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Bart Fargo posted:If you ask my wife, she'll tell you that sleeping in the same room with me sounds much the same as this video. You're more like "Fart Bargo" am I right? (Ok, I stole that from MST3k too)
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theflyingorc posted:That's an absolutely worthless demographic title. People played Oregon trail, on the same awful computers, from like 1980 to like 2000. Yeah if anything we should be the "How the gently caress do they expect to us to actually play Carmen Sandiego if they don't bring the Fodor's into the computer lab" Generation
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FadedReality posted:Yeah if anything we should be the "How the gently caress do they expect to us to actually play Carmen Sandiego if they don't bring the Fodor's into the computer lab" Generation I don't know how many stories the Empire State Building has.  I just want to complete ONE CASE
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Gorilla Salad posted:Yes, farts are still funny. My test is reading the wikipedia page on "Fartists". quote:"..such command of their bowels, that they can break wind continuously at will, so as to produce the effect of singing." If you can read that page without laughing, humor is dead.
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Jul 6, 2015 18:54
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theflyingorc posted:That's an absolutely worthless demographic title. People played Oregon trail, on the same awful computers, from like 1980 to like 2000. I don't think people ever actually quit playing Oregon Trail. andy peparoni and cheese is still dying of dysentery to this day.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I don't think people ever actually quit playing Oregon Trail. andy peparoni and cheese is still dying of dysentery to this day. Oregon Trail is still around but they updated it a bit. http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05132003 How do I do that so the "Updated it a bit" is a link to that page?
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Johnny Aztec posted:Oregon Trail is still around but they updated it a bit. http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05132003 code:
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ClothHat posted:Hmmm tell me more. Nobody gives a poo poo about derails dude. How old are you? Part of the Debbie downer generation?
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Gorilla Salad posted:Listening to community radio nerd programmes on 3RRR where they carefully spelled out the URL of sites to visit Aaaggh I may have heard this same ad. Sonorous dignified old guy, determined to do it right. Only of course it was "Aitch tee, tee pee. Semicolon, backslash backslash. Double you double you double you..."
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My early internet access was not bandwidth limited, but time limited instead. I remember we started out at 30 minutes/month for something like $30. This was some time around 1996.
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BANME.sh posted:My early internet access was not bandwidth limited, but time limited instead. I remember we started out at 30 minutes/month for something like $30. This was some time around 1996. Sign up now and get 1,000 free hours in the first 45 days!  (there are 1,080 hours in 45 days)
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Data Graham posted:backslash backslash That drives me crazy. The only thing I can figure is it's a hold-over from DOS, but I am almost certain that most people who carefully spell out URLs have never used DOS.
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Centripetal Horse posted:That drives me crazy. The only thing I can figure is it's a hold-over from DOS, but I am almost certain that most people who carefully spell out URLs have never used DOS. I had a guy say: "h-t-t-p-colon-whack-whack-dub-dub-dub" I almost hung the phone up.
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Master Twig posted:Sign up now and get 1,000 free hours in the first 45 days! PFFF It was all about that Prodigy. 
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:I had a guy say: "h-t-t-p-colon-whack-whack-dub-dub-dub" I had a boss around 2000 who would say the first part, but shorten it to "trip-dub." Considering our users, even that abbreviation would confuse them at first. Don't get me started about whether this '/' is called a forward-slash or a back-slash.
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It's because you start drawing the slash at the top and it's a back- or forward-slash depending on if the stroke moves back or forwards. It's not that complicated guys.
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Jul 6, 2015 22:52
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The first time I heard "dub dub dub" was in late 2000, in New Zealand. That remains the only place I've ever heard it. Here, have a different WWW (wicked white wizard) spotted in NZ: 
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I'll never understand why the people who came up with the pseudo-standard didn't just use "web" instead of "www". I checked, and their native language was English (in most languages, the "word" for the letter W is monosyllabic, which makes it less egregious)
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wayfinder posted:I'll never understand why the people who came up with the pseudo-standard didn't just use "web" instead of "www". I checked, and their native language was English (in most languages, the "word" for the letter W is monosyllabic, which makes it less egregious) No self-respecting computer science guy is going to use anything but a three letter acronym for his creations.
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"It seemed funny at the time," thought Tim Berners-Lee.
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wayfinder posted:I'll never understand why the people who came up with the pseudo-standard didn't just use "web" instead of "www". I checked, and their native language was English (in most languages, the "word" for the letter W is monosyllabic, which makes it less egregious) Since then they've said if they knew how much the net was going to take off it would have been something completely more useable. It just wasn't a concern at the time because no one saw how much a part of life it was going to become.
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Hirayuki posted:The first time I heard "dub dub dub" was in late 2000, in New Zealand. That remains the only place I've ever heard it. This was my first exposure to the WWW 
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stubblyhead posted:This was my first exposure to the WWW Those pocket flaps were a pain in the rear end for sewing. #Brotherhood
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Centripetal Horse posted:That drives me crazy. The only thing I can figure is it's a hold-over from DOS, but I am almost certain that most people who carefully spell out URLs have never used DOS. Early lovely v1.0 browsers like Netscape and IE wouldn't parse anything without the "http://". What if you put "google.com" and its actually ftp??
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Bart Fargo posted:If you ask my wife, she'll tell you that sleeping in the same room with me sounds much the same as this video. Same. Apparently waking my girl up is a nightly occurrence. And she still doesn't get why I keep laughing when she starts complaining. e: www was always short for world wide web. back in the day, because connections were so slow(anyone here ever use a 1200 baud modem? 40 wpm was faster than it transmitted, and 300 baud was worse) so everything was shortened, which is a large part of the reason acronyms became so entrenched in computer culture. RFC2324 has a new favorite as of 02:04 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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dud root posted:Early lovely v1.0 browsers like Netscape and IE wouldn't parse anything without the "http://". What if you put "google.com" and its actually ftp?? My company has a lot of people on the road and I have to send out new mobile hotspots occasionally. To configure them you have to connect and then visit a url that looks like: http://my.hotspot No "www". No ".com" at the end. Just "http://my.hotspot". This is more or less impossible for old people due to so many years of conditioning. Just getting them to the configuration page takes exponentially longer than actually configuring the thing.
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glomkettle posted:It's because you start drawing the slash at the top and it's a back- or forward-slash depending on if the stroke moves back or forwards. It's not that complicated guys. No it's if the top of the stroke faces forwards (to the right) or backwards (to the left). Web addresses should never be defined as backslash backslash. Edit, had my left and right confused, point still stands. Aargh has a new favorite as of 02:34 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Master Twig posted:Sign up now and get 1,000 free hours in the first 45 days! And the best part is, if you sign up now, I get ten free hours. All you gotta do is tell 'em that SOOORAD@AOL.COM sent you.
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radiatinglines posted:I was born in 89 but my parents were pretty early adopters so I had internet early, even if it was dialup. Not that I did anything on the internet, I was too busy playing doom and megarace. I definitely played a lot of Oregon trail in school. People who say Millennials aren't self absorbed have never read a thread full of Millennials detailing the day they got internet.
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the Buttocks! posted:People who say Millennials aren't self absorbed have never read a thread full of Millennials detailing the day they got internet. Lol just chill out and post a story or a picture, read the post above the one you quoted. This is a forum hawowanlawow has a new favorite as of 03:02 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Woah nelly, a funny pictue! Never thought I'd see the day
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stubblyhead posted:This was my first exposure to the WWW Tschitani 10 represent
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the Buttocks! posted:People who say Millennials aren't self absorbed have never read a thread full of Millennials detailing the day they got internet. In 60 years Robot Ken Burns is going to release 18 hours of footage of elderly people describing the day the got the internet.
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Yes let's continue the Reddit feed, here you go
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RyokoTK posted:Wow she really let herself go. Hehehehehe
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fullroundaction posted:My company has a lot of people on the road and I have to send out new mobile hotspots occasionally. To configure them you have to connect and then visit a url that looks like: http://my.hotspot My company has OWA on webmail.domain.com, and you wont believe how many people put www in front, and then complain when www.webmail.domain.com wont load.
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