People 30+, what's something that happened back your day?

I remember dial-up internet, where the phone and internet were on the same line, and if someone in your house wanted to use the phone you had to stop using the internet for a bit 😁.

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heavyone2 · 61-69, M

Windows 95 was AMAZING......yikes..lol.

Bushmanoz · 56-60, M

@heavyone2 Windows 3.11..on about 11 disks!

heavyone2 · 61-69, M

@Bushmanoz Yep and took all day to load...lol

Bushmanoz · 56-60, M

@heavyone2 we are really showing out age

heavyone2 · 61-69, M

@Bushmanoz Yep...lol.... I feel it today too. I remember the day when a browser upgrade took 24 hours.....on a 28.8 modem...lol

Bushmanoz · 56-60, M

@heavyone2 lol..and if it failed part way through, you had to start over

heavyone2 · 61-69, M

@Bushmanoz Yes,, it was a pain back in the day...lol

Bushmanoz · 56-60, M

@heavyone2 lets not tell them about the emails we wrote by hand and sent in an envelope, and waited 3-4 weeks for a reply from another country

heavyone2 · 61-69, M

@Bushmanoz "if ya go down to the post office to buy and email stamp... ya may be a redneck"....;-)

SW-User

@heavyone2 My family's first PC was a Windows 3.1 machine. I think I was in kindergarten so it was 1993-1994.