Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

[Orange Rhymer]

I've never even HEARD of Compaq. How about Gateway back in the day?

I distinctly remember Circuit City being a thing. With those white computer towers. NOW I'm aging myself.

I've got stories about the Circuit City liquidation.
My company handled most of the inventory and store closures.

don't want to power level....
...but I'm looking at the last of their inventory right now.

 

[glass_houses]

Old drawers and cabinets that were used for library catalogue cards keep appearing online, labelled as antiques. I was only in year nine or ten when my high school library transitioned to digital catalogues.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

Or the days when they kept the video games in toysrus in their own little hut to keep kids from finding custer's last stand.

Our Toys R Us had all the NES games displayed on a wall. Below each game was a little vinyl holder that had a slip of paper with a barcode on it. You would take that paper to a special desk where the clerk then got the actual box and walked it over to a check-out lane. I guess since the Nintendo was so popular they were really worried about people stealing cartridges.

 

[Android raptor]

My knees hurt sometimes

 

[innocent jogger]

I've never even HEARD of Compaq. How about Gateway back in the day?

How about Packard Bell back back in the day? lol

I always thought Compaq was Radio Shack's brand. Like TRS-80->Tandy->Compaq. I once found an abandoned Compaq 486 desktop in the basement of my apartment building that I reformatted and used for DOS gaming and QBASIC tomfoolery for the next 10 years. It still worked perfectly when I finally got rid of it because I was sick of moving it. Even cheap shit was built to last back then.

I remember buying old sierra games for like $20/$30 from compusa.

I miss the EGA Sierra games before they switched to point-and-click and turned Leisure Suit Larry into a fucking bobble-head.

I miss console games before everything tried to become 3D. To this day I absolutely hate 3D platformers.

brb there are some kids on my lawn!

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

My body feeling like it’s collapsing
I’m not even thirty

 

[cybertoaster]

...but I'm looking at the last of their inventory right now.

Go on, what did you find?

 

[GenociderSyo]

I miss the EGA Sierra games before they switched to point-and-click and turned Leisure Suit Larry into a fucking bobble-head.

Her Interactive made that same mistake a few years ago. They went to unity and just killed the entire franchise of nancy drew games they had.

 

[el bandito loco]

34 here, I think my exact age class were the last, or one of the last in the UK to be taught cursive.

I kept it up after school, and write exclusively in cursive. Feels natural to me, looks great, and is incredibly efficient if you're well practiced.

Always funny when people give me shit about 'I can't read your reading.'

That's because you're a fucking retard, Jim.

I'm in my late 20s and from farmtown, usa. I learned cursive in elementary school and it's about the same for me. In high school they let us use either and most people went back to print but my cursive looks very nice.

my standard print handwriting? looks like a retarded toddler learning to write if I write something quickly. it takes me 2 & a half the amount of time to write something legible without using cursive. but it doesn't matter, nobody can fucking read it anyways. I've written notes for people like family, friends or coworkers that have instructions on how to do something or thank you notes, etc and gotten what the fuck is this say or I can't read it.

I knew this was coming because in high school myself I let a dude borrow a Batman book (Batman: Prey) and most of it has Journal's written in Bruce Wayne's handwriting telling the story you're looking at. Guy gave it back the next day and was pissed off and said he couldn't read it. what the fuck? not only does every letter look pretty much the same between styles but also this retard went to the same schools as me growing up so how did he pass not being able to read and write when we had to use it from 2nd grade through the 7th/8th?

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Go on, what did you find?

I saw flat-screens (we called them that back then) stacked like plywood.
So I got myself the biggest Zenith Plasma that CC stocked.
Beautiful _DUMB_ TV - that can get analog and digital broadcasts.

Thing almost broke my back and my car.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

when i read certain acronyms, i feel like im reading chinese

"我不是Z世代" can be more comprehensible than "rizz no cap frfr".

("我不是Z世代" = "wǒ bù shì Z shì dài" = "I not am Z generation")

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

My knees hurt sometimes

One of my clicks all the time

I'm gettin' on...

 

[Android raptor]

I remember that 9/11 was over 20 years ago and feel ancient every time

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I remember that 9/11 was over 20 years ago and feel ancient every time

 

[Android raptor]

At least the youth of today know the joy of 9/11 jokes

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

At least the youth of today know the joy of 9/11 jokes

where you laugh so hard, the tears begin to burn like jet fuel on steel beams

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I can still recall when Pluto was considered a planet, and I can also recall when the discovery of exoplanets was a new thing.

In other words, 51 Pegasi b was discovered in '95. By '00 it was only 5 years of exoplanets being found at main sequence suns.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

I referenced an old story about how Danny Glover suded NYC for not being able to get a taxi. Then I realized nobody knows who the fuck Danny Glover is or what a Taxi was used for.

 

[cybertoaster]

I saw flat-screens (we called them that back then)

Yeah I remember, not a zoomer.

stacked like plywood.

Damn, back in the late 90's those were like $20k, in 90's dollars, today it would be like $35-40k.

You could build a house out of cheap vizios with that money, anyway, does your plasma still works or it got burned to hell?

 

[glass_houses]

Yeah I remember, not a zoomer.

Damn, back in the late 90's those were like $20k, in 90's dollars, today it would be like $35-40k.

You could build a house out of cheap vizios with that money, anyway, does your plasma still works or it got burned to hell?

My grandparents, when I was growing up, had one of those ancient wood console televisions in the corner with a neat doily on top of it. It had stopped working many years ago and was so obsolete that the parts to repair it were no longer being made, and my grandparents had grudgingly bought a modern colour set. However, since my grandparents were Depression babies, they refused to throw out anything... including that massive old set. So it sat in the corner until my grandparents lay down, and we cleaned out their house. My grandparents were far from hoarders because it almost took threatening them at knife point to get them to spend money, but because they never bought anything, their house was like a museum.