reminisco wrote:wow...
to think, when i was 17, the most sophisticated thing you could do on the internet was to wait 2 hours while downloading that South Park video of Jesus vs. Santa... (assuming, of course, you got the email)
and now all of you 17 year olds are on here day in and day out, reading highly sophisticated drivel on these forums.
and for the record, i'm 28. before this year is out, i'll be 29.
Interesting to see how the telescope of time continues. When I was 17, the nearest thing to a PC we ever had was a calculator that worked out the 4 basic funtions and a % key...we spent many happy hours working out equations that would create words that one could read on the screen using the numbers, we were also in awe of the word processing machines just hitting the markets, amazed at how they could backspace and delete a letter (only the one mind you). The computer, in the company I worked for, did all the basic accounts (done by tickets being sent to the keying room by internal mail) was about the size of a decent sized living room, all info was input by a series of punch tape operators, it had to be kept in an air conditioned, air filtered environment, and we all scoffed and laughed at the seers who said within 30 years everyone would have home computers the size of a tray that would be hundreds of times more powerful than those computers in existence then...oh how we laughed. The accounts would churn out once a month on huge tabulated sheets, all with codes we then had to check and ensure they all balanced (I had to do bank reconciliations with over 10,000 entries every month, it was then I truly learnt the meaning of boredom).
Space invaders was just hitting the pubs, press button gaming machines rather than one armed bandits as we knew them, a brave new world was dawning..just wish I had bought shares in Apple or Microsoft back then.