Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire?

[aaronjennings]

I remember in the early days of the internet Guinness installed PCs for anyone to use in a few pubs, including McGowan's in Phibsboro.  We were there one afternoon and we decided to have a play with it and within minutes we were chatting with someone in Ohio or somewhere like that.  Accessing it was a bit of a chore iirc, it was all done through Netscape, but it was so incredible we didn't care how long it took.  Kids these days would lose their minds waiting for a 28.8k dial-up modem to get going.

The funny thing is, stories like this will become this generation's version of our grandparent's telling us how they got to school

Back in my day, telephones were fixed to the wall in your house, you couldn't just walk around with them. If you wanted to make a call when you were out and about, you had to use a telephone booth on the street. What's a telephone booth? I'll explain later. And if you wanted to connect to the internet, you had to sit at a giant screen in the corner of the living room. And you couldn't connect to the internet and talk on the phone to someone at the same time. How did we watch Netflix? Oh boy, are you in for a surprise, let me first tell you about this incredible device called a VCR...