Random Picture Thread

[nutty_gnome]

Cocaine ads in the 1980s

That was fascinating, thanks for posting that.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Truth.

 

[nmfree]

 

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[gratus fermentatio]

Once upon a time...

 

[mongoose33]

Once upon a time...

Holy cow! That brings back some memories.

My first PC was a Zenith, IBM-compatible, 320k of RAM (!) expandable to 704k because Zenith didn't have anything in the first 64k of memory above 640k. I installed the extra memory myself using chips, and in that day you had to be hyper-sensitive to static ruining the chips.

I have a picture someplace of me installing that RAM--I used a 10-foot piece of aluminum foil stretched from my desk to the floor, where I put my bare foot on it to ground me to the foil. Then I had the motherboard and RAM on that foil as well.

Sometime after that I bought my first hard drive, a whopping 21 mb Seagate. Cost $420, or $20/mb.

Today, my cellphone has well north of 1 gb of memory, and storage in the gigabytes.

Man, we've come a long way.

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In high school we had a "desktop" computer with 512 bytes of memory. BYTES. Not GB, not MB, not KB. Then we had an upgraded version with 2K of RAM. We could program that computer to print out the time every 10 seconds on a paper tape. For the time, that was impressive.

Now, it just looks pathetic.

 

[nmfree]

 

[day_trippr]

1/4 liter ain't much, but that "indefinite" thing...

Cheers!

 

[nmfree]

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Never skimp on a corkscrew.

 

[nmfree]

 

[harleybug88]

Black lipstick?

 

[nmfree]

Black lipstick?

If I had a dog that looked like you, etc.

 

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[nmfree]

 

[milldoggy]

That's disturbing

 

[Jwin]

Hmmmm...
The Nickers, or the Sickers...?
Decisions decisions.

 

[Inkleg]

That's disturbing

Especially if you're Elmer Fudd.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[nmfree]

Linked because of naughty words.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Heh...

 

[Rockn_M]

Heh...

Ok....

 

[beerlover77]

Wouldn't wanna mess with this!

 

[nmfree]

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Maybe I should date a gamer girl...

 

[Brewenstein]

Looks like she has a girlfriend.

 

[Inkleg]

Looks like she has a girlfriend.

I'm ok with that.

 

[Jwin]

75g Spartanburg cornies
Had to share.

 

[nmfree]

 

[jerbrew]

View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1474435100.280371.jpg

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Um...

 

[smurfjuice]

Nice rack ...

 

[Murphys_Law]

Um...

That dude used to show up at all the big cycling races and run along side the riders!

 

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[WI_Wino]

View attachment 370786

I don't get it?

 

[TAK]

I don't get it?

Random picture?
Doesn't necessarily need to be a meme or funny to be in vein with the thread title.

Edit: unless I'm missing something too. Which could totally be the case.

 

[GrogNerd]

wasn't going to say anything, didn't want to be thought an idiot

but it looks like I got company

 

[jerbrew]

I don't get it?

I took random to heart

 

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