- Do you remember a time before every movie trailer and TV commercial ended with a WWW address?
- Do you remember a time before 56K modems? Before 33.6, 28.8, 14.4? Do you remember a time before 2400 baud modems?
- Do you remember a time before Shockwave Flash and Quicktime VR, before RealAudio, before GIFs and JPEGs, before color graphics?
- A time before Javascript and Java, before even HTML?
- Before Windows 98, or Windows 95? Before Windows?
- Do you remember, before we started killing each other online with "Quake" and "Diablo"? Do you remember the text-based multi-user online games "Intergalactic Wrestling" and "Empire"?
- Do you remember, back before the big debate over which was better, the Mac or the PC, when the big debate was over Apple II vs. Commodore 64?
- Do you remember spelling Apple II "Apple ]["?
- Do you remember pressing "delete," so the BBS you had dialed would know which ASCII set to use?
- Do you remember wondering why someone would waste a perfectly good key on your keyboard with the @ symbol, which nobody would ever need or use?
- Do you remember when a dot was still called a period?
- Do you remember a time before The Microsoft Network? Before America Online and Compuserve?
- Do you remember, back before Johnny Mnemonic and The Net, before Hackers and The Lawnmower Man? Do you remember WarGames and Electric Dreams?
- Do you remember a time before the World Wide Web, before IRC? Do you remember a time before the Internet?
- Do you remember D-Dial?
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