Is My Internet Persana As Real As The One Typeing This?

We all know the internet as a vague constantly changing set of 1's and 0s flowing through processors and moving from personal devices to servers to towers to microwave relay if you live in a place with no satellite communication, to satellites, back to servers where it melds with more than 20 years data being moved back up, or around--who understands this? I don't.
What are we in cyberspace? Do we change every time we log on? Are there 100s 1000s 1,000,000.000s of us, or do we merge as one persona. Are we ghost, or something different.
And 10to the 1,000,000,000s yrs from now when some other civilization receives these transmitions will we be co-herent, or schyzopersonas?

 

This guy needs sleep.

 

Okay...

 

Our collective conscious. We are actually the same person, but with slow wifi we'll never realize that at the same time. Once you come across this realization, I would have already forgot

 

Mmmmm! Beeeeer!

 

I first went online in the late 70s at my cousins Apple. We had to put the coil cord phone on a cradle and the was a list of about 1000 places you could call. Many were Wall St. some were large libraries looking for volenters to enter written text to digital. The most places were like Universitys. Berkley and Sanford had the largest number of log ins by far. Cal teck and MIT were busy working on clouds but the entire thing went Columbia Maryland at a an outpost of DARPA. They thought they could control it.
Then the E-perms and perms came out. The MINI MOGE moved digital music along light years. Alan Parsons created the first simple MIDI which allowed music to be formated onto perms, By 1981 Devo, Pink Floyd,yes and hudred of other bands were buying these perms and developing better keyboard with more sounds. In 1968 EMIs London studio had a floor under the mixing booth and during the hours or days of mix down they would jump from square to square.In 1990 NOAA the 6th branch of the military was still using punch card but by 1994 I had a toshiba laptop with a whopping 8 mb of RAM. It took until 95 to get internet on the remote strip of beach I lived on. 95 we got 30 GB of HD and 128 MB of RAM BY 97 I had IBMs last Active--the S7 with the first flat screen and CD riper with ACID. I also a Yamaha keyboard with MIDI and Cakewalk. I had a #6000 architecture program that could build a micro chip with 128 layers of doped silicon with wire fram and maps for each layer and the gate speed at each juncture, the elements each layer was doped with--or a car or a house with every 2x4 2x6, 2x8 or 10 then it could tell you exactly how many nails you'd need and if you entered the cost from local supply stores, and would render every layer from foundation to roof.
It could build sky scrapers and the GG bridge if you wanted. There were auctions then in Palo Alto where you get a $5000 yamaha synth, a 4 pressor kit for building your own tower that could render 23 hours of edited video with sound, music, narration and credit all these could be bought for 25 dollars if you knew how to work it. Then 100s and 1000s of places like eBay and Craig and Angies list and suddenly you had to pay for stuff.

ICQ and IRC were massive popular and thats where my internet persona began. I was hardly new to computers. I could use visual and visual basic , C C+ C++ then C++ runtime. Java, Scripts and suddenly it was like walking Ave D in NYC at 0500. I still had boxes of EPROM's and Hard disk--which were floppy and floppy disk which were hard then CDs then DVRs and CD-r, CD-R-WR, then USB--well you all probably know way more than I do by now-other than DAWS I can't even send an e-mail---if a woman I hired to clean my old house before I sold it hadn't recycled the old PCs and everything eles I'd have a sort of record of who I was then and who I am now. I know I'm massively different IRW but I don't know--there be 2 me's cyber world--or 100s maybe some of them know each other, and maybe this is the way to break Einstein's law saying we can't go back in time.

I started a book on this premes. If we can contact the past mes and get one to agree to be today me and I'd be past me for a spot. I'm off to go look for my self in aa past dream.

 

E-perms?

 

At some Grateful Dead concerts--Dance as meditation could create a very real feeling of singularity in the form of conciouse. Not just people on drugs--even the band and crew. Not just the Dead--even at lazer/dNCE MUSIC this happens--of-course xtc really breaks down the barriers.
I haven't forgoten and I spend 6 to 18 hours a day looking for the that unique sequential harmonic or counter harmonic blend that almost everyone from father {82} to the foster kids that live down stairs can all see.

Music is imortant. Always has been but something new began around 94 when .oo1 people in the US came on line. And a few yrs latter it just went nuts. I been searching the net for how this changed us. 1000s of sites but nothing I trust--mostly thesis.

 

I think there is a valid and important between live interaction such as face time or skype or ICU and IRC or chat on this forum. Here it seems to be a missery fest. Sometimes random interaction can be fun, but a lot of people seem to be there just to bring others to thier level of missery.
They ask a question and unless you can make up something that brings you to thier level you house meat. And the people seem to change every few months. Its not nearly as bad as IRC but why people go seems to channe. That is motives. Some make friends. Others come in for a few days and seem to think they'er moderators.

But the majority of whats posted has strong motives. Money, religion, poltics....some of the sciance and math is spot on. others are good attempts to climb mountains they'er not ready for.

I'd like to know the demographic of people who even come on the net. I spend atleast ten hours ussing on program every night. I sometimes spend an hour reading post here an eles where.

 

Proof that you're just another number in life.

Ah, the days of IRC. Back when a cheap 250 mb hard drive was $250.

 

I do not have a rick number

 

My first laptop had 8MB RAM and an i386--and it was pretty awsome

 

I think my number is constantly changing and thats the point. Would be the same person if computers had never advanced byond the digital watch. I doubt it

 

My first IBM compatible was a 486 DX2 with a 81 mb HD.

 

I've taught 9th grade computers in 92. Lived in one room flats with 5 to 15 towers and atleast one laptop--I built the towers-dual CPU then sold the towers and leased the work stations. I've done research with 2 or 3 PCs running customized data mining search programs that could run days before flashing the data or more often saying the spacific data I was looking for was fiction.
HLS sent letters a dozen times threatening to deport me for asking the wrong questions. This was research for anouther author who published a book so full of facts even I had a hard time reading it. Pres. Bushy jr paid 1000s of domestic and forign military organizations 4 to 10 times what our military was being paid. They did and do everything our military does.
If WWII hadn't started the computer age what would our lives be like now?
Would the teck still exsist--solar power wind power--or would we be stuck in the early 50s?
I've lived in remote Hawaiian valleys, eating freshwater shrimp, spear fish, small goats, taro, and wild fruit for months.....I can say hands down I prefer the latter. But most don't last a day without a cell phone.

Last entry--if it goes through. Apparently not enough science or teck in the Qestion of "how has the information age changed our us personaly. Or maybe maybe nobody cares, or wants to know.

If I start anouther Sci/teck forum I suppose I should coral reefs--no I'll try RNA based computers, using 4 bands of light to grow crystals that represent analogs of data, brainwave controled.

But that was all researched in the 90s and only small amount made it into th D-Wave quibit Quantum PC. And who cares about that

 

Social media now tells "us" what "we"should do, dress like, act like, who to vote for etc. It is the end of self thinking and decision making. Walk down a busy footpath only to see everyone heads down face booking away or headphones on, no interaction of any kind. I feel for my sons generation and he is six.

Apart from America, I would say the biggest demo graph for online usage would be Japan. Most other Asian/ Middle east countries restrict the usage or have none at all. Hey Australia is the biggest down loaders in the world so I guess that classes as online usage even though we may not "actually" be online ourselves.

 

Just send a certified check for $25.00 to NO TRICK/610 Da Vinci Dr. Middletown Ohio 54042 and you will recive your rick number before Quantum Music becomes popular.

 

Since 1989 I have used computers for encrypted communication, Writing, virtual flight lessons-that cost 1/3 normal and 1/5th for simple helicopter, video/vid editing of big wave surfing in Hawaii when Laird Hamilton-my neighbor forst began jumping onto 50' waves. Data mining--DAWs-a 2 year break then switch to mac and high end DAWs with an analog studio.
I don't know the bites that spell that out-I suppose I could look them up or there's probably an app that reverses letters to bites or Hacked phrases?

 

mine was an Compaq Deskpro, Intel 8088 8mhz cpu with a massive 640 K of RAM, a spacious 20 megabyte MFM hard drive and an orange monochrome monitor.
It even had a 5 1/4" and 3.5" floppy drives.

 

I had a 12mhz 8088 with one meg of RAM. AMD had some tricks up it's corporate sleeve back then...


White monochrome was so much better.