Comments on: Citizen of eWorld http://swanshadowblog.com/2009/11/30/citizen-of-eworld/ Pop cultural musings from a mercurial mind: writer, speaker, actor, mad genius. Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:42:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: SwanShadow http://swanshadowblog.com/2009/11/30/citizen-of-eworld/#comment-271 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:02:46 +0000 http://swanshadowblog.com/?p=475#comment-271 Sank: You and I both walked five miles to school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways… and we were thankful for the opportunity. :)

My second Mac was my last one, at least thus far. My friends at Jeopardy! gave me a Sony VAIO laptop when I won Battle of the Bay Area Brains in 1998, and when next I upgraded my desktop, it was easier from a file transfer perspective to go with another Windows-based machine.

And yes, I do remember Prodigy. In fact, I have a friend who still uses a legacy @prodigy.com e-mail address. :P

Good times, indeed.

]]> By: Sank http://swanshadowblog.com/2009/11/30/citizen-of-eworld/#comment-269 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:20:13 +0000 http://swanshadowblog.com/?p=475#comment-269 I guess even back then, I was a PC.. I think I was one of the first people up on Prodigy if you remember that service. I used to access on my 2400 baud modem on an amber monitor and custom (cheap) PC built by some guys in one of those store front computer places you used see. The box was about 24″ lone by 18″ wide and 6″ high. I had the delux model with BOTH types of floppys.

Ah the joy of the scream of the model as you accessed Prodigy.. I think it was about year before there was someone else on line who could send ME an email.

I remember access my first list of NCAA scores online too, in amber. It felt like I had access the raw feeds from the news sources. I was getting news minutes before anyone else I knew.. it was awesome.

PC Jr was the first color machine I ever saw. That was something. All those RGB programs with massive fonts and huge pixels.

Good times Uncle Swan, Good times.

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