A window to the past

[Dauphin]

Some people alive today will have known someone who fought in the American Civil War. Others will have known someone who fought in the Crimean War. Rather an odd thought.

[Provost Harrison]

Well it is just two long lifespans...although I doubt the known person will still be around today

[C0ckney]

i remember a guy on the newsmax forums, years ago who told me about a school teacher he had when he was a boy who remembered the american civil war. he said it was a big regret of his that he didn't listen more to the guy and his stories.

[EPW]

My Grandmother knew someone who fought in the Civil War.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

and they could have known someone who was alive when US was still British... that is 3 people away in theory...

[Hauldren Collider]

The freshman class this year is just young enough to never have used floppy disks.

A bit shorter term, but somehow alarming to me nevertheless.

[Al B. Sure!]

The freshman class this year is just young enough to never have used floppy disks.

A bit shorter term, but somehow alarming to me nevertheless.

So? I am amazed that you didn't grow up with Apple IIe's. In my day, the average American home didn't have computers and there was no internet in the public consciousness because it basically didn't exist (I know, technically it did but nowhere near a recognizable form). In my elementary school days (the early 90's), kids were only exposed to computers at school and they displayed a weird greenish hue all the time and like no colors.

In my high school days (1999-2003), youtube, myspace, and facebook didn't exist. You probably would have difficulty fathoming that.

[C0ckney]

back in my day we didn't have no fancy pants floppy disks. we used tapes and waited patiently for 10 minutes while our 64bit machines loaded their games!

damn kids today don't know they're born...

[C0ckney]

and don't get me started on my walk to school, it was 10 miles, uphill, in the rain, both ways!

[Al B. Sure!]

Computer in my day looked like this:

EDIT: NUDITY


When we had to type something up, people used stuff like this:



There's one in my basement somewhere.

Now, you youngings have your computers on your new-fangled iphone gizmos. Little computers you hold in the palm of your hand.



Oh and HC, this is not the real floppy though it's probably what you know and what you were referencing:


Floppies are these... have you ever seen one before?

[Al B. Sure!]

i remember a guy on the newsmax forums, years ago who told me about a school teacher he had when he was a boy who remembered the american civil war. he said it was a big regret of his that he didn't listen more to the guy and his stories.

Huh? You posted at newsmax? Those guys are crazy. They called me a feminist, Black Panther-supporting, Marxist. No exaggeration

[Hauldren Collider]

In my high school days (1999-2003), youtube, myspace, and facebook didn't exist. You probably would have difficulty fathoming that.

No, not really.

[EPW]

Netscape + Oregon Trail + some silly math game comprise my early computer memories from elementary school.

[Al B. Sure!]

It is a mind**** though. My generation was basically the first to grow up with much exposure to computers at early childhood but it wasn't until a few years later that computers started to be common in homes and the internet as we know it developed. These kids now like HC have been exposed to computers since birth.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

and in my day it looked like this