Gather round children.
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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
@shippychaos @futurebird
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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@shippychaos @futurebird
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.
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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 @aj they also put an Internet buttons on flip phones but the Internet access was 55 cents per 25kb so your life and visions of your destroyed financial future flashed before your eyes if you accidentally clicked it
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@futurebird I remember when access to the internet came on a CD
@shippychaos
I remember when @bitpickup took that [AOL] CD case, printed his own proposal and got himself a student job at @unikassel so he could finance his studies to further @tierranietos. -
@futurebird @aj they also put an Internet buttons on flip phones but the Internet access was 55 cents per 25kb so your life and visions of your destroyed financial future flashed before your eyes if you accidentally clicked it
@joannaholman @futurebird I remember that! Except the internet button doesn't even go to the open internet by default. It goes to Optus Zoo or Bigpond Mobile. And some of the menus are free to browse because they want you to spend $5 on a Crazy Frog ringtone or whatever. But if you end up on the open web, you're basically calling a bankruptcy lawyer afterwards.
And before that, it was WAP codes you had to call. Like *607# for the weather. -
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 Thinkpad I’m currently using has a key with the globe icon on it. I mapped the key in gnome to open my browser, like 1998 and junk.
