Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

Davesnave

2001 for me, but then I am an old fogey. I thought I'd be hacked or have loads of viruses.

We had a computer well before that though, for business. We printed plant labels with a dot matrix device with the constitution of a Sherman tank.

I also felt that I needed to be up to speed with this technology stuff because, as usual, the education sector wasn't teaching the teachers fast enough.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

If I'd had a better income and wasn't suffering for being an underpaid female living alone, I'd have been able to avail myself of modern technologies and equipment and actually been way ahead of where I am now with stuff. I've worked hard, very hard, for donkeys years ... and never quite achieved much spare cash to be able to do stuff like buy modern PCs, or good ones, or phones. Even now I'd struggle to get a job doing what I do because employers would expect me to know more about social networking on posh mobile phones - iPads and apps and stuff.... stuff I've never even seen.

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That stuff's just unnecessary - I actually am a Luddite for them. If you wanted to impress somebody with your understanding of new social media just potter around this website when you get a moment- it 's a portal site for all the fancy web 2.0 stuff like Spotify and Dropbox but also loads of stuff nobody else will have heard of.

http://www.go2web20.net/

JonnyBravo wrote: »

I'm a late adopter for the internet it seems.
Dont think I was online til late 98.

You were three years/ a decade/a century/ a millenium ahead of me!

tomterm8

I was on the internet before the internet existed - I used a cpc 464 and a (IIRC) 9,600 b/s modem to connect into bulletin boards. So I was a forum user before, well, the world wide web really existed. It was all a very slow, expensive and squeaky process. Then we got poorer, and I next used a dial up account in 1996... got my first web page in 1998. Because I went to university, I didn't get broadband until very late.

Got my first Google bowl in the California update. Fun.

zagubov

I once found a book introducing the internet and it advised that the internet had five services or features.

One was the world wide web, another was email, then there were ( I think) chat services and file-sharing. Strugghing to remember what the fith was - bullletin boards or something?

Anyone know?:o

michaels

My memory is like a sieve - I really can't remember when I got the internet at home - I got my first PC at uni, I think in the second year so 1989/90 (windows 3.1 I guess) and I remember using the internet at work so some time after 1995. I also remember when google came out and the days before google for searches - i note google was set up in 1998 but I am not sure when they got to general public visibility. I really have no recollection of what I did for PCs at home during the 90's but vaguely remember different dial up providers.

Gmail and mail.com seem to filter out the vast majority of my spam (and the odd useful email) - am I doing something wrong.

Wheezy_2

tomterm8 wrote: »

Got my first Google bowl in the California update. Fun.

Eh? What's that?

tomterm8

zagubov wrote: »

I once found a book introducing the internet and it advised that the internet had five services or features.

One was the world wide web, another was email, then there were ( I think) chat services and file-sharing. Strugghing to remember what the fith was - bullletin boards or something?

Anyone know?:o

Possibly search engines?

tomterm8

Wheezy wrote: »

Eh? What's that?

The california update was where google decided to change it's algorithm from one where a link like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet is treated exactly like this link Internet .

To one where the later link is given a much higher priority when selecting search results.

The effect was electric: some people lost businesses worth tens of millions from the change. Something like 40% of searches were affected. In effect, on one day, google launched an entire new search engine.

A google bowl is where, for some reason, Google updates its algorithm from one where you get a lot of visitors from them to one where you don't.

lostinrates

I first really internet as an undergrad for research. We'd had it at home a couple of years before but it was slow and frankly, boring. I liked outside things. It never really occured to me to online shop or research things not to do with ''work''. (though ones writing a comparitive paper on reproduction I found that b!itch and reproduction got some interesting results). I guess my opinion of the internet was science and !!!!!!....and one i left behind and the other didn't interest me.

Having given up on academia I used it for very occasional email (usually on the amstrad phone, lol) until I got ill. Its still slightly crazy to me that there is all this stuff electronically. As well as the benefits for ''finding stuff out'' there is so much crud its a bit depressing. e.g. when looking for some information its hard to determine whats good and whats rubbish. And It worries me that a lot of people don't take a moment to verify what they read on the net. e.g. people who treat wikipedia like the word of god.

sss555s

I got my first time machine in....... oh wait, it's playing up again!!!