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In reply to the discussion: Willing to share your oldest memory of the "internet"? [View all]madamesilverspurs
(15,800 posts)After about 30 years I decided to go back to school. Man, had things changed! My first computer contact happened after an embarrassing moment at the library where I'd asked for directions to the card catalog; one of the student workers sat me down at a computer, showed me how to turn it on, then showed me how to do a simple search and print. Scary!
Another class required each of us to have email. Those of us who were new to the net marched ourselves to the nearest computer lab, where we signed in for 30 minute sessions. If we weren't emailing we could explore a bit; I sent a snailmail to my godchild and asked her to send me her email addy, took two weeks for that correspondence to complete, and she was my only email buddy for better than a year. And I was among those who became maddeningly familiar with that "timed out" message.
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