the days before the internet and google??

**Cookiebaker** · 03-05-2007, 07:50 PM

How on earth did people survive???

Thanks to google, I finally figured out what song was going through my head for the last week -- "She's Not Crying Anymore" and put an end to the endless aggravation.

(sorry for the stupid thread but I'm just so excited to have finally figured it out)

**BC_MoM** · 03-05-2007, 08:01 PM

They survived with Yahoo!

**Karen** · 03-05-2007, 08:07 PM

Nope, there was no Yahoo before the Internet!

Before the Internet was popular, people had these multi-volume sets of books called encyclopedias, dictionaries, and some of us belong to message-boards you had to dial in to using your modem.

**BC_MoM** · 03-05-2007, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by Karen

Nope, there was no Yahoo before the Internet!

lol, Sorry, I read too fast.

Originally Posted by Karen

Before the Internet was popular, people had these multi-volume sets of books called encyclopedias, dictionaries, and some of us belong to message-boards you had to dial in to using your modem.

I was watching a History of the Internet show a few weeks ago and it showed something like that. It seemed really weird! lol

**Catty1** · 03-05-2007, 10:42 PM

I got this on my Thought for Today(March 5):

Did you know...

... that today is Cray Supercomputer Birthday (1977)? The first Cray-1 Supercomputer was shipped to the Los Alamos Laboratories in New Mexico on this day. It cost $19 million and the monthly electrical bill at the time was $35,000. Wow!

**DJFyrewolf36** · 03-06-2007, 02:02 AM

Originally Posted by Catty1

I got this on my Thought for Today(March 5):

Did you know...

... that today is Cray Supercomputer Birthday (1977)? The first Cray-1 Supercomputer was shipped to the Los Alamos Laboratories in New Mexico on this day. It cost $19 million and the monthly electrical bill at the time was $35,000. Wow!

To think now you can get just about as much computing power as that with a palm sized computer now days, and for only about $300 at most! The leaps of technology even in the time period that I've been around computers is astrinomical

I still don't remember what I did before the digitalness took over my life...although I was pretty much born into it. I had my first "Computer" by four (it was a C64, I still love that thing when I can coax it to work

)

**columbine** · 03-06-2007, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by Catty1

Did you know...

... that today is Cray Supercomputer Birthday (1977)? The first Cray-1 Supercomputer was shipped to the Los Alamos Laboratories in New Mexico on this day. It cost $19 million and the monthly electrical bill at the time was $35,000. Wow!

And most of that wasn't for the Cray, it was for the AIR CONDITIONING because the Cray generated so much heat that it would have cooked itself it they didn't have the A/C running full blast 24/7.

So get those papers and cables away from your computer's air vents, and vacuum the fur and crumbs off your desk!

Love, Columbine