2oldman wrote:
Nexflix.. nexflix.monkey44 wrote:
Remember when a phone was wired to your house and cost $5 a month,
And you made $3.50 an hour at your job. We now have the world's knowledge at our fingertips. I miss some things of the 60s, but not the technology.
True enough, but problem with the technology - the "corporates' keep changing it - for example, have you tried to buy a cell phone lately that only does phone calls? Now, it does everything - which we often don't truly need - and ups the price - and because there's no where else to go, we either up the expense to get a simple phone, or we have no phone.
AND, the internet - when I first 'found it' in college, only the universities were 'connected' and you could only use it if you went to a university library ... and it was an amazing source of info.
NOW, it's nothing but an advertising rag, and you need special training to eliminate or skip the ads and use it as a real resource -- 'tag lines' make every search bombard you with ads instead of true and useful info - that is one of the saddest thing I've seen about this ISP revolution.