I remember being excited about getting a new 14.4, 28.8 and 56k modems back in the day, but that is about as far back as I can remember. I remember the first time I listened to an mp3 and ironically it was Metallica's Enter Sandman. In the early days it seemed like almost everyone had AOL and those AOL CDs were ubiquitous. Now, it is kind of lame to use AOL and I shudder a bit when someone's email address is @aol.com. I have fond memories of Friendster and I remember the days before P2P and the first time I heard about bit torrent. The internet has come a long way in a short amount of time. I wonder what the future holds in store for the Internet.
I wonder what the future holds as well. For the good, and for the bad alike.
I just have a question. I’m sorry to make this not about you or anything, but I was wondering: Is it weird to be the sibling of a celebrity? How does it affect your life (if it does at all?)? I’m not implying that you don’t love her, appreciate her or that you DO or DON’T feel like this, I’d just like to know. You don’t have to answer, of course. That’s your choice. But I was just wondering. Thanks!
Feel free to email me or to leave the answer in this comments section, I’d love to conversate with you (love that word. Dunno if it’s real or not, though . . .).
Hey, nice blog, great design. Found through my little sister looking at your sister’s site. Figured I’d look for a designer tag cause it was good and poof here I am.
Saw you took Computer Engineering at CSULB and just had a few questions about it. I plan to go that route, was looking at UNLV but heard good things about CSULB too. Can you hit me up at my e-mail address?
Napster FTW. I used to think 56k was fast back then, now their already developing a connection that works 12x faster than high speed DSL (saw it on digg somewhere). There’s also USB 3.0 that’s going to be implemented into new computers and a new means of HD space that will allow 20x the space for a cheaper cost to make. Bunch of great stuff coming.
I feel soooo elderly now….300 baud modem on a C64. I think I even had a modem for my VIC-20, but I can’t remember. Pre-AOL, Pre-Compuserve…just user groups…watching text scroll like in “War Games” and thinking “whoa!…the ascii characters just made a boarder around the text!!!
Thanks for all the comments.
@moose I replied to you in the comments on this post
@Kevin M. I hope they come out with those hard drives soon I’m running out of space. I think I might buy a TB drive soon
@TeamPiper I remember using a Commdore that my Grandfather had I played some clown video game on a 5.25″ disk on it. I also remember the days before Windows writing bootdisks so I could enable HIMEM to play computer games. I think the first activities I did on the internet had to do with gaming.
10 years ago, 128MB RAM and something like a 10GB hard drive was the best (and probably no graphics card)
20 years ago, 1MB of RAM was ‘powerful’
i wonder how its gonna be like in 10 years’ time…
the first ever game i played was on commodore 64 (i think it was spider-man)
i think the first thing i did online was in 1999, the game total annihilation, and i still play it sometimes..
I remember when I was younger and I installed a new 200MB hard drive and that was a large capacity at the time. I also remember when 1GB was a big deal and now I’m needing 1TB drives.