Heck, back in the day, you could get programs that would fake activity so that you wouldn’t lose your (modem) connection with a server like America Online (AOL) or CompuServe. 🙂Īll modern operating systems have had the ability to put your components to sleep and to even power down the computer itself after a certain period of inactivity. That’s rather retro of you, though not as bad as if you’d have asked me about Windows XP, I suppose.
