Gather round children.
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Gather round children. Let grandma tell you of a time long long ago when the internet was young. And how in those days every company knew it was the "next thing" but didn't know what to do about it. This is what gave us the "internet button" ... this was a button added to some keyboards that said "internet" since people wanted a computer "with internet" and if it has the button ...well... then it must have that.
Presumably it opened a browser window or something. No one really knows.
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@futurebird A lot of those keyboards also had multimedia buttons. But the buttons like "internet" could be configured to launch any app you wanted. I think ours also had an "email" button.
I just makes me think of confused grandpas in best buy.
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I just makes me think of confused grandpas in best buy.
@futurebird OMG! My grandma had Juno. My uncle got her on it so that she could send e-mail because they lived in Congo and wanted Grandma to be able to communicate without waiting about a month for letters to arrive.
She continued using Juno long after it stopped being a thing most people used. We were afraid to move her off of it because she was used to it and teaching her to use a new e-mail client wasn't going to go well. It was enough of a pain when they upgraded from Juno 4 to Juno 5.
I think my mom eventually moved her to GMail when she moved in with them because she lost her Juno address.
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@futurebird OMG! My grandma had Juno. My uncle got her on it so that she could send e-mail because they lived in Congo and wanted Grandma to be able to communicate without waiting about a month for letters to arrive.
She continued using Juno long after it stopped being a thing most people used. We were afraid to move her off of it because she was used to it and teaching her to use a new e-mail client wasn't going to go well. It was enough of a pain when they upgraded from Juno 4 to Juno 5.
I think my mom eventually moved her to GMail when she moved in with them because she lost her Juno address.
@futurebird My grandfather never touched the damn thing.
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Gather round children. Let grandma tell you of a time long long ago when the internet was young. And how in those days every company knew it was the "next thing" but didn't know what to do about it. This is what gave us the "internet button" ... this was a button added to some keyboards that said "internet" since people wanted a computer "with internet" and if it has the button ...well... then it must have that.
Presumably it opened a browser window or something. No one really knows.
@futurebird I remember when access to the internet came on a CD
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@futurebird It did?
@futurebird I have never seen a keyboard with an āinternetā button, but then I see all kinds of strange buttons on Microsoft keyboards that donāt appear to do anything. So, I suppose an āinternetā button isnāt a stretch.
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@futurebird I remember when access to the internet came on a CD
I remember some kid at school trying to trade me like 10 AOL discs for one of the video games I'd burned saying "but this is like 10,000 hours of internet!
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@futurebird I remember when access to the internet came on a CD
@shippychaos @futurebird I remember creative artworks made from those CDs. They just piled up.
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Gather round children. Let grandma tell you of a time long long ago when the internet was young. And how in those days every company knew it was the "next thing" but didn't know what to do about it. This is what gave us the "internet button" ... this was a button added to some keyboards that said "internet" since people wanted a computer "with internet" and if it has the button ...well... then it must have that.
Presumably it opened a browser window or something. No one really knows.
@futurebird "now tell me about the infinite porn popups that would crash your computer if you accidentally clicked on an ad in the early days of the internet, grandma"
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@futurebird I remember when access to the internet came on a CD
@shippychaos @futurebird
I remember when aol doubled my homework media costs by switching from floppies to CDs. -
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