Do you sometimes missed the old school geek factor?
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Do you sometimes missed the old school geek factor?
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I love technology because things are faster today than yesteryear. The same goes for computers, servers, laptops, tablets, smartphones and the Internet.
But deep down in me I sometimes missed old technologies and how things were done. For example, I missed the sound of a modem connecting to a server or ISP.
Also missed using modem commands like AT and sz and rz to transfer files and telnet to hop from computer to computer.
I also missed bulletin boards and other old school hacks. Do you have any favorite old technologies?
I still have a playstation 1 with 40 cds when I need blow some time on Gaming. On my computer. Dosbox is the only Game in town.
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When Linux was not a fad
Grinning as I read this. Reminds me of when Harleys leaked and Bikers were not judges, doctors,lawyers, or yuppies.
There is something to be said for being non mainstream. I had more fun at runs then.
Yeah, sometimes I get nostalgic for the good ole days. I punched out my earliest programs on the 029 keypunch for an IBM 370 system, and on the ASR-33 paper tape punch teletype for a DEC PDP-11. That was some cool machinery. My first experience with a microcomputer was the 6502-based KIM-1.
My monochrome PDA with palm OS and the many cool programs I installed. And my old collections of video game consoles i.e atari 2600/5200, coleco, sega master system, genesis and Nintendo 16bit and neo-geo
How many here can use a slide rule . Pilots , you use rotary ones all the time . However "there is an app for that"
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Ah, the old days, when persons who used computers had to know what they were doin
that would be nice to be brought back
a UN resolution
to buy a computing device one MUST complete ( or test out ) of a 1 year course in basic skills
guns REQUIRE a license
hunting REQUIRE a license
Driving REQUIRE a license
practicing law REQUIRE a license
practicing medicine REQUIRE a license
and so on ..........
Rotary telephones.
Nutshell, a very early consumer "database." It fed my teenage OCD really well.
My first gaming system was Pong. OMG I am a dinosaur.
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