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I have a bag of Lifesavers right in front of me.....

Do you remember when bubble gum was a penny?

No.

Do you remember when telephone numbers started with letters?

I do!

My phone number as a child was Twickenham (TW) 6-0321 LOL

Do you remember when rotary phones were called "dial" phones, and when you had to pay extra for a touch-tone phone?

Yes and yes, and I remember that a workaround was to have a push-button phone send pulses instead of tones so the line would think it's a rotary phone and you wouldn't have to pay for tone service.

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No. My parents have a really old rotary phone though that I used to mess with as a kid.

Do you remember the first time you used the internet?

I do. I had met a guy I was crazy about (eventual boyfriend, now good friend). We were both working and I asked him how to do that thing where I could write something on my computer, and it would show up on his computer. He wasn't sure what I was talking about. I was referring to email but I didn't know what it was called. Eventually he taught me how to send an email.

Prior to that I remember hearing about the internet. I couldn't imagine what it was. I thought it was used for commercial businesses to look up inventory in other locations, for their shoppers. That was the only application I could imagine for it. Then someone told me I could see a map of where I used to live and zoom in on my street. I didn't believe them. It sounded like Big Brother.

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It was about 1995. Dial-up, of course! It was my mother’s old Mac computer with Windows 3.1.

It was usually too 3 or more tries before I got connected.

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I didn't meet my friend until 1997. So it had to be sometime after that, when I sent the email.

I remember the content of the email was something like "One day I'll be in my spaceship and I'll tell my grandchildren that you were the first person I sent an email to".

So consider yourselves my grandchildren, in our WP spaceship.

Do you remember taping music from the radio, onto cassettes?

I'm very honoured to be considered your grandchild.

I do, although I didn't do it that often as it was to annoying. Plus when I hit my teens cds were becoming more and more popular.

What is a question you wish people would ask you?

Will you have dinner with me?

I first sent an email on my job in 1990.

Ever use a pay phone?

Sure, you seem like a nice person and I suspect we'd have some very awkward conversations as I'm pretty shy but if I recall we have some common interests so I'm sure we can somehow make it through.



Yes way back in the day, I even made some international calls on some.


If you could close one fast food chain what would it be?

McDonald's, because I hate McDonald's. It's gross as hell. lol

What's your favourite fast-food place?

Papa John's

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Wendy's or Taco Time.

Do you have any region-specific fast food chains near you?

I think Sonic is only in the south. There are also lots of fried chicken places I haven't seen in the north.

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