Feeling really old

Seen several similar vids and they make me feel sick.
I'm not especially old, but the ones where they don't understand a CD for example, never mind a cassette or an LP...!!!

Bunka said:
Thinking about it, barely anyone has a printer and scanner these days.
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But on the plus side, you can buy a jolly decent flatbed scanner brand new for very little money, these days. I'm a proud owner and it's a lot more useful than people expect.

I actually observed a colleague struggling with contacting IT, to get a Follow-Me printer added to his account, to sign in to the scan-printer, to scan something in, which the printer then emailed to him (because external scan-mail is prohibited by IT policy), so he could email an e-copy of a document to someone in another office.
I could have gone home, scanned the doc, emailed it myself and been back at work before he'd even got as far as pressing Scan on the printer... or I could also have ridden to the office in question and delivered a photocopy of the document to the recipient in person and still been back before he'd pressed Scan. I offered both, but he declined, because, like, technology and all, ya know........
 
Freefaller said:
I remember having to install it with floppy discs!

I still remember windows 3.11 :D

Heck I remember having to tweak autoexec.bat and config.sys to make games/programmes work! Ahhhh memories.
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Ah yes, the days of having different memory settings for each game :)

Looking at old hardware, Amiga's, ZX80's, etc, really takes me back to happy times in my life.
 
I remember this guy from '89 who swore blind that Desk Top Publishing was going to take the world by storm. He thought he was a entrepreneur. I was on a DTP course with him and the only thing I gained from it was a fake ID that I could use to get into Nightclubs. Worked a treat. business card with a colour picture of me, laminated, the works. 16 pretending to be 21 and chatting up the ladies at the weekends in the Nightclubs.

The whole DTP thing died though when Windows came out, and my mate today who was convinced he was going to be a millionaire, is a nobody. I love how life strangles our youthful dreams. :D
 
Uni computers had Novell on them back in the day, remember Eudora mail, Lycos and Geocities, MS word and Excel haven't changed in 20 years, IRC channels, the Blaster worm, Ghost recon & UT, internet wasn't that much different just not high speed, dials up modem screeching away and HD's croaking away. I feel a poem coming on.

Modems screeched
Hd's croaked
Techs scurred around in panic
Hackers loomed in the darkness
Back's strained carrying gigantic monitors
Screens flickered
Keyboards flew rapidly across rooms, smash
Pulled hair lay lay scattered on the floor
Words, fast and furious scrolled on the screen, IRC
Broadband, WEB 2.0 at last.
Calm.
 
Sliver said:
I remember W95 and DOS. After leaving school I remember hi-jacking this guy's computer and typing *.* which basically deleted all of his nerd data. Today, we'd call it pron. His name was Phil, he was fat and very very annoyed when he found out. Happy days.
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*.* would just reference all the files in the file system, you would need a del command in there. deltree *.* was popular at school.
 
Gilly said:
*.* would just reference all the files in the file system, you would need a del command in there. deltree *.* was popular at school.
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Same as #? on an Amiga.

I recall being in a directory and punching in delete #? all with the intention of clearing that dir and watching stuff scrolling up the screen being deleted and suddenly realising... "What did that just delete" ?

Yup.. The bloody lot. O/s all


Aaaaaargh
 
That teens react / adults react / elders react etc is a great channel :D

At 37, I'm fairly middle aged myself.

Bertolli will always be Olivio to me.
Starburst will always be Opal Fruits.
Oil of Olay will always be Oil of Ulay.
I preferred Ant & Dec when they were called PJ & Duncan.
Not hugely into boybands, but I did prefer Take That first time round too.

Etc etc.

I can just about live with Snickers vs Marathon :p
 
that video was a bit ridiculous - the monitor is a bit bigger but aside from that surely the computer not too different to an equivalent modern one with power buttons in pretty much the same places

ditto to windows - the very basic layout with the start button, my computer, internet explorer, recycle bin etc.. hasn't changed much albeit is just low res

I could understand kids 'reacting' to say a commodore 64 complete with tape player or something but a desktop PC albeit with a bigger monitor is silly
 
I'm sure I had that monitor in the picture. I think it's called a Belinea. I recognise the big blue power button. Not too bad a monitor. I had hours of fun playing Quake 3 arena on my 17inch one. Don't know what happened to Belinea. They seemed to be the OEM monitor manufacturer of choice back in the late 90,s/early 00's. Every new PC seemed to ship with one.
 
robfosters said:
I'm sure I had that monitor in the picture. I think it's called a Belinea. I recognise the big blue power button. Not too bad a monitor. I had hours of fun playing Quake 3 arena on my 17inch one. Don't know what happened to Belinea. They seemed to be the OEM monitor manufacturer of choice back in the late 90,s/early 00's. Every new PC seemed to ship with one.
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My first PC monitor was a Sony 15" :)

I seem to recall that Ilyama was the go-to CRT monitor for many.
 
But can you remember thrupenny Jamboree bags and when Cheese & Onion crisps came in a Green bag ?

And what about SpaceDust...

Going slightly off topic here....What was the topic again ?

Oh yeah a nutty Mars Bar !!
 
Outcast said:
But can you remember thrupenny Jamboree bags and when Cheese & Onion crisps came in a Green bag ?

And what about SpaceDust...

Going slightly off topic here....What was the topic again ?

Oh yeah a nutty Mars Bar !!
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Green is the correct colour for cheese and onion.

My dog used to love space dust :)
 
Yup, remember 3.1 onwards.

Had a pile of different boot disks for games sat on the desk, was normal back then to have to shut down the pc, pop in the disk for whichever game you wanted to play then restart.
 
Windows 95 pfft.

Kids don't know how easy they have it. Having to learn simple commands just to play cannon fodder is where it's at. Should've got them on 3.1! Jeez I feel old :(
 
Hades said:
My first PC monitor was a Sony 15" :)

I seem to recall that Ilyama was the go-to CRT monitor for many.
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That wasn't my first monitor. That would have been a 14inch Escom that came with a DX4100 PC my Dad bought me for £1500 :eek: when I was 14. I remember it came with Encarta 95. It was like a different world starting that up and hearing Nelson Mandela proclaim "let there be justice for all". Still get nostalgic about it today. First time I really realised how much computers could change the way we lived.
 
robfosters said:
I'm sure I had that monitor in the picture. I think it's called a Belinea. I recognise the big blue power button. Not too bad a monitor. I had hours of fun playing Quake 3 arena on my 17inch one. Don't know what happened to Belinea. They seemed to be the OEM monitor manufacturer of choice back in the late 90,s/early 00's. Every new PC seemed to ship with one.
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Yes it was a Belinea 21". Weighed a tonne.
 
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