Way before music downloads and Myspace, there was a cool group of people from teenagers to old men. What am I talking about? Amateur radio. That's what started our need to "social network" From truckers to guys in their room with parts from radioshack. They had "usernames" or rather call names and to this day I come across people with ham radios in the study.
This week after fixing a customer's computer,I was directed to his original setup. A computer with HAM/CB radios and (wait for it...)Windows 3.1. That's right,windows 3.1 people. He fired it up and it actually worked! He showed me all of the people he came across via the radio and how he logged it all in on the old computer. I've been told stories of how certain people would wash towns in radio waves just to show who was boss. Can't do that on Facebook. These are the fathers who taught their kids about transistors and tubes, the same things that started the personal computers. It was really cool seeing that link in technology up close. Hopefully we won't forget our humble beginnings...