Archive for January 20th, 2013

It All Went By So Fast

Posted January 20, 2013 By Dave Thomer

I just realized that 20 years ago, I was using an IBM PC and a 1200 baud modem to connect to local bulletin boards.

I was getting ready to graduate from high school, and still didn’t know where I would go to college.

Bill Clinton was giving his first inaugural address:

I still feel like I’m that 17-year-old kid a lot of the time. The last 20 years feel like a perpetual ongoing “last week” in a lot of ways. It’s not until I look at images from that time, and they look almost like historical relics, that I realize how much we have all changed. Although as I listen to the speech, I also think about how much hasn’t changed.