frustrated in scotland  reporting    i have watched  BB  since day one ...   and had one hell of a time with men  . ive been alone 3yrs now   and i dont know if i like it or not ,

now i think back, it's when i first  managed to get online, with a 56k built in modem and a phone line, i was long  term poorly at the time, i remember being told off when the phone bill came in...

in the time it  took to dial a connection and get some thing on  the screen, you could have a bath, brush your teeth and make toast.

but  online was an hysterical experience in those days.

Whenever I think I don't (like it) I remember all the things I do now without thinking that I couldn't do if there was someone hairy lurking about. 

  Bloody dial up connection. 
Oddly enough I was only reminding son today how recently the internet kicked off. Because he's grown up with it - and with a cyber tart for a mother - it's second nature for him and his sister to be familiar with online relationships - he has XBox buddies that he interacts with because they are the kids of people I know online. I was trying to find words to explain how the ZX Spectrum worked compared with his XBox. And I failed. 

ahhh... the good old days of the biiiiiiing bong.... purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... eeeeeeeeeeeeee-ooooooooooooo-eeeeeeeeeeee-ghghghghghghghghghghghg.....weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

oh god!   I had a horrible one once...   a £500 one!    

3p a minute can tot up to quite a lot in three months can't it 

Blimey...  I am now sitting here appreciating being online for freeeeeeeeeeeeee!

how you here for free?

yeah... it was fab...  


"major generalisation warning*

it was basically 50% IT ppl, 40% pervs, 5% just weird... and the rest were like us (broadly speaking)

It used to help the bonding experience... finding another non-It, relatively sane person online that was not wanting to cyber or groom you!

I remember being in awe when at Amazon... you could BUY stuff on the net... then bit by bit getting excited as a new online retailer emerged!

cos the broadband is paid by direct debit from hubby's account....

if I can't see it being paid... then it must be freeeeeeeeeee!

i learnt to play canasta online,

thats a big jump...   you'd have to first of all explain what a tape recorder was....    

and.... just how hit & miss getting a game to load when you don't have an operating system was...  

But.. once there... Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy were fab game!

ooh, i had a mega drive and a gamegear.

Exactly the same for me Blackpud. We went for a last family hol together in Cornwall and my mum repeatedly said what a load of rubbish BB was and couldn't understand what we all liked about it.....this year I see her point!