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  1. Re:Am I the only one? on JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well, ol' man, back when I was your age, we didn't have monochrome monitors. We had punch cards, card readers and a line printer. Yessir.

    We had to send smoke signals in through a plastic funnel. Our printer was an old man carving output into a tree with a rock.

    We had Fortran, PL1, Assembler and JCL.

    We had Onetran, PL0, and French.

    Try 300 baud thru an acoustical coupler.

    Try making bleep noises down a piece of string through a tin can. 0.5 baud if the winds were favorable.

    The IBM 29 card punch weighed more than [100lbs]

    The Sears WonderBox 1900 was so heavy, it needed a special floor.