On 16 Jun 2006 at 11:37, "Lord Voldemort" <lordbishopvoldemort(a)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).
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