Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread Feb 1st - Feb 28th 2026

[connie9030]

ChatGPT is scary. Grok says it's being deliberately trained to mislead us.

 

[wibbleflea]

Showing how old I am... I remember being so excited to upgrade my 2400 bps modem to 28.8. And then many years later I got 256k DSL and I was living a life of luxury!!! I'm so glad those days are behind us!

I started at 9,600. I will never forget the sounds of those modems during handshake and speed negotiation. Each speed had its own distinctive sound.

Remember strict email etiquette? Don’t reply above the email you were responding to, only quote the parts of earlier messages that were relevant. Save bandwidth!

An iPhone app icon at 3x now takes more RAM than the total installed in my first computer (long before the web existed). And I did a lot of coding (in BASIC) on that computer!

 

[Bodhi]

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD FOR SUNDAY, FEB. 15TH 2026
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Hey Everyone.
I'm going to start moving the off-topic posts on the Guthrie thread to this thread. Above this post are posts about why senior citizens won't use Life-Alert.

Thank you for moving mine to this thread.

 

[GatorsNorth]

Showing how old I am... I remember being so excited to upgrade my 2400 bps modem to 28.8. And then many years later I got 256k DSL and I was living a life of luxury!!! I'm so glad those days are behind us!

Seriously! I don’t have a Life Alert device either and I’m 72, but my younger brother and stepson know where I am at all times.

Remember those days, @HoveringWombats? We had dialup for the longest time and my even older parents complained that they could never get through! We installed a second phone line and eventually we went to DSL. My hubby died in 2020 and I was left muddling through on my own with a kinda sorta tech background lol. Went to cable Internet a few years ago and my signal kept dropping so I went with EERO. Haven’t had any problems since! BTW, I was dragged kicking and screaming into the Internet revolution!

 

[HoveringWombats]

Remember those days, @HoveringWombats? We had dialup for the longest time and my even older parents complained that they could never get through!

Oh yes! I am a bit younger, but I definitely clearly remember family fights about being able to use the phone line for actual phone calls when I always wanted to have the computer dialed up to the internet

 

[birdbox]

Hey this page is pretty cool. What are the rules for this page?