Gather round children.
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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 “internet” button, but then I see all kinds of strange buttons on Microsoft keyboards that don’t appear to do anything. So, I suppose an “internet” button isn’t 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
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I remember when aol doubled my homework media costs by switching from floppies to CDs. -
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I remember when aol doubled my homework media costs by switching from floppies to CDs.@llewelly @shippychaos @futurebird Speaking of... Did anything ever come of that campaign to gather up a million of their spammed CDs and dump them back on AOL?
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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.
I assume we are roughly the same age, but i really don't recall the Internet button...
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I assume we are roughly the same age, but i really don't recall the Internet button...
@Lily_and_frog The old HP keyboards had an entire top row of buttons for internet related things.
I actually have this generic brand keyboard under my desk collecting dust and cat hair. It's my emergency keyboard when the charge goes out of my wireless. It can't be too old, maybe a decade, because it is USB.
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@Lily_and_frog The old HP keyboards had an entire top row of buttons for internet related things.
I actually have this generic brand keyboard under my desk collecting dust and cat hair. It's my emergency keyboard when the charge goes out of my wireless. It can't be too old, maybe a decade, because it is USB.
I see my own words on your monitor in the background and it feels like an out of body experience!!! Lol
Cool. Back then I had a very cheap outdated Asus desktop running on Ubuntu (I forgot about it!). No fancy newfangled internet keyboards for me!
Shortly after I moved to a decent hp laptop. One that replacing the battery was as easy as changing the CD.
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I see my own words on your monitor in the background and it feels like an out of body experience!!! Lol
Cool. Back then I had a very cheap outdated Asus desktop running on Ubuntu (I forgot about it!). No fancy newfangled internet keyboards for me!
Shortly after I moved to a decent hp laptop. One that replacing the battery was as easy as changing the CD.
What were they doing?
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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 the screeching hellsounds
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What were they doing?
@Lily_and_frog They would open your default internet browser, email client, acted like shortcut keys, forward (alt+right), backward (alt+left arrow), etc. You could set them to do anything, really. @futurebird
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I remember when aol doubled my homework media costs by switching from floppies to CDs.@llewelly @shippychaos @futurebird I remember when AOL added internet access, and AOLers thought the internet had joined THEM!
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@futurebird Lol, oh yeah, I remember that. Actually, it's still in the official keyboard specs and can be programmed in on programmable keyboards I believe.
(And yeah, all it did was launch the default browser.)
@nazokiyoubinbou @futurebird LOL I remember that button. It opened Netscape Navigator!
And of course you used Netscape back in those days, because everyone knew Bill Gates and Microsoft were evil monopolists.
Except Netscape and its founder, Marc Andreesen, perhaps weren't the good guys we were led to believe. Which led us to *gestures at America*.
Now I'm not saying those internet buttons led to Maduro's kidnapping. But they played their part... -
@Lily_and_frog They would open your default internet browser, email client, acted like shortcut keys, forward (alt+right), backward (alt+left arrow), etc. You could set them to do anything, really. @futurebird
@paul @Lily_and_frog @futurebird That's not useless. It's not use*ful*, but still.
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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!
@futurebird @shippychaos The math works out. Got to give him that.
