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10 Years since we met in person
Yesterday marked 10 years since B and I met in real life.
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I want a new computer!
It’s been over 20 years since I first started using computers and I want a new one! I found myself with a little bit of time to play games the other day and my Dual Celeron 500 (and that’s overclocked!) wasn’t up to it. My GeForce2 MX card died a few months ago and I…
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It’s all there in black and white
Today, most people access content on the Internet through graphical tools such as Internet Explorer, Outlook and various instant messagers. In 1993, GUI based Internet programs like Eudora (email), Fetch (FTP) and Ircle (IRC) existed for the Macintosh. However, dialed into a remote Unix server at a (now) glacially slow 2400 bps from a Windows…
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The birth of allrite
My introduction to the online world came with the purchase of my first modem in 1993. I was in my second year of a science degree at the Australian National University in Canberra and had recently bought a new desktop computer, a 386SX33 PC. Around me academics and fellow students were getting student email addresses…
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The dream of instant access
It is sometimes difficult to remember life without access to the Internet. In fact, it’s now getting difficult even envisage the days of dialup connections, popular though they still are for most users. For over two-thirds of my life access to information meant hunting through the books on my bookshelf if I was lucky, but…
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10 Years Online
It is difficult for me to believe that I have been online for ten years now. The Internet itself has existed in one form or another for around 30 years, so I am not claiming any sort of records here. However, in the time that I have been online I have witnessed the Internet move…
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