The internet is not what it was.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:33, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I remember when all this was dial-up bulletin board systems.
Edit: bloody hell, I went on an HTML course at Pipex in 1994 *holds head in hands*
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:35, Reply)

I remember the sound of modems :D
And sitting in those cowprint print boxes as my dad worked.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:38, Reply)

I got my first computer in 1981 I think.
I am not making myself feel any younger.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:39, Reply)

I got my first at about 7.
Built my first at about 9-10
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:40, Reply)

Skills.
I'm buying kiddo a laptop for Christmas as a surprise. She's gonna flip, I can't wait!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:41, Reply)

With a lot of my dad's help, natch.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:42, Reply)

I think we must be about the same age
I got an Aquarius in '83 with a 3.5mhz cpu

oldcomputers.net/aquarius.html
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:42, Reply)

My dad started a company taking screen shots for computer game magazines
so we had, variously, Acorn, Dragon, BBC, early IMB-AT PCs, Spectrum 48k, Amstrads, loads of stuff. The mags used to send us tapes and discs of games to play where the programmers had given invulnerability, infinite lives etc so I used to spend hours running around these games while my dad would take screen dumps with custom hardware one of the employees mocked up to the computers. I'm gonna be 35 in a few weeks. Edit: First was a ZX-80 in 1981.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:47, Reply)

"my dad would take screen dumps"
Could you rephrase that otherwise the internet porn squad (scat division) might be paying your Dad a visit.
(Cave Duck, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:53, Reply)

I got my first email account in 1994.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:39, Reply)

Me too.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:40, Reply)

5.25" floppy disks with 360kb capacity.
Young 'uns today - they don't know the half of it.
(Cave Duck, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:42, Reply)

I had a copy of Windows 2 on 5 1/4" discs.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:44, Reply)

Were they delivered on a 40ft trailer?

(Cave Duck, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:46, Reply)

It's the parents that are to blame.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 17:38, Reply)