i miss computer stores

[Evatron]

went to my local shopping mall/center and realised how so many media stores are gone now. almost everything is clothes. i remember early 2000 when i would go browse pc world or virgin media and just look through all the random PC games and hardware. bargain bins of software and isles of obscure addon hardware would be interesting to look through for hours. i really miss that. if you want anything like that now you gotta do it online and its just not fun because going out for it felt like an adventure and you might accidentally find some cool stuff. the remaining computer stores now have nothing like that experience.

ok my nostalgia vent is over. thanks for reading.

 

[Evatron]

so miss HMV as me and my mates would spend half an hour in there checking out new music and movies. Then buying one of those silly A1 posters that you flick through and each poster had a number or code that you would pick. Stafford did finally get its own HMV store in 2004 but we only had it for about 10 years then we lost it when HMV sold off about 50% of their branches. The nearest we have in Stafford nowadays for browsing music and movies would be CEX.

aw man HMV has ditched it entirely. its just music now which i guess was its original thing but still our one had variety back then.

 

[Evatron]

10 x=0
20 x=x+1
30 PRINT x;
40 GOTO 20

oh man you guys make me feel young but that sounds funny as hell.