[CaptainCrunch]

I thought it would be a cool topic, we've all been around for history shaking moments from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to 9/11, to the Election of the First Black President. Usually in their moments we don't think about them for what they are. But watching Halt and Catch Fire, I thought about some of the very historic moments that I've been effected by.


So I wanted to start out with one.


My first time accessing the internet. We have to remember before that, we used BBs and Bulletin Board software. We'd look up a number for a board and use the Board Software to dial and connect, then we'd look at a text filled screen and select things like downloading software, or grabbing a receipe.


I still remember, and I think I was probably something like 22, I had just moved back to Calgary, and I had moved into my first place that was all my own. No room mates, I had set up my Clone PC, with my sparking VGA card, Soundblaster card, and my 14 inch color monitor. A friend of mine had set up a local ISP. I loaded up my copy of Mosaic, and dialed in. To this day, I'm sure the first page that loaded on connect was the home page for the ISP, and had links to news, games, and probably the stock market as well as access to my email.



But no more memorizing phone numbers, or worrying about long distance. The web pages had no graphics and it was slow as hell, but frankly in that little apartment on 14th ave and center, life had changed and I think everyone saw the possibilities.



From sitting in a college classroom logging in to a VAX server on a terminal this was a generational leap forward,