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I've been online in one form or another since 1988 (starting with Compuserve) and I predict in about 2 years I will be out of the tech life almost completely as it is becoming mostly irrelevant.

Now, the internet is mostly an expensive toy, as it has been hijacked by adult children and all their silliness. Serious productive work is becoming far too arduous to be worthwhile.

Sat. I tried to access online one of my bank accounts only to find they have implemented another layer of security (for my protection) that requires them to text me a numerical code within 5 minutes that I have to input online before they will let me in. I called them and was told there was no way out of this *improvement* and I told them I will close this account today (Mon) (none of my other accts require this). That phone call took 50 minutes, mostly waiting.

Sun my son emailed me that he needs the ID and password to my webhost acct to do some changes to my website. Turns out the host (register.com) changed my password without my knowledge and also has an email address for me that is more than 10 years old. They will supposedly rectify it in the 48 to 96 hours. I spent 1hr 45min on the phone with them in 2 different calls to find this out.

I'm interested in purchasing a product on amazon so I read some of the 831 reviews, half of them say they liked it the other half said it was junk. Useless, time consuming silliness. It's like this with everything I have looked at on amazon in the past 3 years, and it's the same way on other online sellers sites too.

I have purchased or sold over 600 items on ebay since the mid 90's and that site has slowly evolved into a haven for shysters, liars, and criminals, where the buyer and seller is arbitrarily always wrong, so I haven't dealt with them for more than 4 years. And don't get me started with that paypal nonsense that told me in writing that other people have priority access to my bank acct over me. Nope. Plonk.

The web has lost most of it's usefulness.

Buying a new computer with Windows 8.1 has rendered my $3000 AutoCAD software irrelevant and according to AutoDESK the only solution is to give them $4k for the newest software version, which will convert to monthly payments of $150 this coming Jan 2016.

Nope. I'll continue to use my old stuff with an old XP machine and autodesk can pound sand, and if they persist with their tyranny I still have all my old "by hand" equipment and I will go back to designing buildings that way. fukem

However, last week and old army buddy from the presidio contacted me after almost 40 years ago of being stationed together in europe. So there's that.

But that's not enough.

Instead of evolving the web is devolving, in slow motion but increasing in speed exponentially all the time......

My uncle Letsgo "The King of Bantams" Lozko tried signing up some of his hens on Beakbook, popular with many avians.
It didn't work out very well. They took too much time pecking out messages.
He also considered Photobucket. He put together a chick pix mix but said nix to any fix tricks.