How old are you? I'm so old that I remember when Google's ads had a purple background. - ThreadSky

therealfitz.com • 252 days ago

How old are you?

I'm so old that I remember when Google's ads had a purple background.

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jfgibson.bsky.social•251 days ago

I’m so old I remember getting a Palm Pilot as a conference swag gift.

jennifervestal.bsky.social•251 days ago

I’m so old that I remember when TV only came in BLACK AND WHITE. And the Flintstones was one of the few color shows. 🦚

onealmp.bsky.social•251 days ago

I’m “the best way to find something on the Internet is to Ask Jeeves” old.

therealfitz.com•251 days ago

I loved HotBot

camille2000.bsky.social•251 days ago

I am so old I used to get Christmas presents from https://Amazon.com

boredomfestival.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old that my first computer came with a floppy-copy utility that used the display memory as a buffer to minimize disk swapping

unchi.org•251 days ago

Disks? You had disks?

oblivion-spl.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old that you had to own DVD's if you wanted to watch movies whenever.

edna.bsky.social•252 days ago

I'm so old I remember when the yellow pages were useful and relevant.

jwheat.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old that my now wife and I met online. On IRC. In 1996.

natteringnaybob.bsky.social•252 days ago

I have seen my first home computer and my high school calculator on display at the Smithsonian

harleyhellhound.bsky.social•251 days ago

Was it an Osborne II? I saw one used on a tv show I’m binging and was yelling at the screen about “that’s not how that worked! Those pixels are way too small! Where’s the run disk?” And my husband reminded me that they can’t hear me.

natteringnaybob.bsky.social•251 days ago

Radio Shack TRS-80, with the expensive interface and 2 SSSD floppies

turtlebee.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old I kept a 486-33 running for the last few years of college by installing slackware linux on it. (And wrote my English papers in LaTeX.)

20000thorns.bsky.social•250 days ago

I'm so old I remember when Google was a 19-inch rack slotted full of naked motherboards in a colocation cage at Exodus Communications.

frutralle.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old I felt like a DJ when working by my first computer. Two floppy-disc stations!

hellbox.bsky.social•251 days ago

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by advertising, starving hysterical clickthrough…

cforde.github.io•251 days ago

I’m so old my first video game was pong on my black and white TV

lilysnothere.bsky.social•251 days ago

I’m so old I learned to read the Sunday comics in 1958 🤣

gaknar.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old I remember when Microsoft thought there was no future to the internet.

skipashseed.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old, I remember when Google Maps was all made by some guy named Thomas.

mattferrel.bsky.social•251 days ago

I was cleaning my car yesterday and rediscovered my Thomas Guide. I dutifully put it back in the car door

bergsbites.bsky.social•251 days ago

Gopher, Archie, Lynx browsers.

therealfitz.com•251 days ago

I loved Lynx and thought Mosaic was for noobs :)

bminsker.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old that I traded computer programs on cassette tapes.

seedarkly.bsky.social•251 days ago

Yup!

xipha.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old that I remember the little banner ads that are promising that you can win a car in a lottery and the ad itself had little cars driving around the border.

therealfitz.com•250 days ago

Punch the monkey and WIN FREE IPOD!

godeep.bsky.social•252 days ago

I’m so old I had an Arpanet address with Bell Labs.

wildpark.bsky.social•251 days ago

I had a little-endian email address. :-)

godeep.bsky.social•251 days ago

Now that’s cool.

wildpark.bsky.social•251 days ago

Can’t remember where my keys are but I can remember a complex email address from 35 years ago :-)

godeep.bsky.social•251 days ago

Lol

bruin14.bsky.social•250 days ago

I had to pull cables & install connectors to enable computers to talk to each other. Had to exit Wordstar & run a separate spell checker on my file which would then print a list of words it didn’t know.

mcmillen.dev•251 days ago

I played pirated music on this guy:

some.shadeof.green•251 days ago

but it doesn't whip the llama's ass

mcmillen.dev•251 days ago

winamp didn't exist until 1997

some.shadeof.green•251 days ago

I can't actually mentally order these things by instinct anymore

you say this and I realize "of course real player predates winamp, real audio definitely predates mp3s"

thejeffbyrnes.com•251 days ago

Wild alternate timeline: RealAudio beats out MP3s

ratherodd.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old, I was the remote control.

dawnxianamoon.bsky.social•252 days ago

I'm so old I remember calling my parents collect from a pay phone a few times.

carolinehooton.bsky.social•251 days ago

So old that I have a City & Guilds certificate in how to send an email using a modem and connect to the world wide web.

technomonoco.bsky.social•251 days ago

Win 95 was my first OS. In kindergarten.

All our school work was stored on a 256KB floppy disk.

It was the third year the school had computers.

whisperingwind.co.uk•251 days ago

I’m so old I can remember when there was no advertising on the Internet.

jympton.bsky.social•251 days ago

I’m so old I can remember a time before the internet.

codhisattva.bsky.social•251 days ago

I’m so old I remember Google not having any ads.

katherinemontalto.bsky.social•251 days ago

I have used a rotary phone

driftingthrough.bsky.social•251 days ago

I remember when there was no Google and you had to submit your own website to Yahoo and in the correct branch of their taxonomy of content.

siro17.bsky.social•250 days ago

I'm so old that I remember programming my own mini games in BASIC on my father's c64.

vaxciliate.bsky.social•251 days ago

Columbia “portable” computer old.

Ran on 2x 5 1/4” floppies. No hard disk.

didalicious.bsky.social•251 days ago

First computer ever touched was a TRS-80
Family's first was an Apple IIe with a greenscreen and dual 5-1/4" floppy drives
Used I-DEAS Level 6 CAD loaded on a VAX cluster from tapes in college
First place I worked was recovering from a not-backed-up WORM drive failure when I came on - AutoCAD 12

perigominas.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm old enough to recall people on Usenet showing off about having a web page

bunrab.bsky.social•251 days ago

I'm so old that I was using a slide rule my freshman year in college.

bunrab.bsky.social•251 days ago

Although to be fair, the pocket calculator was invented that year - but it cost about a third of a semester's tuition. They got down to within my budget about 3 years later, at which point they only cost as much as a semester's textbooks.

refrag.bsky.social•251 days ago

Learned BASIC on a PET and a TRS-80

aaronosaur.us•252 days ago

I’m so old I’ve used 10-10-321 to call people

aaronosaur.us•252 days ago

I also had a 10-10-321 sticker on my TI-83

seedarkly.bsky.social•251 days ago

OMG I was trying to remember that a few weeks ago!!!

chaelrishe.bsky.social•251 days ago

I watched the plastic case of my first PC slowly turn from soft white to the color of cheese over the course of a decade.

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