Love it when it works, hate it when it doesn't and it's probably a 50-50 thing.
Same with games consoles. Who remembers the Sega Megadrive? I also had a Sinclair ZX81 when it first came out. It was my pride and joy. You got games which were on cassette tapes and you had to connect the Spectrum to a portable tape player and then run the information from one to the other amid loads of noise.
Then there were magazines with programmes for games that you had to type into the ZX Spectrum. You spent hours doing this. There were pages of data to input and then when you ran the programme chances were that you had inputted some of it wrongly and the game wouldn't work and you had to go back to the drawing board. If you typed in the correct codes the game was very basic anyway.
I remember the early days of internet connections - connecting a computer to a lead into a phone connection and then dialling up to get online at a cost of 1p per minute. Every time you wanted to get onto the internet you had to go through this process and nine times out of 10 the connection failed or dropped out.
Then along came wi-fi. Remember when wi-fi was costly? You went to a hotel and they charged you £10 a day to connect. Then wi-fi became a perk. In the same room you were told that wi-fi was free but you were more than lucky if you could get a connection.
Now things have improved and usually wi fi works but organisations are still touting it as a benefit. Free wi-fi is still being heralded as though it's a perk. But now free wi-fi is becoming standard and something expected. It will soon not be a selling point at all.
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Driving back through the Hellesdon suburb of Norwich last night I passed a number 34 bus on Reepham Road. Couldn't help musing about why bus numbers have to change. This seems to happen time after time after time. Buses that went along Reepham Road were either the 84 or the 86. The 89 went to Wall Road and the 85 and 87 went to Windsor Road. That's how they will always remain in my mind.