Aspendell
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- Joined
- Jan 31, 2017
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My Story:
The last major social media I subscribed to was ICQ (youngsters can Google it). The biggest social media at the time was AOL. AOL continually brought down the entire internet for not having enough servers to handle their traffic. Then they bought out ICQ, which was a couple guys running a buncha servers from their mom's basement (literally!) This immediately increased AOLs internet backbone bandwidth 3 fold. Prior to this many of us used to use voice from all corners of the planet, before 98% of the world had even heard of the internet, much less knew what it was.
There was a time when the NSA used to come to me to get info they were absolutely clueless how to access. But all that has changed dramatically. So without providing many more details, lets just say that I avoid using social media whenever possible.
I have made exceptions for this Forum, because I believe in it. That said, I keep seeing references to stuff y'all have posted on Facebook, etc. If you can move it over here, that is the only way some of us will ever see it.
I learn tons from y'all and want to nurture that
The last major social media I subscribed to was ICQ (youngsters can Google it). The biggest social media at the time was AOL. AOL continually brought down the entire internet for not having enough servers to handle their traffic. Then they bought out ICQ, which was a couple guys running a buncha servers from their mom's basement (literally!) This immediately increased AOLs internet backbone bandwidth 3 fold. Prior to this many of us used to use voice from all corners of the planet, before 98% of the world had even heard of the internet, much less knew what it was.
There was a time when the NSA used to come to me to get info they were absolutely clueless how to access. But all that has changed dramatically. So without providing many more details, lets just say that I avoid using social media whenever possible.
I have made exceptions for this Forum, because I believe in it. That said, I keep seeing references to stuff y'all have posted on Facebook, etc. If you can move it over here, that is the only way some of us will ever see it.
I learn tons from y'all and want to nurture that