21 May 2009, 1:34 pm
21 May 2009, 1:52 pm
I would read and read about my interests, I also coped by losing myself in my accademic studies. When I choose a university and degree I choose one which was based upon my own special interest.
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21 May 2009, 4:56 pm
21 May 2009, 4:57 pm
millie wrote:
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Rocky wrote:
I thought the majority of posts on this thread would be fellow geezers. So far it's just the opposite. Maybe later, after their naps. 
I am semi-geezer at 46 and well remember a life before the net and computers. As for naps...I startd posting on Wp at 3am this morning (no 9am.) my nap will happen later on.
I am always debating with myself about whether to do a little more internet or catch up on my sleep.
I will bet that for most of us the answer to the question "What did we do before the WWWeb?" is one word- Sleep.
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22 May 2009, 3:17 am
22 May 2009, 10:09 pm
23 May 2009, 1:33 am
AmberEyes wrote:
How did I cope before the internet?
Well...
Denial.
Assuming I was "normal" and my family was "normal".
Being carted to Roller Discos and Swimming by my family.
Listening to CDs of cheesy dance music.
Watching Carol Vorderman
Watching cartoons
Watching Science and Technology Documentaries
Reading story books
Writing poetry
Playing chess
Playing fruit machines
Playing computer games
Riding my bike
Being taken to theme parks
Playing plastic games alone at home in the garden
Investigating flora and fauna in the garden
Serving the drinks at family barbecues
Playing with my sibling
Telling jokes
Studying for SATs
Putting all my social issues down to other people and on excessive homework.
If I was doing homework, that meant I just didn't have time to see people.
Well...
Denial.
Assuming I was "normal" and my family was "normal".
Being carted to Roller Discos and Swimming by my family.
Listening to CDs of cheesy dance music.
Watching Carol Vorderman
Watching cartoons
Watching Science and Technology Documentaries
Reading story books
Writing poetry
Playing chess
Playing fruit machines
Playing computer games
Riding my bike
Being taken to theme parks
Playing plastic games alone at home in the garden
Investigating flora and fauna in the garden
Serving the drinks at family barbecues
Playing with my sibling
Telling jokes
Studying for SATs
Putting all my social issues down to other people and on excessive homework.
If I was doing homework, that meant I just didn't have time to see people.
For those of us who don't know (including me)- Please tell us the meaning of "fruit machines" and "plastic games." Thanks. I assume these are well known expressions in the Land of the Jumblies. (UK?)
23 May 2009, 1:50 am
23 May 2009, 2:03 am
DeaconBlues wrote:
Keith wrote:
The internet is an old network. I can't remember when it was first implemented, but was reserved for military use. I would say I did what everyone else did. Go outside and play, find friends. Eventually moving on to a job, building my computer and discovering the Internet and getting a huge bill, which my job helped to cover
The proto-Internet, DARPANet, was the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) experiment in setting up a decentralized computing network that could potentially survive a small-scale nuclear attack. The first email exchanged across it was, IIRC, in 1968.
The early 1980s saw the rise of Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes), local systems connected by telephone modem (originally even acoustic modems, like WarGames) to any user who dialed in. Usually they could only connect one user at a time. The BBS systems also communicated across Usenet and Fidonet to exchange file packets, enabling data files and some threads to be available across the entire network of users of Fidonet.
In the late '80s, DARPANet was declassified and moved to the public sector, where it became popularized as the Internet (the International Network). In the early '90s, a Graphical User Interface (GUI), similar to that developed at Xerox's Palo Alto facility (and copied by both Apple and Microsoft), was overlaid over the Internet's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) codes, using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), thus creating what we know today as the World Wide Web (WWW, or just "the Web").
Before I first ran a BBS on my C-64 back in '86, I would drop fairly large sums of money at arcades; in college, I also played role-playing games (RPGs) like AD&D, Champions, Top Secret, and Twilight: 2000. Before that, I spent a lot of time in libraries, or out in the woods (one of the nice parts of growing up in rural western Washington)...
Thanks for your post. I am sure many learned from it. I found it "nostalgifying." My favorite arcade games were Red Baron, Warlords, Centipede, Robotron, and various pinball machines. I would generally get the high scores in Red Baron (a vector graphics 3-D first person WWI dogfight game.) Maybe I accessed your BBS with my C64 or Vic20!
23 May 2009, 10:42 am
Rocky wrote:
Icheb wrote:
I was a nerd before I knew the concept existed. (I grew up in German-speaking Switzerland, and there is still no suitable German word for "nerd".) I plastered the walls of my room with space images, I watched "The Jetsons", "Time Tunnel" and "Star Trek", I played with Lego, wrote science fiction stories on my parents' Smith-Corona, collected comic books, pop-up books and popularized science books, devoured "Tintin", "Asterix", Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, produced a school paper almost singlehandedly, turned to amateur movie making and Golden Age science fiction as a teen, subscribed to "Omni", "Scientific American" and "Starlog" and virtually spent the nineties glued to my TV set, watching "Star Trek - The Next Generation", "Tiny Toons", "Twin Peaks", "The Simpsons", "Red Dwarf", "Eerie, Indiana", "Deep Space Nine", "Babylon 5" and "The X-Files", among others. Oh, and I haunted the local comic book store, collecting Simpsons merchandise.
I am an ongoing fan of Sci-Fi. I see you enjoyed Red Dwarf. You should check out Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, if you haven't already. I liked Red Dwarf, but loved H2G2. I also was an avid reader of comic books during the 1960's: Fantastic Four, Hulk, X-Men (before Wolverine) and others (mostly Marvel). Also enjoyed many Omni and Scientific American magazines. Did you read any magazines with the title "Heavy Metal?" Sci-Fi comics with amazing art.
Yup, I used to be a huge fan of THHGTTG, especially the first two novels and the TV series. I never got an opportunity to listen to the radio show (though I did buy "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" on LP), and I thought the rest of the books, the comic and the movie were so-so.
I've heard about "Heavy Metal", but never read it. I do like "Valérian", Moebius and Enki Bilal, though. One of the most atmospheric sci-fi comics IMO was Tom de Haven's and Bruce Jensen's comic book adaptation of "Neuromancer". Unfortunately, they only covered the first half of the novel, and there never was any sequel.
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23 May 2009, 10:55 am
Rocky wrote:
For those of us who don't know (including me)- Please tell us the meaning of "fruit machines" and "plastic games." Thanks. I assume these are well known expressions in the Land of the Jumblies. (UK?)
Correct.
This is a fruit machine.
It's a gambling machine with lots of mesmerising flashing lights and buttons to press.
There are lots of fruit machines in pubs, on piers and in arcades.
You put your money in and quite often it doesn't come out.
This is a plastic game:
A moon hopper.
This is also plastic game:
Skittles.
23 May 2009, 11:00 am
24 May 2009, 1:05 am
AmberEyes wrote:
Rocky wrote:
For those of us who don't know (including me)- Please tell us the meaning of "fruit machines" and "plastic games." Thanks. I assume these are well known expressions in the Land of the Jumblies. (UK?)
Correct.
This is a fruit machine.
It's a gambling machine with lots of mesmerising flashing lights and buttons to press.
There are lots of fruit machines in pubs, on piers and in arcades.
You put your money in and quite often it doesn't come out.
This is a plastic game:
A moon hopper.
This is also plastic game:
Skittles.
Thanks! A picture is worth a thousand words, so you saved 2000.
I should have asked about the Jumblies in my first post. Oh well.
24 May 2009, 1:16 am
Icheb wrote:
Rocky wrote:
Icheb wrote:
I was a nerd before I knew the concept existed. (I grew up in German-speaking Switzerland, and there is still no suitable German word for "nerd".) I plastered the walls of my room with space images, I watched "The Jetsons", "Time Tunnel" and "Star Trek", I played with Lego, wrote science fiction stories on my parents' Smith-Corona, collected comic books, pop-up books and popularized science books, devoured "Tintin", "Asterix", Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, produced a school paper almost singlehandedly, turned to amateur movie making and Golden Age science fiction as a teen, subscribed to "Omni", "Scientific American" and "Starlog" and virtually spent the nineties glued to my TV set, watching "Star Trek - The Next Generation", "Tiny Toons", "Twin Peaks", "The Simpsons", "Red Dwarf", "Eerie, Indiana", "Deep Space Nine", "Babylon 5" and "The X-Files", among others. Oh, and I haunted the local comic book store, collecting Simpsons merchandise.
I am an ongoing fan of Sci-Fi. I see you enjoyed Red Dwarf. You should check out Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, if you haven't already. I liked Red Dwarf, but loved H2G2. I also was an avid reader of comic books during the 1960's: Fantastic Four, Hulk, X-Men (before Wolverine) and others (mostly Marvel). Also enjoyed many Omni and Scientific American magazines. Did you read any magazines with the title "Heavy Metal?" Sci-Fi comics with amazing art.
Yup, I used to be a huge fan of THHGTTG, especially the first two novels and the TV series. I never got an opportunity to listen to the radio show (though I did buy "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" on LP), and I thought the rest of the books, the comic and the movie were so-so.
I've heard about "Heavy Metal", but never read it. I do like "Valérian", Moebius and Enki Bilal, though. One of the most atmospheric sci-fi comics IMO was Tom de Haven's and Bruce Jensen's comic book adaptation of "Neuromancer". Unfortunately, they only covered the first half of the novel, and there never was any sequel.
I first discovered THHGTTG while listening to the BBC World Service on shortwave radio. I later read all the books, played the computer text adventure, watched the original TV series and the movie, and am now listening to Douglas Adams reading the audiobook. I have read a couple other of his books too.
Sorry to go off topic. I couldn't resist.
27 May 2009, 1:41 pm
