I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.
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@UpLateGeek @kibcol1049 I'm old enough to remember life without being connected all the fucking time.
@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.
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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
