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....
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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· Score: 5, Funny
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.
One slow day in the news world...
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pVoid
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· Score: 3, Funny
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.
Never would have known...
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cabra771
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· Score: 5, Funny
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
Kids and Doors (True Story!)
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romper
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· Score: 5, Funny
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..
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
Slashdot Mirror
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 :(
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
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.
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