Yeah, but ask them about computers. Grown-ups...yeah, nobody go there...but grown-ups w/o kids are lost. I do remember Big Al.
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Yeah, I do. LaserDisk came right after those... looked like giant CDs.Anyone remember CED movies?
Well there's that whole internet thingy.When you think about it, there really isn't anything new out that wasn't around in the 80's. The tech has evolved, but there haven't really been any new concepts for awhile.
Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWell there's that whole internet thingy.
Sorry man, that was around. Infant form, yes. But the concept of a code based "page" to facilitate a internetwork connection was first conceived in the late 60's (ARPAnet). Though, this was really just an advanced form of Tip and Ring telephony and not a true coded page. It was pulse tone coding. The 80's had Compuserve and mIRC rooms. I can remember my friend getting a 1200baud modem and thinking that was the most advanced thing the world could ever come up with.Well there's that whole internet thingy.
Interesting about the serial numbers tattooed on concentration camp victims. It makes me think of that show "Grimm" - they show Hitler as having been a real 'monster' or vessen that could change from human shape into a beastSorry man, that was around. Infant form, yes. But the concept of a code based "page" to facilitate a internetwork connection was first conceived in the late 60's (ARPAnet). Though, this was really just an advanced form of Tip and Ring telephony and not a true coded page. It was pulse tone coding. The 80's had Compuserve and mIRC rooms. I can remember my friend getting a 1200baud modem and thinking that was the most advanced thing the world could ever come up with.
What is new is the "WWW" designation and the "web", though even that was around in text form and GUI form as early as 1989. HTML was around before the credited date in Neesy's article. In fact an early form of it was in use in the ARPAnet project. Later this became some of the code kernel base for the CP/M and eventually MS DOS and Unix operating systems.But the concept of a socket (protocol plus a port number)was established by that first test in the 60's. that concept IS the "Internet". The web operates on the Internet. They are not the same thing.
An interesting factoid: the serial numbers tattooed onto concentration camp victims in Nazi Germany are thought to actually be IBM punch card numbers where their vital statistics were being recorded and compiled into a eugenics database. This was actually happening before this in the German census and is what lead to the delineation of those with Jewish ancestry. Though, the citizenry did not know early on that this is why the info was being collected. These were the first punch card coding and compiling processes developed and are what lead later to UniVac and then to modern computing as we know it (eventually).
For full disclosure, part of my job is to design curriculum to teach this stuff. I unfortunately have more acronyms and factoids in my brain than most hamsters.
Oh, 8-track tapes. I so miss them. I never liked cassettes. I held on to my 8-track tapes as long as possible. I even resisted CDs as long as possible. It hurts me to see people melting LPs. Now, I guess that makes me old too.I'm even older *sigh*
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That's an 8-track tape in case you youngsters didn't recognize it lol
I feel your pain. No, really, I do.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar (I remember him when he was Lew Alcindor) turns 67 today. Does that help?
There is a book about it. I think it's called "IBM and the Holocaust". I read somewhere Brad Pitt was making a movie out of it.Interesting about the serial numbers tattooed on concentration camp victims. It makes me think of that show "Grimm" - they show Hitler as having been a real 'monster' or vessen that could change from human shape into a beast
My turntable still gets plenty of spins.....
Me too, honey - both old and loved my Walkman. The first one I had was a radio because my dingdong mom didn't know what to get me. Ugh - mothers.And it wasn’t even all that long ago.
A Pinto. The rearend exploder?Me too, honey - both old and loved my Walkman. The first one I had was a radio because my dingdong mom didn't know what to get me. Ugh - mothers.
My first car was a 1978 or 79 Ford Pinto, yellow with a pinstripe, and it had an 8 track - I was able to round up 3 8 tracks: Ted Nugent, Boston, and Sam Cooke. you could only groove like that in my car. I was supremely cool.
I think Stephen King and his family bought one too! He jokes about it in an interview on lineA Pinto. The rearend exploder?
You said it, sister! My parents weren't about to let a little thing like that stop them from getting a cheap car.A Pinto. The rearend exploder?