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Post by lothar on Feb 28, 2015 21:08:29 GMT -6
Life Before the Computer
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano!
Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3-inch floppy
You hoped nobody found out!-LOL!
Compress was something you did to garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You’d be in jail for awhile!
Log on was adding wood to a fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode!
Cut – you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider’s home
And a virus was the flu!
I guess I’ll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody’s been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens they wish they were dead!
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Post by Babu Baboon on Mar 1, 2015 9:25:50 GMT -6
It's weird how computers have become such a vital part of our lives. They're a tool of convenience, yet I seemed to accomplish so much more before they were around.
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Post by mh on Mar 1, 2015 13:20:44 GMT -6
It's weird how computers have become such a vital part of our lives. They're a tool of convenience, yet I seemed to accomplish so much more before they were around.
yeah, me too i think. i have countless different things i check on every day. at 5 a.m. i check the temp, worried that my car might be frozen shut, and after work i immediately check the news, then facebook, then here, then shartak to see if i've suffered any deaths! and i take computer breaks all evening long. it reminds me of this Harlan elision story i read a couple of decades ago where a guy found a golden cup that was 'true love', and once you look into it you can never completely pull yourself away. i can't even imagine life without the internet anymore |
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Post by Babu Baboon on Mar 1, 2015 18:50:31 GMT -6
Me neither. Instead of watcing TV to entertain myself, I'm pretty much planted in front of the computer.
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Post by Thai Ladyboy on Mar 2, 2015 0:19:00 GMT -6
I've been sitting in front of computers since 1997. BBSes and the Internet used to be a form of escape. I would have spent every waking hour in front of one if it weren't for mandatory real life stuff. Now, everybody is on the internet so it's pretty much lost its luster and I'd rather be doing something else away from the monitor, but I can't because my work pretty much requires me to be online all the time. Funny how things work out.
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Post by Thai Ladyboy on Mar 2, 2015 0:21:11 GMT -6
Who am I kidding? THE INTERNET IS AWESOME NOW BECUZ OF FREE HD PORN.
Free Internet porn in the 90s consisted of low res 30 second clips playing on a loop.
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Post by mh on Mar 2, 2015 1:04:51 GMT -6
damn! that takes me back. yeah, in the late 90's porn was basically lingerie sites. the best web search was AltaVista, and i spent most of my computer time playing king's quest, leisure suit larry or rise of the dragon. did you ever play any tex murphy games? durn, I'd like to play those again, they were full of amateurish video sequences, and hot babes. what could be better ?
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Post by Babu Baboon on Mar 2, 2015 18:56:32 GMT -6
The internet has to have been hell on the porn industry. Most guys look at paying for porn the way some people look at paying for bottled water.
I think the only porn sales now are of those goofy porn parodies. 
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Post by The Huntress Diana on Mar 6, 2015 15:06:02 GMT -6
My dad used to have Leisure Suit Larry on his computer downstairs. I managed to break into it but couldn't get very far because I didn't know what I was doing.
I remember when Texas Instruments released this computer that came with cartridges for games but also had a keyboard. My dad taught me how to do simple code on that sucker. So I knew (but not anymore) how to make it ask you to type your name in and then it would repeat it on an endless loop or for a set number of times.
Crazy stuff. I also remember some game I used to use that required the use of a tape recorder along with the computer...but for the life of me, I can't remember what it was.
Fuck, I remember our HUGE TV in my living room (it looked like a piece of furniture) when I was still in elementary school. It had dials regular channels and UHF and all that jazz. I used to know how far to turn my arm/wrist to get from 2 to 56 or some other channel.
I also used to make my own cassette singles in jr. high/high school. I'd scrounge around for other cassettes people didn't want....then I'd figure out how much tape I needed for one song and then I'd cut almost everything else out and then splice it back together with clear tape and then record the song. I thought I was pretty damn cool at the time. LOL
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Post by mh on Mar 6, 2015 15:41:36 GMT -6
My dad used to have Leisure Suit Larry on his computer downstairs. I managed to break into it but couldn't get very far because I didn't know what I was doing. I remember when Texas Instruments released this computer that came with cartridges for games but also had a keyboard. My dad taught me how to do simple code on that sucker. So I knew (but not anymore) how to make it ask you to type your name in and then it would repeat it on an endless loop or for a set number of times. Crazy stuff. I also remember some game I used to use that required the use of a tape recorder along with the computer...but for the life of me, I can't remember what it was. Fuck, I remember our HUGE TV in my living room (it looked like a piece of furniture) when I was still in elementary school. It had dials regular channels and UHF and all that jazz. I used to know how far to turn my arm/wrist to get from 2 to 56 or some other channel. I also used to make my own cassette singles in jr. high/high school. I'd scrounge around for other cassettes people didn't want....then I'd figure out how much tape I needed for one song and then I'd cut almost everything else out and then splice it back together with clear tape and then record the song. I thought I was pretty damn cool at the time. LOL
ms dos was such a pain. my father worked at ibm, and i remember him trying to teach me all that "backslash" stuff you had to type in manually. what a nightmare! but I'd like to get an old computer now to use just for old dos games! my best friend as a kid had an "intelli-vision" which at the time seemed great. i remember we played "venture" and "burger time" a lot.  the "venture" knight was probably only 5 pixels. in the south all my old 'great aunts' and uncles had these massive console TVs that weighed about 300 lbs. the tvs had been dead for a couple of decades, so they sat a newer TV set on top of them! they were definitely like furniture. and i remember one had a tiny door that opened and there was a plastic tube in there to use to adjust the color & horizontal hold! memories. below is a link to someone who used one to make an aquarium that's a replica of seinfeld's apartment! clever, but those tvs were way before seinfeld. they were probably mostly used to watch bonanza
imgur.com/gallery/NymPt
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Post by lothar on Mar 6, 2015 22:37:58 GMT -6
About ten years ago we had a big screen tv that was so heavy it took to adults to move it.
I made lots of mix tapes when I was a kid. I might still have some of them but nothing to play them on.
What I miss is records. I would love to have A record player,i I think it's hard to find the needles for the record player.
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Post by mh on Mar 7, 2015 0:39:36 GMT -6
About ten years ago we had a big screen tv that was so heavy it took to adults to move it. I made lots of mix tapes when I was a kid. I might still have some of them but nothing to play them on. What I miss is records. I would love to have A record player,i I think it's hard to find the needles for the record player.
really i don't think so. but it is a weird situation. vinyl records have made an incredible comeback. especially in 2014
www.wsj.com/articles/the-biggest-music-comeback-of-2014-vinyl-records-1418323133
a few years ago when records seemed to be going the way of cassettes, i read an article saying every artist continued to want to release a certain amount of vinyl. and it's grown ever since. the format refused to die. funny, i know several younger people that are pretty into records, but my oldest friend who at one time had the largest record collection I've ever seen has no interest in them anymore. myself, if i wanna hear a song i go to youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8f463tvXLY
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 3:48:12 GMT -6
You can still get pretty cheap record players these days. I've still have my old one and a couple of hundred records I play regularly. I spent today listening to several K-Tel compilation records from the 70's. they're great! I usually buy a few second hand records a month and have almost completed a run of Talking Heads albums. I don't buy many of the new ones if I can help...Though I probably will have to. Trying to finish off the Pixies albums. Overall, though, most of my collection are compilations. From the late 60's through to the mid 80's.
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the "venture" knight was probably only 5 pixels. in the south all my old 'great aunts' and uncles had these massive console TVs that weighed about 300 lbs. the tvs had been dead for a couple of decades, so they sat a newer TV set on top of them! they were definitely like furniture. and i remember one had a tiny door that opened and there was a plastic tube in there to use to adjust the color & horizontal hold! memories. below is a link to someone who used one to make an aquarium that's a replica of seinfeld's apartment! clever, but those tvs were way before seinfeld. they were probably mostly used to watch bonanza