Times have changed.

[NoShangriLa]

Remember when 1/4 acre water front property was going for $9-15K, gum was 3 cents a stick, soda was 5 cent a bottle, comic books also was 5 cents, bus fare was 10 cents.

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Cameron
Remember this?

:thumbsup:

I don't think I ever did get them to Oregon

 

[chuckywang]

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: Cameron
Remember this?

I remember that in just green on black.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

-upgrading to an EGA video card & monitor -- pr0n was never the same
-playing Legend of the Red Dragon on BBSs.
-and reading the text as it was downloaded on a 2400 baud modem on said BBS.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Remember when Earth was 1 to 2 degrees cooler?

 

[foghorn67]

Remember the Creative Sound Blaster and MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum wars?

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
I remember the first color TV in our neighborhood, everybody gathered around and guaked. My dad says "that'll never catch on, too damned expensive". And only certain shows on a couple of channels were broadcast in color.

The first thing I remember was the NBC peacock followed by "The wonderful world of Disney" I was messmerized.

For me, the show I remember most, was the first time I saw "The Flintstones" in color. Must have been about 1961 or 62...

 

[IGBT]

..is tractor feed paper still used?

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Back when having a computer meant having an IBM. When we bought our first family computer, it was an IBM PS1 tower. Having a tower instead of a desktop seemed like it was something more, but really not. Didn't come with a CDROM or sound card or printer. Dot matrix tractor feed was what we got for $300. Bubblejet printers were just starting to come out but expensive. A "multimedia kit" cdrom/soundcard went for upwards of $500. We were amazed and constantly ran video clips of a basketball sports clip on the included bundle cdrom with Microsoft Encyclopedia in it. Wow. Just wow. And Myst, didn't know how to play the game, but the graphics were amazing.

In school, Word Munchers and Number Munchers were the rage among english and math geeks. Macintosh was the only machines at school. Going to the playground to play with marbles and going around competing with other kids for their jumbo pearl marbles was also well and alive. Trading hockey cards, collecting sticker books and stickers (think TMNT, My Little Pony, Transformers, etc) was also a thing kids do.

And don't forget, tires with white walls mounted on big bloated heavy RWD family sedans.

 

[intogamer]

Oh yeah man Glareshields I had one when I was 7

 

[Mo0o]

I remember number munchers on an Apple II.

 

[Vegitto]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Remember when kids used these to kill time? Now they're too busy pirating music and loading their iPods

Those things are AWESOME!

 

[Kadarin]

Hell, I remember our first video game: Pong.

 

[cipher00]

Remember when computers were run by skinny guys behind glass doors? I do.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: PeeluckyDuckee
A "multimedia kit" cdrom/soundcard went for upwards of $500.

And, MAN, was that CD-ROM drive ever a hassle to get up and running under DOS and Windows 3.1 the first time you had to do it. We had a 1x drive.

 

[erub]

I remember when Internet met

Trumpet Winsock

man the thing made the coolest noises..but damn it when someone picked up the phone!

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I remember when I upgraded the ram on my 386-16mhz from 4x256k to 8x1mb for $450 :shocked: 8mb WOW!!!! still have all 12 of those sticks for posterity, and people bitch about spending >$200 for 2gb

 

[LS20]

i had to use memmaker.exe and boot into safe mode or hwatever it was to free memory to run goddamn Doom 1

also running scandisk chkdsk defrag format and fdisk every other month because harddrives were so unreliable

messing around the qbasic code for snakes and the gorilla-banana game and see how they modified the game

starting a game and picking between CGA EGA and VGA modes

carrying around fat stacks of diskettes because thats how we shared games. RAPTOR! Heroes of Might and Magic!

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
Remember when you wanted to play a game on the computer, you had to program it in yourself?

YES. i had 2 books filled with codes. lol. what a pain in the ass. it's like going to a restaurant and having to cook your own food (hotpot)

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Remember when Earth was 1 to 2 degrees cooler?

Remember when scientists were discussing that the earth was headed towards another Ice Age?

 

[Ruptga]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
Remember when you wanted to play a game on the computer, you had to program it in yourself?

I'm not that old, but I do remember back in the day when a friend and I discovered Scorched Earth v1.2 Oh I remember the hours spent napalming each other and trying to use Death's Head without whacking myself in the process. Good times, maybe I can get some people here at college to pick it up with me.

 

[alien42]

i remember this being hi-tech

 

[RU482]

this thread reminds me of something a fat woman would e-mail to all her friends

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..is tractor feed paper still used?

yep

my dad still uses it at work on a couple of printers. his office pc is decent enough, an older athlon xp 1800+ system

but the computers he uses for actual work are old dogs. i think theyre all amd 266mhz systems using 10base2 cards with coax/bnc connectors.

and running dos.

but he wont change. itd be pricey, and time-consuming, and the old stuff works fine. hes had to replace a couple of the printers, and one of the crts, but thats it.