Me, 1983. First computer. Taught myself programming. Always
stayed a little bit "ahead" and always a futurist, predicting
near future things. One project since 11 yrs old has been a
"Thought Collector". Made various forms of it on various
computers. Still working on it though. [worst was going through
a microcassette recorder and dozens of tapes before my iPhone 4s
(now 5s) FINALLY could put that to bed with a decent
voice-to-text that I could actually _use_. "It's about time" is
always my view on new "breakthroughs" I miss chat rooms. I mean,
the style in facebook groups comes _close_; and in a way it's
nicer than old-style chat or IRC because it has permanence,
pictures and videos... but there was something exciting about
the "Now-ness" of the old chat rooms.
I ran a Minecraft server for 23 months. Needless to say, I
encouraged a chatty server. All the chat rooms migrated into
multi-player gaming, and a relic-form of chat rooms is here in
facebook groups and "private ones" in instant msgr apps. But
honestly, the public ones were always the best. [then again, the
Internet of the 90s was a lot more perverted. It still is of
course, but GenZ cleaned up all the fandom. It's their internet
now We're just the school janitors chatting in the boilerroom. I
can't wait to see what Internet they create as they grow up and
modify it. But I'm a futurist... can't seem to get myself into
"today" F'in Doctor Who - you warped me as a kid remember Usenet
BITNET
AOL
PC-Link
BBS'
300 baud modems
Limewire
P2P
Myspace
Facebook
Google+
Orkut
iPhones
Androids
CB Radios
Dial-up Modems
Cable Modems
DSL
Wifi
I always live in the near future, so the present tech is always
just a little past to me and "latest just-came-out technology to
me, is "Well, it's about time they finally did that".
