Remember When
Quote: smoothgrh
According to the interwebs:
Where do you find the 'interwebs' at,
all I get is the same old internet.
Quote: lilredroosterback in the day the Bookmobile came to our neighborhood once a week
I loved it, I loved the smell of
all the books. I wanted to be
a Bookmobile driver when I
grew up so I could have first
dibs on the used comics. Too
bad I quit reading them when
I discovered the Hardy Boys
in 5th grade.
Quote:In the early 20th century, people thought radioactivity was healthy and would buy "healing" radioactive drinks for its supposed effects on rheumatism and various other ailments. Eben Byers, a tycoon of the era, claimed to drink three bottles a day. His death was documented in the Wall Street Journal with the headline, "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off."
Quote: rxwine
In the early 20th century, people thought radioactivity was healthy
They thought all the new stuff
was healthy. Electricity, radio
waves, magnetic waves. Quack
medical devices flourished and
they did nothing for you. Didn't
cure baldness, make you live
longer, get rid of disease.
"𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐈'𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞"
Quote: EvenBobThey thought all the new stuff
was healthy. Electricity, radio
waves, magnetic waves. Quack
medical devices flourished and
they did nothing for you. Didn't
cure baldness, make you live
longer, get rid of disease.
People still think this way. Some new thing comes out and people eat it up. Some study says some thing in food helps something and it is the rage. Remember the oat bran craze?
Quote: lilredroosterthe soothing sounds of dial up internet
OMG that's depressing. I did that
for 6 years before I got cable
internet. I dreaded going online.
It was cheap, though. And slow.
Getting cable was like trading in
your 57 VW bug for a Porche.
Quote: EvenBobOMG that's depressing. I did that
for 6 years before I got cable
internet. I dreaded going online.
It was cheap, though. And slow.
Getting cable was like trading in
your 57 VW bug for a Porche.
This was my first modem in 1984. A blazing 30 characters a second. It would take over 25 seconds to update the screen of text when writing a paper.
