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[rofltown]

In 30 years we will all be in a real life version of the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates.

this is what annoys me, whats the point in me being really good looking and having good hair genetics (no baldies in family) if im just gunna be sitting at home while a robot lives my life for me?

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

this is what annoys me, whats the point in me being really good looking and having good hair genetics (no baldies in family) if im just gunna be sitting at home while a robot lives my life for me?

Hmmm, looks like we've got the makings of a Sci-Fi movie here. Bits of Surrogates, The Matrix and Gattaca all rolled into one, lol.

 

[Renegade]

I remember paying $1 an hour for my dialup, and had no problems with racking up $300 a month.

 

[Plugger35]

I remember paying $1 an hour for my dialup, and had no problems with racking up $300 a month.

I racked up a huge phone bill when I first got dial up. Didn't realise that everytime you connected was the same cost as a normal phone call, started to add up if you were disconnecting and then reconnecting all the time to make phone calls and stuff.

 

[Renegade]

I racked up a huge phone bill when I first got dial up. Didn't realise that everytime you connected was the same cost as a normal phone call, started to add up if you were disconnecting and then reconnecting all the time to make phone calls and stuff.

Ahhh that's right, the phone calls added up as well. Then someone would want to use the phone or someone would call and disconnect you.

 

[360noscope]

Check this link out - it archives web pages from the early days of the internet: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

For example: here's yahoo from 1996

And here's web crawler (an early meta search engine) from 1996 too.

BF from May 2000!

http://web.archive.org/web/20000519221939/http://www.bigfooty.com/

 

[beez]

Ahhh that's right, the phone calls added up as well. Then someone would want to use the phone or someone would call and disconnect you.

Oh the frustration. I used to crack it at my mum when I was interwebzing and she would pick up the phone to make a call, she never understood why I got so angry.

 

[Nothing]

Oh the frustration. I used to crack it at my mum when I was interwebzing and she would pick up the phone to make a call, she never understood why I got so angry.

Mid stroke?

 

[Messenger]

No mobile phones either. You organised things with mates during the week either over the landline or at footy training then you wouldn't actually speak again until you met up. If you rang someone up and they weren't home, the phone kept ringing for 3 minutes then after that gave a busy signal. The world didn't end if no one answered. It's all a money making scam now.

My dad worked for Fujitsu in the late 80's and brought home one of the first mobile phones; battery the size of a briefcase and a handset about 30cm long. He rang us from the street corner; we were just amazed.

I think the main of effect of mobile telephony has been to make arrangements more fluid. The arrangements you made at training, school, etc. you stuck to. Better offers were harder to get.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Mid stroke?

There wasn't even that much pron on the net then - just a hell of a lot of text and any page with more than two tiny jpeg files took too long to see.

I can still remember the very first thing I tried to download from the internet - it was some sheet music to three songs (legally!) which had been scanned as gif files (not that I knew what that meant, but the site pointed out that they were gifs, not jpgs). I spent days and weeks trying to get the whole thing. It would take forever then just stop halfway through. I wish I still had those files, just to see how large they actually are!