It's been a very long time since I have been about yahoo, as life became more interesting then the online world I once knew so well, the place I spent many hours late into the morning. Looking back as we come upon the end of another year, it amazes me that some of the messages I have held onto within my account were dated as far back as 2002, which was a very long time ago now.
In that time so much has changed many of those who I kept in touch with so much previously have long ago been lost, some got married, some just literally disappeared when the communications stopped. Yet I wonder still how many I could reach out and talk with anymore. Or how many of those same people long ago abandoned yahoo and it's associated services. The same with hotmail and aol, many of those who were better known in that time period now have been forgotten, lost in the immense amount of information that now flows. Left behind considered antiques with the new technology that is so prevalent today.
Some of them were solid when dial-up was the way to connect to the online world, the days of 2400 baud modems and pcs that had no idea, would only run on something like 64 megabytes of memory. Running at speeds that in comparison to the computers today were nearly snail pace. It was a time when a computer that was running at 10 megahertz was considered fast, and when you upgraded the components you found a slight increase in speed or capability. Yet it was considered phenomenal in an otherwise ignorant society of this new technology of computers, that today have become commonplace. With Internet connection speeds like hyperdrive in comparison to the modems of old.
Originally posted to the blog at yahoo - resulting in a 999 error, repost to posterous no problem.
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