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?

 

[tricia]

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD MONDAY FEB 16TH 2026​

Here is a great video I found about AI. the guy turns a glass upside down and...well watch it. It is too funny. AI ain't so smart. Chatgpt to be exact

 

[tricia]

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD TUESDAY FEB 17TH 2026​

1706 – Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston. Printer, inventor, diplomat, lightning enthusiast. Not bad for a guy who started as a runaway apprentice.


1773 – James Cook becomes the first recorded explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle. Imagine sailing toward literal ice doom in a wooden ship and thinking, “Yes, this seems fine.”


1893 – The Hawaiian monarchy is overthrown and Queen Liliuokalani is deposed. It marks the end of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the beginning of a long and controversial chapter in U.S. history.


1917 – The United States officially purchases the United States Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million in gold. Strategic move during World War I — and one of the more unusual real estate transactions in history.


1920 – Prohibition officially begins in the United States. As of this day, the manufacture and sale of alcohol becomes illegal nationwide. Spoiler alert: it does not go smoothly.


1929 – The comic strip character Popeye makes his first appearance. A squinty-eyed sailor fueled by spinach debuts the same decade America bans booze. The irony writes itself.


1950 – The Great Brink’s Robbery takes place in Boston. Eleven men steal over $2.7 million from Brink's in what was then called “the crime of the century.” They almost got away with it — almost.


1991 – Operation Desert Storm begins as coalition forces launch air strikes against Iraq. The Gulf War enters a new phase watched live on television around the world.


1994 – The Northridge earthquake strikes the Los Angeles area at 4:31 a.m. A 6.7 magnitude quake causes massive damage and kills 57 people. Freeways collapse. It becomes one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.