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.

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.

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 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.

@faithisleaping

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.

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 It did?

@futurebird I remember when access to the internet came on a CD

@futurebird I remember when access to the internet came on a CD

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

@shippychaos @futurebird
I remember when aol doubled my homework media costs by switching from floppies to CDs.

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 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.

@futurebird

@paul @futurebird

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.

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.

@paul @futurebird

What were they doing?