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Sailor Steve · 02-17-11, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by the_tyrant

I don't know who here is old enough to remember this
but remember the old days where unix mailing lists were like
misc.consumers.house

If we went back to that, its like this:
subsim.games.forums

it works

Old enough???

Do you remember when there were no home computers at all? How about no color television? DVDs? CDs? Stereo recordings? Jet airliners?

Sorry, but it makes me silly when someone asks about people "old enough" on a board where the average member is twice his age.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...hlight=average

the_tyrant · 02-17-11, 06:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Old enough???

Do you remember when there were no home computers at all? How about no color television? DVDs? CDs? Stereo recordings? Jet airliners?

Sorry, but it makes me silly when someone asks about people "old enough" on a board where the average member is twice his age.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...hlight=average

Sorry if I offended you

I never got to play with the Unix newsgroups back when they were popular
I meant to ask if anybody here actually used them back then

Sailor Steve · 02-17-11, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

Sorry if I offended you

Not offended at all. In fact I was reminded of the time my then six-year-old daughter, referring to her three-year-old sister, asked me "Do you know what that little one did today?"

Quote:

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

You forgot "and get off my lawn."

I've waited patiently my whole life to reach curmudgeon status. Now I intend to make the most of it!

AVGWarhawk · 02-17-11, 03:49 PM

Typewriter...how quaint.. My daughter one day was explaining to me a machine she saw at school. She said it went tap, tap, tap and the piece moved from one side to the other until a bell rang. Then you pushed it back. I never laughed so hard in my life. I said it is a typewriter sweety.

I had a smith corona typewriter in college. It was electric. I was living large!

August · 02-17-11, 04:16 PM

I'm so old I used to operate teletype machines!

Buddahaid · 02-17-11, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Not offended at all. In fact I was reminded of the time my then six-year-old daughter, referring to her three-year-old sister, asked me "Do you know what that little one did today?"

I've waited patiently my whole life to reach curmudgeon status. Now I intend to make the most of it!

He's just a cranky old man.

frau kaleun · 02-17-11, 09:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Old enough???

Do you remember when there were no home computers at all? How about no color television? DVDs? CDs? Stereo recordings? Jet airliners?

Sorry, but it makes me silly when someone asks about people "old enough" on a board where the average member is twice his age.

You forgot "and get off my lawn."

02-17-11, 03:49 PM	#4
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,282 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Typewriter...how quaint.. My daughter one day was explaining to me a machine she saw at school. She said it went tap, tap, tap and the piece moved from one side to the other until a bell rang. Then you pushed it back. I never laughed so hard in my life. I said it is a typewriter sweety. I had a smith corona typewriter in college. It was electric. I was living large! __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

02-17-11, 04:16 PM	#5
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,220 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'm so old I used to operate teletype machines! __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.