To us old folks...... by FutureMrsFIllion

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To us old folks......

POSTED BY: FUTUREMRSFILLION
UPDATED: Saturday, February 24, 2007 12:12
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Friday, February 23, 2007 5:53 PM

Who remembers the night MTV started btoadcasting (other than me).

I found this and can not stop laughing! My friend and I used to sing this all the time!

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Bestower of Titles, Designer of Tshirts, Maker of Mottos, Keeper of the Pyre

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

FORSAKEN original

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Friday, February 23, 2007 6:01 PM

KELKHIL

I do. My friend still has the first video on VHS. For all you youngins out there...... That was before DVD!

Hi FMF! :waves:

Oh and Firsties!

Kelkhil

The Shirtless Forsaken

Yea though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil: for I am Forsaken

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Friday, February 23, 2007 6:04 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Yeah and our VHS players were huge and the top popped up.

Hello! *FMF waves at the shirtless forsaken wonder*

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Bestower of Titles, Designer of Tshirts, Maker of Mottos, Keeper of the Pyre

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

FORSAKEN original

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Friday, February 23, 2007 6:41 PM

NCBROWNCOAT

The two worst things to happen to VHS was a tape of your favorite show being eaten up by player and being unable to get the "12:00" to stop blinking.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

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Friday, February 23, 2007 6:43 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

You are all just tykes. Now when it comes to be really old ... do you remember the big PC-DOS MS-DOS debates?

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Friday, February 23, 2007 6:47 PM

NCBROWNCOAT

I remember being baffled by BASIC on the thing called the computer.

Yes, I just turned 47 so my rock and roll is the Beatles, the Rolling Stones when Mick was under 30 and being awed at The Sound of Music.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

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Friday, February 23, 2007 6:48 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

I remember having to type all that crappy code juct to get into my ccmail.

And WANG word processors!

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Bestower of Titles, Designer of Tshirts, Maker of Mottos, Keeper of the Pyre

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

FORSAKEN original

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:52 AM

FOLLOWMAL

Quote:
Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
And WANG word processors!

OMJoss.. I'd forgotten about them!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, FMF.

*waves*

Go to www.drivefans.com for more info!

Ask me how to join the Appreciatin' Nathan crew!

When we're down, don't frown. Come join the camp-out at serenitymovie.org. Someone think of a name and we'll start a crew over there!

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:05 AM

PENGUIN

I was watching when MTV first came on the air.

"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video aired.

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:34 AM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

I wrote my first program in BASIC on the TRS-80 with 8 Kb of memory using PCDOS 1.1 in grade school.

There was no hard drive, so I stored it on a 5¼ in. double sided floppy. Floppies are those little disks computers used before the invention of RW-CD/DVD, zip drives and flash drives. You may remember them as 3½ in. not so floppy floppy disks, but we didn’t have the advanced models back then.

My program was basically a lot of PRINT statements and IF…THEM…ELSE statement, which printed a text story on the screen about a D&D adventurer – it was modeled after the choose-your-own-fate D&D books that came out briefly during the eighties. I loved those books. With each screen full of text a choice between two to three options would be offered the user, most of which ended in disaster. I was the only on who ever played it, and I knew which choice to make.

Later I would discoverer that it was a hell of lot easier to just write my stories down on paper, so I bought a little manual mechanical word processor, called a “typewriter.” It was from Sears. I wrote many wild and fascinating stories on my “typewriter.” Some of which I continue to write today, though I’ve moved onto more advanced technology.

Also I do remember when MTV appeared. That was back when they played music videos.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 9:11 AM

DARKJESTER

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
You are all just tykes. Now when it comes to be really old ... do you remember the big PC-DOS MS-DOS debates?

I remember writing my first programs in BASIC on a RS/TSCE mainframe at the local college. All students using the computer, even high school kids like me, had a whopping 40K of storage available to them! A few computer majors would request additional space if they were working on an especially long and complex program.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

http://www.fireflytalk.com - Big Damn Podcast

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 12:12 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

Quote:
Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
Who remembers the night MTV started btoadcasting (other than me).

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, FMF. I remember all of the things listed above. Truthfully, I learned how to type on a manual typewriter in high school. There were 2 electric typewriters in the class, but the teacher insisted on everyone learning on a manual in order to develop the correct pressure for our key strokes.

Computers? I remember the 1st ones that were as big as a room.

You heard about them in movies.

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