The age of the internet.

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11-29-2009, 09:48 AM

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:block: Wow! You guy's were smart.
I just knew how to play that ping-pong game.

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11-29-2009, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Malaki86

I got my first computer when i was 12. it was a radio shack color computer with 4k (yes, 4,096 bytes) of memory. it hooked to the tv and used an audio cassette to store the programs on.

i ran a multi-line BBS for years also, using either DOS or Desqview. Now - how many people know what a BBS or Desqview is?

Sounds like my old TRS-80.

Oh wait, THAT IS A TRS-80:lol:.

BBS=Bulletin Board System

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11-29-2009, 12:06 PM

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Here's the wiki page for the color computer: TRS-80 Color Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wiki for DESQView: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

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11-29-2009, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by LightsChromeHorsepower

This guys join date was 06, but his last activity was 1970?

Gotta be a foo-foo.

If you want to know when the internet was invented, ask Al Gore.

Or Steve Booth

Al Gore invented the internet right before he invented global warming.

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11-29-2009, 07:25 PM

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Ive been around sense the late 50's, and never can recall the internet in the late 60's. Where did you get that idea???

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11-29-2009, 08:19 PM

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heh, I remember my 1st computer, the sinclar 1000. had 1k buffer, saved info to tape. The internet started in 1969 but was mostly DoD and uneversities conected together at the time. I remember the old bbs style boards. I also remeber per windows days, all you had was DOS. Didn't grow up in the unix only days of computers but have thought of checking ebay for some of those old vax and pdp 11 computer terminals just like Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie used. Ok, yeh, I'm a geek

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11-30-2009, 01:44 AM

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Yeah, I graduated in ’84, so my high school years were all about the Apple IIe and programming in basic. Our high school had their first computer course when I was a freshman and I did a bunch of the senior girl’s programming work. Man, talk about fringe benefits.

Whoo Hoo!!!! :hitit:

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