What I miss about the days before internet
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It just occurred to me that next year will be the 40th anniversary of my first getting on the internet, my high school had a computer with a telephone acoustic coupler. We used it mostly for playing games. There were a couple of Telnet sites that had chat rooms or news, I distinctly remember an AP news feed. It was slower than slow with really crappy picture resolution. I've been on the net continuously since 1980 so I have few memories of pre internet
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I was a late comer to the internet - did not get on here until around 2001 actually when I finally bought a home PC! (so only 13 years for me). I did not actively start using a PC until 1987 at work - wow
...remember being able to play "Star Trek" on that old OS?.....it was the cat's arse then-just horrendously primitive now...and I worked around the old teletype machines-puts the Mangler to shame...
Dot Matrix printers.....loudest printers in the universe. We used to have those in the radio room. You get two of those printers going at once??? Couldn't here yourself think.
....made your eyes jiggle...
...speaking of Ms. Matrix....
May the SCHWARTZ be with you sir!
I remember Star Trek. Once I got into college with its CRT displays it was easier, or at least wasted less paper. In high school it was best not to let Mr. Baker see you running off yards of paper for a computer game. Then again, he was the one who showed us how to do it.
....exactly!...half a box just to get a "hit"...
before the internet there was a thing called Post where if you desired you could Write an letter with a pen and paper to whoever you wanted. For SPelling you would look up The oxford-english dictonary. There was no chat rooms where people pretented to be male/female. Youngs girls Hung out at the cafe discussing music and their love life. now the girls/boys sometimes are committing suicide from Cybe- bullying by trolls. Instead of playing 'Kiss Chasing' as a kid, They are more interested in certain website that how shall i say colourful. on Buses, in the Dinner room We talked, could be about the weather doesn't matter They talked, now nobody (expect the mature generation) Talk they are too busy listening to Iphones, tablets on the net, discussing how much they drank last night and posting pictures of how they looked.
I have been studying computers from the age of 12/14. I Learning basic programming on the Vic 20. The internet is not new. In the pentagon, they had an intranet because they were afraid they would lose info from a nuke attack from the russians. Tim- Berners Lee (phyicst at cern) discovered html and the www. It has changed the way we think, socialise, interact, and Although i am in a fast moving game - computers, I do programming come home, read(physcial books), ring people on the phone. Sometime i use facebook. But i prefer being on this website, because people are SK fans and they Think for themselves. It has it's advantages and disadvantages. The days when we played 'Kiss Chasing' , playing Calling and listening to Vinyl records or taping(remember them) our favourtie songs off the radio are gone. I miss them. When i first LEarned computers. 1,000,0000 million years ago
To study them using DOS etc, you had to be a nerd. With GUI (graphical User inoterfce) Computers are so much easier to use. I think in school, it should be 50/50 half computer studies and have using school books. If i am every fortunate enough to get married and have kids, They WILL READ a Physical book before they play their computer games. Reading is very important. In The last 20 years Technology has moved us forward then the renaissance or the 19th c years of the steam train etc.
I have been studying computers from the age of 12/14. I Learning basic programming on the Vic 20. The internet is not new. In the pentagon, they had an intranet because they were afraid they would lose info from a nuke attack from the russians. Tim- Berners Lee (phyicst at cern) discovered html and the www. It has changed the way we think, socialise, interact, and Although i am in a fast moving game - computers, I do programming come home, read(physcial books), ring people on the phone. Sometime i use facebook. But i prefer being on this website, because people are SK fans and they Think for themselves. It has it's advantages and disadvantages. The days when we played 'Kiss Chasing' , playing Calling and listening to Vinyl records or taping(remember them) our favourtie songs off the radio are gone. I miss them. When i first LEarned computers. 1,000,0000 million years ago
To study them using DOS etc, you had to be a nerd. With GUI (graphical User inoterfce) Computers are so much easier to use. I think in school, it should be 50/50 half computer studies and have using school books. If i am every fortunate enough to get married and have kids, They WILL READ a Physical book before they play their computer games. Reading is very important. In The last 20 years Technology has moved us forward then the renaissance or the 19th c years of the steam train etc.
I liked "Still Life with Woodpecker" and "Jitterbug Perfume" way better. The books I mean...Not quite what you're describing but made me think of Uma Thurman in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
Pretty rich of you to assume that sort of way would always favor you. I'd venture to say in this context, perhaps you'd keep some of your offensive opinions to yourself.I miss the old days when a man could voice and hold dearly an opinion with the confidence that three four five people would not pile on moments later each one intent on spanking you for your thoughts.Fisticuffs. I miss dueling and fisticuffs.
Yeah we did. you illustrated it perfectly. You weren't voicing an opinion, but rather taking a piss on some folks here.see what I mean?
You still can. Bananas records here in Pinellas County has the largest vinyl collection in the world. Well over a million records. It's mind boggling when you go in the warehouse.
I listen to vinyl at least 3 or 4 times a week. I buy new vinyl from artists releasing stuff on it now, like Jack White. 3rd Man records is pretty cool...
Sounds like a personal problem.I miss the old days when a man could proceed through life without a clue that one's friends and neighbors were ostracizing him for some high-tootin' faux pas. With the advent of the Internet, people are not bashful, at all, about letting you know they are ostracizing you if you fail to connect the dots.
We do. You just aren't funny because you're posting things to piss people off on purpose. Most of all to cast dispersion on the people who work their a$$es off to provide you, FREE OF CHARGE, this forum. Your back peddling afterwards that you were being "funny" just makes it look even more childish.
Giant, he wants fisticuffs to come back. Maybe he'd think twice about that if he saw you in person, you mutated monkey!
Really everyone, Scott is F***ING HUGE. And I am not some tiny fella myself, so yeah, he is a big S.O.B.... and Ugly too...