Welcome to Someday

[progressoid]

[Make7]

1. Please tell me that in the future everything won't be white.

I may have to kill someone just to add some color to the decor.

[TygrBright]

2. I was just thinking "This room needs a Dexter makeover..." n/t

[ChromeFoundry]

3. Ha, read the fine print...

"CompuServe's basic service costs only $5.00 per hour, billed in minute increments to your charge card."

Hopefully that Someday doesn't come anytime soon...
Do you know the date of this ad?

[steve2470]

5. reminds me of the old AOL in 1996

I racked up some charges on that bastard. It was like $2 an hour or something.

[ChromeFoundry]

6. I was lucky

I had access to a big DEC shop at the tail end of the '80s. I was able to dial into a rack of DEC Terminal servers with Kermit, and start up a PPP or CSLIP session from my IBM PC/XT (equipped with a 10 MB full height MFM hard drive). For graphics, a Hercules+ board connected to an IBM 5150, with slow green phosphorous. A serial port mouse!? Try running DECWindows on that over 2400 baud!

When I left there, I used the Cleveland Free-Net. Yes, people were so much more patient back then! I still remember when the Internet went commercialized back in '95. Funny how it's gotten progressively worse ever since. One of my employers actually paid to have an ISDN line installed in my home ($130/month) so I could support the systems during off-hours.

WAIS, Gopher, Archie, Veronica, NNTP, uuEncode/uuDecode, X.500 email addresses - ah, such a different landscape the Internet was back then.

[johnstyle]

4. how somebody.

It is very nice and I like that things.