Re: Who here was 18+ pre-internet and cellphones?
- From: "FrisbeeŽ" <discgolfdad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:26:03 -0400
Damon Hynes, Pastor Of Muppets wrote:
On Oct 8, 10:20 am, "deemsb...@xxxxxxx" <deemsb...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 8, 11:16 am, SG <spaamtrap...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dan Bretta wrote:
On Oct 8, 9:48 am, Google Beta User <wanyik...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The difference in life now and then must be a different world.
And as technology tends to develop faster and faster, who knows
what'll be here in 10 years?
I'm a little unnerved by how addicting all the stuff can get
though. It's a little frightening....imagine being without a
cellphone for a week. Would you be ok with that? I think many
would go nuts.
Speaking on technology, transportation seems to lag behind
communications by a lot. Metro, cars, planes, trains etc are
essentially the same as they were in 1975.
I graduated high school in 1985...I sometimes wonder now how the
world got along without the internet tubes, but as far as other
technology goes I can live without a cell phone, blackberry, ipod
or what have you...usually I leave home and forget my cell phone
as it's just not that important to me. I grew up with Atari
2600/Intellevision/ Colecovision and I have no ambition to play
the newest playstation or xbox games...I do have a Wii and I
played it a lot when I first got it, but I haven't touched it in
probably 3 months now.
Probably the newest technology since I turned 18 that I love the
most would be digital photography.
Dan
IAWTP (class of 81)
IAWTP2 (class of 75)......though cell phones do make it easier
to keep track of the kidz. And I like the fact that my wife and
daughter can call for help if they break down, etc.- Hide quoted
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'80. I could do without cell phones, but pr0n would be a chore
without the Goreweb.
Class of '76
I got into computers immediately after being discharged from the service.
My father had bought a TRS-80 Model I and after he'd upgraded to the Model
II, he gave the Model I to my grandfather, who toyed with it a bit then put
it up in his attic. After I got back home from the service, my grandfather
mentioned it and got it down for me to fool around with. I took it home
that afternoon and put it together and read the manual. Next thing I knew,
it was 6:00 AM, I'd been up all night long and would be late for class
(college). That's when I decided right then and there that computers would
be a major part of my life.
Pre-internet wasn't so bad. In 1982 I was living in silicon valley and
bought my first 1200 baud modem for $100 after a demonstration by the maker
at a computer user's group meeting. Hayes modems were going for over $500
at the time, and they had it set up where you could see the 4-times speed by
putting it next to a computer that had a 300 baud modem hookup. Only
problem was, nearly all communications software was designed for Hayes
modems, so you had to know what you were doing to get any other kind of
modem to work.
Silicon Valley had literally hundreds of BBS systems, nearly all of them
free. During my last few months there, the user's group, who had several
PhD's in its membership, had "invented" a multi-line modem board and was
hosting a four-line dial-in BBS where you could actually be on the board
with three other people at the same time. This was unheard of at the time
except for the likes of CompuServe, etc.
In 1985 I moved to Gainesville, FL, and the biggest disappointment for me
was there were only a handful of BBS's to dial into. I was spoiled from
having the hundreds available before and the multi-line ones too. I'd long
since upgraded to a 2400 baud modem, and when the 14.4k modems came out, I
started looking for BBS's that supported that speed. I happened on a local
BBS that not only supported that speed but had over 20 phone lines.
Eventually, the board grew to over fifty lines. It wasn't free, but it was
cheap, and I met dozens and dozens of people who I still keep in contact
with today, including my current wife. It was a sad day when the board
finally folded about a decade ago.
Like others have stated in here, I don't know if I could live without the
internet now. And not just because of pr0n, although that may be the single
biggest thing about it. It's more than a little frustrating that while I
had met or had an opportunity to meet nearly everyone on the local BBS's,
I'll probably never meet any of the people on the IntarWeb.
As far as cell phones go, I had one for a while, but it was the company
phone and when times got tough, they cut it. I don't miss it except that it
would indeed come in handy sometimes.
Video games, I'm like another poster. I went nuts with the Atari 2600, also
had a Colecovision, Sega Genesis, but that was it. I have very little
desire to play gaming consoles anymore. I get dizzy just watching my boys
play.
.
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