Comments | marta: Age as measured in technology

marta

Age as measured in technology

Feb 10, 2009 15:16

The first computers I ever used more than once or twice were the Apple IIes - the first ever 'computer lab' at our school. We got them in 4th grade, and there were something like 9 or 12 for the whole school.

More, even, than The Oregon Trail, I remember a program that we used to be rewarded with use of when we did really well (maybe in the ( Read more... )

'puter stuff, but not that old, vhs, old, no mention of laserdisc, contractor w/adorable australian accent, betamax, windows 3.1, audio cassettes, y2k, lps, apple iie, windows 95

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elyssa February 10 2009, 22:08:43 UTC

I learned the written alphabet on a computer when I was about a year old. I had a muppet keypad (I can't find one online and I don't know what system was running it), and I played with it for hours.

I vaguely remember when VHS won the technology war, and when CDs came into style.

We had an Apple IIe, and a series of Macintosh computers. My first Internet connection was Prodigy, and my first experience with AOL or Windows (at the same time) was on my best friend's computer when we thought it was the funniest thing in the world to go into chatrooms and troll our hearts out.

I used to draw with Logo, make treasure hunts with Hypercard, and spend hours making pictures on KidPix.

When I was in high school, my friend Domo was the coolest person I knew because he got cable Internet and he would let me camp out at his house every single Saturday so I could use Napster and we could play Half Life and Counter Strike.

...Yeah ;)

opal1159 February 11 2009, 15:18:43 UTC

There was the blue dude that took pictures and gave you math problems and the other dude that had to build a car/plane/something to race against some other dude!

My dad's work computer or his friend's computer had a coloring book program where you could use the arrow keys to select a color and outlined area to fill in. If you had a mouse, you could point and click more quickly and with more precision!

(Also, "What?! We have to lose our dialup internet for a couple days while Charter comes to install cable?!!?!?!!?)

funtik_55 April 24 2009, 10:53:38 UTC

My age 54 years and I have found an epoch: when about notorious CDs only wrote in magazines and newspapers. More shortly, it is very pleasant that today such general компьтеризация and a telephony. In due time I collected music on vinyl records, now in it the need has disappeared, all wished in music is on the Internet, moreover and with the detailed information. For which we, inhabitants of the USSR of that time at times have been compelled to overpay to speculators what to find the required information. Be it the book or a plate.

Computers the history of by Charles & Ray Eames compuman2153 July 31 2009, 02:36:30 UTC

The Computer has been in existance since 1890 from the first census one the measure of man Predential logic machine Pastore Logic on Wheels Mental Circulation Le'on Boli'ee The Millionaire to the Comptometer and the Burroughs Calculation by measurement, probably even before all of these fantastic break throughs. I buit my first circuit board at four years old, my first full working by Frankenstiened parts from dumpster diving by the age of nine, the Commodore was an antique in comparrison I hacked my first Hack and got into the garbage file of the CIA at 15 years of age. I can make a computer break dance!!!! Logged in user: compuman2153

Re: Computers the history of by Charles & Ray Eames compuman2153 August 7 2009, 08:36:24 UTC

E-Mail is so passe' its an antique, its bulky cumbersome,and hackable, so are most sites Twitter was brought to its knees by a DOS attack one of the oldest hacks in the book, the Orange book, the Purple book,and the big ungly Blue book on Unix systems, IBM, and now the Hackers favorite Apple, used to be Microsoft, but now even Apple is a target,Open source, etc. Do you ooVoo? go to ooVoo.com and download the free software and video mail me at robinsonssimplythebestllc2053 or 2153 and leave me a video E-Mail it can recieve and send huge files multiple screens for video conferencing viewing more people ,more conversations than one party at a time. I hardly use E-Mail because with all of the BS going on on-line I like to know/see and hear who I'm really suppose to be talking to with E-Mail you could be takling to a one eyed one horn flying purple people eater hell you never know who's or what you are talking to at the other end of a message, but I do because I can seen them and they can see me no mistaken identities, no ugly women ( ... )