#Microblog Monday 461: Internet Museum

by Mel

3 comments

1 loribeth { 10.30.23 at 6:54 pm }

This was interesting — thanks, Mel! It makes me feel old that the “archive/museum” spans my adult lifetime! — I was 16 in 1977 when it starts — one of my best high school (girl)friends studied computer science at university. My journalism school class was the very first to use computers, in the final term of our year (1984). They were VERY primitive (as you can see from some of the examples from that era), and we all shared a dot-matrix continuous feed printer.

I got my first home computer, linked to the internet (dial-up), in 1996. And even though I worked in the communications department, all of us didn’t get email (let alone full internet access) until something like 2001!

2 Mali { 10.30.23 at 8:05 pm }

Oooh, that sounds like fun! I’m Loribeth’s era too, wrote my Master’s thesis on a computer in the university’s computer centre, and remember the arrival of computers in my office at my first job. I had email and internet access at work in the 1990s. Way back in 1989, I remember an old diplomat in our Ministry of Foreign Affairs being given a computer. He stood at the door of his office looking confused. “Why would I need one of these?” he asked, bewildered. “I still use a fountain pen!”

Now I feel really old! lol

3 Jess { 10.30.23 at 9:54 pm }

Oooh, doesn’t that sound fun! Now I’m wondering when the little yellow smile guy became the 🙂 .
Off to explore!