ZDNet users: Congratulations on 20 years

April 14, 2011, 9:31am PDT | Length: 00:03:36
Through Skype video conferencing, ZDNet readers from around the world congratulate ZDNet on 20 years of Internet publishing. Users offer up their favorite parts of the site and what ZDNet can do to improve.

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ZDNet users: Congratulations on 20 years

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>>Congratulations to ZDNet on 20 great years. I've been following the site for about 11 years. It's the first site I check out each morning when I get up to see what happens overnight in the world of technology. I love all the event coverage. I love all the individual blogs that you've started recently; Ed Bott and Matt Miller and James Kendrick. They're knowledgeable about the subjects they cover each day. And congratulations and hope for another 20 great years.

>>Howard Dingman: Hi, I'm Howard Dingman alias "old baritone" from Endicott New York and I hang around on ZDNet, frequently on the Q and A blog. Users send in questions and if I can answer them I like to help and sometimes I have a question myself and I get good answers from the great people that we have here on ZDNet. Happy birthday ZDNet!

>>Martin English: G'day I'm Martin English, Netweaver SAP Administrator from Sydney, Australia. I want to wish ZDNet a happy birthday and thank you guys for the information and technology that you've exposed me to and that I've been able to pass on to people who ask me. Thanks very much.

>>Bina Patel: Happy birthday ZDNet for your 20 years. This is Bina assumed spelling Patel from London in the UK. I work as project manager. I have been browsing ZDNet for the last 6 years and within this particular year, mainly I used ZDNet for the latest technology trends, news, analysis, reviews, so I keep following it throughout the day at work and after coming from work. What I like most is the training and the analysis carried out on it. The things which I don't like is I think the number of comments grow so many so that I can't leave any comments, but that's the fun part of it.

>>Mike McDonough: Hi my name's Mike McDonough. I'm calling from Fort Lauderdale Florida. I've been watching ZDNet for a couple of years now. You're going to miss ZDTV but before it was TechTV and G4. I like keeping abreast with current technology; what's going on in the future and everything that's IT. ZDNet keeps on top of things and I like keeping on top of ZDNet.

>>ZDNet, happy birthday and I would like to see more and more blogs on technologies like smartphones, tablets, and also the cloud computing assumed spelling. I come there particularly to read the blogs about Microsoft and also the Android libraries for iPhone which is great and good luck with this.

>>Steve Hodges: Hi my name is Steve Hodges and I am the president of New Clicks and I use ZDNet for basically my daily morning news to keep me abreast of all the new things that are happening in technology. There are so many different places that technology changes and I think ZDNet gives me a real heads up on you know the current, most late, up-to-date things. So happy birthday ZDNet and thank you very much for all the timely updates.

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RE: ZDNet users: Congratulations on 20 years
jimm@... 15th Jun
Twenty years ago I was a SysOp of a FidoNet BBS node number 105/5, Portland, OR. I was running my board on a Compaq 8088 portable with 2 360k 5 1/4" disk drives... not exactly a big system even back then. It was a labor of love of computers. I finally bought a 300 meg used HD from a east coast college and could finally have some fun! That 300 baud modem was a tad slow and I marveled at that huge speed increase when I bought that new 1200 baud speedster. The 5 inch green screen didn't do much for graphics, but in a text based DOS operating system, we didn't need no stinking graphics!!! I think the only program I had for entertainment was Microsoft's first version of Flight Simulator that I got from a friend. Never did play it much....too busy BBS'ing!! Congrats on 20 years ZDNet!! Got you beat by a few years, but glad to have had you around when things started getting a bit more interesting.
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Terry R. Updated - 21st Apr 2011
I was on my third computer then, an AST 386DX with "2 megabytes of RAM" and a 90 meg hard drive. Each meg cost $900! The first was a TI-PC, the 2nd was an ALR. I became the computer guru for all my friends and PC Mag kept me in the know.
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jakelly404@... 21st Apr 2011
In 1991 I was working in southern England on the roll out for GSM mobile phones.The most powerful machines we had were DEC VAXes, both clustered and unclustered. There were a sprinkling of DOS PCs but as they didn't "talk" DECnet were basically dumb serial terminals that could store the serial I/O and be used to read the specs we were using. Most of the telecomms engineers didn't use the PCs and were too busy looking for the tape drives (in those days exchanges were still loaded from reel to reel). Oh the joy and fun we had back then. In the house I had an AT clone (1Mb RAM, 100Mb disk, 8Mhz) connected to my Yamaha D4000 via a midi interface and spent many happy hours annoying my family with weird sounds! The kids had my old BBC B and all it's sidecars running CP/M-86 which also had a Motorola modem for contacting bulletin boards (UK only). Oh the joy of it all. Well done on your 20th hopefully we'll all be here in another 20!
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RE: ZDNet users: Congratulations on 20 years
lbmurray2000@... 21st Apr 2011
ZD Net, congratulations! I think I've been with you about 18 years and have changed Email address a couple of times since. How things have changed since the bad old days of Cobol and having to make our own programs with Basic... Nowadays everything is so easy... thanks to people like you, at ZD Net.
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RE: ZDNet users: Congratulations on 20 years
robertka1@... 21st Apr 2011
I have been religiously following zdnet to keep up with the latest buzz and it has never let me down. Must have been fun 'cause I never even noticed that so many years have passed by. Keep up the great work.
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Having been with ZDNet the day she was born; then she bore offsprings and signed up for everything under the sun! I can remember the years ago, when ZDNet, options were limited (so it were with everything else); indeed technology has improved. If one could - go to the "Way Back Machine" - you would find the old ZDNet (a few) from the "Good Old Days" what ZDNet used to look like; quite a contrast to today! (Remember, you won't see everything as it is limited but at least you'll have a glimpse, BLAST FROM THE PAST!)

Thanks ZDNET for the wonderful 20 years, even yourselves have progressed over the years, "Happy Anniversary"!
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I started using zdnet in 1997 to look for free and cheap software. I usually find something that I can use wether it be software or computer articles on new devices. Keep up the good work for the next 20 years.
Curt P.
Twenty years ago I was a SysOp of a FidoNet BBS node number 105/5, Portland, OR. I was running my board on a Compaq 8088 portable with 2 360k 5 1/4" disk drives... not exactly a big system even back then. It was a labor of love of computers. I finally bought a 300 meg used HD from a east coast college and could finally have some fun! That 300 baud modem was a tad slow and I marveled at that huge speed increase when I bought that new 1200 baud speedster. The 5 inch green screen didn't do much for graphics, but in a text based DOS operating system, we didn't need no stinking graphics!!! I think the only program I had for entertainment was Microsoft's first version of Flight Simulator that I got from a friend. Never did play it much....too busy BBS'ing!! Congrats on 20 years ZDNet!! Got you beat by a few years, but glad to have had you around when things started getting a bit more interesting.

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