Remember having to put in the ENTIRE web site address to make it respond and if you didn't enter it exactly, the 'net would spit you out quicker than a bent quarter in a las vegas slot machine. i remember the first time someone was verbally instructing me to enter a website and hearing jibberish like http, colon, backslash, @, index and html. true story....the first time that happened, i starting laughing so hard that i couldn't finish entering it and had to give up the command seat to my frustrated computer buddy.
And do any of you remember the real early days when you were working feverishly to finish a project (remember, we were limited in minutes back then) and the freaking phone rang and knocked you off line? and in those days, work wasn't automatically saved. ouch.
For better or worse, computers changed our lives forever.
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And happy 12th birthday to the iPHONE, which entered our lives in 2007 and has since had eleven 'improved' models. i remember buying my first cell phone for $69 and got two months of 100 minutes FREE! after all, who could talk a hundred minutes? today's iphone has unlimited minutes (and a whole bunch of other goodies) but sells for $1200. i bought my first car for a hundred bucks.
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And speaking of phones and birthdays, HAPPY 46th BIRTHDAY to the cell phone!! n 1973, THE MOTOROLA DYNATAC 8000, it weighed two pounds, looked like an army walkie-talkie, was 10" tall and had a 60 minute battery life which took TEN HOURS to recharge. and it could be yours for the low, low price of $3,999.00. this is the guy who made the first cell phone call and a picture of the original beast. try slipping that phone into your pocket. FYI---if you saved this phone, it sells between $5,000-$15,000 today on ebay.
Motorola had already made our jaws drop when the monster became available in the early 80's when they unveiled the phone to end all phones in 1988.............TA DA!.............THE BAG PHONE!
i never had one but a whole bunch of my friends did and they were very functional as a car phone for a few years until the flip phone came out in 1996 and made them all dinosaurs. FYI #2....the cost of a bag phone on ebay? pocket change at $25 in excellent shape but most of you bounced them around in your trunk. lol
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Well, that's the end of the electronic tour. hope you enjoyed the time machine. have a good week
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