Comments on: The internet didn’t change my life at all http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/ Made in New Zealand from local and imported ingredients Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:58:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sigurd Magnusson http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/#comment-99 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:36:37 +0000 http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/#comment-99 My first email would have been around 15 years ago, when you could dial in (at 2400 bits per second) to Wellington City Council Citynet. You would log (very patiently) into a remote server and send an email using a very cryptic command line mail program. It was really just a game though; I could email myself and, I think, someone else from my grandma’s work. It took a long time for it serve a useful purpose for me…

Early on though, I had a lot more fun on IRC, where I talked with people in Scandinavia and the states, who back then had “T1″ connections, which I understand would still be quicker than a Telecom “Broadband” connection, despite that being early 1990s …

]]> By: Mike http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/#comment-98 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:28:28 +0000 http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/#comment-98 Yes. As opposed to someone like me who didn’t send my first email until something like 33!

]]> By: Everything that doesn't work yet « Rowan Simpson http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/#comment-96 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:32:13 +0000 http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/#comment-96 [...] work yet Published March 21st, 2007 General , Technology To counterbalance yesterdays optimism about technology [...]

]]> By: Ben http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/#comment-95 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:49:39 +0000 http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/#comment-95 Hey, greetings from Palmy.

When I saw your post I thought of the ‘MindSet’ release one of the folks here does every year…
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2007/Press_Releases/02-22-07.html

Nice that you are blogging, by the way :O)

]]> By: podcomplex.com » Blog Archive » No Such Thing as Old Technology http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/#comment-93 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:24:51 +0000 http://rowansimpson.com/2007/03/20/the-internet-didnt-change-my-life-at-all/#comment-93 [...] invention of the piano, which is of course a revolutionary example of music technology. I read in Rowan Simpson’s Blog today a couple of pertinent quotes from Don Tapscott’s book, ‘Growing Up [...]

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