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[sudbuster]

Every time I see an insincere LOL I want to plant a claymore and perforate the poster. Did you really laugh out loud? Really?

I'm really unhappy by the insincerity of the internet these days. Either state your feelings or move on. LOL? Really? ROTFL?

BTW, cell dweebs, we nerds used these shortcuts on bulletin boards before cellphones were a wet dream. Before the WWW was a wet dream. Anyone remember dial-up 1200/4800/9600?

Hayes? Ha!

I remember VE day and VJ day. I remember Lowal Thomas News on radio (no TV then). Forget it, NOOB! (just kidding).....

 

[cracked1]

Zork!!

Zork was added as an easter egg in Black Ops. You actually sit at an old terminal and can play the whole text based game... "You are standing in front of a house..."

I started out on a TRS80. Doing simple programs to make the screen change colors while a little ball bounced around on the screen. Then we got a Commodore 64 and I started habituating BBS'. My buddy's handle was Mad for Mad Magazine so mine was Cracked. All these years later I guess not much has changed!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Every time I see an insincere LOL I want to plant a claymore and perforate the poster. Did you really laugh out loud? Really?

I'm really unhappy by the insincerity of the internet these days. Either state your feelings or move on. LOL? Really? ROTFL?

BTW, cell dweebs, we nerds used these shortcuts on bulletin boards before cellphones were a wet dream. Before the WWW was a wet dream. Anyone remember dial-up 1200/4800/9600?

Hayes? Ha!

this made me LOTIATITWFBSTWITRIDNAGOL. I'm glad it wasn't an LOL because I was drinking coffee at the time of reading, and I probably would have spit it out on my keyboard.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I'm pretty guilty of overusing LOL. Its really lost its meaning.

 

[Golddiggie]

Yeah, well, you're not an"old fart" 'til you can remember WW2....

That's way before my time, Methuselah. Hell, my parents were born in 1945 and 1946.

But, compared with some of the people on these boards, we are 'old timers'... Just because I can remember the days before cable TV. Or when a Sony Walkman first came out and everyone wanted one so bad. Or how one of the cars we owned had an 8 track in it.

Look at how far we've advanced in the past 40 years alone... Imagine what it will be like in another 30-40 years.

 

[passedpawn]

Every time I see an insincere LOL I want to plant a claymore and perforate the poster. Did you really laugh out loud? Really?

I'm really unhappy by the insincerity of the internet these days. Either state your feelings or move on. LOL? Really? ROTFL?

BTW, cell dweebs, we nerds used these shortcuts on bulletin boards before cellphones were a wet dream. Before the WWW was a wet dream. Anyone remember dial-up 1200/4800/9600?

Hayes? Ha!

I've been looking around this forum and removing some of the tard posts (like this one) that I made last night. Gawd, I need to invent a computer mouse with a breathalyzer that keeps me from posting when sloshed. Frigging rye IPA is too good.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I've been looking around this forum and removing some of the tard posts (like this one) that I made last night. Gawd, I need to invent a computer mouse with a breathalyzer that keeps me from posting when sloshed. Frigging rye IPA is too good.

psssh. drunk posts are good posts.

 

[Golddiggie]

I've been looking around this forum and removing some of the tard posts (like this one) that I made last night. Gawd, I need to invent a computer mouse with a breathalyzer that keeps me from posting when sloshed. Frigging rye IPA is too good.

If it's a mouse, it would need to use a blood analyzer since the chances of you breathing onto it, when F'd up, are rather remote. Maybe integrate something into a keyboard that locks it unless you prove you're not fershnickered.

 

[AnonyBrew]

Shouldn't this whole thread be in the drunk ramblings subforum?

 

[Golddiggie]

Shouldn't this whole thread be in the drunk ramblings subforum?

Nahhhh... Just because passedpawn was fershnickered when he started it doesn't automatically make it go there. Besides, it's more 'general chit chat' if you ask me...

Now, if BobbiLynn comes and posts, then there's more justification for it going into that section.

 

[passedpawn]

Shouldn't this whole thread be in the drunk ramblings subforum?

Yes. It's on its way, hopefully.

 

[bottlebomber]

I've been looking around this forum and removing some of the tard posts (like this one) that I made last night. Gawd, I need to invent a computer mouse with a breathalyzer that keeps me from posting when sloshed. Frigging rye IPA is too good.

LOL.. One can even earn himself a ban on a particularly splendid evening, or so I've heard.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Trust me, this sight is pretty lenient when it comes to tard posts. I should know.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

so, the game my wife & I play got a lot of traffic from WoW. in general chat some people would "lol" everything anyone said. most of them came over from WoW. I'd mock them by using "ehl. oh. ehl." along with what ever they were babbling about and typing in absurd "1337" & valley girl.

 

[Golddiggie]

Trust me, this sight is pretty lenient when it comes to tard posts. I should know.

Many of us are well aware of this, through many of the threads you've started.

Redneck Halloween decorations comes to mind... :fro:

 

[Greyhound]

Yeah, but our system used the 5-1/4" floppy floppies. Remember punching a hole on the edge so that you could make it double sided?

Wait, I thought that was to write-protect the disk - similar to flipping the little tab on the 3-1/2" disks.

 

[ChuckO]

Wait, I thought that was to write-protect the disk - similar to flipping the little tab on the 3-1/2" disks.

You young guys don't know anything. The hole in the disc is for double side, covering the notch in the edge write protects the disc. Same as for an 8" floppy.

I started on an IBM 1180 with 8k core and a Hollerith card reader. The last 5 columns were for the card number so that you could sort the deck after dropping it. Always incremented count by 10 so that you could add cards in between to correct errors. Acoustic couplers and 110 baud used to be high tech, along with 8 channel punch tape.

Glad those days are over, what's the next 50 years going to bring?

 

[Greyhound]

You young guys don't know anything. The hole in the disc is for double side, covering the notch in the edge write protects the disc. Same as for an 8" floppy.

Not a young guy - I have the opposite problem - I'm so old my memory is shot.

 

[Intheswamp]

My first PC (excluding the commodores,etc):
2400 baud modem
2 meg ram (that's MEG not GIG)
386DX20 (I went whole hog and skipped the SX!<grin>)
60meg RLL hard drive
hopped up 512k video card
15" VGA monitor
5.25 floppy AND a 3.5 disk
A keyboard a tank could run over and still keep working
All of this for a measly ~$2500.00.

I ran a small (really small) bbs for a few years. Downloaded usenet groups, RIME, and a couple of other message bases, along with a file feed via satellite. The uplink....via dial-up modem. It was fun, it was slow. All DOS based. A friend came along and setup *real* internet access a year or so later...told me if I wouldn't compete with her (come on, I couldn't compete with a T-1 or whatever) that she'd give me free internet for life...she had about 20 lines (dial-up). DEAL!!! Anyhow, that lasted for several years until the city gave an outside entity a big grant to become another ISP. Basically shut her down over night.

As for the texters using the little "acronyms"....ham radio guys working cw have used the *logical* ones for decades!

GB U ES URS,
Ed

 

[onthekeg]

Hey! I missed the party! My first computer was a Timex Sinclair. Tiny and pretty much worthless, after my trials and tribulations with that ended up with an Apple 2c. That was a move up, I took that to college. So you can see, I am fairly old. I doubt many know what that was. I will say, living in my trailer house off campus with my PC and a VCR, I was rocking the free world!

 

[TNGabe]

hehehe. I just recovered from a laughing fit.

Was that out loud? S(nort)OL.

 

[Intheswamp]

Hey! I missed the party! My first computer was a Timex Sinclair. Tiny and pretty much worthless, after my trials and tribulations with that ended up with an Apple 2c. That was a move up, I took that to college. So you can see, I am fairly old. I doubt many know what that was. I will say, living in my trailer house off campus with my PC and a VCR, I was rocking the free world!

But ya gotta admit the Sinclair had an incredible flight simulator....for what the computer was, and the time, and the...

 

[Golddiggie]

Hey! I missed the party! My first computer was a Timex Sinclair. Tiny and pretty much worthless, after my trials and tribulations with that ended up with an Apple 2c. That was a move up, I took that to college. So you can see, I am fairly old. I doubt many know what that was. I will say, living in my trailer house off campus with my PC and a VCR, I was rocking the free world!

'Fairly old'?? The 2c was old when I first saw it in high school.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

'Fairly old'?? The 2c was old when I first saw it in high school.

hell, my PC is old and I only got it in '06 or '07!

 

[passedpawn]

I learned to program on an Apple ][ in '77. It was truly a life-changing event.

 

[Golddiggie]

hell, my PC is old and I only got it in '06 or '07!

Bought my current tower in September 2007. But, I've upgraded some hardware in it over the years so it's much better now. It (a Dell Precision Workstation 490) arrived with a single 5160 Xeon processor. I upgraded it to dual chips really quickly. Also arrived with 4GB of RAM, which were replaced to give me 16GB. I've also since then changed the processors to a pair of e5345 Xeon's and upgraded the video card to a GeForce 8800GTX pretty early on. I took the drive(s) that came with it out and installed my own (three) 750GB drives for a while, Recently replaced those with a 256GB SSD for the OS and apps and am about to install a pair of 500GB hybrid drives for storage. Everything runs real nice, and fast, on it. Handles Photoshop CS6 without any issue at all. Pretty sure it shipped with XP originally. I briefly tried vista out, then went back to XP (Pro). Moved to Windows 7 when it became available and haven't looked back.

Point is, these days, having a system from 2007 isn't anything to snort at. Just because it's 5+ years old doesn't mean so much. Back then, though, that was pushing things.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

all I've done to mine (Dell XPS710) is a new video card & new power supply. it's still a beast, but nothing like my wife's Alienware.

 

[Golddiggie]

I had an XPS720 for a while. Installed a pair of video cards in SLI and needed to install an auxiliary power supply to feed them. That took up the space of 2 5-1/4" drive bays, and only fed the video cards. Was a screamer for certain, but after getting the xbox 360, I wasn't really using it. Sold it for a decent amount, while still under warranty.

 

[bottlebomber]

This is the geekiest thread going on HBT, currently

 

[Golddiggie]

This is the geekiest thread going on HBT, currently

I think that's a compliment... :cross:

Being in IT for 13 years now. Been into computers for much longer.

Updating my VM's now, so that I can shut them all down and apply a firmware update to my NAS. Planning on installing the newer version of vCenter Server onto a fresh VM this week. Once I have that online, I'll upgrade my host server and keep on truckin. :rockin: