Oh, I remember now. I was walking down the stairs in my office building and noticed some holes drilled in the cinderblock where network wires were threaded through. It looks like an afterthought, probably because it was. I imagine the building I'm in was built before the wide usage of the internet.
...just got lost in looking at satellite Timelapse images on google earth...
It was. Looks to be built in the mid 80s or so.
So, back to my memory. I was a senior in high school and I was outside of Mr. Ruben's class. (He was the "cool" teacher.) He taught civics and a few history classes--upperclassmen. He had a computer in his classroom, and it was connected to the internet.
This sounds very boring to people today. Like, so what? But for my generation, this was a big deal. My generation is very unique, we were in high school at the end of one era, and graduated at the beginning of another.
My freshman year I took typing. We didn't learn to type on a computer, we learned on typewriters. (Are there even typing classes in school anymore?) I think I read a tweet or a thread a while back, too, reminding people from my generation that you don't have to place two spaces after a period anymore. I think there were a few other rules we learned in typing class.
So yeah, internet connected to a computer in a classroom was a big deal. Mr. Ruben would let us browse the internet if we got out work done. Of course, there were no website controls, or if there were, they were very primitive. I know this because if there were content controls on our network, stickdeath.com was not on the list of blocked sites. It should have been. Very violent ways for stick figures to die using flash animation was the theme of this website. And we'd watch those videos and either Mr. Ruben didn't notice, or he wanted to keep the status of "cool" teacher.
Back to my memory, though. Seeing the holes drilled into the cinderblock reminded me of crews wiring network cables through my school in my junior year. At the time, I had no idea how significant this event was. Before the cables existed, my school had no internet connection. Now, it does.
I was just appreciating the gravity of that event.
