Live Stoner Chat How has the internet changed your life?

[Egzoset]

Salutations,

Simplicity is great for the average members but it's a lot of trouble when this translates into some out-of-date forum environment where users need to compensate for too many shortcomings that weren't handled for them - which is not a concern here because the apearance of simplicity doesn't imply a lack of features at all. Now that a vast number of people are using telephones it's even more important to find an equilibrium i guess, i don't know how that looks on a tiny display but it works for me in desktop format!

Steady, as she goes!!

 

[F.N.]

I hated dial up. I got high speed around 1997/98 but from 95 until then it was all dial up with that annoying dial up noise I found in the mid nineties that the internet was more organic more like cool paintings by Peter max. I mean the websites had more color and simplistic in there design, All cool podcast type shows were free no five dollars a month. Come to think of it almost all stuff was free until around 2000 then people started to charge to listen to there shows and there archives.

 

[krug]

I seem t`have got the interweb t`work on my again...not sure how I achieved this btw(pure luck I imagine!). Still...it`s an achievement, for me!555

 

[krug]

Update...It's screwed again, bugger!

 

[Egzoset]

Salutations FairlyNew,

Well i sure don't miss the CLI of MS-DOS but there was convenience in BBS message packets which could be read Off-Line and answered the same way, all in text-mode only though. When ready the upload only required a couple minutes at most, while these days it would seem nearly instantaneous i suppose. Some boards still didn't allow anonymous identities back in '95, so i sort of miss the time when trolls were a non-issue, essentially: those were days when each board was at risk to be disconnected from a network in case of contemplative abuse, etc. Of course in our present context such exposure would seem like calling for trouble and hence is no longer suitable nonetheless.

Good day, have fun!!

 

[Feenix]

Knowledge. Just the other night I read an article about Flush or no Flush. It was scientific with terms I didn't recognize and although I had the gist, I didn't "Get it" and hadn't reached a decision. A few hours later at Festivus, a give away required the 2 key words allowing our growing. With my limited knowledge I threw out absorption as one. The answer was osmosis. How in the devil the article could have not simply said, or at least mentioned osmosis in with what probably simply meant osmosis, is beyond me but in second it took to remember absorption can draw up everything in the solution while osmosis balances allowing the plant to select as it will, what it needs. Not the solution itself. Suddenly I got it. The light went on. This is only one example.
The web gives me tools to make informed decisions rather than guessing or accepting what is in books and articles without review. Like back in the day.

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