Michael Shook
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

I was connected around the same time but I had a 28.8. I was in a small town in the desert in southern California and as luck would have it I made friends with the local computer shop guy. He had a room full of modems in his store and you ahd to take turns dialing in with all his other customers.

He would call me and ask me to please get offline so someone else would have a chance. At first there were only BBS’s and you had to know the phone number, so it was mostly science and porn.

Pentiums cost 5K, you could pop the hood on your box and add more memory chips and Opera was the only free browser. Netscape cost 40 dollars. And webferret and dogpile were installable on your computer.

I finally quit using Mozilla just this year after their 150th update this year and I couldn’t work on my site using Mozilla. It’s funny, everything’s new and faster but still the same.

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