Worldnet Ending -- Moving to G-Mail

Well, I finally did it -- I got a g-mail account. This was forced by the impending demise of AT&T 's Worldnet dialup Internet Service. It's hard to believe that when I first started with e-mail, dialup was all anybody had. This was back in the days of Windows 98 SE, and I was still doing my finances with DOS 6 programs (VP Planner). My printer back then was a dot-matrix Epson FX-85. And I got through the accounting in about one-third of the time it now takes to update things in OpenOffice.org Calc. Excel was also faster to use. (This was in MS Office 95.) I still have files which are linked to MS Access for Office 95. And OpenOffice.org can still open, read, and modify them. No floppies though -- Flash Drives and my two Western Digital external USB-2 hard drives have taken the fun out of floppy disks. And there are also CDs and DVDs, which I only use to burn Rescue and Linux OS disks anymore. We are living in an increasingly virtualized world, and The Cloud may soon be the only place I store my archives. Except for System Backups -- those are usually needed the most when I would not be able to access the Internet.