When I first got a computer, I thought that the URL of every website you visited would appear on the itemised phone bill. At the time I was using my parents’ phone line, so I was very careful indeed about what kind of things I looked at on the 'net.
Oh, and I’m another one who thought that you had to be logged on when you were expecting e-mail. I was quite pleasantly surprised to find that wasn’t the case, and that I wouldn’t have to sit there waiting for it to appear in my inbox after all.
I thought it would be good.
The sad thing is - that has probably already been said in this thread.
Maybe I’m being whooshed… but… you can.
rather than just typing the url again on the other computer :smack:
Mother is thinking about getting a computer (she will agonize over the decision - if it were up to her to make the final decision as to whether to launch the Normandy invasion we’d all be speaking German and eating blood sausages), and I’m already dreading the late night calls…
“OK… I’ve got the computer hooked up. Where’s Ebay?”
Sublight:
You mean you did not realize that there was more to the internet than just usenet? (You do of course realize that usenet is indeed on the internet?)
Search engines are really stupid, you need to do most of the thinking for it.
AHunter3: Yep, I thought for a while that Usenet was the full extent of the Internet. Then I started discovering ftp sites and later this weird ‘world wide web’ thing.
A screenname that I like to use is Umberto.
I just like that name, and I’ve sort of become attached to it.
When I signed up here, I remembered having my computer reject two filenames in the same folder, soooooo… I chose a diferent screenname.
After all, one couldn’t possibly use the same screenname twice, right?
Dumb!
:smack:
I thought that too! I also believed that I had to provide my true information when signing up for anything, and they’d catch me if I didn’t. ('Cause, well, they verified information on local BBSs, why not the 'net?! Right.)
I didn’t know a lot when I first started, but I used to go on the local BBSs so I had a bit of a head start.