If you haven’t seen this video you need to watch it. It is from January 1994 and they are discussing how you say the “@” sign on the Today show. It is hilarious considering what we know now.
Where you online in January 1994? I met my husband on AOL in August 1993, so I was definitely online.
Craig
February 2, 2011
But seriously, what is this internets of which they speak?
I was on aol – with the same email address I have today
I had an IBM PC Jr. – the little nothing of a computer that IBM made – that could do nothing at all – because IBM thought that people would never really want a real computer in their homes – and whoosh – there vanished the once computer giant.
Thank you for this
Michele
February 2, 2011
LOL! We wouldn't want computers in our homes? Boy did IBM get that one wrong!!
Suzie P
February 2, 2011
I was using an ANCIENT Apple 2c with a flat panel screen back then (it was probably 6 years old at the time but it got me partially through college). Was talking to my now hubby every day via e-mail starting in 1993, and we had our accounts well before then through school. Wild that this late in the game they were so unaware, and also that they couldn't produce a proper @ for the screen! The enclosed A is something completely different!
Michele
February 2, 2011
I had the same computer!! I noticed the incorrect @ sign too. How far we've come in 17 years!! (and for me it's Go Packers!!!)
Craig
February 2, 2011
But seriously, what is this internets of which they speak?
I was on aol – with the same email address I have today
I had an IBM PC Jr. – the little nothing of a computer that IBM made – that could do nothing at all – because IBM thought that people would never really want a real computer in their homes – and whoosh – there vanished the once computer giant.
Thank you for this
Michele
February 2, 2011
LOL! We wouldn’t want computers in our homes? Boy did IBM get that one wrong!!
Suzie P
February 2, 2011
I was using an ANCIENT Apple 2c with a flat panel screen back then (it was probably 6 years old at the time but it got me partially through college). Was talking to my now hubby every day via e-mail starting in 1993, and we had our accounts well before then through school. Wild that this late in the game they were so unaware, and also that they couldn’t produce a proper @ for the screen! The enclosed A is something completely different!
Michele
February 2, 2011
I had the same computer!! I noticed the incorrect @ sign too. How far we’ve come in 17 years!! (and for me it’s Go Packers!!!)
April
February 4, 2011
This is hilarious! I think I had the Apple as well … in 94 I was having my first child in Germany, so things are a little fuzzy. But I do remember communicating with folks back in the states on the internet. How ahead of the times I was ~ and didn't even know it!
Agreed, funky A.
Thanks for the blast to the past!
April
February 4, 2011
This is hilarious! I think I had the Apple as well … in 94 I was having my first child in Germany, so things are a little fuzzy. But I do remember communicating with folks back in the states on the internet. How ahead of the times I was ~ and didn’t even know it!
Agreed, funky A.
Thanks for the blast to the past!