I don't think 21 really qualifies as "almost 25"...
damn kids today
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I don't think 21 really qualifies as "almost 25"...
my first computer was win 3.1 back in 1992. it cost like 2800 bucks. my dad got it as a family xmass present. that's all we got that year for everyone.
Celerity
Well-Known Member
I actually had a whole bunch of laughs with Aleaf about this. Yes, I grew up with a party line (Westerly RI at the beach) and I was used to not having 911 service until about 1990 (I lived i Pennsylvania, and while my house had an individual line, lots of areas had party lines between farm houses)
I remember going to Boston, and having 9 channels to choose from. One of them was on all night, until about 4:00 am. It played Night Flight, Elvira, Morton Downey Jr and sometimes shit like goosebumps. The rest played the national anthem at midnight and went to static or a test pattern.
Our TV tuner had UHF / VHF selections. Each button had it's own tuning knob to bring in the channel a bit better. My dad had a powered antenna motor on the roof. When we got cable it had 15 channels, and HBO for an extra $5 a month. The cable bill was $20 and my dad hit the roof about that.
We had a few phone choices: Kitchen phone (Wall hanging), Desk Phone, Slimline and Princess phones. Our first portable was from Crazy Eddies, and cost $300. It was made of Bakelite. My sister and I weren't alllowed to use it, because it was so expensive. The antenna was a 4 foot whip.
My GI Joe walkie talkies bled over it, and Channel 16 was the police channel on my toy.
When I was 16 my dad got his first cellular phone. It was 80 cents a minute, a full 5 watts of power and housed in a leatherette bag. I got to use it the first time I drove across state lines. Paid roaming, my dad was fuming.
I miss rotary phones. our number: || | ||| |||||| ||| |||| |||||||| |||| |||| | Screw it up, do it over.
I actually had "internet" when I was growing up. We used SeaDOG, which was a forum that was uploaded nightly between servers. We were a seadog server, "The Day After", a BBS based on a BASIC sentence parser. We ran 3 BBSs out of our house, and knew tons of people because of it. we had 10 or so modems, a few of them acoustic coupler modems. 300 to 1200 baud.
I remember going to Boston, and having 9 channels to choose from. One of them was on all night, until about 4:00 am. It played Night Flight, Elvira, Morton Downey Jr and sometimes shit like goosebumps. The rest played the national anthem at midnight and went to static or a test pattern.
Our TV tuner had UHF / VHF selections. Each button had it's own tuning knob to bring in the channel a bit better. My dad had a powered antenna motor on the roof. When we got cable it had 15 channels, and HBO for an extra $5 a month. The cable bill was $20 and my dad hit the roof about that.
We had a few phone choices: Kitchen phone (Wall hanging), Desk Phone, Slimline and Princess phones. Our first portable was from Crazy Eddies, and cost $300. It was made of Bakelite. My sister and I weren't alllowed to use it, because it was so expensive. The antenna was a 4 foot whip.
My GI Joe walkie talkies bled over it, and Channel 16 was the police channel on my toy.
When I was 16 my dad got his first cellular phone. It was 80 cents a minute, a full 5 watts of power and housed in a leatherette bag. I got to use it the first time I drove across state lines. Paid roaming, my dad was fuming.
I miss rotary phones. our number: || | ||| |||||| ||| |||| |||||||| |||| |||| | Screw it up, do it over.
I actually had "internet" when I was growing up. We used SeaDOG, which was a forum that was uploaded nightly between servers. We were a seadog server, "The Day After", a BBS based on a BASIC sentence parser. We ran 3 BBSs out of our house, and knew tons of people because of it. we had 10 or so modems, a few of them acoustic coupler modems. 300 to 1200 baud.
cressidakiller
Member
the future isn't all roses.
caller id has come at a grave cost. much harder to prank call. 'is john wall there? are there any walls there? how does your house stand up?'
since the inception of cells and pagers its harder to become conveniently 'unavailable' to certain people and your job. and maybe we'll all get cell tumors too. you can't find a phone booth to save your life.
automatic dialers only seek to annoy people during dinnertime.
now we have black boxes in some cars, incriminating some of us for our more 'spirited' driving. emissions standards get tighter. and yes, technology has improved to compensate but imagine the technology w/o the emissions crap. and yes, some of the tech is from the emissions crap. then theres the safety crap weighing down my ride.
so much of what you say and do can be recorded, much less privacy these days be it because of camera phones, text messages, camcorders, or internet stuff. and yes you should be careful about what can be recorded but it has become a widely-used medium for communication and stuff happens.
regarding video games, new rpgs suck and arcades are not the exciting places of new technology that they once were.
sadly sprites and old-school animation (go anime) are vanishing due to polygons and CG.
channel-surfing 200 channels is a pain i usually watch the same 10 channels w/o checking the others.
being p.c. and sensitive is no fun.
socialism is bigger now than in the 80s.
jiffy pop is some good shite, thats why they still sell it.
dam them? no, the poor bastads.
caller id has come at a grave cost. much harder to prank call. 'is john wall there? are there any walls there? how does your house stand up?'
since the inception of cells and pagers its harder to become conveniently 'unavailable' to certain people and your job. and maybe we'll all get cell tumors too. you can't find a phone booth to save your life.
automatic dialers only seek to annoy people during dinnertime.
now we have black boxes in some cars, incriminating some of us for our more 'spirited' driving. emissions standards get tighter. and yes, technology has improved to compensate but imagine the technology w/o the emissions crap. and yes, some of the tech is from the emissions crap. then theres the safety crap weighing down my ride.
so much of what you say and do can be recorded, much less privacy these days be it because of camera phones, text messages, camcorders, or internet stuff. and yes you should be careful about what can be recorded but it has become a widely-used medium for communication and stuff happens.
regarding video games, new rpgs suck and arcades are not the exciting places of new technology that they once were.
sadly sprites and old-school animation (go anime) are vanishing due to polygons and CG.
channel-surfing 200 channels is a pain i usually watch the same 10 channels w/o checking the others.
being p.c. and sensitive is no fun.
socialism is bigger now than in the 80s.
jiffy pop is some good shite, thats why they still sell it.
dam them? no, the poor bastads.
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Fucking word. Even when I was little they were everywhere. I only know like 5 numbers off the top of my head anyway, but when my cell dies those are the numbers I need anyway. Last time my cell died I had to call the ex to pick up some of my shit. Literally went to 4 different shopping centers (see centers, not 4 different stores) before I found one.
That is because they are actually pretty expensive to maintain. Now that the demand is down for the use of a pay phone most operators are getting rid of them as opposed to fixing the damage, wear and tear, and breakdowns.
Sabz5150
FALCON PUNCH!!!
Sounds like COCOTs are going to gather a bit of cash here soon.
cjvictoria
Active Member
I'm only 18, and will be 19 on the thirty-first, but I too remember always saying to myself I would never be the old guy who gives advice and tells people how hard it was..
but even now being 18, with the huge changes that have occurred, I'm already in that process of realizing that all those people were in fact right.
People like Cel, yes you, we need more of you!
I see kids that are a few years younger than me that think shit is so easy and tell em everything straight the fuck up. Even my younger siblings are starting to be in their teens and getting the Gen-ME habits, so now they have to hear it from me. lol
I blame this partly on the rapid development of technology, with many other factors of course.
Life is meant to be hard. survival of the fittest does still operate against stupidity and laziness, and shittily developed attitudes about life.
I'm still getting used to being an 'adult' so, yeh.. eventually and hopefully sooner than later i'll get there.
but even now being 18, with the huge changes that have occurred, I'm already in that process of realizing that all those people were in fact right.
People like Cel, yes you, we need more of you!
I see kids that are a few years younger than me that think shit is so easy and tell em everything straight the fuck up. Even my younger siblings are starting to be in their teens and getting the Gen-ME habits, so now they have to hear it from me. lol
I blame this partly on the rapid development of technology, with many other factors of course.
Life is meant to be hard. survival of the fittest does still operate against stupidity and laziness, and shittily developed attitudes about life.
I'm still getting used to being an 'adult' so, yeh.. eventually and hopefully sooner than later i'll get there.
cressidakiller
Member
yeah man the only numbers still in my head are ones from when i was little.
When I was little ALL the appliances, TVs, walls in my house were fake wood paneled.Nice. I have my parents old microwave here in my apt. It has come sentimental value since they bought it when i was born. So now i have a 22 year old microwave, also it has the fake wood panels.
I have the ones from when I was little, mom's cell, ex's cell, sister's cell, and well that may be it.