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Hey, fediverse (and bsd.network!)
I want to hear about your formative tech years!
What did you love in years past? What made you think "if we have something like *this* today, the future is certain to be amazing?"
@pamela connecting my laptop to SprintPCS blazing fast (144Kbps!) 1xRTT mobile network and connecting to IRC while my friend was driving down the 405 freeway (why yes I am Californian why do you ask) was a big moment for me.
Fast internet without wires seemed like a real good first step towards a Star Trek like universe, at the time.
@phessler @aag @pamela I have a friend who, half of the times we talk, will slide into "Claes, isn't it wacky how we can talk, like this, with video, across half the world, in real time! And free of charge*! I mean, imagine telling our 80s selves that! Living in the future is AMAZING!"
* free of marginal charge
* free of marginal charge
@notclacke @phessler @aag :D As often as tech disappoints, that personal connection is like nothing else! :)
@aag I have to admit mobile networks still haven't gotten old for me! @phessler once sent me a picture from the water in NZ mid-conversation and it still blows my mind that it was even possible. :D