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THEN:

When I started my residency in radiology, computer itself was a luxury and 3 1/2 inch floppy disc used to cost Rs 25/-! Internet connection was from dial-up with a speed of may be 10kbps. I did not have a computer during my radiology residency, but my elder brother and my sister-in-law had one. I still remember the day, I opened my first e-mail acccount (of course it was hotmail) well back in 1998 with help of my brother-in-law.


But during the same time, America was putting all its money on IT, and strongly believed IT is where money multiplies exponentially. As doctors, we did not understand the difference between operating system and internet, RAM and memory etc!


Few used computers (not internet) to search literature. Our medical college had a huge set of floppy discs with indexing (donated by some NRI) of medical articles. Few used to use internet for e-mails to communicate with friends and relatives living outside India, to chat with friends, and to join like minded 'groups' to read and write 'discussions'.


During the same time, radiology conferences in India slowly started using projectors with powerpoint presentation. But still, many speakers used to bring huge set of slides, which used to get stuck.