As our grampas and grammas have seen the invention of washing machines, canned food and TVs, so have we witnessed some interesting development that has become so normal that it has become almost impossible to imagine life otherwise anymore.
While not as game-changing as canned food, today I remembered how PCs used to tell you you could turn off your computer once Windows had shut down.
What weird, ancient things do you remember?
I remember when Pepperidge Farm remembered that message. Before the Alzheimer's. Those were happy days.
I remember September.
Ninsheart said:
While not as game-changing as canned food, today I remembered how PCs used to tell you you could turn off your computer once Windows had shut down.
What weird, ancient things do you remember?
PC's didn't have soft power off until the ATX standard released in 1996 before then you had a big clunky switch the really did kill all the power.
The Lisa of 1984 was the first consumer computer with a soft power switch.
Older still the dos prompt.
There was no shut down you just made sure the program was exited and turned it off.
hikikomori1969 said:
I remember September.
Now that's long ago.
14 years is not recent either, tho
Edit: I misread and now can't delete my shame
hikikomori1969 said:
I remember September.
Listen here Canada,
We fucked over the world economy once and we can do it again
Do you remember yellow subs on VHS?
Betamax.
I remember when 90% of tech problems were solved by blowing on things.
triumf said:
Listen here Canada,
We fucked over the world economy once and we can do it again
That reminds me of that guy from Total recall.
kudichan said:
I remember when 90% of tech problems were solved by blowing on things.
Or giving it a good ole smack.
I remember laserdisc.
calculator watches
palmtop-tiger said:
Or giving it a good ole smack.
They actually fixed a voltage regulator on Skylab that way.
I MEAN SEPTEMBER 21ST
mascarpone said:
laserdisc.
I read this as 'arsenic'. Dammit.
hikikomori1969 said:
I MEAN SEPTEMBER 21ST
Which one?
genosabre said:
I read this as 'arsenic'. Dammit.
I read this as "arsonist." It's a sign from god.
Go to bed Geno.genosabre said:
I read this as 'arsenic'. Dammit.
Hephaestus, or any other fire god.triumf said:
I read this as "arsonist." It's a sign from god.
things that happened during my lifetime, but it bothers me I don't remember are the fall of the Berlin wall and the Challenger explosion, I was around 5 and 2, respectively
I remember when we first got internet at home, good ol' dial-up, with the noise and the slowness and the forever it took to load an image, usually porn, back when porn was still big tittied blondes, about half still with pubic hair, crashing and freezing all the time. And then I've seen how the internet has evolved and become the beast that is today.
Same for phones.
I remember when tapes (video and audio) and computer disks were a necessity to keep out media, plus they'd take a ton of space, often requiring pieces of furniture or boxes or closets to organize. Now is all either on a cloud system, an external hard drive, a flash drive, or in one's computer (unbacked! how do you live with yourself you animal!). This change surprises me in that I am completely digital in all my media, save for about 20 books, and I'm so used to it now that I have a hard time imagining how dependent on those things I was. At one point I had well over 300 DVDs and CDs, plus 6ft bookshelves completely packed. And it bothers me to think all the moneys I spent on them, when I could've just waited a decade or so, and gotten it all for free XD
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