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
>>107556365Literal burn
>>107554498Back then we were even forced to go outside until the streetlights came on.
>>107554056>i'm pretty old at 35I'm 38 and my parents had an Amstrad 1512 which was older than I am. I played on it a bit, but I wasn't really into that sort of thing in those days. Text-based adventure games are shit.
>>107554657i used a teletype in an elementary school in a suburb of Boston in 1974 connected to MIT mainframes to play games in text stored on those punch hole tape strips. I later sold Commadore 64's at a Tech HiFi branch when they came out..
>>10755405640 here. my first computer was a second hand zx spectrum my mother got me from a car boot sale.I have nightmares about the keyboard, but it did teach me BASIC.
>>107554056I still remember the green phosphor screens, and I tell other people to include that look in their designs, I have director complex
>>107555414Did you fight in The Alamo?
I used to type in nearly everything I could find from the C64 user manual. In school in computer class we still needed boot diskettes to be able to use the machines, and all monitors were either greyscale or green. There were some 5.25" disks too but only to show off that they used those once.
>>107554056>how annoying it was when you made a mistake in your program written in FORTRANdid the program ack xitself when you made a mistake?
>>10755405638, grandma had an 8 track player and an old tube radio that took like 2 minutes to warm up.
>>107554056this type shit, was able to load a "game" off the cassette tapes
>>107560610it's more about the fact that they were on physical punch cards so you'd have to redo the whole thing as opposed to just edit some lines in a text editor
>>10756203551, I've seen working black and white TV, and reel to reel tape.
Been around for a while. I remember the PS2
I'm 53. Like most people my age, first programming language was BASIC on a ZX81 and then Assembly on a ZX Spectrum. Good times.
>>107554056i'm 34 but i've worked almost exclusively with old tech (metal industry), NC machines (punch tapes), shit's still in use believe it or not.
