Boomers on Social Media -
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Gingervitis
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To be fair, that girl is kind of an idiot to not just immediately give boomer the card or whatever back.can we post boomers being boomers IRL too? this one didn't know Pete Butt-geg was gay until after voting for him:
You're obviously not going to convince her of anything.
Or maybe people are using the heat in their vehicles to stay....you know....warm. Just a thought there, chuckles.
You can stay parked in your driveway to do that. Just saying, lol
Very bad to just idle your car for heat. Just saying.
Speaking of that how long have you been on the net? were you online before eternal september?
I used to be part of several old BBS dial in forums well before AOL days. Mostly just for research as to how my company at the time could use it to deliver training. Bandwidth and modem speeds back then made it impossible to deliver anything substantial, so most of what we delivered then was VHS tapes and workbooks to be used in classroom settings. Early distance learning; still beat the cost of flying a bunch of corporate geeks somewhere, paying for hotels, rental cars, expenses, etc. just for a training class. We were always on the cutting edge of technology and once CDs became a thing, we moved to those for delivering early elearning programs.
We also were a Microsoft partner, so we helped Beta all the early Windows programs, Word, Excel, etc. Even good ol' Microsoft Bob! (it bombed terribly). When AOL came along, I used to be a jannie there in my spare time because it let me get a free account -- my damn AOL bill was running several hundred a month! AOL addicts initially made Steve Case VERY rich because you only got like X amount of hours per month and overages were charged by the hour and nearly everybody went over. As bandwidth grew, so did the intarwebs. AOL was the internet on training wheels. Once people learned to use the web without AOL, forums developed and flourished, chat rooms, and eventually all the modern features of today's internet.
There was an interesting prognostication in the very early days that eventually somebody would make money in exchange for your eyeballs reading an advertisement. That prophecy certainly came true.
If you've never heard of Microsoft Bob, it's worth a read. They tried to create a VR sort of GUI as your desktop. But those of use that had cut our teeth on DOS command lines could use that much faster to do what we needed. Screen cap below.
By the time aol got to my country we already had the regular internet so nobody I know used it even if they spammed us with CDs with free hours
I remember that trend of skeuomorph desktops, dont know if apple was the one that started it but they kept doing that shit well into OSX, havent checked if thats still the case
Anyway, since you were early into this did you ever try to launch something during the dotcom era and become rich? I heard back then just knowing HTML was enough to get some venture capitalists to fund anything
Never tried to launch anything on my own, but did work for some tech companies with venture funding. Took less pay, but difference made up in options. The only way that pays off if is the company goes IPO, which they tried to do, but didn't quite make it. After a couple of years, the Board of Directors came in and fired 3/4 of the company in a day. I got to cry over my worthless options.
There were plenty that made it though (Silicon Valley mostly). It was all like going to Las Vegas (a big gamble) in those days. Instant millionaires and such if the company IPO'd successfully. Unfortunately, I was never that lucky. Did see some return from one company that got swallowed by another because of my stock holdings, but never anything huge.
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