Has the Internet been around long enough for Nostalgia ?
12 September 2008, 10:16 PM
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Has the Internet been around long enough for Nostalgia ?
Following on from Scoobydoo's Wife 1.0 Girlfreind 2.0 or whatever thread, made me think that now the net has been around for a while, what bits of Internet stuff are we getting nostalgic about, if at all,
Things like,
The Dancing Baby animation
Badger Badger Mushroom etc
The Numa Numa kid
Specific sites, now gone or swallowed up
Scoobynet when it was good
Things like,
The Dancing Baby animation
Badger Badger Mushroom etc
The Numa Numa kid
Specific sites, now gone or swallowed up
Scoobynet when it was good
12 September 2008, 10:58 PM
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LOL, just look up some of your own early posts if you want nostalgia
An hour to download 1 song through Napster, and even then the real heavy users had about 100 tracks on their computers
An hour to download 1 song through Napster, and even then the real heavy users had about 100 tracks on their computers
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13 September 2008, 07:41 AM
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Ah yes, the start of the WWW, when sites like 3COM, Intel, Microsoft simply had some basic corporate info, and instructions on how to log on to their BBS for the "real" info. When a lot of the pawn was ascii art, working in telecommunications gave you access to high speed modems, 1200/75 was the fastest most people could afford, usually 300, but I had access to 1200/1200 or occasionally 2400. Then going on a week long course to Racal Milgo, and seeing their prototype 14.4k modems, which used a 4 wire private circuit, so no dial-up, and the lecturer had to get special permission to show us, as they were the only two working prototypes that Racal had worldwide, that were reliable at any distance over about 10 feet!
Eeee, I'll go to the foot of our stairs, them were the days, when men were men, and Nancy was a girls name.
13 September 2008, 11:49 AM
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oohga cuka aka the dancing baby lol
i bought my mrs one of them for chrimbo once lol
internet? wasnt that the thing that came after bulletin boards, and the first online mud,s
Mart
i bought my mrs one of them for chrimbo once lol
internet? wasnt that the thing that came after bulletin boards, and the first online mud,s
Mart
13 September 2008, 11:51 AM
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oohga chuka aka the dancing baby lol
i bought my mrs one of them for chrimbo once lol
internet? wasnt that the thing that came after bulletin boards, and the first online mud,s
Mart
i bought my mrs one of them for chrimbo once lol
internet? wasnt that the thing that came after bulletin boards, and the first online mud,s
Mart
13 September 2008, 12:27 PM
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13 September 2008, 12:30 PM
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13 September 2008, 12:42 PM
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Im not that old!
With regards to **** on computers: I remember 'Super Mandy' which required a colour VGA adapter (ideally a 8514 adapter and display) and a 386DX20 to play. A configuration that most could only dream of, and when you managed to make it work it was little more than 10 seconds of 15fps monochrome thrusting...
With regards to **** on computers: I remember 'Super Mandy' which required a colour VGA adapter (ideally a 8514 adapter and display) and a 386DX20 to play. A configuration that most could only dream of, and when you managed to make it work it was little more than 10 seconds of 15fps monochrome thrusting...
13 September 2008, 12:45 PM
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In fact I can remember IBM GSD System/36s, remote controllers and other associated crap. Now Im thinking about it I remember IBM DisplayWriters (the machine, not the similarly named PS/2 application that came years later) with 8" 'toaster' floppy drives; and that was when floppy meant floppy.....
13 September 2008, 01:18 PM
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In fact I can remember IBM GSD System/36s, remote controllers and other associated crap. Now Im thinking about it I remember IBM DisplayWriters (the machine, not the similarly named PS/2 application that came years later) with 8" 'toaster' floppy drives; and that was when floppy meant floppy.....
Er, yes. So can I. I wrote a blackjack game for the IBM System/38!
A few years after that, I was incredibly impressed with Compuserve where you could talk to people in real time in the 'chatrooms'. I even met a couple of girls through there (although they all turned out to be wackos).
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