OT: I Remember When

[Arkcon]

I remember when I said "Please" "Sorry" "How are you today", and "I'm fine" only when I meant them.

Now I mumble them out robotically to all I meet.

A few tortured souls will actually call me on that.

Do they really want me to tell them, to paraphrase Douglas Addams, "Zark Off"?

Thank you for this vent space Atrocities.

Take care.

And I mean that.

I just don't have any practical advice or real solutions is all.

[ September 22, 2002, 19:02: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[DavidG]

I remember when web pages were well designed and did not try to cram a thousand pieces of information and a few dozen adds all onto one page

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by DavidG:
I remember when web pages were well designed and did not try to cram a thousand pieces of information and a few dozen adds all onto one page

I remember when web pages were text, with a few graphic icons. There was a small amount of pages with a few nekkid pictures, but mostly you could find free information on a usefull topic a person at some university or govt site felt like posting.

Now any google search gives you 10 pages of p0rn, 10 pages of advertisments, 10 homepages of commercial sites with links that don't work, and a search for a scientific topic gives you a title and how much you can pay for an article reprint.

Someone should mod the internet into SE4. A culture reaches a certain tech level in computer science and production and research grind to a halt

[ September 22, 2002, 21:41: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[capnq]

I remember when the "high speed" setting on my modem was 1200 baud (normal speed was 300).

My first computer programming class (senior year of high school, '76-'77) used acoustic couplers to connect a teletype to the mainframe. We used punched paper tape for local storage. We also had a programmable calculator bigger than an electric typewriter which was programmed using punched cards (which had to be punched by hand).

I remember seeing _Star Wars_ in a first-run theater, before it was called Episode IV.

[tbontob]

I remember in 1981 when printers were well in excess of $1,000.00.

What I did was modify a IBM Selectric II correctable typewriter into a printer. It was a lot of fun working with all those solinoids etc.

Worked very well. And the printout was very professional.

[Gandalph]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Gandalph 300

HUH???

[Lupusman]

You never gonna be able to fix those things. It's human nature to be corrupt. Gotta complain to the big man upstairs.