Book Board Chat

I was watching an old movie, "War Games". It is about a high school computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III. It was made in 1983. It was interesting to be reminded of how computers were used back then. The kid had to pick up a telephone and use the phone line to connect to the internet. I remember using AOL because I used to travel and AOL provided local connections all through the country. Otherwise, the phone call might have been long distance. I would have had to pay the long distance charge for as long as I had the computer connected. (And I had to carry a telephone wire to connect the computer to the wall phone jack.) Now everything is wifi, no phone needed.

It is hard to believe that people born after 2000 AD are in their 20s, finished with school and college and don't remember the "good old days" of computers.