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mr.videomen

10-27-2010 12:57 AM

A window to the past

Well it is just two long lifespans...although I doubt the known person will still be around today http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

Efksqhyu

10-27-2010 01:00 AM

My Grandmother knew someone who fought in the Civil War.

StivRichardOff

10-27-2010 01:09 AM

The freshman class this year is just young enough to never have used floppy disks.

A bit shorter term, but somehow alarming to me nevertheless.

GeorgeEckland

10-27-2010 01:22 AM

and don't get me started on my walk to school, it was 10 miles, uphill, in the rain, both ways! http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/angry.gif

HarryMet

10-27-2010 01:28 AM

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i remember a guy on the newsmax forums, years ago who told me about a school teacher he had when he was a boy who remembered the american civil war. he said it was a big regret of his that he didn't listen more to the guy and his stories.

Huh? You posted at newsmax? Those guys are crazy. They called me a feminist, Black Panther-supporting, Marxist. No exaggeration

G778G9P0

10-27-2010 01:32 AM

Netscape + Oregon Trail + some silly math game comprise my early computer memories from elementary school.

draigenia

10-27-2010 01:36 AM

and in my day it looked like this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...typewriter.jpg

DonnyKong

10-27-2010 01:37 AM

I don't think so.

boffincash

10-27-2010 01:38 AM

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Is it just me or is that a topless lady laying down in that zig zag game on the computer up there?

I think you're right. Holy ****.

shodulsilfeli

10-27-2010 01:47 AM

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Why'd you remove it? It's what, like a 4 bit depiction of a topless lady on a computer from the early 80s? This isn't the middle east you know.

This is a family site, Drixnak. I'm not going the loinberger route and getting banned for posting porn.

Aleksis

10-27-2010 02:05 AM

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This is a family site, Drixnak. I'm not going the loinberger route and getting banned for posting porn.

The only family on here are no longer mods.

esanamaserrn

10-27-2010 02:07 AM

Anyway, I'm also old enough to have worked with 8" floppy disks - usually getting data off the buggers on a TRS80 Xenix machine and sending down an RS232 port to a PC.

emily

10-27-2010 02:42 AM

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Anyway, I'm also old enough to have worked with 8" floppy disks - usually getting data off the buggers on a TRS80 Xenix machine and sending down an RS232 port to a PC.

God you're old http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/tongue.gif

investor

10-27-2010 04:53 PM

Does anybody remember what search engines were like before Google? No matter what you searched for, you always got a random assortment of completely unrelated results, shot through with scads of pornography. You could search for "kittens" and get twelve pages of Jenny McCarthy showing her goods. I didn't mind too much, partly because I wasn't spoiled by search engines that actually worked and partly because hey, I was fourteen.

Flatlytaize

10-27-2010 05:18 PM

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So? I am amazed that you didn't grow up with Apple IIe's. In my day, the average American home didn't have computers and there was no internet in the public consciousness because it basically didn't exist (I know, technically it did but nowhere near a recognizable form). In my elementary school days (the early 90's), kids were only exposed to computers at school and they displayed a weird greenish hue all the time and like no colors.

In my high school days (1999-2003), youtube, myspace, and facebook didn't exist. You probably would have difficulty fathoming that.

I feel your pain. I'm somewhere in between, but closer to you than Haudron, being 24. My siblings haven't lived in a world with almost no computers, internet being unknown, only one TV channel available(being American, you probably can't fathom that http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif) and kids actually having to use their IMAGINATION when playing.http://www.greatlakesoffshore.com/gr...ges/oldguy.gif

usaguedriedax

10-28-2010 11:58 AM

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I started out with one of these.

http://www.purpledogdesign.com/wp-co...oning_zx81.jpg

The game there is 3D Monster Maze. Great, it was. First 3D game I ever played. :cloud9:

We had one too (though I was too young to use it really). We had a bag of frozen peas in the freezer dedicated to being the ZX-81 cooling system. We expanded it to 16K of RAM!

Then we had a BBC B, with a MASSIVE 32K, and colours!

lidya-sggf

10-28-2010 12:29 PM

So you didn't know the capital of Ireland or Great Britain?

JM

bZEUWO4F

10-28-2010 12:35 PM

You didn't know Dublin was the capital or Ireland? You do yourself a discredit no doubt. I knew all the capitals of South America at age nine - I don't anymore, not after I learnt it was unimportant to know them.

mobiphones

10-29-2010 02:16 AM

A guy I know, knows all the countries in the world ranged after size, all the largest 10-20 mountains, rivers, lakes etc in all of them, including the lenght, height, area etc. He also knows a lot of similar stuff. He's incredible. He wrote a book a few years ago with these facts, it sold well too. He's also the only real commie I genuinely like.http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/tongue.gif

forotis

10-29-2010 02:29 AM

I played on the AT&T (8086) into the 90s (we had it from the 80s).

There were other machines, some old unix one which was even older, I didn't really play on it though...

I think they were ones from work, at some point.

JM

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