My First Experience of the InternetWe remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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1997?AOL quickly followed by BT proper. My dad believed it would help him work from home.
HA. Thankfully for me he had no idea how to even operate the computer let alone use the modem. So it became my domain.
15 years later, I'm a computer programmer with no other real life skills.
Thanks Dad.
note - I'm trolling slightly here. I'm actually very grateful for that opportunity. Independent learning ftw!
(, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 14:02, 1 reply)
Agreed!I'm in much the same position as yourself - employed as a programmer, relatively useless as socialising, etc.
I do wonder how I should introduce the internet to my own sprog. On the one hand, I had unfiltered access and it did me no harm (he says, posting on b3ta...), but on the other hand - I've seen things.
(, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 14:12, closed)
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