When "going online" was an evening activity, not a necessity of life
Hey are you off the phone???? I wanna get online!!!!
-Shouted from a different floor where the PC was
Going offline is my weekend activity. Time to pile up the firewood for winter.
Although it sucked so much if you were downloading something like a large (for the time) game and had call waiting or someone picked up a phone in another part of the house. 3 hours down the drain.
Download Managers were a god send for that reason.
Second house line was a game changer. Literally. It let me play Quake online.
In the 2000(s) messengers used to warn you not send phone numbers to your chat correspondents. now without giving out your phone number you can't use those messengers
When "going online" was an evening activity, not a necessity of life
Hey are you off the phone???? I wanna get online!!!!
-Shouted from a different floor where the PC was
Going offline is my weekend activity. Time to pile up the firewood for winter.
Although it sucked so much if you were downloading something like a large (for the time) game and had call waiting or someone picked up a phone in another part of the house. 3 hours down the drain.
Download Managers were a god send for that reason.
Second house line was a game changer. Literally. It let me play Quake online.