UKRichard wrote:
Perhaps the intervening 20 years is best illustrated by JO'B's rather heroic grappling with the technology of the day. Remarkable how much has changed since. another 20 years!
I remember discovering in the hotel room that the UK phone connection was different from the Irish one. It took a bit of searching the streets broad and narrow like Molly Malone herself, but managed to buy an adaptor in Dublin.
Once that problem was solved we then discovered that it just wouldn't connect via the phone line, it would cut off right away. A light bulb moment came while mucking around in the settings when we realised that we had to use a different number while in Ireland. So with that sorted....no problem....or so we thought.
We then after a lot of sweating or was it swearing....probably both, we realised that we had to click something in the settings to let the PC know it was in a hotel room and to dial 9 first.
With that hurdle out the way....click log in......
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Remember that horrible dial up noise? It never sounded so good then as we had got further than any of our previous attempts that day then ........... 'ding' we are in ....then quickly off to the show and quickly back to the hotel after the show as I was determined to have the review on by midnight so that it was on line the same day.
As Richard points out, how technology has changed and now I can take something the size of a bar of chocolate out of my pocket and up date the site there and then as it happens. What will technology be like in 2041?
J.O'B.