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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FLOOB on January 01, 2014, 02:10:22 AM

Title: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: FLOOB on January 01, 2014, 02:10:22 AM

What do these things have in common? They're all older than this year's high school graduates. That's right, we've been wasting our life at this for an adult life time. Matter of fact I still have my analog Nokia cell phone from 1996. I literally have a cell phone that's older than them.

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: Estes on January 01, 2014, 02:23:34 AM

I have a lot of things older than them. As far as what they all have in common, internet connection required? I was tardy to the party on flight sims compared to others here heh.

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: artik on January 01, 2014, 02:25:10 AM

They all were ground breaking internet technologies...

And they all are dead (or almost dead)

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: FLOOB on January 01, 2014, 03:17:24 AM

They're all older than the class of 2014. It was a rhetorical question.

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: Meatwad on January 01, 2014, 06:49:40 AM

ICQ was awesome at the time. I barely remember my number, its 133 something.

I also had one of these back when dial up boards were the thing to do

(http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/DC%20Hayes/History/Smartmodem.jpg)

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: bozon on January 02, 2014, 07:18:34 AM

try explain a teenager how to use a dial phone.

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: Meatwad on January 02, 2014, 08:23:56 AM

Or a rotary phone, 8 track, or a 45

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: BoilerDown on January 02, 2014, 09:27:38 AM

My HP 11C calculator thinks young people are really stupid for not knowing how to do things they've never seen or needed done before.

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: Megalodon on January 02, 2014, 10:36:50 AM

Quote from: FLOOB on January 01, 2014, 02:10:22 AM

What do these things have in common? They're all older than this year's high school graduates. That's right, we've been wasting our life at this for an adult life time. Matter of fact I still have my analog Nokia cell phone from 1996. I literally have a cell phone that's older than them.

I have my old nokia aswell, but its not older than AW or Netscape. I still have my Netscape mail address too.  :aok

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: Kenne on January 02, 2014, 01:15:24 PM

Here is the CPU from my AW machine in '93.


(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SkaJUkwxA-4/UsW5H-tR6DI/AAAAAAAAAk0/GLMf1j7ypLc/s576/2014-01-02_11-03-36_111.jpg)

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: Meatwad on January 02, 2014, 08:42:02 PM

My first 486 chip was an SX-25

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: Blinder on January 02, 2014, 08:53:29 PM

Uh ....hate to say it. But tucked away upstairs in the attic somewhere. I have one of these and it still works.

(http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/computer_vic20_ntsc_01.jpg)

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: Arlo on January 02, 2014, 09:01:51 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4v-crPSrj0

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: Saxman on January 02, 2014, 10:26:35 PM

Quote from: Blinder on January 02, 2014, 08:53:29 PM

Uh ....hate to say it. But tucked away upstairs in the attic somewhere. I have one of these and it still works.

(http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/computer_vic20_ntsc_01.jpg)

That old stuff was TOUGH. Took a lot to break it.

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: rpm on January 03, 2014, 11:24:36 AM

(http://blog.softwareinsider.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/trs80.jpg)

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: bacon8tr on January 03, 2014, 02:01:20 PM

Who remembers Vectrex? Still have mine but very few of the game cartridges still work.   :bhead

Title: Re: ICQ, altavista, Netscape, AW, WB
Post by: Nwbie on January 08, 2014, 10:39:50 PM

or this :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0)