Surfing for Seniors
Saturday, 27. June 2009, 22:04:13
"Like the potato in the game hot potato".....
Seriously though, how freakin' old is that operating system?! What is that, 95?! It used to take like 10 minutes to load one page back then. And remember when it would dial-up and make that noise you can still recite by heart??
*dials telephone number*....beeeeeeBUUUURbeburbe....pssssssshPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH..."Sorry your dial up could not connect. Re-attempt number 234"
Used to be extreeeemely frustrating!! You literally had to wait for one person to log off so you could log on...then it would kick you after an hour and the whole repetative dialing process started again
At the time i guess it was
especially off the back of our MS-DOS computer... C:\PROGRAMS\GAMES\PONG\> ''PONG.EXE''
And to think now i get pissy when broadband doesnt bring me my page in under 5 seconds
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*dials telephone number*....beeeeeeBUUUURbeburbe....pssssssshPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH..."Sorry your dial up could not connect. Re-attempt number 234"
At the time i guess it was
And to think now i get pissy when broadband doesnt bring me my page in under 5 seconds







