Somali Internet pioneer

[SomaliPariah]

Back in 1991, one Somali man based in the united states was scouring the internet to find out anything about the war that has broken out in the capital of his nation.

Here is the link

He is scouring the depths of the new Internet in the hope of finding any useful information. phonecalls from the US to Somalia were effectively non-existent and communication was mainly in the form of letters or recorded cassette tapes.

Jaamac Barre remains the only verifiable first Somali internet user (I am sure there will be others if you ask around your parents or grandparents for some of you).

This brings me to the question! for the millennials; when did you first start using the internet?

This is a cassette tape! ( some might not know what they are)

 

[The alchemist]

Obscure topic.

I remember the cassette tapes days and how the boxes used to eat the VHS films.

I used to play flash games a lot as a kid on the internet, download music, and sometimes films if I had the patience.

 

[SomaliPariah]

Obscure topic.

I remember the cassette tapes days and how the boxes used to eat the VHS films.

I used to play flash games a lot as a kid on the internet, download music, and sometimes films if I had the patience.

not many will remember the pain when the cassette player eats your Cassette tape.

Flash games were lit, I am surprised some of the websites are still up.

The other day I download a 2-gigabyte file while making a cuppa. I remember when it used to take me days to download a similar file.

 

[The alchemist]

not many will remember the pain when the cassette player eats your Cassette tape.

Flash games were lit, I am surprised some of the websites are still up.

The other day I download a 2-gigabyte file while making a cuppa. I remember when it used to take me days to download a similar file.

On a good day, you could start downloading, go about your day doing some productive kid shit, and then come back to find it is only half, then go to sleep and feel great the day after when you see the complete green line.

Or alternatively, you wake up to find out you forgot to turn off the sleeper mode timer, and you have to wait a couple of hours more and then be finished mid-day, but either way, you come back in the evening after spending time playing with friends and doing something for/with the family.

But, man, some files took days. When you see the predicted timer on the side and it says, 1 week/month or year (dude, the infinity sign). That's when you just give up quickly.

It was nice coming home from school and playing some motocross, Mario, Sonic, or George Bush killing people:

 

[SomaliPariah]

On a good day, you could start downloading, go about your day doing some productive kid shit, and then come back to find it is only half, then go to sleep and feel great the day after when you see the complete green line.

Or alternatively, you wake up to find out you forgot to turn off the sleeper mode timer, and you have to wait a couple of hours more and then be finished mid-day, but either way, you come back in the evening after spending time playing with friends and doing something for/with the family.

But, man, some files took days. When you see the predicted timer on the side and it says, 1 week/month or year (dude, the infinity sign). That's when you just give up quickly.

It was nice coming home from school and playing some motocross, Mario, Sonic, or George Bush killing people:

I remember that bush game

 

[Sol]

Zoomers will never experience having your internet cut off because someone picked up the phone