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The good ole days
"Good old days"? Lol, online experience was more like using a teletype machine and high end graphics was a game of pong. Some things are nostalgic but not necessarily good, I like advancement.
Even if I had an old machine setting in front of me right now I think I'd get bored with it pretty quickly. Even I'm getting up there in years now I like a challenge and learning new things. Measured in kilobytes? No thanks! :smileyhappy:
- GabeU7 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
BirdDog wrote:"Good old days"? Lol, online experience was more like using a teletype machine and high end graphics was a game of pong. Some things are nostalgic but not necessarily good, I like advancement.
Even if I had an old machine setting in front of me right now I think I'd get bored with it pretty quickly. Even I'm getting up there in years now I like a challenge and learning new things. Measured in kilobytes? No thanks! :smileyhappy:
I don't think regular people could even connect online to anything back then, could they?
- BirdDog7 years agoAssistant Professor
GabeU wrote:
BirdDog wrote:"Good old days"? Lol, online experience was more like using a teletype machine and high end graphics was a game of pong. Some things are nostalgic but not necessarily good, I like advancement.
Even if I had an old machine setting in front of me right now I think I'd get bored with it pretty quickly. Even I'm getting up there in years now I like a challenge and learning new things. Measured in kilobytes? No thanks! :smileyhappy:
I don't think regular people could even connect online to anything back then, could they?
There were bulletin boards in the mid 80's, I was on a few of them. That's about it for the average person.
- gaines_wright7 years agoTutor
GabeU wrote:I don't think regular people could even connect online to anything back then, could they?
I don't think "online" even existed back then. Several years later I was dialing in to BBSs with a 1200 baud modem using an IBM PC clone.
- GabeU7 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
gaines_wright wrote:
GabeU wrote:I don't think regular people could even connect online to anything back then, could they?
I don't think "online" even existed back then. Several years later I was dialing in to BBSs with a 1200 baud modem using an IBM PC clone.
I didn't really mean online, as it exists today. I meant being able to connect to a remote server. I thought that, back then, only the government, universities and companies had that ability.
- gaines_wright7 years agoTutor
BirdDog wrote:"Good old days"? Lol, online experience was more like using a teletype machine and high end graphics was a game of pong. Some things are nostalgic but not necessarily good, I like advancement.
Actually I thought the graphics were pretty good, very klunky to program ( hexadecimal code ) , but good. Of course it seems like everything in your youth looks better the older you get. :>)>
Well, I like some advancements. A pet peeve of mine, is the use by MS of robber-baron tactics worthy of Standard Oil to take over the whole computer world. That's one of the reasons I switched to Linux.
Even if I had an old machine setting in front of me right now I think I'd get bored with it pretty quickly.
I wish I still had that creaky old ti99/4a, it's probably considered an antique now. I've read that hobbiests are even working on a version of Linux for it,
- MarkJFine7 years agoProfessor
You can probably get an emulator somewhere. I have one for my C64 and occasionally play some of the old games:
- GabeU7 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
MarkJFine wrote:You can probably get an emulator somewhere. I have one for my C64 and occasionally play some of the old games:
I bet it's a blast playing those games on the C64. I wish I still had mine. I love my Raspberry Pi and the games I play on it. Though I only have about two dozen at present, there are thousands out there. Some of them I haven't played in well over 30 years.
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