Great thread. I was born in '72. Watched the rise of personal computing and THEN internet connectivity. That is a mind-@#$! right there, let me tell you. Taught myself to program in GWBASIC from a reference manual and Family Computing magazine. Reading that IBM DOS reference manual to figure out how to use my computer when I was in 5th grade was a beast...but it set me up for a career in IT later on.
So yes, I hear you -- we live in amazing times, and we should be grateful for the ability to relate and communicate so easily with the broader world, and never cease to look upon the tech we have with wonder. It was a long road and an incredible amount of learning from an incredible amount of people that got us here.
Bump!
Comment has been collapsed.
Thank you for the thread. I, unfortunately, didn't have my computer at that time, and most of my friends too, so it was interesting to read the people's memories about that times. And I agree with you, we live in an amazing time and have great opportunities compared to our ancestors, although sometimes people don't appreciate it. It's nice that there are people like you that remind of this.
Comment has been collapsed.
713 Comments - Last post 42 seconds ago by irony94
12 Comments - Last post 8 minutes ago by steveywonder75
8 Comments - Last post 43 minutes ago by HelloKittyKawaii
5 Comments - Last post 1 hour ago by yush88
30 Comments - Last post 2 hours ago by cpyd
4 Comments - Last post 3 hours ago by Lugum
25 Comments - Last post 3 hours ago by JHartmann
19 Comments - Last post 2 seconds ago by Waxlor
48 Comments - Last post 1 minute ago by DanielStoSve
204 Comments - Last post 10 minutes ago by steveywonder75
570 Comments - Last post 12 minutes ago by CoolDarkDragon
75 Comments - Last post 18 minutes ago by ELGADO26
462 Comments - Last post 47 minutes ago by RePlayBe
372 Comments - Last post 53 minutes ago by Vincer
I hope this doesn't seem too strange to anyone reading this, but it is from the heart. I was born right at the end of the 80s. The 90s and 00s were a time between when a lot of the online structures people defined themselves by such of social media, gaming,connectivity were formed. We had things like DOS, early internet, lycos and askjeeves(early search engines), early fan sites via things like geocities, google, myspace(never my jam), limewire and kazaa to share p2p files runescape(still going on today, the way its evolved is interesting), rise of the robots and demo disks, not knowing what to do when we actually got the internet working. It feels so strange being able to remember these weird inbetween times when we were gaining the ability to easily communicate with each other, learn who we shared these weird interests with (anime-waves doin some stellar work) and how to gain info easily on anything is such a bizarre feeling, like when humankind is making advancements which will be taken for granted in the future,even if technically it was within our grasp even earlier. I haven't been giving away much recently, been taking for granted somewhat our members generosity in making pc games much easier to obtain to everyone else, so here's some giveaways to make you happier and me express my feelings about how special a time we live in.
TLDR Take some giveaways and appreciate the era we all live, use the fact we finally know how much other people around the world suffer motivate you to improve the lives of at least those around you.. Giveaways are level 1, just give away a little to access these, it's not too much to ask. All giveaways finish on Wednesday morning 3am UK time.
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/LuxGM/the-elder-scrolls-online-tamriel-unlimited
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/B7s2Y/resident-evil-5-gold-edition
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/2wyf8/abzu
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/YhXNN/day-of-the-tentacle-remastered
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/lP5qB/everything
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/sqtEU/grim-fandango-remastered
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/2kf8I/borderlands-game-of-the-year
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/IuHhk/the-incredible-adventures-of-van-helsing-final-cut
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/xbwfp/oxenfree
Comment has been collapsed.