Knowledge is light, ignorance is darkness

I got this badge during my school years in the 1980s. It says on it: Society of Book Lovers.

I was 9 or 10 years old when I started reading a lot. I'd borrow 4 or 5 books from the library and read them all in a week. Children's encyclopedias, books about space, books about animals, and so on.

At 11, I started reading science fiction. I'd devour a 200-page book in two days; sometimes I'd read for four hours a day and could finish a book in a single day. I had time to play outside with friends, which took up many hours, and read in the evenings.

During my school years, I read only what interested me: science fiction, history books, scientific journals.

When I entered university in 1994-1995, I started reading computer newspapers and magazines. I would buy them for the six-hour train ride and read them voraciously.

Reading computer newspapers, I constantly saw ads for computer components (new and used). I was inspired to build my own computer from inexpensive used components. I only did so in 1998. I built a Pentium-90 MHz computer with a black-and-white monitor, CD-ROM, and modem.

I installed Windows 95 and the hissing sound of the modem, at a speed of 14400, opened up the vast world of the Internet to me.

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In 2017, I discovered the world of blockchain, and Hive was already around then. I registered with the Golos blockchain in May 2017.

I don't often read paper books these days. But I haven't stopped reading; I read a lot on the computer screen. News feeds, science news, AI news, and analytics. I also read Hive; I'm interested in following this project. This blockchain turns 10 this year.

And I remember pagers and the first cell phones, which weighed about a kilogram😱😁

In 1999, Velcom launched a GSM network, and I brought used phones from Szczecin. But mobile phone service wasn't available in all cities.
BelCel was already working with the NMT-450 standard in 1995. A friend had a mobile phone in 1995, but that's because he dropped out of university after his first year, and I only after my third year :)

👍 Over the past hundred years, the world has moved from steam locomotives and light bulbs to Stralinks and flights to Mars, it is very interesting where we will find ourselves in the next 10 years. I think many immutable laws of physics will be canceled/revised. !ALIVE

I'd love to see crowds of android robots on the streets. This will probably happen in 10-20 years.

I think they are unlikely to walk in crowds on the streets... And so - yes, they will be everywhere, except for visitors to restaurants, nightclubs and various entertainment venues !ALIVE

Love this. Early curiosity + access to information + the urge to build = how so many of us found our way into tech. That modem sound is core memory material 😌

I thought you were still young; they used modems like these in the 90s :)