 xtreme_dude
Male, 18-29, Western US
 1376 Posts
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Friday, January 30, 2009 7:58:42 PM
WHAT, NEWSPAPER ON A COMPUTER!?! ABSURD!!WHAT NEXT, BEING ABLE TO PLAY GREAT HITS LIKE PONG OR EVEN PAC-MAN ON THE COMPUTER?! |
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 manchild1987
Male, 18-29, Europe
5 Posts
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Friday, January 30, 2009 12:18:31 PM
2 hours!? That would be so infuriatingly slow! That guy must have had a lot of patience for the news... I remember using computers like that a long long time ago, not that I'm old or anything. |
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 gorgack2000
Male, 13-17, Europe
4702 Posts
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Friday, January 30, 2009 6:32:37 AM
"wow I love their crummy old computers
they suck so bad I want one =]"
Cue angry replies from retro computer enthusiasts. |
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 ghostofme
Male, 18-29, Western US
519 Posts
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Friday, January 30, 2009 12:47:27 AM
Holy poo! Richard Halloran actually owns his own computer? God, what a lucky SOB! I can't wait until society reaches the point where everyone can have a computer in their home... |
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 deathxtra
Male, 13-17, Western US
2810 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:49:29 PM
Pfft. Impossible. |
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 router52000
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
617 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:47:58 PM
WOW i want a computer
just think one day we will be able to watch movies on a computer |
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 osirisascend
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
2844 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:59:42 PM
@splurbyburbl: Naw... but your mom was DEFINITELY the bee's knees! I remember how she used to... oh, wait... that was your GRANDMOTHER. |
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 splurbyburbl
Male, 30-39, Southern US
2810 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:25:58 PM
Osiris... Gee man that is swell! I bet you thought those zany contraptions were the bee's knee's eh?:) |
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splurbyburbl
Male, 30-39, Southern US
2810 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:21:53 PM
This whole "newspaper on your tv" thing... it's a fad! Much like pockets and shoe laces... it'll go outta style soon. |
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 Codmily
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
355 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:18:37 PM
yeah right!! that's impossible. |
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 bolives
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
69 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:01:39 PM
Computers. They'll never catch on. |
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 nodar
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
231 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:35:57 PM
"This is photoshopped."lol. literally |
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 iambluebeard
Male, 30-39, Southern US
339 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:21:05 PM
omg!!! a rotary phone!!! havent seen one of those in a while. |
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 Kay62442
Female, 13-17, Western US
870 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:06:12 PM
Sitting at home, turning on my computer, and reading the NEWS ON IT OMGWTFLOLBBQ!!! |
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 PeproniPizza
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
724 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:05:14 PM
OH GEE I CAN'T WAIT. |
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 JimboH
Male, 30-39, Southern US
601 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:08:34 PM
"And we're not in it to make money. We're, uh, probably... not going to lose a lot, but we aren't gonna make much either."MUWHAHAHA -- Little did they know that they were sowing the seeds for the newspaper's ultimate demise. I actually don't find it funny, really. It's just so ironic to hear this guy talk about how the internet will affect newspapers' bottom lines. It was also interesting how the older gentleman who had a computer in his home said that he could, "copy" the stories onto paper, instead of saying, "print" them onto paper. I dunno... I guess widespread use of that jargon wasn't in place at the time. Cool video. |
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 s0rd3dvis1on
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2409 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:40:14 PM
back when the days of telnet would have made me rich and nasa secrets would be sitting on my top shef under alien conversations and jfk's will |
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osirisascend
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
2844 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:41:00 AM
I love the "informed opinions" here of everyone under 30... Personally, seeing the Radio Shack TRS-80 in the guy's house brought back some memories. They were the first computers in my high school's computer lab in 1981... we had two of them for a student body of over 2000... and there were only six or seven students in the school (myself included) that had any interest in them.At the risk of sounding like a crotchety old man anyone here under the age of 30 would be totally lost if you sat down in front of an old piece of hardware. You're spoiled by the ease of GUI, and a 300 baud modem would have left you curled up in a corner whimpering. And to try to end the argument once and for all, the first true precursor to the internet ARPANET went live in 1969. I believe it was limited to communication between UCLA and Stanford. Anoyone who thinks it didn't exist until the 1990's needs to get a clue. Through my high school's lab I had a VAX account at the University of Buffal |
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 tomahawkjam
Male, 18-29, Europe
200 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:36:23 AM
haha i love the poster thay had for it, just the front page inside the screen, then when users see just green text on black screen they'll be like WTF give me my $10 back |
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 Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
8285 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:34:48 AM
> primetimekin
> I have no idea how the internet works.
> Is it like a big netgear router or something?Silly boy, its a series of tubez... |
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 Thetas
Male, 18-29, Western US
1536 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:53:37 AM
This is photoshopped. |
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 freddyferret
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
9843 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:42:12 AM
Wow....2 hours and $10 to get a $0.20 newspaper. Yeah I would've been the first one to sign up for that.It's fun to look back and see what was high tech 30 years ago. |
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 steve41high
Male, 18-29, Europe
1130 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:06:41 AM
haha glamorous |
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 Boredx12
Female, 13-17, Europe
1661 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:03:12 AM
wow I love their crummy old computers
they suck so bad I want one =] |
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 LazyMe484
Male, 18-29, Canada
10503 Posts
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:39:28 AM
Hahaha Primitive Folk of 1981 had bitter lives of hardship. |
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