when i was a lad..
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- save0
Another link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/t…
- mr_snuggles0
these were the machines we had in elementary school
- rasko40
the dragon32 was a computer, not a game
- save0
bugger!
- gsd0
I remember way way back in school we had a couple of BBC masters and we used to be able to connect to other peoples 'websites' through the phone line but they all looked like ceefax/teletext pages - but this was long before the internet. what the hell was all that about? anyone remember that?
- ********0
old school bulletin boards right?
- gsd0
it must have been I reckon - big blocky pixels and about a 5 colour palette!
- lustor0
i used to have one of these when i was much younger:
- idsgn0
we had typewriters at my school until my final year, we got the old school macs with b&w screen.
stupid thing is im only 24!
- normal0
(geek)
I used to be a massive BBS user, calling all over the USofA to one or if you were fancy two line BBS's. Posting a message then waiting to call back the next day to see if anyone responded and actually having conversations in that manner. They did look like Teletext systems and it's basically where ASCii art started. As today whenever you downloaded any sort of warez off one of those sites which on a 300/2400 bps modem would take what seemed like a lifetime all of the warez communities had pretty much the same .nfo files they have today. Then it moved to a different system of graphics using RGB blocks in a hex editor that you could create your own multi-color images in. I dabbled in this for a while creating intro pages for various BBS boards. Wish I still had those actually. Gradually the BBS's got bigger, moving into 16, 32 or even 128 lines towards the end just as the internet was coming into the mainstream. But still before Microsoft decided to register their domain name in what... 95!?
First computer was an Apple IIe, then a 286 remembering the jealousy when my friend upped me with a 386 DX 33.
Anyhoo.
(/geek)
- DutchBoy0
hehe, memories, normal!
^_^