I still use ICQ. I leave messages for my sister on it. When my Mom was still alive, we had her send an ICQ every day, so we knew she was okay.
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Oh the good old days of excite chat. It think it was called VP or virtual places before that.
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Who else remembers when AltaVista was the best search engine? And Babel Fish was the best online translation?
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OMG I am 42 going on 90 with all this going down memory lane. LMAO
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Was kind of a low bar at the time <.<
Google was like a breath of fresh air. Sadly they seem to have taken many long strides backward.
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Papers from when I was a kid still have MUrray on them, though nobody said a phone number that way by the time I was using the phone. I didnât learn what that was about until I was doing Internet engineering and occasionally needed to know what exchange our various phone lines went through. My campus was on the Jackson exchange, but for redundancy we had some connections to the Mohawk exchange. These were, and maybe still are, big windowless buildings with just the Southwestern Bell logo on them.
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Yup. We had snow yesterday morning. I was off work (at the grocery store) the two days before, thank goodness, but when I came in I could tell it had been nuts on Thursday. It was totally unnecessary given what was predicted - most of itâs already melted. Much bigger snow, or maybe not much, or maybe just rain, predicted for Monday/Tuesday, so add that to the usual Sunday crowd - tomorrow itâs going to be a zoo for sure.
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I remember using WebCrawler.
We have one of those in town. Considering the size of our community, itâs not all that big, but itâs definitely still used in some manner.
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So who else played any of the text based games like Zork? Or I can not remember the name of it but one you had to escape from a insane asylum.
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I honestly believe that games like Kings Quest, Police Quest, and Space Quest have all helped me learn how to type and spell things correctly! Iâm talking about the early versions where you couldnât just click and pick stuff up too. Those games were awesome.
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I loved those games and pretty much anything from that game maker. Of course the zork type games was really something since the entire game was text with no graphics.
Yep. Commodore VIC20 had several of them. Mission Impossible was one that was often in there. I used to get up and dad would have a notebook with his progress on it and hand drawn maps. Also where I learned to program BASIC.
I took typing in HS, on typewriters even. What finally made it click was a different sort of practice. Many years later I was playing D2 and chatting on ICQ. A friend was crashing on my apartment couch so I had on headphones and had just a tiny nightlight/desk light on by the monitor. No lit keyboards in those days. Realized I was touch typing⌠ICQ and D2 is what finally got to me practice enough that I was no longer looking! Now I wear grooves into keys on the keyboard typing.
My tiny bit of snow this morning is now just heavy wet rain, wind, and 35F. So about as cold and wet as it gets without being snowy. Good night for a chicken, lentil, veggie curry stew!
- Home made chicken stock
- shredded home roasted chicken
- red lentils cooked down to thicken
- brown lentils to have texture
- onions, garlic, carrots
- curry, cumin, smoked paprika, turmeric, salt, pepper, chili flakes (my own peppers!)
- sweet corn I had handy, and some frozen spinach at the last minute
Texture came out perfect for eating alone, with naan, or over rice. Warm, savory, bit of heat, lots of healthy stuff in it!
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Our typing course was on typewriters too! Prior to that, we had Acorn computers in elementary and Icon computers in high-school before they got upgraded.
If one computer went down, the rest in the line after that also failed.
One of the first games we played was âWhere in the world is Carmen Sandiegoâ!
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I never played it! I think I was just a bit old for that and Oregon trail. Or I did not have access to computers with it available then.
We used Apple iie computers in high school when I took Basic there. It was a new fancy tech class back then!
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My first interaction with computers was using paper tape and punch cards. Those were the days.
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I never experienced paper tape and punch cards. I do remember having a bunch of TRS-80 model 3âs in my middle school all networked. They would load programs via cassette tape or we would learn some basic programing.
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My right index finger is still jammed up. It healed funny and the tip bends towards the right now, plus the nail is starting to come off. Took me about fifteen minutes to type this.
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Hope that it gets better for you soon.
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livejournal i think