Will Schroter
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And he says, well, I downloaded it.
Like, whoa, what's a download, right?
Now, mind you, this is like circa 85, 86.
So this is a very long time ago.
And this is way, way, way, way prior to the internet as we know it.
No, it's 10.
So it's 10 and 74.
This would have been 84, 85.
So 10 or 11.
I mean, you know, pretty young.
And I said, hold on, what's a modem?
He's like, you got to understand.
You plug it into your computer and you plug it into your house line and it calls another computer.
Again, this is like pre-AOL the way we would have noted or anything else like that.
This is when you just called one other dude.
And I was like, wait, so let me get this straight.
If I can get a modem, I could call somebody else's computer and get fourth and inches for free?
And he's like, you could.
That's all it took.
That very moment, sitting at Jeff Zapatka's house, was the very moment I became an entrepreneur.