On Monday, Internet Explorer celebrated its 15th anniversary.
It is hard to imagine life without the ever present internet of today, so we at Wright Strategies took the time to reminisce about where we were in 1995 for the beginning of the internet as we know it.
Rebekah: I was in Mrs. King’s 4th grade class, spending my afternoons playing “Oregon Trail” in the computer lab.
David: My family had just received our first computer, a Macintosh, and I was browsing the World Wide Web on my top-of-the-line 14.4k modem.
Kendra: I was a writer for a high tech company. We were just figuring out that we needed to put my writing on this “internet” thing. Luckily our webmaster was lazy, frequently returning from hours away with grass marks on his face, and our boss was too busy to care. So I told the webmaster if he’d teach me UNIX and how to program web pages, I’d do his job and wouldn’t blow his cover. So you could say I owe my career to a mid-day napper and a boss who had more important things to do than focus on the web.
Chris: I was 14 years old and barely knew what the internet was.
Aaron: I was a sophomore in college and had just been tasked with building a website for the Physics department. A little notepad and a lot of stolen gifs resulted in a truly special site that no one was envious of.
Jessica: I was using MS Word to crank out English Lit. papers on Turn of the Screw and Bartleby, The Scrivener, and was learning Pascal in my Comp. Sci. class.
Jeremy: I was convincing myself that as a Fine Arts major I was going to escape the responsibility of having to use/learn Portland State University’s new-fangled Groupwise Email system and, God willing, the Internet all together. Yahoo!? Lycos? Amazon? Certainly not anything I would ever have to worry about again!
Justin: I was skipping my high school classes to work at my high powered, well paying drug store cashier job. I “punched in” through an actual time clock, got to use a calculator to “ring” people up, and was trained by a German woman named Gisela whom was as intimidating as she sounds.
Oh, how things have changed. Haven't we all come a long way?!
