Consider this.
The mean age of a b3tan I'm guessing is about 40.
Now go backwards in time in 20 yr. increments. Then 10 yrs.
1992 - the internet was still very much a burbling, shitting infant and mobile phones were rare devices that were about the same size as todays Dell thin clients.
1982 - 'Puters were big lots of tape machines in climate controlled rooms. Phones were things you argued over answering at home.
1962 - 'Puters were buildings. Many phones had to be connected thru a switchboard manned by gossipy ladies.
& so on.
On the flip side -
Data storage - "Barry's cave walls are full, let's finish this painting in Clive's cave."
"Oi, Joe!" across the camp. "Yes Norman?", "What-are-ya-up-to?", "Not a lot Norm, sitting around the fire eating yesterdays kill and fucking Shirelle. You?"
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 13 Jun 2012, 9:35, 17 replies)

Um
20 year increments?
(username failed moderation, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 10:03, closed)

Hey
I'm on a 40 yr. bender.
The maths is kinda secondary.

Or is that tertiary?
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 13 Jun 2012, 11:03, closed)

(coff)
1982
Some computers were only slightly larger than modern PCs.
The BBC micro was fresh as a daisy.
Phones were being used to carry great wedges of data between Prestel, Micronet and other pre-internet boards.
Persistent world Multi-user gaming was beginning at Essex University's computing department, which Ran MUD on an Dec10...
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 10:05, closed)

The Sinclair Spectrum came out in '82
much smaller than a mordern laptop even
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 10:28, closed)

Haha you shit spelling spastic

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 10:35, closed)

Rory thrashed his spindly arms around like stunted windmills
Showering his carer with urine and faeces
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 17:12, closed)

And the price of £99 for the basic 16K model Speccie would be about £300 today
... which, curiously, is about how much a basic laptop costs.

The original ZX-80 would cost about £364 today...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 10:37, closed)

ZX80 was
2 years before the spectrum, and even smaller.
(username failed moderation, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 10:37, closed)

The Sinclair Speculum?
I didn't know Sir Clive branched into Gynecology
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 10:39, closed)

I had a Dragon 32
in '82
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 10:37, closed)

I remember my mum bringing home dos boxes and unix workstations -
"personal computers" the size of suitcases you wouldn't be allowed to board an aircraft with these days.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 13 Jun 2012, 11:06, closed)

She also brought home a string of men all of whom you had to call 'uncle len'
one of them's your dad you know
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 11:09, closed)

No actually.
She had an affair with my father, they moved in together for over a year before I was born then a few months later she caught him sleeping with her best friend and kicked him out. Never to be seen again. And then she raised me entirely on her own.

You really do show a lot of your pain when you post your vitriol Rory. I am genuinely sorry for you that life has treated you so badly.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 13 Jun 2012, 11:16, closed)

So I was right then

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 11:22, closed)

If having 11 fingers is right
then yes, you are.
(username failed moderation, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 11:26, closed)

Don't tease him.
It's really not fair.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 13 Jun 2012, 11:44, closed)

Don't worry, Emvee's dad doesn't love him either

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 11:49, closed)

?
Yet another "post reading Fail" from Rory!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 13 Jun 2012, 12:27, closed)

I think Rory is just
being a flirt.
(username failed moderation, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 12:58, closed)

I think Rory's tired himself out again and it's time for his medication
Either that or he's filled his nappy
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 17:11, closed)

On the bright side
at least he can't reach far enough to scoop the shit out of it.
(username failed moderation, Thu 14 Jun 2012, 10:29, closed)

My 48k in 1982 was much smaller than the laptop I'm typing this on.

( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 11:34, closed)

Not as portable
Although I used to take a Spectrum, Interface 1 and Microdrive, a 5" black-and-white TV, and a motorbike battery to school in my schoolbag.

Then I'd sit at the back of the home economics room used for "private study" playing Lords of Chaos with a couple of mates. Six hours life from a Honda Superdream battery.
(gordonjcp, Wed 13 Jun 2012, 15:43, closed)