Kids today should really be happy with how fortunate they are with their super fast broadband and mobile internet.

When I first started with my addiction to all things internet all I had was the good and old dial-up. OK, if you can consider good the awesome speed of 28kbps!! Hell my mobile does infinitely faster than that today! But hey…

Yes, I am that old! I am from the time where you would be considered cool for having a lycos, geocieties or angelfire HTML website. From the time that if you knew a few HTML codes you would be king of the chatroom and from the time when hacking other people’s computers “for fun” was not a crime. Me and my friends had a particular game almost every night (yup… we used to connect to the internet during the night and some times all night long because you would spend less pulses if you logged in after midnight) That game consisted in taking over each other’s computers and the last one still able to connect to the internet by the end of the night would win… And half the time we would do it via a DOS prompt (have you ever heard of Microsoft DOS??? LOL)

God I was such a nerd!

It is kinda funny to see how far we have come since then! Today my 5 year old son knows his way around the web… I first touched a computer that I could call my own when I was 14! I had somehow convinced my dad to get me one for my b’day. He was writing a book then… and my argument was that the computer would be so much more practical to do that horrible task that he used to do on his electric IBM type-writer. And I also convinced him somehow that the internet is the future of publishing (God I was so ahead of my time then… LOL)

Of course the fact that the first site the guy at the computer fair ever showed me was playboy.com had NOTHING to do with me being so eager to convince my dad… hehehehe… Don’t judge me!!! I was 14 years old!! Naked girls is the only thing in the minds of any dude that age!

I think that is why this video made me giggle so much… because I am old enough to get the joke… hehehe…

One thing is for sure… 24 WOULD NOT be a good series during the 90′s… that or would be a VERY slow paced one… like 24 days… LOL!

Hey… I had a pager like that one it was Awesome!!!

How about you? How long ago did you first plug yourself to the World Wide Web? Why? How old were you? What’s different today???

Zya!

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