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  1. God Bless Texas

    God Bless Texas DI Member

    Jul 23, 2023 #11
    Thought I was the only one still playing sudoku. Can't say I'm a nerd on purpose, but I seem to be the "tech guy" when things went wrong.
    Out here that's less of a problem.
    We just have a pre-paid WiFi box and spend about 500 php a month.
    Unplugged and outside- it's the good life.
    Old fashioned as I am, I still read books with actual paper pages, dog ear the corners. No power, no signal, no problem.
     
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  2. jimeve

    jimeve DI Forum Luminary Highly Rated Poster Showcase Reviewer Veteran Army

    Jul 20, 2023 #6
    And,
    Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW.
     
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  3. Crystalhead

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    Jul 20, 2023 #5
    Vint Cerf, born June 23, 1943, designed the TCP/IP protocols and the internet architecture with his co-designer Robert E. Kahn. Known as the “Father of the Internet”, Cerf began work at the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1973 at the request of Kahn.
     
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  4. john boy

    john boy DI Forum Luminary Highly Rated Poster

    Jul 19, 2023 #4
    I never had a computer till 2007, but before that I had a wind up grammaphone does that count ?
    I thought mega bites was a large Mc Donalds burger!
    Seriously the computer has opened up the world to me , if there's something I need to ask I get the answer....AI eat your heart out
     
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  5. Dutchie

    Dutchie DI Senior Member Showcase Reviewer Veteran Army

    Jul 19, 2023 #2
    I'm positive many of us spend quite a bit of time online these days Pat.
    I might qualify as a nerd "avant la lettre" myself in some ways, having bought my first computer in 1982, a ZX Spectrum from Sinclair.
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    It had 48 Kb memory, and you had to use a cassette recorder to load and save software and data; for the time it was totally awesome.
    Many computers later I now run a pretty fast desktop with a 32" screen, and while I'm at home it is rarely turned off.
     
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