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Old(er) players talk about the old days
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MC Banhammer Posted:
And we didn’t even own the phones – they were actually owned by the (only) phone company, and they charged us monthly for them. Long distance calls were a significant amount of money. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 8:21AM |
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Prank calling owned. So did ~~going outside~~. In the olden days when you were ****ing off your parents, they threw you outside and told you to run off your extra energy instead of sitting you down in front of a video game. And that’s why you’re fat! Log in to see images! But I don’t know what you mean by “the phone companies owned the phones,” unless you’re talking about payphones. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 8:50AM |
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I typed this message via an elaborate set of punch cards fed into my two-room wide computer. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 9:01AM |
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All this talk about the old days and phones reminded me of this |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 9:02AM |
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In the olden days, someone made a thing called “motivational posters.” Very soon after, someone parodied them… THESE WERE IN PRINT FORM!!! Log in to see images! 10 years later, these were still popular among 15 yo’s on the internet, except without any sense of humor. THe more you know. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 9:05AM |
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TV channels actually stopped broadcasting for some hours at night. You couldn’t watch TV – hard to imagine nowadays. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 9:16AM |
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This topic reminded me of this: |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 9:24AM |
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Dirt_E_ATM Posted:
Good old dial up, I will always be reminded of you when my sinuses are being bastards, and I hear that high pitched whistle in my head (but not when I get that muffled, fuzzy feeling and get really dizzy, that’s not anything like dial up). |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 9:35AM |
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haha, remember when it took 17.2 seconds to get through airport security? |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 9:49AM |
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If you had a favorite movie, once it left the theater, in order to see it again, you’d have to hope one of the three television networks would air it eventually. But if you couldn’t be in front of the TV when it (or your favorite show, or a Christmas special) actually aired, you’d miss it entirely. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 10:13AM |
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RP used to be respected and enjoyed.
Wait what…
I’m too young to have been part of the olden days. I got a computer when i was 8 and was afraid to touch it, then an N64 when i was 10 or 12. didn’t have internet access at home until i was at least 14. i’m 19 fyi.
my parents were stupid. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 10:37AM |
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TUBSWEETIE Posted:
I never had internet access at home. The internet wasn’t invented until long after I moved out. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 10:39AM |
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I’ve had internet since 1993. We had a VCR and it had a long cord that had a switch at the end that switched from record/stop recording |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 10:43AM |
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MC Banhammer Posted:
are you sure your head is a hammer and not some kind of dinosaur? |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 10:44AM |
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When I was four or five, my parents bought a microwave. This thing was enormous, big enough to cook a 20lb turkey. All the neighbors came over to marvel at it since we were the first people with one on the block. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 10:57AM |
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MasterHaxxor Posted:
I could imitate the tones almost perfectly… and could tell from the tones if I was actually going to connect or not.
9600 baud modem… and compuserve |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 10:59AM |
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spacekadt Posted:
I remember dial-up, the tones were annoying as ****, it took really long for it to connect and was so slow that I’d never imagine loading a youtube video or something that “big”.
I had a computer that didn’t even manage to play an mp3 song because it had so little ram and it’s harddrive won’t store a full album. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 11:03AM |
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ChilePepino Posted:
What did it run? MS-DOS 1.0? |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 11:06AM |
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MasterHaxxor Posted:
maybe i was exagerating a bit, but it couldn’t really play music. It ran on windows 95 I think. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 11:13AM |
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MasterHaxxor Posted:
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I had my first computer long before Microsoft even existed. Let alone “MS-DOS”.
It had 48K RAM and a 5-1/4” floppy drive. Actually, two of those. We splurged.
It played the Scott Adams text adventures just fine. |
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| Posted On: 05/22/2009 11:18AM |
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