who is the oldest person on this board that witnessed the earliest technology?i'm pretty old at 35 so the earliest i experienced was dial up internet in the early 90s but i feel like there must be wiser wizards lurking, i didn't even get to experience usenet properlymy parents told me tales of programming on punch cards and how annoying it was when you made a mistake in your program written in FORTRAN
>>107554056I'm almost 45. Used to play around on an old Apple II growing up, with green and black monitor. Pre-Internet. Also had an NES.During the summers I'd go to my grandma's house, where we'd watch antenna TV with like four channels. Simpler times.
>>107554480(Continued) In retrospect, back then we spent a lot of time playing a game called "outside"
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>>107554056i still use my gtx2060 i got as a kid
>>107554480Around the same age. We had some Apple IIs at school, and they taught us how to type in a lab full of commodore 64s. At home, I had a modem and could call BBSes on a 386.
>>107554681>We had some Apple IIs at schoolPlaying Oregon Trail on the school PC was always the bomb, you always either named your people after classmates or swear words
>>107554056>i'm pretty old at 35I played Pong.
>>107554056I'm 59. My first programming experience was on punch cards.
Whenever I can, I try to listen to the stories.In my country, during my student years, I had the opportunity to talk to a professor who participated in the implementation of various network infrastructures during the 1990s, and that's where I learned that Novell was something that really existed.I had the opportunity to work with someone who worked in Dixie during the same period, and it was a very enriching experience both personally and professionally. I value it greatly.
I'm 82. I worked with computers when they were still made from relays.
I'm 49. I learned BASIC on an Atari 800. Learned Pascal and C on a 386 in order to hack BBS software and write demos. Tried to run a 3-line ISP at 14.4 before anyone knew what it was and failed. Never recovered. Still here.
I've lived in a house requiring me to use a rotary telephone. First pc was a cyrix486
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>>107554056I'm 114 years old. My eyesight is nearly gone now, so my great grandson reads to me from this message board and posts on my behalf.We never really talked about technology when I was a kid, but I remember when my mama got a mangle and she was so happy.My grandson tells me it is sometimes customary to accompany messages with a picture of a sad frog, but I have never understood this, I hope someone will be kind enough to enlighten me.
>>107554056I'm a 23 year old zoomer and I still keep my great grandfathers Weatherman quill from over a century ago and use my grandfathers USSR made alarm clock along with both of their garage tools.
>>107554056ask yo mama about when fire was first invented
