubertwitter icon, and nothing happened.  I looked at the status of my connections and to my detriment shockingly i panicked realized that my data connection was lost.

Being a Blackberry user for many years I did the first logical thing, a battery pull.  Three years Three minutes later, my storm was back up and still, no data.

So I sat,  and waited.  With nothing. to. do…

..

….

When Craig arrived I checked HIS Blackberry and data was fine.  *pissy exhale*

…and he and I got to discussing…  or rather… reminiscing…

Remember when the only handhelds we had to take with us anywhere were Speak ‘n’ Spell, The little Professor, or Mattel electronic football with the red dashes?

Remember when we had to use PAY phones to get ahold of someone if we were out and about?  If we called and they were on the phone we got an obnoxious busy signal!  (remember emergency breakthroughs?) Oh my god and IMAGINE a world without caller ID!!   “call me. Let it ring twice, then call back so I know it is you”

Oh wow, and Online?  I remember getting made fun of because I logged in.  There were no pictures on ‘web’ pages unless we downloaded them from a BBS.. which took eons… pissed our parents off for tying up the line and when they picked up the other extension to make a call, our connection dropped.

TELEPHONES HAD CORDS!  (sometimes I wish they still did.  Telling someone I have to go because I am headed out the door just does not work like it used to.)  Remember dial tones?

Oh and instant messengers.  When it started, it was split screen chat…  I remember the loose moose BBS…  Wolves Den…  CountZ… Lighthouse.. WWIV and Synchronet…   L.O.R.D and TradeWarz.. we could chat with ONE other person at a time.. leave messages..  and read forums.    When DOVE net came out, we could share forums across other BBS’s …   yeah I am probably getting too techie for some of ya… but I am reminiscing here.  But still, we werent as ‘connected’ as we are now.

I remember when Baudville BBS, Rainforrest and Variations came out… WOW .. MULTInode BBSs…  sometimes there were 20 people online!!!!!  But it was always limited to how many phone lines the owner (sysop) leased.  But you still had to wait and hope that you and your friend would log in at the same time…   and you still had to tie up a phone line to chat.  Oh and if all the phone lines were full, your modem got a busy signal too.  Oh yes. Modems. remember those?  Good ole analog dialup modems.

and there, I sat… at chilis… disappointed that my Cellphone/digital camera/internet connection/file downloader /mp3player device would not connect to the internet so I could check my facebook/twitter.

I wonder where we will be in another twenty years….

 

S.Sargent

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One Response to “10 print “what is your name””

  1. Rowdy Cat Rowdy Cat

    LOVE IT! You had me rolling. I had tears coming out my eyes. :)

    #1689

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