I moved in 1998 (ironically) to an isolated island my parents were from and lived there till 2008 and moved back here for college. It was like walking into and out of a time-capsule, I missed the emergence of the internet into what it is today.

I still learned to hack and everything else in Palau regardless, it was just like playing with a handicap, it's still possible to learn and all, it's just harder.

EDIT: to clarify, I didn't have it that bad, there was <20 kbps internet with a monthly total hour cap, but it was expensive and not very reliable and slow.

    > I still learned to hack and everything else in Palau regardless,
    > it was just like playing with a handicap, it's still possible to
    > learn and all, it's just harder.

But in some ways so much easier. I remember how I treated the Internet before I had a 24/7 connection. I'd make lists of stuff I needed, use my time on the Internet effectively, learn from the material I downloaded and use that to inform my next browsing session.

Whereas now there's so many distractions, case in point me posting on this website right now.

This place looks amazing. Like really really amazing. A bit off topic, but how much did you enjoy your time there?

Palau looks - from pictures and travel brochures - to be incredible. Why did you leave?

Not having Internet access, probably.

Coincidentally

I've been around computers since the early 80's, and I think about how lucky I am to have amazing internet pretty much every day. Not to mention the supercomputers we have in our pockets now. I remember watching my first "streaming video": ascii animations on a 110 baud dialup connection - that's a blazing 110 bits per second. And it was awesome! ;)

Sometimes I use my internets to virtually travel to places I've never been and read as much about life there as I can... That usually makes me feel extra lucky about the internet access I have. Same with reading about Nji!

Story time?

Just the same old, same old 3rd World problems