4 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

It does have a section on the morons I have encountered in my life. You are not on it, too insignificant.

 

On fire this am.....555

Nuff said ... 

 

On 7/22/2025 at 10:06 AM, novacova said:

probably panic when the electricity goes out for a few hours.

Did you ever grabbed a warm bottle of beer out of your fridge?

Maybe now you could understand what panic means to some? 😂😂😂

First thing I'd do would be divorce my wife.

In the UK 1995 divorce gave her no right to my home, savings or pension.

Those laws were introduced in 1997.

3 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

Did you ever grabbed a warm bottle of beer out of your fridge?

Maybe now you could understand what panic means to some? 😂😂😂

 

 

We are supposed to get our own beer?

 

 

You wake up and it's back to 1995. No WiFi, no cell phones, the simple life. What is the first thing you do? 

Read a book. Remember books?  Paper thingys, pages of paper with writing on them?  Tells a story!

Pretty sure I was browsing AOL with a 2400 baud modem in 1995.

27 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

Pretty sure I was browsing AOL with a 2400 baud modem in 1995.

 

There was Mosaic as early as 1994

3 minutes ago, John Drake said:

 

There was Mosaic as early as 1994

I just checked dates and was I defiantly using Netscape Navigator on my Mac in 1995. So AOL was before that. Netscape was using HTTP and the original HTML spec, i.e. the World Wide Web, which was a big deal back then coming from AOL which was like a computer TV format. I still remember writing HTML 1.0 web pages with the <blink> tags back then.

here's the computer I had in 1995.

 

 

running Netscape Navigator and the original WWW 1.0 would have looked like something like this:

 

 

 

Go down to newsagent/booksop, buy a good book, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, L'Equipe and walk to the nearest bar to have Coffee with a few Croissants, Lunch, Movie, Dinner ... Couldn't be happier.

In answer to the question what would I do - Go back to sleep!

Get hustler out and bang one out.

Go down pub.

33 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

here's the computer I had in 1995.

 

 

running Netscape Navigator and the original WWW 1.0 would have looked like something like this:

 

Bought one of the first computers offered at Radio Shack, 80s, and took it back within the return period.  I'm a patient person, but not for dial up internet.  Nothing is worth waiting that long for.

 

Bought one of the earlier computers (expensive) offered at Radio Shack, 80s, and took it back within the 'free' return period.  I'm a patient person, but not for dial up internet.  Nothing is worth waiting that long for.   Really didn't bother with another till 1995, and it opened up new world of investing info & Yahoo chat, for sex meet up in different cities 

 

Working for airlines, '78', and everything was DOS, no windows yet.  Most of it, operations part, was still DOS when I left 2001. 

The first thing I'd do is power on my Starlink mini. 

On 7/21/2025 at 11:20 PM, Lacessit said:

Without internet, work on my autobiography, currently 162,000 words. There is always something to add.

 

Is the title "A Lifetime of Patting Myself on the back"?

4 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

Is the title "A Lifetime of Patting Myself on the back"?

No. I think I will write a new section though, about people who can only live vicariously. Apologies if that is too long a word for you.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

First thing I'd do would be divorce my wife.

In the UK 1995 divorce gave her no right to my home, savings or pension.

Those laws were introduced in 1997.

I would have skipped Australian women entirely, and headed immediately to Thailand.

8 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

Is the title "A Lifetime of Patting Myself on the back"?

 

Something along the lines of the UK Dairy Herd Inspector.....

 

"A lifetime of pats on the back"

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

It does have a section on the morons I have encountered in my life. You are not on it

 

 I'm sure both of your readers will be disappointed.

 

Just as I was to read "on it", when grammatically "in it" would be more usual.

 

But you always were a free spirit.

 

I hope you put enough money away for printing the two copies.

 

 

17 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

 I'm sure both of your readers will be disappointed.

 

Just as I was to read "on it", when grammatically "in it" would be more usual.

 

But you always were a free spirit.

 

I hope you put enough money away for printing the two copies.

 

 

People publish books online nowadays.

 

What have you done with your life that elevates you from trolldom?

 

Please keep up, printing has gone the way of bustles and button-up boots.

9 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

People publish books online nowadays.

 

What have you done with your life that elevates you from trolldom?

 

Please keep up, printing has gone the way of bustles and button-up boots.

 

Oh so  no  major publisher for this monumental 160,000 plus words master piece?

 

That's disappointing. I thought there'd have been a bidding war between Penguin and Macmillian for an autobiography of such an important personage.

 

Obviously not.  Shame.

 

Well, enjoy  uploading...😂

42 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I would have skipped Australian women entirely, and headed immediately to Thailand.

If only we knew then, what we learned from life.

31 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Oh so  no  major publisher for this monumental 160,000 plus words master piece?

 

That's disappointing. I thought there'd have been a bidding war between Penguin and Macmillian for an autobiography of such an important personage.

 

Obviously not.  Shame.

 

Well, enjoy  uploading...😂

The only bidding war you are likely to have is between two drunk katoeys with serious eyesight problems.

4 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

The only bidding war you are likely to have is between two drunk katoeys with serious eyesight problems.

 

Careful, those are your two only readers...😂

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

 

Careful, those are your two only readers...😂

"Just as I was to read "on it", when grammatically "in it" would be more usual. "

 

"only two" is a more natural expression. "two only" is awkward and clumsy, but then I am not surprised.

 

The topic is no internet. You would probably lack even more education than you do now.

 

 

7 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

You would probably lack even more education than you do now

 

You're an Australian engineer. I'm a City of London trained international funds lawyer. Are you sure you want to go down the education route?

 

You know you're basically unarmed in that regard.

No internet or cell phones? I guess that would be the end of mobile banking and crypto, booking flights and holidays online, and all the other order from home conveniences.  The return of cash, land lines and travel agents, and the likes of Apple and AI would bite the dust.

 

How would all the Thais travelling on the BTS handle it?

5 hours ago, Lacessit said:

No. I think I will write a new section though, about people who can only live vicariously. Apologies if that is too long a word for you.

No one will read your book. You're a nobody.

10 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Bought one of the earlier computers (expensive) offered at Radio Shack, 80s, and took it back within the 'free' return period.  I'm a patient person, but not for dial up internet.  Nothing is worth waiting that long for.   Really didn't bother with another till 1995, and it opened up new world of investing info & Yahoo chat, for sex meet up in different cities 

 

 

I was born in 1982 so I was just a kid back then. We would let it download some tiny file, like 50kb and then go and eat dinner and maybe it would be finished when we got back.  😂