Re: UKNM: Amazon.com

[Speechrad]

In a message dated 11/02/00 18:35:59 GMT Standard Time,

danuk [dot] psi [dot] com

 writes:


<< Anybody remember how they felt the first day they used the web? 

  Clueless is a word that springs to mind >>


Well, sort of at the way it worked but also disappointed that it seemed 'so 

close', as if it really was just software on my PC.  This was about 5 or 6 

years ago.  I had been involved in email (I designed a package to teach the 

principles of email without the phone charges that you lot may have used in 

school in the mid-80's called MACEMAIL it sold to about two thirds of all 

secondary schools in UK) and PRESTEL as early as 1984, even had a chat 

on-line via BTGold and Campus2000 wirth a friend in Australia in about 1985.

With a BBC micro and a 1200 baud modem one really did, feel the distance and 

it seemed more 'real' in some ways than the web does now.  However, I now get 

really frustrated if my ISDN line doesn't load a page in under 2 seconds.

Sorry to go on, I'll be talking about Mars bars costing 3 old pence soon.


Michael 



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