20 years ago ??

Nope I don't think of old fashioned dial phones like you sassycakes.. because I had a cell phone in the 90's...granted they were much more like our cordless landline phones we have today..but much smaller than the brick like thing I had in the 80's 99f86_nokia5110.jpg

When I think of 20 years ago..I think of the recent past..my daughter had just left senior school and was entering music college , I was working in the Media...and shuttling back and forth to the continent with work at times as well. She had her first little car a Mini Metro she'd saved for which spewed oil everywhere given the least chance..and quickly had to save for another one..

I didn't have a home computer in '95 but I did get my first one in '99.

This last 20 years has absolutely flown by...

Actually when i think of all that's happened in the last 20 years..I do think it seems a long time ago now..LOL>> :D...but what's scarier even more is that if God spares me, the next 20 years will go even faster..probably!!
 

I got my first PC in 1991 or 92. With a slow modem. The US was much slower to get mobile phones and only a few people I knew or worked with had one when I left the US in 2000. I got one soon after arriving in the UK.

Like Charlie Brown when I think 80's and I calculate how long ago it was, it's longer than I thought. A lot has happened to me since 1995! I didn't even leave the US (except for Ontario in Canada) until 1998! Then moved here in 2000.
 
Linda said:
I still catch myself referring to a vehicle from the 90s as a "late model car". I just don't understand how time has flown by so fast.
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And it seems the older we get, the faster it goes! Often I'll hear a story on the news about the anniversary of something that happened 1, 2, 3 years ago and it seems like it just happened a few months ago.
 
I didn't have a home computer in '95 but I did get my first one in '99.
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Got my first home computer in 1990 :playful:, but it used those big 5 1/4" discs. Had a loud dot-matrix printer. But I thought I was hot stuff! Computers then were VERY expensive. People who were not computer knowledgeable vvere very impressed.
 
My first computer had 16 Megabytes of Random Access Memory, which I thought was adequate. The computer I use today has 2,000 MB which is considered not enough by some standards.
 
We got the kids a Tandy from Radio Shack in about 1989 or 1990. 5 1/4" floppys. Bought them some "software"... Maniac Mansion, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago, etc. We didn't get a dial-up internet connection until 1999.

20 years... 1995. Had a "bag phone" in the company car. Req'd an antenna mounted on the roof. Even then, had connection issues.
 
After getting our first computer in 1995, I remember how much trouble we had getting on the Internet and how s l o w it was. It took persistence just to get through all the frustrations you had to endure. We even got bills from different Phone Companies because we had switched all around, trying to connect. It was fascinating when we were finally able to get online and buy a book from Amazon.com
 
OMG, AOL was my first and it totally took over your computer! 'You've got mail'. Remember how exciting that was to hear?
 
Ameriscot said:
OMG, AOL was my first and it totally took over your computer! 'You've got mail'. Remember how exciting that was to hear?
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Gawd almighty that drove me insane...I heard it the other day on someone's computer and that took me waaay back lol ..I still have an AOL email address..but I rarely use it..can't remember last time I looked at it.

I resisted having a MAC for a long time, but eventually Microsoft drove me insane, so I gave in, and it's soo much better...
 
hollydolly said:
Gawd almighty that drove me insane...I heard it the other day on someone's computer and that took me waaay back lol ..I still have an AOL email address..but I rarely use it..can't remember last time I looked at it.

I resisted having a MAC for a long time, but eventually Microsoft drove me insane, so I gave in, and it's soo much better...
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I tried to get rid of AOL and use another one but it was so hard to get off my computer! I went to one called Mindspring around 1995 I think. My second computer was a Mac and I loved it. At my job from 1995 - 2000 we used Macs. I sold my Mac to move here and get married and since dh had PC's in the house, I switched back.
 

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