Whoa...

[Orsorum]

Does anyone realize that our generation (current college-age) will probably be the last generation with corded phones (or rotary phones, in my case); the last generation to remember DOS, or Windows 3.11 or the original Warcraft.

We'll know what it was like to watch Clinton in office, or to see the Gulf War; we remember what life was like without mp3's and the DMCA...

That's all I can think of.

What other generation-specific technologies, items or events are being phased out or forgotten that you can think of?

 

[FrustratedUser]

Woah!

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Woah!

I was amazed.

 

[sniperbob]

sounds like somebody's got a birthday coming up....old geezer

and we probably be the last generation to know what it's like to sit at night downloading porn pictures on a 2400 baud modem.

 

[iwearnosox]

I always dialed out on a rotary phone, got one tv station and went nutty when I got my VIC 20.

So it's all relative.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: sniperbob
sounds like somebody's got a birthday coming up....old geezer

and we probably be the last generation to know what it's like to sit at night downloading porn pictures on a 2400 baud modem.

ah yes.... the good old days. took like 10 minutes for a freaking tit.

 

[iwearnosox]

Wha?

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: sniperbob
sounds like somebody's got a birthday coming up....old geezer

and we probably be the last generation to know what it's like to sit at night downloading porn pictures on a 2400 baud modem.

ah yes.... the good old days. took like 10 minutes for a freaking tit.

I remember that! I remember getting my first handmedown 486 when I was 14... the first porn I downloaded was some nude picture of some cartoon character...

Everything was so new and arousing then.


Oh, yes, I also remember Lord of the Rings II, and how awesome it was when we first got it... or what an improvement Windows 98 was over 95.

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: sniperbob
sounds like somebody's got a birthday coming up....old geezer

and we probably be the last generation to know what it's like to sit at night downloading porn pictures on a 2400 baud modem.

ah yes.... the good old days. took like 10 minutes for a freaking tit.

LOL

I remember C64 pron 300 baud modems, Stroker 64, pong

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Aquaman]

Also tape drives, 5 & 8 inch floppies Punch cards for computer science

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[iwearnosox]

2400 baud?

Try 300 baud. Yes, with the whole handset coupling thing. I was the schiz back then for even having one.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
Also tape drives, 5 & 8 inch floppies Punch cards for computer science

Cheers,
Aquaman

I was there, too.

 

[flood]

We'll have to explain to our kids how we had to use BBS'es 'back in the day'... and how you couldnt use the internet and the phone at the same time! we lived like cavemen.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Aquaman

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: sniperbob
sounds like somebody's got a birthday coming up....old geezer

and we probably be the last generation to know what it's like to sit at night downloading porn pictures on a 2400 baud modem.

ah yes.... the good old days. took like 10 minutes for a freaking tit.

LOL

I remember C64 pron 300 baud modems, Stroker 64, pong

Cheers,
Aquaman

Ah, there's my classmate!

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: flood
We'll have to explain to our kids how we had to use BBS'es 'back in the day'... and how you couldnt use the internet and the phone at the same time! we lived like cavemen.

Dialup! :Q

 

[bolido2000]

Originally posted by: flood
We'll have to explain to our kids how we had to use BBS'es 'back in the day'... and how you couldnt use the internet and the phone at the same time! we lived like cavemen.

hahah true. It always pissed me off when someone tried to call and my connection would drop.

 

[Nohr]

BBSs, CGA & EGA computer games.

 

[Aquaman]

Amber & Green Monitors

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Nohr
BBSs, CGA & EGA computer games.

and goddamn if somebody had VGA or *gasp* SVGA, they were the pimp sh!t. and quadruple speed cd-roms! :Q

 

[iwearnosox]

You were so the mack daddy if you had a multiple line bbs. That would have sooo got you laid if there were any chicks dialing in.

 

[flood]

ah yes, the days of the voodoo1.
i was the f'ing man at LANs... glquake and all.

 

[iwearnosox]

Voodoo1?

Put your diapers back on, lad!

 

[gopunk]

do you guys remember nibbles and gorilla? those were my favs

 

[Aquaman]

Does anyone remember Kangaroo & North Star Shoes? The Kangaroo were the first ones with the velcro & a zipper pocket on the shoe and the North Stars were the suede runners where when you had the blue one and walked in the rain your socks turned blue.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[flood]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Voodoo1?

Put your diapers back on, lad!

That was later... i remember s3 being the first '3d' card.
wolfenstein 3d... i remember using the mouse and having to pick and reset it up because i used it for movement
EDIT: almost forgot programming in QBasic!