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donator
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August 03, 2012, 10:15:42 PM
#27
My first job in college was sysadmin for FORTRAN and COBOL.

Unprotected sex was safe (and fun and available!).

A fag was something English wanna-be's smoked.

Boeing 707's were the shit for transcontinental flight, and you could fly Braniff, TWA, Pan Am, Eastern, Piedmont, Hughes Airwest, and flight attendants were called stewardesses, and were uniformly hot females.

Silicon Valley was the shitty part of the Bay Area, and the only thing to see there was the Winchester House, and then only if you were driving through, since it was on a par with the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz.

European countries all had their own currencies, and they were cool- Marks, Francs, Drachma, Kroner, and traveling was a bitch because you had to know exchange rates against thirty currencies.

There actually was a place where all the Communists lived, it was called the Soviet Union, and it was creepy as hell going there, and accidentally smuggling in 4 ounces of hash from Copenhagen damn near gave me a heart attack when I discovered it in my backpack, AFTER the border search.

Suddenly realizing I've lead a rather boring life...
sr. member
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August 03, 2012, 06:29:38 PM
#26
My first job in college was sysadmin for FORTRAN and COBOL.

Unprotected sex was safe (and fun and available!).

A fag was something English wanna-be's smoked.

Boeing 707's were the shit for transcontinental flight, and you could fly Braniff, TWA, Pan Am, Eastern, Piedmont, Hughes Airwest, and flight attendants were called stewardesses, and were uniformly hot females.

Silicon Valley was the shitty part of the Bay Area, and the only thing to see there was the Winchester House, and then only if you were driving through, since it was on a par with the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz.

European countries all had their own currencies, and they were cool- Marks, Francs, Drachma, Kroner, and traveling was a bitch because you had to know exchange rates against thirty currencies.

There actually was a place where all the Communists lived, it was called the Soviet Union, and it was creepy as hell going there, and accidentally smuggling in 4 ounces of hash from Copenhagen damn near gave me a heart attack when I discovered it in my backpack, AFTER the border search.
legendary
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August 03, 2012, 04:14:02 AM
#25
I remember when I came across Bitcoins they were 8 cents. I forgot about it because it was around the time that CPU mining was becoming obsolete, and there wasn't many things you could spend them on at the time. So why should I have bought any, right? lol
I remember looking bitcoin back up over a year after I initially discovered it and having missed the bubble.
I remember liquidating my bitcoinica long position from 2 to 2.5 and watching the prices to continue to climb.
Did lots of stupid things...

Don't let that get you down, there will be another time. You have to be a contrarian investor at heart and always learn Smiley
sr. member
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August 02, 2012, 11:36:41 PM
#24
I remember when I came across Bitcoins they were 8 cents. I forgot about it because it was around the time that CPU mining was becoming obsolete, and there wasn't many things you could spend them on at the time. So why should I have bought any, right? lol
Vod
legendary
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Licking my boob since 1970
August 02, 2012, 11:36:35 PM
#23
I shared my first sip of beer with my Dad
legendary
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August 02, 2012, 11:32:05 PM
#22
I just discovered bitcoin!  Grin
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FIAT LIBERTAS RVAT CAELVM
August 02, 2012, 10:02:57 PM
#21
__MTV showed music. Exclusively.
donator
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I outlived my lifetime membership:)
August 02, 2012, 07:55:06 PM
#20
 TI basic on the TI-99 and cassette tape storage...and how cool the commodore64 was.

Next thing I remember was upgrading from dos 3.3 to 6.22 
donator
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August 02, 2012, 07:50:43 PM
#19
This thread wasn't moved to off-topic.
+1. I can't find stuff anymore...I'll need to start "watching" more threads.
vip
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August 02, 2012, 12:39:56 PM
#18
people in this forum actually got along and didn't spend their time trying to outflame one another.
legendary
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Marketing manager - GO MP
August 02, 2012, 12:39:48 PM
#17
I remember Cosbycoin

9/11/11 nevar forget.
donator
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August 02, 2012, 12:34:10 PM
#16
I remember when you could get a pizza for 10,000 BTC.
legendary
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Strength in numbers
August 02, 2012, 12:09:45 PM
#15
Bitcoins were 6 US cents!

...and 30 US bucks
rjk
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1ngldh
August 02, 2012, 11:12:06 AM
#14
__hard drives were as large as a washing machine, and held 10 whole MEGAbytes!
donator
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August 02, 2012, 10:05:19 AM
#13
I remember when a block chain was one of these things:



and a bit coin was one of these things:

vip
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August 02, 2012, 09:48:47 AM
#12
My modem was 300 baud. I could read the BBS as fast as it loaded.
Computer display was green and black.
No HDD and no mouse. Everything booted from a 360 or 800 kB 5-1/4 inch floppy disk.
Apple, Atari and Amiga was the way to go for personal computing... IBM was crap.

Then...

My 386 needed a mathematical coprocessor to do 3D drawing.
Windows 95 and it's GUI was a novelty.
7+ X 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy disk was needed to install some software.
full member
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August 02, 2012, 09:41:54 AM
#11
So you must have the Turbo button? You running at 8 or 12 mhz?   Wink

I remember when MS-DOS was the only OS available (to us) for the computer.  We still have the receipt for our Intel 80286 computer...  I should totally scan that and post it.  The computer is still in active use to this day, my parents have been doing their taxes on it for like 26 years, it's booted up once a year.  Playing games on the computer meant so much more when computers were just barely able to function.  
newbie
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August 02, 2012, 09:19:45 AM
#10
pagers were cool.
hero member
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August 02, 2012, 09:18:03 AM
#9
__ a sixpence was worth 2.5 new pence and you could buy five Black Jacks with one.
sr. member
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August 02, 2012, 09:04:17 AM
#8
I couldn't buy any bitcoins. That sucked.
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