Oldness poll

[The Bison King]

A simple test of Oldness, simply raise your hand if you can remember a time before the internet existed.

[The Bison King]

I'm on the cusp, but I remember being about 7 or 8 years old when my parents first got connected.

[Phatscotty]

I remember connecting on dial up, and 52K being the new hot thing. Getting pissed off everytime someone called because it would "boot" you, and IM bombing, and people trying to sell an actual yellow book as a directory to the internet.

[mpjh]

I remember a time before cell phones, personal computers (went through college with a typewriter and carbon paper), beepers, pagers, touch tone phones, fuel injection, disc brakes, television, interstate freeways, pedophile priests (the bishops still hide them in those days), integrated schools, and Eisenhower.

[silvanricky]

I can't remember a time without the internet. Although I do remember a time when the internet was very slow and didn't have high speed connections.

[maasman]

I can't remember a time without the internet. Although I do remember a time when the internet was very slow and didn't have high speed connections.

Same, I guess I'm in the youngin' group

[nietzsche]

I invented the Internets

[Army of GOD]

I'm not sure if it existed or not, but I know I used to not know it existed.

Then we got dial-up. My life probably became worse because of it.

[muy_thaiguy]

I remember first getting dial up and how a 5 minute download was considered top of the line. And how it took 15 minutes just to connect. And if you wanted internet and be able to talk on the phone at the sametime, you would need 2 seperate phone numbers. Oh, and there were no videos on the internet.

[notyou2]

I remember rotary phones.

How many don't know how to use a rotary phone?

Don't be shy. Raise your hands.

[tzor]

Yes, I remember "dial up" services that required telephone modems; Compuserve, The Source, even the company I worked for, the Mult-Player Games Newtork started out by using Compuserve's dial up system.

I remember before that when personal computers got data from IBM mainframes by acting as "smart terminals."

I remember when the IBM PC was introdced and when i first saw it next to the card punch systems at my college.

I remember the Commodore PET in my senior year of high school.

I remember the vynal record, the rotary phone, the manual typewriter (did you ever see "Max Headroom" where they used manual typewriters as computer terminals ... much later of course), and when Television was in Black and White.

[KoolBak]

Age defined by the internet....lmao ;o)

Being ALMOST as old as tzor (lol) I too recall the same. When I was very young, it was rarer to HAVE a TV than not......somewhere around here is one of those emails that gets passed around that copares the 50s/60s kids to todays kids very effectively...

*hobbles off on walker to search*

[The Bison King]

I remember connecting on dial up, and 52K being the new hot thing. Getting pissed off everytime someone called because it would "boot" you, and IM bombing, and people trying to sell an actual yellow book as a directory to the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXl9RaAtXq0
A great rap about the 56k modem

[L M S]

MY first "computer" was a TRS80. I had to unhook it from the TV to plug in and play my Colecovision.
oh man.

I also remember when my father bought his first computer in the early 90's. It was a 386, green screen something, anyway he still has it and still thinks its worth $3000.00 because that's what he paid for it.

Oregon Trail anyone?

[Phatscotty]

MY first "computer" was a TRS80. I had to unhook it from the TV to plug in and play my Colecovision.
oh man.

I also remember when my father bought his first computer in the early 90's. It was a 386, green screen something, anyway he still has it and still thinks its worth $3000.00 because that's what he paid for it.

Oregon Trail anyone?

dysentary bitches

[john9blue]

i remember when we didn't have internet. i also remember getting kicked off whenever someone called, and the dial-up sound everytime i logged on.

[2dimes]

mpjh as a former gear head I have to call you on fuel injection. It was available on the 1953 Corvette and I suspect existed for a while in some form before that. Impressive list still you must be rilly old.

[heavycola]

MY first "computer" was a TRS80. I had to unhook it from the TV to plug in and play my Colecovision.
oh man.

I also remember when my father bought his first computer in the early 90's. It was a 386, green screen something, anyway he still has it and still thinks its worth $3000.00 because that's what he paid for it.

Oregon Trail anyone?

[HapSmo19]

"...operates at a lightning fast 20mhz,..."

Monitor and mouse not included? For $8500.00? WTF?

[Woodruff]

"...operates at a lightning fast 20mhz,..."

Monitor and mouse not included? For $8500.00? WTF?

Yeah, I also like "virtually simultaneous data transfer".

I remember writing programs and saving them to casette tape, because hard drives were enormously expensive back then.

And Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs)...the internet before the internet.

[tzor]

MY first "computer" was a TRS80. I had to unhook it from the TV to plug in and play my Colecovision.
oh man.

My first "computer" was an Atari cartridge that allowed very simple BASIC programs to be written. Man that was a bitch to program.

[natty dread]

My first computer was a C-64.

[mpjh]

my first computer -- well I don't remember its numbers -- but it was "programed" with switches on its face plate and the "solution" appears in a sequence of little red lites on that same faceplate.

[Pedronicus]

AD (I have no idea what it really stand for) ano domini or some such bollocks
BC Before christ
BI Before Internet

[Borderdawg]

"...operates at a lightning fast 20mhz,..."

Monitor and mouse not included? For $8500.00? WTF?

Yeah, I also like "virtually simultaneous data transfer".

I remember writing programs and saving them to casette tape, because hard drives were enormously expensive back then.

And Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs)...the internet before the internet.

I can go ya one better than cassette, Woody! When I got out of the Navy in 1980, I went to work for Burroughs Corp. Banks were just going to mainframe systems, and the bank terminals were analog systems programed with punched mylar tape!!