I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.
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@kibcol1049 @TheMNWolf Yep for example I used an Archimedes to browse the Internet in the early days and midi files weren't a thing on that platform, but we did have lots of repositories of tracker music.
@andrew @kibcol1049 @TheMNWolf I miss Acorn machines. Lovely computers.
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@andrew @kibcol1049 @TheMNWolf I miss Acorn machines. Lovely computers.
@FreakyFwoof @kibcol1049 @TheMNWolf Yeah shame they didn't have a proper screen reader for the Archimedes. It didn't really work without a mouse to be honest.
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@kibcol1049 I’m so old I remember when they added iframes to HTML. I remember thinking the web was really starting to go downhill. Those were such innocent times.
@UpLateGeek @kibcol1049 I'm old enough to remember life without being connected all the fucking time.
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@kibcol1049 I remember dialup to connect to an ad free internet, worse than that I remember punch cards .
@harrymuzz At my first job, the computer room temperature was controlled with double door air lock to enter. The computer was huge with punch card operators typing and huge floor to ceiling reel to reel tapes. The print outs were on large sheets of paper and took several runs for all the errors to be corrected. With programmers, inputters and clerks, there were about 8 staff. Nowadays a kid of 8 or 9 could do it all and more on a smartphone and 30 times quicker! Hard to believe but true.
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@harrymuzz At my first job, the computer room temperature was controlled with double door air lock to enter. The computer was huge with punch card operators typing and huge floor to ceiling reel to reel tapes. The print outs were on large sheets of paper and took several runs for all the errors to be corrected. With programmers, inputters and clerks, there were about 8 staff. Nowadays a kid of 8 or 9 could do it all and more on a smartphone and 30 times quicker! Hard to believe but true.
Use a rubber band around a small deck.
If the deck was more than an inch thick, draw a diagonal line on one edge face so if they got scrambled you could reassemble without sobbing.
Too big for a rubber band?
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@kibcol1049 I'm so old I remember when the internet was in black and white and they played an mp3 of the national anthem before it shut down every night.
@geospacedman @kibcol1049 I'm so old, I remember when the Internet was black and green...
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@kibcol1049 I'm so old, I can remember when there was no internet!
The first internet advert was, if I remember correctly, a US lawyers firm. They got serious stick about it. And here we are, running PiHole and uBlock Origin to keep the ads away.
@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 The cultist was before the lawyers, if I recall.
One of those two lawyers is dead now. That is a pity.
(That it's only one of them, I mean.)
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@johnnyvibrant @kibcol1049 Those were the days!
I remember ICQ and eLists, for the latter, I ran a local furry list
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@kibcol1049 I remember dialup to connect to an ad free internet, worse than that I remember punch cards .
@harrymuzz @kibcol1049 80 or 96-column?
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I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.
@kibcol1049 And then Juno came along to prove how much of a bastard free services can be.
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@geospacedman @kibcol1049 MP3? Youngin'!
We just had to settle for the MIDI version, none of this waveform stuff.
@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.
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@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.
@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Luxury. We had to make our own rocks with sand collection our bare feet and spit.
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@kibcol1049 I'm so old, I can remember when there was no internet!
The first internet advert was, if I remember correctly, a US lawyers firm. They got serious stick about it. And here we are, running PiHole and uBlock Origin to keep the ads away.
@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 Canter & Siegel. I remember the Usenet backlash like it was yesterday.
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I remember ICQ and eLists, for the latter, I ran a local furry list
@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
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Use a rubber band around a small deck.
If the deck was more than an inch thick, draw a diagonal line on one edge face so if they got scrambled you could reassemble without sobbing.
Too big for a rubber band?
There were purpose-made boxes.@nlarson830 @kibcol1049 @harrymuzz
I signed up for a community college sort of computer programming class, 'cuz I was certain computers would be a huge part of my career (correct).Looked at the shopping list for the syllabus of the COBOL class, & saw I needed to buy a box of punch cards.
Immediately dropped the class. I would've been cool with learning COBOL, but if they were still doing punchcards when I already had an XT with dual floppy drives, they were too backward.
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@harrymuzz At my first job, the computer room temperature was controlled with double door air lock to enter. The computer was huge with punch card operators typing and huge floor to ceiling reel to reel tapes. The print outs were on large sheets of paper and took several runs for all the errors to be corrected. With programmers, inputters and clerks, there were about 8 staff. Nowadays a kid of 8 or 9 could do it all and more on a smartphone and 30 times quicker! Hard to believe but true.
Under the floor is where I lurked until needed to wield the magic screwdriver.
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@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Luxury. We had to make our own rocks with sand collection our bare feet and spit.
@NunavutBirder @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
you had sand?
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@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.
@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 we were poor. We had only one rock to bang together
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@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lolI loved ICQ!! Anyone ever use "The Palace"? That was a fun place to go. It used avatars of your choosing/making and took place in various "palaces" built by the users. Then the 12-year-old boys took over and it became a swamp of sexual harrassment.
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@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol@bob @chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
Yeah, for a while at work I'd convinced all the CC folk to use Meebo, because it incorporated AIM, but with better controls of persistent rooms.
