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Thread started 05/29/13 4:35pm

2freaky4church
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Blast from the past: Today show people want to know what the Internet is?

We take it for granted, but at one time the internet did not exist like it does now. Back not far ago the Today Show folks had to have the internet explained:

In some ways we were better off. lol

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #1 posted 05/30/13 8:51am

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i remember when our office installed Windows 95. it was BIG day when we went to windows..... and that was followed up a few months later when we really went modern and installed voice mail. eek

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Reply #2 posted 05/30/13 9:06am

RodeoSchro

Apparently Paul Krugman said around that time that the Internet would have about as big an affect on us as the fax machine.

He kind of missed that one, didn't he!

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Reply #3 posted 05/30/13 9:15am

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^ i predict those horeseless carriages will never take the place of our beloved horses. who would ever want one of those loud, stinky things???

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Reply #4 posted 05/30/13 9:22am

Byron

XxAxX said:

^ i predict those horeseless carriages will never take the place of our beloved horses. who would ever want one of those loud, stinky things???



Fire? Bah!..When I was a kid we ate our meat raw!

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Reply #5 posted 05/30/13 10:19pm

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2freaky4church1 said:

We take it for granted, but at one time the internet did not exist like it does now. Back not far ago the Today Show folks had to have the internet explained:

In some ways we were better off. lol

Cool to see that.

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Reply #6 posted 05/31/13 1:37am

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I think that is pretty sweet! biggrin

surviving on the thought of loving you, it's just like the water
I ain't felt this way in years...
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Reply #7 posted 05/31/13 5:36am

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Byron said:

XxAxX said:

^ i predict those horeseless carriages will never take the place of our beloved horses. who would ever want one of those loud, stinky things???



Fire? Bah!..When I was a kid we ate our meat raw!

meat? hah! when we were little we ate stalagmites and stalactites from our cave. weren't no such THING as meat

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Reply #8 posted 05/31/13 9:06am

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I still miss pong.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #9 posted 05/31/13 11:51am

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The video clip is old news to me. But it still an important piece of history to remember. Since 1994, life was change forever because of the internet.

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