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In reply to the discussion: What's your favorite thing about the internet now that most of us have had it for 10 or more years.. [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)Meet or know people. Yeah, I like being alone but I love online forums where I can read other people's opinions and experiences and share some of mine. I hate having to actually be WITH other people and spend time in groups, though.
I predate AOL by quite a bit though. My first modem was a 300 baud and the conduit to the internet was through the state library. By looking for things to request through interlibrary loans you could get to library catalogs all over the place. Somehow once day we (husband and I) managed to connect to the University of Macao library and rummaged around their catalog for a long time. Most of the time was waiting for the page to refresh, even if it was just green text on a black screen.
300 baud is very, very, very slow.