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In terms of "hours of 'entertainment' per dollar", the pre-ecommerce Computer Shopper exceeded all other media, second only to going through the white pages and
by reeses 13y ago
In terms of "hours of 'entertainment' per dollar", the pre-ecommerce Computer Shopper exceeded all other media, second only to going through the white pages and making prank calls.
(There, I think I made enough "old person" references.)
- ErikAugust 13y agoLet me fix this up a bit: Making prank calls from your neighbor's phone line with a beige box, wishing you had the money for a laptop with a built-in modem so you can use their line to dial up to NetZero and telnet to some stuff.
- reeses 13y agoYou're not helping. We spelled it "Telenet" back then[1], and we used kermit to get to it, but we mainly used it for UUCP. My school was on BITNET, which really...bit. Laptops still required mains power supply. They were just portable. :-) I'm going to hang a bloody onion on my damned belt now. [1] I'm joking. They're different things.