He's not THAT old, he knows to lock them in the room until they come out with the answer.

weathertop wrote:

you know how to work a computer?! 

 

Harumph!  Work a computer you ask?  I said ancient, not neolithic.  My first computer was portable!  A kaypro..

No, that's not me.. The pic is from wikipedia. I was a bit older but you get the idea. Portable I say!  ..only 29 pounds.  ..and yes, I type with all ten fingers..  when the arthritis isn't acting up.. 

While I'm remembering, please only correspond to me in large font.  ..Now, where did I put my teeth?

M57 wrote:

Gimme a break.  You're all youngsters.  I'm thinking of starting a new thread for ancient members.  We're talking 50+ here...

All right...I am officially not the oldest.  I was starting to worry. ;)

Raptor wrote:

Ah yes, I remember when I was 20...20 years ago!

BBS, 15 minutes to download one picture of a naked woman, Zork, Risk using little plastic roman numerals.

Good times...good times.

I just pulled out my Risk with the roman numerals board last weekend so my youngest could learn the game.  She wanted to get on WarGear like her dad and her older sibs.  I am betting she is nearer the youngest member of the site, but I will keep her off the public games until she knows what she is doing a little more.  I haven't been able to stop my other kids though. fyi some of you are getting beat by an 11 year-old.  And he has got me in a couple games also.

And yes, dial-up BBS's with a 300 baud modem on a C-64 were good times.

I'll try to watch my language from now on in games I'm in with Nate ;)

Well, I'm 39.  And I used to play games on Quantum Link.  And later I ran a BBS with my C64 and 300baud modem...

 My geek cred, let me show you it. 

 Now get off my lawn!

Turned 38 last month. I ran a FIDOnet BBS (Berkely running on an XT-class DOS computer) with a US Robotics Courier Dual-Standard modem (full duplex 28.8kb/s bitches!) in the late 80's. One of the first portables I used was a Compaq, then the Mac Portable (aka the Luggable). By 1990, I'd gotten a DOV (Data Over Voice) modem and could download porn at 128K/s from an FTP site in Finland! I just had to manually binhex everything to make it work on my Mac IIci.

Good times, indeed...

What's a computer?

I guess I fall just over the line into old.... I actually remember when I was in college and they came out with this new thing called the World Wide Web: WWW for short. The school had to upgrade their intranet to handle it. I actually miss my BBS community!

nope. huhuh. i refuse to believe that criteria makes me old. not even email until my sophmore year..way too many hours on the bbs site - the precursor to online dating - and the chicks were just as weird then too, or so i've heard from those in the online dating market now. my wife would discourage such a thing.

I miss the old text based unix MUDs. I used to play one called ShadowMUD back in college. Emote shortcuts were my favorite. I think I spent more time making them than I did leveling up or actually playing.

some old ppl know how to build a computer. just some solder, a z80, some other chips, bang, computer. salsa not included. the first one i used was an H8.
i am {amidon37} + 0.085

Ha ha, I am more than 3 X as old as some of you and my grandkids play Risk!

Amidon37 wrote:

Raptor wrote:

Ah yes, I remember when I was 20...20 years ago!

BBS, 15 minutes to download one picture of a naked woman, Zork, Risk using little plastic roman numerals.

Good times...good times.

I just pulled out my Risk with the roman numerals board last weekend so my youngest could learn the game.  She wanted to get on WarGear like her dad and her older sibs.  I am betting she is nearer the youngest member of the site, but I will keep her off the public games until she knows what she is doing a little more.  I haven't been able to stop my other kids though. fyi some of you are getting beat by an 11 year-old.  And he has got me in a couple games also.

And yes, dial-up BBS's with a 300 baud modem on a C-64 were good times.

This is so great to hear!  I love the fact that the whole family is getting into this great game.  My uncle and Dad introduced me to the game (with the roman numerals) and to this day I still remember the epic late-night battle that closed out that first game...

It was fun for a while for sure.  We've had a Wii move into the house, and that diverted the children's attention from the site.  I'm sure they'll be back someday -

not even 20 yet here ^^

i'm a sophomore in college

Ouch, I have a Junior in college....

im 26.75, i guess thats pretty young compared to you oldies

Who remembers prodigy?

The dial up service, not the electrometal artist popular in the 90's.