I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.
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@TheLancashireman You could afford STRING? LUXURY!! @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
Well, I say "string" but it was just bits of dead grass twisted together.
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@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
Well, I say "string" but it was just bits of dead grass twisted together.
@TheLancashireman Our dead grass was confiscated by the landlord. @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
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@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
Well, I say "string" but it was just bits of dead grass twisted together.
@TheLancashireman @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman String you say? Luxury! We had it hard, we had to weave nasal snot into a fibre!
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@macacator @UpLateGeek @kibcol1049
It's a bad move to be connected during your fucking time. You never know who might be watching or listening in.
@TheLancashireman @UpLateGeek @kibcol1049 exactly
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@trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Wasn't there a time when the internet was a line printer? Before my time, but I recall whispers from the founding folks.
@AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think you mean teletypes (i.e /dev/tty), but yes. I am not that old. I have never used punch card or tape either.
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@AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think you mean teletypes (i.e /dev/tty), but yes. I am not that old. I have never used punch card or tape either.
@trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think you’re right.
Even though we both weren’t of that earlier time, we can appreciate the pioneer spirit that carried us to now.
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@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 we were poor. We had only one rock to bang together
@John_Loader @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
In my day we dreamt of having one rock.
If we were lucky dad would come home at the end of a week of triple shifts & hand us the dust left over from the tiny bit of gravel his boss would give him at the start of the week. -
@John_Loader @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
In my day we dreamt of having one rock.
If we were lucky dad would come home at the end of a week of triple shifts & hand us the dust left over from the tiny bit of gravel his boss would give him at the start of the week.@Soldusty And if you say that to Gen Alphas, they won't believe yer! @John_Loader @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
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@AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think you mean teletypes (i.e /dev/tty), but yes. I am not that old. I have never used punch card or tape either.
@trouble @AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049
I have both programmed with punchcards, and maintained supercomputers with tape. I may be an Elder.
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@kibcol1049 I remember dialup to connect to an ad free internet, worse than that I remember punch cards .
I had a friend in college who carried around punch cards until his appt at the lab to run them.
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I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.
@kibcol1049 Or commerce.
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@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
Not if it's in your sitting room, I suspect. All the windows and the crockery in the cupoards would rattle.
@TheLancashireman @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Not compared to the line-printer you needed to print the score out in EBCDIC character-graphics.
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@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 Canter & Siegel. I remember the Usenet backlash like it was yesterday.
@tantramar @NormanDunbar @kibcol1049
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@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol@bob @chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049 Google tried to kill XMCP bridges but I refuse to steal Stewart Lee's bridge work. Facebook was the Good Guy then.
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@tantramar @NormanDunbar @kibcol1049
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@trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Wasn't there a time when the internet was a line printer? Before my time, but I recall whispers from the founding folks.
@AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Tooting of the founding folks, I just discovered that Martin Richards recently wrote a paper about BCPL on the Raspberry Pi. He was Eben Upton's PhD supervisor.
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@trouble @AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049
I have both programmed with punchcards, and maintained supercomputers with tape. I may be an Elder.
️🥳. Why I remember when we telnet into each others bbs, and we liked it!@MissConstrue @trouble @AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049
I missed punchcards by about a year, d we got to use the snazzy new 80 column green screen monitors
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@AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Tooting of the founding folks, I just discovered that Martin Richards recently wrote a paper about BCPL on the Raspberry Pi. He was Eben Upton's PhD supervisor.
@woo @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I haven't seen Martin for many years. He gave me some advice once on porting BCPL to the then new-fangled 8080.
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@woo @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I haven't seen Martin for many years. He gave me some advice once on porting BCPL to the then new-fangled 8080.
@TimWardCam @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I didn't know him but my first job was at CCAT, so I knew several people who did and my best friend at Aston University wrote a comparative report on typeless BCPL vs strictly-typed Algol 68 as his final year project. I wish I'd had time to read it
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@TimWardCam @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I didn't know him but my first job was at CCAT, so I knew several people who did and my best friend at Aston University wrote a comparative report on typeless BCPL vs strictly-typed Algol 68 as his final year project. I wish I'd had time to read it
@woo @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 The type system in Algol 68C was, it seemed to me, so strict that when you eventually managed to get your code to compile it didn't have any bugs left in it!
