*Giggles*
Yesterday Mum & I cleaned out our study and threw away many old magazines that we no longer wished to keep. This one in particular is incredibly out-dated... "The Internet Magazine" dated March 1997. Let's dig in for a little bit of nostalgia shall we? Here are some quotes that I find hilarious if not mildly entertaining.

• "The technology which will allow 56kbps download speeds is being pioneered by US Robotics and has been taken up by many US and UK IAPs (I have no idea what an IAP is either). The technology exploits the digital connections that many IAPs use when they connect to the phone network. We'll be taking a closer look at the pros and cons of this technology NEXT MONTH!"
  
  
• "Are you really ready for the 56kbps modem?"
  
  
• Price of a decent 33.6 modem is 199 British pounds. POUNDS! That's AUD 464. I wonder how much an iPod would have cost if it came out in 1997.
  
  
• Price of a PC card (so your laptop can connect onto the internet) 399 British pounds (A $931). This particular PC card won the Internet Magazine's award for "Best Buy PC Card".
  
  
• "Who'd want to be working for AOL, what with the US arm of the service virtually grinding to a halt?"
  
  
• "Get 5MB of web space for only 50 pounds per year!" (A$116)
  
  
• "Nonethless, basic chat servers - where you type and other people read what you type - are still relatively new to many Internet users, particularly the growing number who have come online in the past year and have only really ever used the Web and email"
  
  
• "Watch the background of your homepage. Steer clear of the dreaded grey. White or a very pale colour is the best background for potential web surfers" - Remember the grey backgrounds?!! Omg, I totally forgotten about them until just now. And 'web surfer'? Haha... If you said you 'surf the web' today, you'd probably get a slap.
  
  
• Half of the sites that they advertise as 'up and coming' websites are no longer existing.

Yeah, tis quite funny. There's a whole lot of other really random things but I won't list them all. So much advancement in the last 8 years. Thank God! Wonder what things will be like in the next 8 years. I'd probably be laughing off 'wireless' internet. But all this technological stuff must be logarithmic. There's got to be a point in time when you can't really get any further apart from really small changes. Such as wireless internet. How can you get further than that? Underwater internet? When you look back at the different ages... it took so long for advancement to become apparent. Now, every year there's something new and so much better. It's so exciting and all I have to do is just sit here and wait. It's impossible to be bored with anything because as soon as you are, there's something better on the market and you move swiftly on... and the new thing is probably cheaper too!

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