[quote]Rusty Barbell wrote:
Sometimes I just look at people’s avatars more than reading the thread. [/quote]
And you have none?
Anyone remember FidoNet? Tymnet, anybody? I’m sure, you used to hook up your mighty numba cruncha to your favourite bbs?
Ah, good times.
[quote]KyleT wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/swtpc-6800/index.html
My family’s first computer.[/quote]
HAHA!!! Fucking ABORT button yeS!!! ABORT!! ABORT!![/quote]
If only women had the same button…
http://www.textfiles.com/fun/bodybild.txt
more appropriate for this site
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]WormwoodTheory wrote:
i remember when getting on the computer meant nobody could use the phone.
we used to make a big deal about my rich friend having a separate phone line for AOL.
also: hitting the connect button and then going to take a shower.[/quote]
True!
The one thing I would like to let kids growing up now know is that even then we were saying that this was too damned slow and we couldn’t wait for when they’d hurry this shit up.
I remember waiting 10 minutes for the first still photo from Star Wars Episode 1 to “download” in 1997 for Christ’s sake!
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Well, you’ve got a couple years on me. What I remember was having my cousin log me onto the Nickelodeon website, and after 15 minutes of waiting around, turning off the computer because “too many other people were on”.
It was like being stuck in school while everyone else was out at recess playing freeze tag.
[quote]nomorewar wrote:
I didn’t know know being “pissed” also meant being drunk. "dude Im gonna get pisses tonight!!! lol[/quote]
There’s a common English expression “Pissed as a newt”.
Pissed = drunk
Pissed off = annoyed