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by blueness on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 09:02:27 PM PDT
I call it fun. Entirely in the spirit of high dkos outrage meta. Nice job, blue.
God bless our tinfoil hearts.
by aitchdee on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 11:04:28 PM PDT
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There may be tyrants and murderers and...they may seem invincible, but in the end they always fail. Think of it: always.
by Dania Audax on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:18:32 AM PDT
...MO-jo-mee-ter, or mo-JOM-e-ter?
by skralyx on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:13:40 AM PDT
does it become MoJoMentum?
"Our programs are as lawful as they are valuable." -Michael Hayden
by smintheus on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:45:31 AM PDT
How about you stay around for more than oh A WEEK before you start telling your elders (ergo betters) how to run the damn site. This is just typical 10k+ UID behavior. No respect for the site's traditions or values. You just go throwing rage bombs at everything that doesn't strike you as shiney and fun fun happiness.
In my day new members didn't speak until they were given permission. Plus we RESPECTED those who came before. I personally washed Meteorblades' car daily for 7 months before I had the gall to even post my first comment. And I was THANKFUL for the OPPORTUNITY!
The nerve of you uppity cretins.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon
by Windowdog on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:19:04 AM PDT
And you walked ten miles to get to a computer, uphill both ways, in the snow, blah blah blah. Well, we're here, we're UID-endowed, get used to it. Damn bigoted elitists! ;-P
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
by kyril on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:40:13 AM PDT
been there.
I started on a Win 98 system over a Juno DSL... I'd tell you of the horrors of simply keeping the system/IP connection up and running... but I was raised not to say such things in polite company.
We lagged and crashed for a better tomorrow and the generation to come, and look what you've done with our gift? Ungrateful heathens, you could use a little time trying to chat on BBS's via 2400 baud modems, that would wipe that smirk off yer face damn quick!
by Windowdog on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:51:12 AM PDT
an IBM 7090. The newbies can whine about the difficulties of the IBM360 series. As to my 100K+ UID? Just shows the wisdom of my age...
by Uncle Bob on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:29:04 AM PDT
the commodore 64. Cuz that's what I learned on. I can remember the hello world program.
10 PRINT "DOTDOT IS SEXY" RUN
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
by dotdot on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:33:55 AM PDT
Never did get it running, though. It was probably about 25 years old when I got it at a garage sale when I was 12.
I do remember Apple IIs, learned to program in BASIC on those when I was 9 or so :) And the computer labs at Dartmouth with about 5-6 Suns, which I adored because they had a graphic interface but didn't crash all the times like the ones running Windows 3.1...and I ran Mac System 7 on my little Mac SE and my dad's Mac II all the way up to 1999 (used his dot-matrix printer to print all my essays too).
Then when I started college I built myself an Athlon system for about $200 from a computer show-and-sale event, with a 2GB hard drive and 64MB of RAM. It played Everquest though, and in retrospect that was quite likely my downfall; the original Civilization was about all I could play on the Mac SE besides Nethack and text-based RPGs, and while Civ was addictive, it was no Evercrack.
by kyril on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:47:29 AM PDT
started. Right now i'm addicted to World of warcraft. I can't stop. It's frieaking me out, it's all I think about. Well mostly all I think about.
by dotdot on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:52:16 AM PDT
Go so broke your account cancels itself.
by kyril on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:59:46 AM PDT
In the last 6 months I've called out sick twice to play all day. I'm sooo ashamed.
by dotdot on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:01:43 AM PDT
when he was through with it, back in the mid-80's. Not sure where that fits in with the Commodore 64, but it's back in the PC Dark Ages, too. It was such incredible technology! So fantastic to throw away my typewriter! Oh, wait, except I needed it for envelopes.....
Remember Nataline.
by means are the ends on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:03:31 AM PDT
that printed different shapes like hearts, stars, clubs, etc. in different colors, and scrolled them down the screen. When we all saw this, we thought he had brought heaven to earth.
The Commodore 64 is also, to the best of knowledge, the only place where I have ever seen the color "cyan". I'm still convinced that Commodore invented the color.
by I on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:15:09 AM PDT
The folks at Crayola would strongly disagree with you.
by Windowdog on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:52:23 AM PDT
You were so leet. I started on a VIC 20. Had a cassette tape drive.
A Patriot Is a Rebel, Not a Bootlicker. Meteor Blades
by God loves goats on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:04:56 AM PDT
I remember peeking and poking memeory locations to get some primitive animation going. Led me to my current career as a developer.
[-6.25, -5.59] "The love you take is equal to the love you make." - J. Lennon, P. McCartney
by Phil N DeBlanc on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:24:17 AM PDT
through the front panel with TOGGLE SWITCHES.
THEN I could feed in the paper tape!
Did you know that the punched out holes from paper tape NEVER come out of shag carpet?
Happy little moron, Lucky little man.I wish I was a moron, MY GOD, Perhaps I am!-Spike Milligan
by polecat on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:30:05 AM PDT
Color Computer.
Wrote a video game.
In Basic.
Took about a week to play.
NNSL '08 and D&D at NN 08
by Moody Loner on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:37:48 AM PDT
"This is not our America and we need to take it back." John Edwards.
by mcmom on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:40:56 AM PDT
Apple II was the only thing that graced my desk. IBM was for suits and dweebs.
by Windowdog on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:36:51 AM PDT
I actually used punch cards to run programs back in the day. Now that was the way to do things. Good old manual keypunching. You 5k UID whippersnappers don't know how good you have it.
by Grendel on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:23:39 PM PDT
I'm an "over 15K-er", but no whippersnapper!
Our high school had a puny (took up a whole room, but JUST one room) computer when I was a senior. Input method for reading in programs - paper tape. I think we got it to do some basic math, "hello world", and basic bubble sorts, etc. Frickin' amazing.
Freshman year in college I went into my first CS class and voila - punch card punch machines and readers for a Sperry-Univac machine! I had died and gone to heaven! The year was 1978.
By Spring of 1979, I hated the graduate students with a jealous, green, envious bile that knew no bounds. Those luck bastards got to play on a DEC PDP-8 "minicomputer". When I really felt bad for myself, I dropped into the "museum" area to see the old, grey ghost itself - "ENIAC".
By Summer of 1979, CRT terminal input was all the rage and even the first uses of Usenet were up with political, cooking and (of course) alt.sex groups all in vogue on campus. That summer was the first time I ever typed "Ronnie Ray-Gun" on a Usenet message - and that was before the dude came up with his happy Star Wars horseshit.
By Fall of 1980, I had my own CRT in my off-campus apartment (150 baud dial-up coupling modem). I was sitting at it in our cockroach-infested kitchen on December 8th, the night I read on it that John Lennon was dead. Never did like to use that monitor again after that...
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." --Thomas Jefferson
by frisco on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:07:27 PM PDT
I sometimes waited twenty seconds for a page to download on my dial-up. And if too many people had commented, it would be even worse... it was the equivalent of walking to school in a hurricane... in a metaphorical, um, sort of sense.
Imagine! Twenty seconds! What was I supposed to do with all that time? I could almost pick my entire nose by the time the page came up. It was like waiting in the waiting room of the imaginary single-payer health care system in conservative's heads! Almost that long! In a totally subjective way!
Y'all think the current FPers are mean? In the old days, if you were too troll-ly, they would personally come to your home and beat your ass... which they could do, because there were only 955 of us! That's what we need... a good old' resurgence of Victorian morality, complete with Dickensian gruel and soot-encrusted urchins. Then you whippersnappers would shape up.
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of nonthought. -- Milan Kundera
by Dale on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:53:04 AM PDT
which they don't remember. Their reaction was that they wouldn't have the patience to go online, especially with the graphics turned off for speed, as I used to do.
They really have no idea what the world was like pre-internet. They can hear about it, but they don't really understand. It's like a hazy, unimaginable, horrible nightmare to them. Really.
by means are the ends on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:07:18 AM PDT
Seriously?
Do we really age THAT quickly? God that's depressing.
by Windowdog on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:35:26 AM PDT
I am on dial up. Sometimes it takes 30 seconds or more to load a page. Have I sleep walked into Dr. Who's phone kiosk?
Hands off my Social Security, John McCain.
by emmasnacker on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:30:37 PM PDT
better place, where dial-up is replaced by 35th century technology, and all the aliens have charming British accents.
Vote John McCain for a Hundred Year War!
by Fiona West on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:36:41 PM PDT
by emmasnacker on Sat Dec 01, 2007 at 10:49:08 AM PDT
at this video of the unaired 1994 pilot of "24". My 14 y/o didn't get it.
The time for action is past. Now is the time for senseless bickering -- My T-Shirt
by Frankenoid on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:19:53 PM PDT
meteor blades hasa car? i thought he skated everywhere. or is he referring to knives? well i remember he said something about something in one a his FP comments. anyway i dunt blieve ya washed no car. only mebbe sharpened a few knives. so you cant talk.
-9.0,-9.3
by old wobbly on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:35:34 AM PDT
I have some, they have been collecting dust for years, and could certainly use a washing.
by Geek of all trades on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:46:31 AM PDT
Get under 2000 before you say stuff like that.
Christ, they'll let anyone in here these days...
One more Justice and John McCain gets his wish.
by JR on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:39:08 AM PDT
by qwerty on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:35:57 AM PDT
How's it feel to be an "uppity cretin?" :)
(I can say this in the full knowledge that I am one and it takes one to know one.)
by polecat on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:28:33 AM PDT
by mcmom on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:38:03 AM PDT
Arianna - when you're right, you're right. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/memo-to-obama-moving-to-t_b_110026.html
by jj24 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:05:30 PM PDT
Nice work.
Obama/McCaskill vs. McCain/Jindal? Call it a funny feeling.
by ShadowSD on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:19:08 AM PDT
I so needed a pick me up today.
It is this simple. Vote Republican- Iraq is Forever. Vote Democratic- Iraq is history.
by RElland on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:58:26 AM PDT
wide narrow
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