-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 04-03-19  05:28 <=-

 >  JM> When I was last there c. mid '90s, the internet was more of a
 >  JM> curiosity than anything else.
 > And now look at it... <G>

 JM> I think of the development of the Net and radio are similar in some
 JM> ways. In the early days where you had a few users and people would
 JM> send messages asking "I live in such-a-such distant country, is anyone
 JM> getting this?" and the feeling of connectedness when one got a message
 JM> from a distant country, to the early days of wireless and people using
 JM> large sets with lots of dials and switches, headsets, scanning the
 JM> waves searching for a signal. Then exclaiming they had gotten a distant
 JM> signal and listen to some amateur speaking or playing an instrument and
 JM> being amazed at being able to do that.

I suppose there are some similarities there...   There was a certain
aspect of that just with the connection of message nets, like Fidonet,
with the echoes that went all around the world... 

 JM> Then the '90s, and still in DOS, things got a bit better just as
 JM> radio went from a rich man hobby to a huge box on a table, still with
 JM> headphones. Then Win 95 and suddenly the headphones were gone and a
 JM> horn speakers arrived.

Dunno.... I'm still in DOS, and it certainly seems to me that the
"radio" doesn't need headphones anymore.... 

 JM> Then one improvement over another and winding up with what we have
 JM> now and everyone having one, just as everyone depended on radio by the
 JM> 1940s for news, entertainment, etc.
 JM> Radio, and computers, have gone in a short time from a novelty to a
 JM> necessity.

And many people would drop the radio image and use a TV instead... but,
I, for one, still am using a radio instead of TV as well...   And
somewhere along the line, you shifted your analogy from the Internet to
computers themselves...   

ttyl       neb

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