Sending an email back in 1984

#5542214 Posted on: 04/30/2018 10:37 AM

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Just looked like teletext lol

I was 5 back then, few years before we got our first computer, the BBC's little brother, the Acorn Electron

#5542215 Posted on: 04/30/2018 10:54 AM

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I wasnt even born. And, yes, its true, time flies.

#5542220 Posted on: 04/30/2018 11:09 AM

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The sound of the modem brings back memory's, I used a commodore 64 I remember using bulletin boards that looked the same.

#5542222 Posted on: 04/30/2018 11:25 AM

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Connects PC to telephone. "Now, I am going to call my computer"

My god. Good thing we don't call our computer nowadays. My PC would just say, "F#CK OFF, I AM DONE WITH YOU AND YOUR RIDICULOUS OC".

#5542256 Posted on: 04/30/2018 12:49 PM

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Pac Man. I think that was the big game in those days .

#5542264 Posted on: 04/30/2018 01:03 PM

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Connects PC to telephone. "Now, I am going to call my computer"

My god. Good thing we don't call our computer nowadays. My PC would just say, "F#CK OFF, I AM DONE WITH YOU AND YOUR RIDICULOUS OC".My PC would just call me a "tw@t" without giving me a reason.

#5542303 Posted on: 04/30/2018 02:40 PM

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I had no idea that any of that even existed back then as i started my first job after just leaving school that year, so the closest i came to any technology back in 1984 was my Vic 20 and Ceefax on the TV, i did not even know about this internet thing until 1998 when NTL did that free internet dial up service for their cable customers and that first time logging onto the internet felt like Armstrong stepping onto the moon. lol

#5542318 Posted on: 04/30/2018 03:34 PM

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Oh Boy that sure does make me appreciate he things we have now! Very nostalgic to watch thank you for that.

#5542319 Posted on: 04/30/2018 03:36 PM

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Mrs pac-man to be exact. Haha.

#5542326 Posted on: 04/30/2018 03:45 PM

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looks like fred west,

i regret listening to this with headphones on...

#5542328 Posted on: 04/30/2018 03:55 PM

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Man it's things like this that kids take for granted.

I was born in 90, so I can't attest for this. But kids now don't even care about emailing someone, you gotta DM them in snapchat, or whatever they're using now. AIM for life, email too lol.

Or how kids don't know the struggle of a bike with carbs...Gotta let the Kawasaki warm up for 10 minutes before I can ride it.

#5542329 Posted on: 04/30/2018 03:59 PM

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"It's extremely simple" (starts dialing the phone)...

#5542359 Posted on: 04/30/2018 05:29 PM

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I miss that hypnotic noise Dial up and old tape games and software used to make.

#5542365 Posted on: 04/30/2018 05:41 PM

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Hahaha things advanced so so much! Although i was born @ 1987 so it was before my time

#5542368 Posted on: 04/30/2018 05:45 PM

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lol was his password just 1234?