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is better than slow internet |
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not 15 years ago |
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it is what we are accustomed too. However, a soldier who fought in ww2 once said "people can get used to anything". Still, id rather be out on my bike, than on slow interneb |
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remember when we all had to use morse code |
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plastic cups and string worked quite well. |
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we had to stand on the roof in all weather conditions using semaphore flags for 24 hours straight just to get the ask jeeves homepage |
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in our day, we used to have to train street pigeons, as we could not afford specific breeds, to fly off and request data. The constant pigeon mess left in the computer room , which was located in a drainage system, meant we could only spend 5 mins on the internet back in them days. we had it tough back then. |
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I still remember a time we had to climb a mountain each evening to light a beacon, it would take 6 years just to get enough information to construct a low resolution GIF |
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in our day, we used to a have to store information by tearing the threads and seams in our clothes we managed to store the NWO headlines of the day in our pants. in the evening after the family had be brain washed by the news, gran used to stitch us back up after doing the crossword stored in threads of our socks. we had it tough. |
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*sorry dropped a few stitches in that last message = grammer and spelling errors. yep, still using that system! |
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may i ask you a question, what does it mean when they say 'the internet of things'? |
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fridges and freezers, washing machines, kettles, toasters etc that have internet access. for example your fridge can order food that you are running out of etc. stupid idea, imagine all your home appliances being hacked. |
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crazy |
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yes I was thinking of the four Yorkshire men sketch when replying |
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I was probably a lot more bored but happier before the internet |
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twas kinda obvious regards the yorkshire men. I think we also take the net for grated. So many cool things to be found. You can solve/fix almost anything with dedication and a search engine. Before y'd have to take a course in electronics or read a big book now y can search each part of the problem and teach yourself in a whole new way. Amazing, really. |
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before the internet I would have to use a very old flakey dictionary to look up a word, or go the library with my dad for a specific book, I really miss going the library with my dad. Yes the knowledge aspect is really really really good, I just wish I had a couple of hundred lifetimes to make use of it all just playing lemmings 2, some of the tracks have really nice sounds in them |
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on a real amiga or a virtual sim thing? |
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winUAE, I don't have a real amiga anymore, I really wish I did |
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keep a search active on ebay save search 0-50 quid eventually one will pop up on a bid and end on a tuesday morning when everyone is alsleep in the uk. ebay email you when it lists. |
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then bid at the last 2 seconds. otherwise you might start a bid battle. |
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what was the last thing you bought on ebay? and is there anything you are really looking out for, or aren't you very nostalgic? |
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I just buy things i will need later , now, when they are cheap. i have a spare computer parts. bike parts and stuff. cheap now, otherwise , when something breaks. I go to buy and it is full whack. |
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are you on first name terms with your posty? |
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nopes. didnt you have a weird thing with your letter box and a Royal mail post lady. |
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yeah I think it was like I had no trousers on. My usual Postman is Justin, he seems like a nice guy he seems mentally handicapped but he is a great post man |
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i was working on a great song regards your letter box, no pants and postman pat... postman pat with his mental handicap!! but half way through i forgot his name was justin so that messed that up. |
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we are high jacking a thread dusty will turn up and sweep us into his dust pan again. |
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When Russell sees what we have done |
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lol. You people think I have no heart! |
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calm down boys… nets back! |
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your the heart of xltronic Russell |
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what was your first net memory DADONCK? |
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very good question… i remember my friend had internet before me, because his father was a nerd. we were looking at rotten.com and i remember copying the webcache from his computer on a 3,5 floppy disk because i found some pics of naked chics in there |
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i think that is the first memory. gore and porn |
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god I remember that site, sinister stuff! I think the first ting I remember is watching my brother logging onto FTP servers and downloading demos for dos games |
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ha! thats cool! having an older brother must be cool, too god, im so happy i didn't have the possibilities kids have these days. my parents never kept tabs on my consumption. it was quite hard to get gore and porn. also i was the oldest, so no bigger brother to steal from |
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yeah luckily I had a really tech savvy older brother, he is 9 years older than me, but as we age the gap seems less and less |
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first www memory is downloading a faq for mortal combat and reading the star wars technical commentaries |
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Mid nineties on holiday at my dad’s. Pricey and modem-y. Slow, yet it was so exciting. Then I rememeber going o Internet cafes in London, and just marvelling at it all. First time I downloaded a track it took me 40 minutes to download a 128 mp3. It was like magic though. A few years later I discovered the joyrex thing, and aphextwin.nu. Still here. |
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yeah I used to use get right and leave my pc on all night just to download half a dozen tracks, madness! |
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So yeah I’d say 1994. |
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bit later for me 95 or 96 I reckon. I remember the first time I saw a multimedia pc in 1993 in school and it had a dinosaur CD-ROM I was unbelievably impressed I couldn't believe it |
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Don't act like you wouldn't still be unbelievably impressed today by a dinosaur CD-ROM. |
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it was the impact of the initial thing, Jurassic park was big at the time, I had a dinosaur magazine I collected to build a glow in the dark T-Rex skeleton |
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I think this was it |
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i used to go to the local college library to use their fast web pipes, downloading dos games and shitloads of txt files, including tons of old threads from joyrex.com and here. before that I remember being hooked on 14.4 dialup at my dad's house, used to trough tons of stuff there too and come home with a stack of floppies. first mp3 was cos i'd heard it on john peel |
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yeah I remember downloading webpages to browser at my own leisure |
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i used to have boners just by watching pictures |
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