From Dial Tone to Fiber
A personal journey through the technology that transformed everyday life, from floppy disks, modems and BBSs to the always-connected world we take for granted today.
At some point, I felt like gathering some of the memories, technology and little details from this era in one place. The result became The Journey, my own small digital museum dedicated to a technological transformation I have been fortunate enough to experience firsthand.
This is not intended to be a complete history of technology. It is an attempt to preserve what that evolution actually felt like. There was a time when connecting to another computer was an event in itself. The telephone line had to be free, the modem dialled an actual phone number, and every minute online could eventually make itself known on the phone bill.
Here I have collected memories and stories about computers, floppy disks, BBSs, modems, FidoNet, the early web, and the road from there to the permanently connected world we live in today. Along the way, I also try to put some of those developments into perspective, because it is surprisingly easy to forget just how enormous some technological leaps felt when they happened.
That is perhaps what I most want to preserve with this little museum: not only what changed, but some of the feeling of actually being there while it happened.
