My ten year anniversary as a blogger
Geez! I am rewriting this post after something happened when I posted it and I got knocked out of the forum and had to log back in!!!Just posting here as I already posted earlier today about this...
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Well done Julie :) I know I registered my first web site in 1998 but I started blogging I think in 1996. It's been so long ago I don't even remember the sites now, but when the first site disappeared...
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Tony, that's remarkable! I wonder what is the date of the first official blog? Anybody we might know? My first site was through Compuserve OurWorld in the early 90s.
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I had used the internet briefly in London before I moved to the USA in 1994, but it was just text based, no browsers, and it was to search information in what is now the almost redundant newsgroups....
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That's amazing, Julie. Congratulations. Ten years is quite something and you can enjoy getting back into more blogging - writing what you want, writing how you want and not having to revise your work...
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Tony, OMG, I think we all forget about how slow everything was with dial-up and the limited capacity of computers! I can remember most times that I had to do a download of a program update - I had AOL...
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Ah ... thanks for sharing that ... it is such an evocative sound. Wonder what the human brain looks like with a CT scan or EEG when hearing that?
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I remember that with dial-up I ran a proxy-server on an old (back then!) desktop and if the connection failed it would re-dial so I was connected almost 24/7. Had to have a separate phone line...
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Tony, so you could hear the magic sound of the dial-up every time it tried to reconnect? Good thing the computer wasn't in your bedroom. I hope I never have to rely on a dial-up again ... but you...
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Yes you could hear it, but fortunately the connection did keep up most of the time. Do you remember how amazing it was when you got your first broadband service and connection was instant? (and...
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Tony, I can't remember who was my provider with the fast service - perhaps Bellsouth - as it was when I was married. I don't want to think that I take that for granted ... but I think I do!
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I can't remember my first provider either. I know it changed soon after, might have been AT&T in Indiana and possible then Comcast. Used Bellsouth too in Florida.
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Well, Tony ... you bring up a good point ... and something that I visited about a year or so ago! Now that I am retired, and my online income is pretty much like scraping the barrel, I want to keep...
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It's the same here, charges just keep going up. We opted 2 years ago for a bundled tv/landline/internet with Virgin because they were the only company with a fiber connection in our street and (in...
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I hadn't heard of PAYG - but $20 a year is a deal - I too only would use my cellphone for emergencies. I thought of transferring my number to a cellphone, but am concerned because I keep getting a...
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In case you didn't get it, PAYG = Pay As You Go, so you top up when you need, rather than having a monthly contract. Companies also seem to assume that everyone texts and wants to go online, whereas...
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Tony, I really like the idea of PAYG ... pay as you go ... and will be thinking that philosophy for more things. Thanks ;)
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Well it works for us and will work for anyone who doesn't use their cell phone much. The cost per call/text is higher of course, but there is no monthly fee. I think most of the companies in the USA...
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