
i really need to change my Classical Guitar's strings, it's just the three bronze bass strings. i like the dull sound they get when broken in (sounds more like a lute) but they are getting indented fret marks. well maybe tomorrow i'll change them out.
i was using my old Digital Starion computer (runs Windows 95). i still can't figure out what exactly is the problem since it goes dead after as feww minutes of uptime. i get a messeg saying my computer is low on resources, stupid Internet Explorer 4 eats up lots of memory. well at least i still have the Advanced computer (Win. 95 as well).
speaking of antiquated technology, i wonder what it was like getting on the internet in the 90's. it must have been phenomenal, to aquire vast amounts of information (although mostly in English) through a computer. let me quote this person's answer on how it was to be on the www back then:
"I did not access the www until 1998. Back then the internet was very non-commercial, artistic, and cliquish. Usenet was where you wanted to go to have a discussion online, the trolls there were actually hilariously intelligent and witty in their attacks.
Personal homepages were all the rage, and ICQ was the popular instant messenger. Many people went online to escape real life, to play. They weren't looking to shop, find a spouse, plan their futures, look for a job or research their personal problems.
The numbers of people in some online communities were small enough to where you were able to establish friendships that lasted years. In order to download an MP3 you had to trade on a upload/download ratio system. Yahoo was just a directory.
Today, I see millions of strangers, my friends have all but vanished, websites cater to the masses, it is all commercial now."
if only the internet were still that way.
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i think it's a tradeoff,
i think it's a tradeoff, though- personal connections lost for the sake of infinitely more available information.
I also think that humans will always make those connections, and they still exist- oasis isn't the only site of its kind. People make close-knit and POWERFUL communities everywhere from facebook to youtube to genderfork and its sister sites. People make connections with whatever resources they have.
o.o
i'm not completely stuck in the past. LOL!
*shifty eyes*
I haven't changed the strings on my guitar, since- well, one broke once, and I changed it.
My guitar's sound is really smooth and mellow. It's a couple years older than I am (used to be my dad's until I "borrowed" it), and as far as I know, the strings haven't been changed for at least 10 years (very likely more), aside from that one.
wow,
i can only assume the tone of guitar must be very broken in and warm. that's pretty cool. :)
Hmmm...
What I want is a penpal in another state (or possibly country - just not local) with whom to exchange handwritten letters through the postal system, using stamps and envelopes that must be licked. And every few weeks one of us gets a letter in the mail and gets all excited because there's a letter from the friend in the mail, and opens it with a letter opener and reads it and writes a reply. Hang the early Internet - why not go all the way, all the way back to when things were really slow and personal and primitive.
I say this with irony and honesty mixed.
well,
now i must say that is the most basic i can be, as far as i know (LOL!). but i'm just saying, the internet back then must have been the most amazing thing to people. it was the future, and is our present. it can never be the same way ever again.
i'm very big on old stuff. jeez, i just downloaded Winamp 95 version 2 for my Windows 7 notebook. it works very well actually and has had only one small compatability error. however i do have the latest version of Winamp (5.0) anyway so, "no biggie".