On Sunday I picked up Mr. Smarty pants, Derrick Bradley (who I might add has a ridiculously cool mustache for his gravatar!)… whom I might add is one smart dude. We got into our usual conversation. Trading back and forth our ideas on cool technology that is here or needs to be here. Regardless. I had the winner of the day. I’ve been online since 1996 helping with Toonaday.com. Acutally to be correct, it was Toon-a-day.com back then.

Dial up modem! Ya man. I was online when the modem was there. I used to get on later at night to chat and do stuff…. and man that famous modem sound always found a way to wake someone up in the house. I’ll never forget that noise. My kids will never know that sound. NEVER.

Looking back on it, we used to send out our email list through our ISP using :bcc. Unbelievable thinking about it now! Hundreds of emails sent by pushing the send button on a dial up modem. Interesting times.

Netscape was also it. I used to drool at the web editor tool built right into the browser. I could look(steal) the html from sites I liked and manipulate the code that way. RIGHT in the browser. Genius. Maybe not. Netscape didn’t last past Yahoo!