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Drimble asks: When was it last brought home to you just how old you're getting? We last asked this in 2004, and you're eight years older now. Eight. Years.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 13:24)
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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?"
( , Wed 13 Jun 2012, 9:35, 17 replies)
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I'm on a 40 yr. bender.
The maths is kinda secondary.
Or is that tertiary?
( , Wed 13 Jun 2012, 11:03, closed)
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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...
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much smaller than a mordern laptop even
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Showering his carer with urine and faeces
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... which, curiously, is about how much a basic laptop costs.
The original ZX-80 would cost about £364 today...
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I didn't know Sir Clive branched into Gynecology
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"personal computers" the size of suitcases you wouldn't be allowed to board an aircraft with these days.
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one of them's your dad you know
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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.
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Either that or he's filled his nappy
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at least he can't reach far enough to scoop the shit out of it.
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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.
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