just a few years ago, I have certainly become dependent on the internet! Didn’t realize how much so till AT&T Kansas City had problems and basically shut down everything within 30 miles of the trouble point (depending on how the wind blew!), and didn’t say anything to its customers. Spent a combined 3 hours with tech people, reconfiguring the computer, all to no avail, only to have a third tech tell me about the service problem. One of the on line techs actually used a radio controlled service to reconfigure my computer/modem from San Diego! Changed everything, then said there was no fix for it, and to take it to a service center. Third one apparently was the charm. Left everything alone till this morning, and lo and behold, it’s working! Kansas City is back up and running! Except for me … no one bothered to say they dumped ALL my sites and passwords! Trying to remember everything, and who and where. A younger brain may have had better results. (FAOL was remembered, partly due to the “goofy” password JC gave me.)
Sooooo … slowly but surely, this will all be rebuilt! Lesson learned. As I remember, or if I remember, the passwords, and user names, I am writing them down! “Next time” I will be prepared.
Hey Betty,
Hopefully all your info will come to you in a dream. Have pencil and pad handy.
There should however be some universally accepted uniform format for passwords etc. so that , like in my case, I wouldn’t need to remember no less than 20 user name/password combinations.
In any case, GOOD LUCK in getting it all together again.
Mark
Carbonite…
and there is a site which you load all your passwords into, and then all you have to remember is the password to it. Trouble is, I can’t remember the name of the site.
At the very least, use an external drive and copy pics, vids, and docs on a regular basis. You can export your bookmarks to a doc and do sceenshots of all your browser saved passwords. As I register for this and that, I keep a word doc with site, username, and password just in case.
Plus one, ditto, etc… (10 character requirement met.)
Ed