Yesterday, I found one of my first HTML books I purchased collecting dust in my garage. I opened it up out of curiosity to see what things were like 12 years ago. All the samples were done in the NCSA Mosaic Browser, which at the time was THE browser. I remember connecting to my service provider through a telnet connection. 14.4 k connections were fast. AOL and CompuServe were new and trying to establish a presence.

I had a good chuckle reviewing the book because all you could really do in HTML were some minor text styles, hyper links, images, tables (which were new to HTML) and if you were a serious programmer you could create forms with some CGI scripts in Python or Java. CyberSpace and the World Wide Web were still common lingo. And most companies didn’t have a domain address (or even knew what one was).

It is amazing how things have changed in such a short period of time. Most of us could not survive without an Internet connection, our blog or cell phones. You have to love technology!

Okay my life was never in danger, but the life of my computer was. And I am probably like everyone else, I hate formatting my computer because it means having to make sure I don’t lose anything important in the process.

One of the contributors to getting me up and running without losing any data was some software I purchased called Genie Backup Manager. I read several reviews that gave it the highest reviews and finally decided to purchase it before formatting my computer. I was even more overwhelmed when I found that I could install plug-ins to back up my settings for almost every program I used. Plus if the program wasn’t there, in minutes I was able to create a plug-in with their wizard. Needless to say I was able to backup my Flash and other programming settings and not lose a beat once I reinstalled.

Well if you are interested in purchasing it yourself, they gave me a link that would give anyone a 35% discount. Where was this when I was buying it! Oh well, now you can benefit. I am really happy withy my purchase. It was one of the few softwares that backed up my Outlook properly.

Check it out!!! If you want the discount, just click here and fill out your email to be sent a discount code.

Yesterday, my laptops’s registry got messed up. I am still trying figure out what is wrong. So I am spending today, backing up, reinstalling and restoring my computer. Daily Videos has been post-poned in the process. I really hate wasting time on such trivial things, but what are you going to do?

Enjoy your day and weekend!