300baud modem that attacted with the little rubber cups.
- We had a TI-something that was a portable computer that included a 3-line
LCD screen, keyboard, and floppy drive all in one brick.
- Had various old pre-Mac Apple computers. Wrote a lunar lander and a
Zork-style game for it. God I loved InfoCom games.
- Created a ticket sign-up sign on the Apple that nearly caused a riot at
place selling Pink Floyd concert tickets.
- Had a short stint as a hippy luddite.
- Fell in love with the Mac back with the original little beige box.
- Played around on the Internet back before there was a "web". Mostly going
to places like ftp.funet.fi. (OMG! It's still there!)
- I was on DikuMUD when someone announced on the system that Gene
Roddenberry was dead. We would have held a moment of silence, except for all
the people saying, "who's Gene Roddenberry?"
- Started doing 3D graphics and met a guy who gave me an account on his Cray
at Lawrence Livermore. Nice guy.
- Built Gopher pages and even fiddled with Gopher 3D before the WWW.
- Built a web page for the MacWWW browser before there was ever a Netscape.
The browser was so buggy and the content so unstructured that I pronounced
that it would not be a contender against Gopher. *cough*
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "brob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 5:17 PM
Subject: The old days
> hey guys, I would like to know of any stories you might want to share
about the old days when chatting/computer was just for geeks and the
internet was dormant. Here's mine
>
> I used a 637 Performa CD mack that came with 300MB of space. Half of that
space was taken up by software and the operating system. I had to
constantly delete anything i can to save precious space. The coolest game i
played on it was Burn Cycle, which i still believe is the coolest game ever.
The first time I got internet was AOL 2.6, with a 2.4kbps modem. CHatting
was so fun, and that IM sound so catchy. It would take anywhere from 5-10
minutes for my modem to load up a decent page with a fair amount of
graphics. I would just walk away for a bit and do something else. When i
got my $150 56k modem, things were alot more nicer!
>
> Also, I subscribed to computer magazines and used to drool over 150mhz
machines.
>
>
> Comparing then to now, I'd say that i've been getting more impatient and
greedier. I know thats a bad thing, but I'd rather have it this way, at
least with technology!
>
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