On 16 Jun 2006 at 11:37, "Lord Voldemort" lordbishopvoldemort@gmail.com wrote:
Still longer than me, and the rest of us wahoos. We never had to walk to our dial-up computers, uphill both ways, on Windows 3.1, from AOL, like you oldbies. ;-)
AOL as a source of "oldbies"? The *serious* oldbie crowd regards them as the biggest source of clueless newbies! And Windows (whatever version) just brought more crowds of people too computer illiterate to handle a command line interface.
No, the *real* oldbies were the ones who used computers without a wimpy graphical interface... maybe a printing terminal using a modem switchable between 110 baud and the "high-speed" 300 (like they had at the high school I attended in the early '80s)... or even punch cards (like they also used when I was in high school, taking a class in Fortran).