Why, in my day, when it was a blizzard we didn't have no fancy BBS. We had to walk 15 miles (uphill bothways, of course) to the nearest house to trade our warez. All we could afford was one piece of paper though, and we had to write the zeros and ones on it. Bah, kids. Zzzzzzz....
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, faeryman
Re:why in my day...
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antiprime
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ob You had zeros? We had to use the letter 'o'.
Re:why in my day...
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Jason1729
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We were so l337 that we used *both* sides out our piece of paper.
yeah but 'o' is smaller then '0' so you had more compact code.
anyone ever think printing out something like windows or FreeBSD in 1's and 0's on 3 foot wide paper and making wallpaper of it would be neat.
Re:why in my day...
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Troll_Kamikaze
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All we could afford was one piece of paper though, and we had to write the zeros and ones on it. Bah, kids. Zzzzzzz....
Sheit, kid. When I was growin up we didn't have no paper... had to smear the ones and zeroes on birch bark with the bloody stumps of our fingers.
Re:why in my day...
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Anonymous Coward
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I remember hearing that the single-sided paper wasn't safe to use on both sides, even if you punched a hole. It must have been true...why would the paper manufacturers lie?
Re:why in my day...
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Jason1729
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We had to punch one hole in it to double-side it.
Re:why in my day...
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Anonymous Coward
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Yeah, whatever. I remember hearing that about condoms too. Both the hole-punching and the turning inside-out to use both sides. Someone's always trying to double their sales!
Two stories from three decades ago...I guess Linux can only have so many kernel updates to report about...
-- I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Ahh Those were the days
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Saoi
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single character commands, harsh bootings, sounds like my kinda system, pity I wasn't born yet:(
Re:Ahh Those were the days
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antiprime
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Get drunk to simulate the slow response time, then try to navigate through your favorite modern windowing shell without using a mouse, tie the power cord to your ankle to simulate random rebooting that you somehow blame yourself for: exactly the same effect. For advanced nostalgia, futz with your monitor and display settings so everything's a shade of green and black.
Re:Ahh Those were the days
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BinBoy
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If you wanted a color monitor, you could buy one of those plastic covers that made the white text look amber.
One slow day in the news world...
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pVoid
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Man, this article reminds me of the simpson's episode where bart picks up a magazine of "Find Waldo", and all you see in the picture is this big empty room with waldo in the middle, to which bart says "man he's just not trying anymore"...
The article is a dupe, and it's not even a karma whore, it's a single line, with a single link.
I'm not really complaining though, so don't think I'm a troll or something. It's just good to have a sense of humour about ourselves every once in a while.
Re:One slow day in the news world...
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Big+Mark
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Yesterday we saw a multiple dupe
Three identical stories == tripe?
-Mark
Never would have known...
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cabra771
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that those damn people at Blizzard not only killed all my social skills by releasing Diablo and Diablo II, but now I learn that they got me hooked even earlier! Damn all those BBS's I used to visit!!!
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-my other sig is your mom
Re:Flashbacks????
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Anonymous Coward
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That was the 9600bps version. This is the 300baud line. Not everyone's parents can buy them the latest, fastest modem ya know!
Re:5 million solders? I dont think so.
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teamhasnoi
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Sorry, that was a typo. It was supposed to be, "Suess took care of five million soldiers, joints, and the odd unforeseen problem."
I'm guessing that Suess was a huge pothead, and traded dope to the soldiers in exchange for the hardware. The "odd unforseen problem" was when he ran out.
It's all right here in this web site. Just don't/. it. Five million soldiers don't take kindly to DoS.
Re:Makes me wonder...
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Anonymous Coward
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"This time"? Are you suggesting BBSes didn't have anything to do with porn?
Kids and Doors (True Story!)
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romper
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In the late 80's my parents took away the monitor to "ground" me from playing Tradewars 2002 on the local BBS.
Of course I could blindly launch telemate from DOS and knew how to turn on the printer log and start the dial-up.
The printer didn't even have ink! We had to read the carbon copy.
Oh man, I remember how great those days were. Sitting for hours on end chatting away, playing door games, downloading shareware, adn:)(&(& )_& (*
*&_(P&*
(*()*+ *A+S)(*D+)( *
I(_A)SD*_)Id +++ NO CARRIER
-- Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
Re:It was GREAT!
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Anonymous Coward
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True story.. I once got banned from my favorite BBS for swearing in the chat room. the word ass appeared TWICE in a fit of line noise..
how appropriate
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Anonymous Coward
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I've been trying to download the Diablo 2 expansion pack because the weather's been so terrible.;)
Not the only thing...
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liquidsin
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...conceived during that blizzard. I was born in November '78, roughly nine months after the blizzard. From what I know, the snow was so deep you couldn't leave the house for days (weeks?) on end. Thank you blizzard, for leaving my parents with nothing much else to do but have sex.
-- do not read this line twice.
Re:Not the only thing...
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dacarr
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A blizzard? You were lucky! Here in southern California, in 1978, we had to make do with a really nasty rain storm and flooding in Yorba Linda.
-- This sig no verb.
Re:5 million solders? I dont think so.
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Mike1024
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Hey,
Suess took care of five million solder joints and the odd unforeseen problem... 4.13 solders per second.
Aint no way in hell he did that by hand.
He did not do it all by hand, he did not do it with Ayn Rand, he did not do it for a band, he did not do it to command.
He could have used a solder bath, that could have worked with your math, or may have used another path, for the figures which cause your wrath.
Michael
-- "Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion
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Why, in my day, when it was a blizzard we didn't have no fancy BBS. We had to walk 15 miles (uphill bothways, of course) to the nearest house to trade our warez. All we could afford was one piece of paper though, and we had to write the zeros and ones on it. Bah, kids. Zzzzzzz....
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faeryman
I wonder if the internet would even exist if those guys had had girlfriends during that week snowed in.
--Pat
First BBS's, and then Warcraft!!! What next?? Some sort of fancy persistant universe?? CRAZY!!
Two stories from three decades ago...I guess Linux can only have so many kernel updates to report about...
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
single character commands, harsh bootings, sounds like my kinda system, pity I wasn't born yet :(
--bare babes
Very popular slashdot journal for adul
The article is a dupe, and it's not even a karma whore, it's a single line, with a single link.
I'm not really complaining though, so don't think I'm a troll or something. It's just good to have a sense of humour about ourselves every once in a while.
that those damn people at Blizzard not only killed all my social skills by releasing Diablo and Diablo II, but now I learn that they got me hooked even earlier! Damn all those BBS's I used to visit!!!
-my other sig is your mom
That was the 9600bps version. This is the 300baud line. Not everyone's parents can buy them the latest, fastest modem ya know!
I'm guessing that Suess was a huge pothead, and traded dope to the soldiers in exchange for the hardware. The "odd unforseen problem" was when he ran out.
It's all right here in this web site. Just don't /. it. Five million soldiers don't take kindly to DoS.
"This time"? Are you suggesting BBSes didn't have anything to do with porn?
In the late 80's my parents took away the monitor to "ground" me from playing Tradewars 2002 on the local BBS.
Of course I could blindly launch telemate from DOS and knew how to turn on the printer log and start the dial-up.
The printer didn't even have ink! We had to read the carbon copy.
You kids now with your fancy monitors and colors.
Right is wrong when left is right.
Oh man, I remember how great those days were. Sitting for hours on end chatting away, playing door games, downloading shareware, adn :)(&(& )_& (*
*&_(P&*
(*()*+ *A+S)(*D+)( *
I(_A)SD*_)Id
+++
NO CARRIER
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
I've been trying to download the Diablo 2 expansion pack because the weather's been so terrible. ;)
...conceived during that blizzard. I was born in November '78, roughly nine months after the blizzard. From what I know, the snow was so deep you couldn't leave the house for days (weeks?) on end. Thank you blizzard, for leaving my parents with nothing much else to do but have sex.
do not read this line twice.
Hey,
Suess took care of five million solder joints and the odd unforeseen problem... 4.13 solders per second.
Aint no way in hell he did that by hand.
He did not do it all by hand,
he did not do it with Ayn Rand,
he did not do it for a band,
he did not do it to command.
He could have used a solder bath,
that could have worked with your math,
or may have used another path,
for the figures which cause your wrath.
Michael
"Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion
And by doing everything over a telnet session you get the nostalgic feeling of using a 9600 baud modem while on your broadband connection :)