Simply random stuff

[GOS]

https://cfjctoday.com/2023/04/12/40...e-put-a-personal-computer-on-its-front-cover/

Yeah man......it really does blow a person's mind. Computers and cell phones. Those 2 alone have changed everything. Sort of makes you wonder, what will be the next BIG thing. No, I mean BIG......

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Yeah man......it really does blow a person's mind. Computers and cell phones. Those 2 alone have changed everything. Sort of makes you wonder, what will be the next BIG thing. No, I mean BIG......

Indeed, right you are. I didn't come to computers as early as some around here. But it was in '93 the big purchase for Xmas was a Packard Bell PC with Win 3.1 on it. At the medical practice where I worked, with about 25 employees, I was the only one with a home computer & an E Mail address!! Prodigy, you know. Life hasn't been the same since.

 

[JohnN]

Do we inhabit some micro-space
And interface through wires
Dance on a printed circuit board
Throw the software to the fires - 1983

 

[DuncanS]

NOW, that's ITALIAN: Presenting PIZZA GNOME

Definitely need to call pest control!

 

[JohnN]

Definitely need to call pest control!

Stand back!

https://metro.co.uk/2011/08/15/gnomes-with-guns-take-garden-pest-control-up-a-notch-115167/

 

[GOS]

Indeed, right you are. I didn't come to computers as early as some around here. But it was in '93 the big purchase for Xmas was a Packard Bell PC with Win 3.1 on it. At the medical practice where I worked, with about 25 employees, I was the only one with a home computer & an E Mail address!! Prodigy, you know. Life hasn't been the same since.

I remember when my wife and I first got a computer at home.....the both of us would sit beside each other and just "bomb" around mindlessly. I mean, we couldn't believe it. If I recall, the browser we used was Netscape of something like that. I could be wrong there....what were the other browsers...that have since gone away?

 

[Sonik Wiz]

I remember when my wife and I first got a computer at home.....the both of us would sit beside each other and just "bomb" around mindlessly. I mean, we couldn't believe it. If I recall, the browser we used was Netscape of something like that. I could be wrong there....what were the other browsers...that have since gone away?

Mosaic & Netscape Navigator were two of the earliest. Me thinks they even preceded MS Internet Explorer by a few years.

The first significant on line service was Compuserve and people I knew that were already doing computer careers at that time all were on Compuserve. But then you had to go out & pay actual money & buy a browser like Netscape & add on. I held out for Prodigy because it already came with a browser built in, of unknown lineage. Free browser but Prodigy cost $30 month...

I was dazzled at the MS Encyclopedia Encarta. Audio! Pictures! Movie clips via QT! I had zero training when I fired up the 486DX. Like you, I remember stumbling around. I figured out how to open an app but I didn't know how to close it. I noticed that little short dash in the upper right hand corner made it go away. Then eventually the 'puter froze up & at some point I realized I had dozens of apps/windows open, just minimized & the machine did not like that.

Now even earlier I had a TI 449A with RAM extension, daisy wheel printer, voice synth, game controller. But some how I never really did anything with it (still have it!) and I could count the nice beige Packard Bell as my real introduction.

 

[cbmmm3]

I remember when my wife and I first got a computer at home.....the both of us would sit beside each other and just "bomb" around mindlessly. I mean, we couldn't believe it. If I recall, the browser we used was Netscape of something like that. I could be wrong there....what were the other browsers...that have since gone away?

The dial up modem. You would hear it dial...then start making a bunch of freaky noises and then - viola - connected in sweet 14k baud. And then 28k came along........

 

[Sonik Wiz]

The dial up modem. You would hear it dial...then start making a bunch of freaky noises and then - viola - connected in sweet 14k baud. And then 28k came along........

I can't count the number of US Robotics modems I went through looking for higher speed. Mostly it just didn't make much difference even the 56K modems.

But after those freaky noises you could go to one of the most amazing things ever: the Alta Vista search engine! Poking around on Alta Vista for some info on one of my favorite movies (Wizard of Speed and Time) I discovered the Cardiff Movie Data Base. Now known as IMDB. I rushed into the TV room to tell my wife: Honey guess what? My computer is talking to another computer in Wales! And it knows about my favorite movie!!

 

[GOS]

Mosaic & Netscape Navigator were two of the earliest. Me thinks they even preceded MS Internet Explorer by a few years.

The first significant on line service was Compuserve and people I knew that were already doing computer careers at that time all were on Compuserve. But then you had to go out & pay actual money & buy a browser like Netscape & add on. I held out for Prodigy because it already came with a browser built in, of unknown lineage. Free browser but Prodigy cost $30 month...

I was dazzled at the MS Encyclopedia Encarta. Audio! Pictures! Movie clips via QT! I had zero training when I fired up the 486DX. Like you, I remember stumbling around. I figured out how to open an app but I didn't know how to close it. I noticed that little short dash in the upper right hand corner made it go away. Then eventually the 'puter froze up & at some point I realized I had dozens of apps/windows open, just minimized & the machine did not like that.

Now even earlier I had a TI 449A with RAM extension, daisy wheel printer, voice synth, game controller. But some how I never really did anything with it (still have it!) and I could count the nice beige Packard Bell as my real introduction.

My wife and I also had some Tandy, I don't recall the exact model. It had those crazy floppy drives. ahahahahaha. Good times. Well, that was PRE internet.

 

[GOS]

Took my grandson out for ice cream today after work…

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Took my grandson out for ice cream today after work…

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I bet you both had a great time!!

 

[GOS]

I bet you both had a great time!!

I love this guy more than ever!

 

[Doug G.]

Yeah, that's great. I love being with my grandchildren, too.

Let's not forget Webcrawler.

Doug

 

[ar surround]

Yeah, that's great. I love being with my grandchildren, too.

Let's not forget Webcrawler.

Doug

Webcrawler...it crawled alright.

 

[jslasher]

Why did I come across this gibberish after imbibing a single martini whilst listening to the Mercury CD of Bernard Herrmann’s magnificent score for Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”. I certainly deserve better!

 

[ar surround]

Why did I come across this gibberish after imbibing a single martini whilst listening to the Mercury CD of Bernard Herrmann’s magnificent score for Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”. I certainly deserve better!

Welcome to our insane forum, jslasher.

 

[cbmmm3]

only in West Carlisle...................hrumph

• Today
  
  
  
  
  Mostly Sunny
  then Slight
  Chance
  Showers
  High: 80 °F
• Tonight
  
  
  
  
  Slight Chance
  T-storms then
  Chance
  Showers
  Low: 59 °F
• Sunday
  
  
  
  
  Showers and
  Breezy
  High: 67 °F⇓
• Sunday
  Night
  
  
  
  Breezy.
  Chance
  Showers then
  Rain/Snow
  Likely
  Low: 36 °F
• Monday
  
  
  
  
  Rain/Snow and
  Breezy
  High: 39 °F
• Monday
  Night
  
  
  
  Chance Snow
  Showers and
  Breezy
  Low: 34 °F
• Tuesday

 

[barfle]

Yeah man......it really does blow a person's mind. Computers and cell phones. Those 2 alone have changed everything. Sort of makes you wonder, what will be the next BIG thing. No, I mean BIG......

When I was still woykin’ fo’ da man, I occasionally noted that when I graduated from college, the closest thing to a PC had an S-100 bus. I never had one of those, but I did have a Hp-41C, which could do conditional branching.

Without a GUI, though, I doubt if PCs would be anything like they are now.

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Why did I come across this gibberish after imbibing a single martini whilst listening to the Mercury CD of Bernard Herrmann’s magnificent score for Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”. I certainly deserve better!

Here's a drink to your health: