Post by missparkle on Dec 11, 2019 12:51:41 GMT -5
Dec 11, 2019 11:30:18 GMT -5 @tc123 said:
missparkle
I didn't even have a computer before 1996 so I'm not sure how you "googled" dev or even any other search engine (was there even something like a search engine). How did you find even the word "devotee"? I barely found the word ten years ago and that was because of a movie. If I would have never seen that movie in the rental store, I would probably not be here. And crazy enough now we don't even have movie rental places anymore, they all closed down. I barely found my way into the realms of PD. Maybe I would have found it some other way but I really don't know.
The computer we had like in 1996 was huge and bulky and weird (the boxes had a cow design) and I actually don't even know what we used it for. I have like no memory about it and the computer itself probably didn't have good memory either . I think I found out that Wal Mart had a "website" and I was able to look at their products "online" and I think it was possible to order something.
I went to University in '96., to study computer science. Although at that time a lot of theory was still done on the paper, we obviously had computers (already Pentuim) and access to Internet. But yes, Dani you are right, it could not be Google. I also joined chat rooms, but I really don't remember which ones, so, yes, my first awareness of word "devotee" also came from there. One was on Yahoo definitely, my main e-mail address is still from that time, the same as nickname I used. But there was also ICQ later and MSN. I only few weeks ago realized that one person I knew back then, was also a member here on PD! @tc123, maybe two of us were also wandering at the same place, at the same time! Wow!
I also remember guys being suspicious what I was doing there, being AB. Especially in '99. and bombing of Serbia, I believe some had doubts of my motives, that I was after green card or something. And I was rather willing to let them believe even that, than to suspect I was a dev.