I found this little gem in the This Side Up post on the Miss Cellania blog. You all obviously know how to use a computer, and there’s probably a few of you who can remember really slow download speeds, but I wonder how many of you can relate to how this story ends?
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I want ice water.
superb one, I do remember the joy when I updated my 2800kbs modem to a massive 14400, wow… my BBS went through the roof in speed… 🙂
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Wow, I remember that switch too, paid for with this new thing called a “debit” card. But I’m still trying to decide what to do with this danged “op-ti-cal disc burner” thingy in my latest modern marvel. I hate the smell of burning plastic! 🙄
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LOL! my 1st phonebill after one month of collecting mail for my BBS was a goodly sum of $700 and that was in 86ish something, quickly upgraded to a better modem… 😀
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Good grief, I’m glad I never tried anything like that! But I can still remember how “empowered” I felt when I figured out how to embed the “*70” (if I remember correctly) bit in my dial-up string to prevent that damned Call Waiting from crashing my connection! 😈
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oh god yeah, had forgot about all those commands… phew.. that was a nightmare but fun as well..
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Still didn’t stop my damned kids from picking up the phone. I was soooo tempted to add yet another to the long list of duct tape uses! 😀
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Urgh, I had to download a program a few months ago which took 2 hours and then it friggin crashed with 1 minute to go. There is no emoticon in this world that could some up my anger and frustration! 😦
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I was going to install one of those “download manager” programs once, to be able to “resume” broken downloads like that, but the download failed and I took that as a sign from God that I should leave weel enough alone!
While I know some look down on those of us who like to use emoticons, I think we should use them even more. We should even expand the available set to include some like they use in emotion management therapy:
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I think the angry icon is the closest 🙂
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No doubt! 😀
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Loon, “smiley central” has some evocative animated emoticons, see anger selection…
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Hell Dave, I’ll have to check that out. I never could figure out how to use the stuff from Incredimail!
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Nice. I wish I had a copy of lightwave or Maya. It would be fun to make things.
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I had to look those up, but yeah, I’d love to play around with them too! 😀
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Mak, loved the video. Those were the days.
Dood, you mentioned Maya! Bless you. It reminded me of my all-time favorite screensaver, Maya Paint Effects, which I thought was long dead. Found a download here: http://vista-themes.net/maya-paint-effects-screensaver.html and it works on my laptop!! Wheee. (Okay, no wisecracks about my still running Vista.)
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Would you believe this comment got sent to my spam folder? Good thing I decided to reset my PC and start over for the day, or else I might not have caught it until tomorrow! And I thank you again for the link to that cool screensaver. 😀
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I love it !!!
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Thanks my friend! This animation is so cool, like that in your “Gentleman’s Duel” post that I never got the chance to finish… Thanks for the reminder! 😀
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I remember when I first got my computer. Dial-up back then. I was so happy when I got a connection, it was orgasmic!
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I’ve been playing with “computers” before there was such a thing as a PC, and it’s been such a fun ride watching them evolve. If I remember correctly, my first “online” experience (before the Internet was so open to the public) was with CompuServe, located right here in Columbus, Ohio! I’m not sure where it is these days, but CompuServe.com still exists. 😀
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Very good film. Nice ending. I think my great gran had one of those gramophone thingys.
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OMG, a gramophone! I remember feeling so advanced when I finally got my first “high fidelity” setup. Of course it was pretty advanced compared to what came before! 😀
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