Sometimes I am a little slow to grab onto new technologies, but I will tell you why. In 1990 the Internet as we know it was non-existent. It was all pretty much text based, cryptic, and you could only send text. In 1990 I wasn’t even sure where things were going, but it seemed like there could be a lot of people out there. (This is a true story.)
I had the brilliant idea (in 1990) of posting some small applications online—remember no browser, no WWW, no eBay, no Amazon, nothing. So I had some applications—I think it was actually an undelete program with code or some such thing. (Don’t laugh but in those days people paid money for batch menus made with ASCII characters. I thought I was going to be rich.)
Sadly, I got a text notification that said the “net” is for non-commercial uses only. I remember thinking if people can’t sell anything on this dumb thing it will never catch on. Doh! I was totally sleeping when Netscape blew up. Timing is everything.
As it turns out I sort of thought the same thing about Twitter—who wants to know when I go to the movies, the bathroom, or have my picture taken with Batgirl. In my case maybe no one, but some people want to know when some other people are doing stuff. Viola! Twitter. People want to know. Who knew?
I am not always an early adopter—although I wish I would have timed that Internet thing better—but I am on twitter. I post stuff about Developer Express and sometimes that I am going to TaeKwonDo—maybe someone wants to know (when I go to TaeKwonDo).
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