Hey MP Gamers! Were You Born After 1995? I'll Tell You What's Wrong With You!

My father never wanted me playing video games, but he unwittingly gave me a C64 which came with seemingly hundreds of games. Until then it had been Combat and Pac-man on an Atari 2600.

Ahh the memories.  I had totally forgotten about impromptu rushed trackball cleaning.

"Aww sh!t...why is this happening now?!"
:::struggles to quickly wipe off trackball and pop back into mouse:::

Theze kids today man, I swear........

Mmmm....telnet....the memories...like stockpiling the oddities you downloaded via command line FTP...

...but most special in my heart is IRC, the original ur-chat where everything about 'net culture was born and where we invented so much of what is now standard in the 21st century, like, for instance, all the acronyms (LOL, BRB, ROTFLMAO, etc) that kids text msg to each other and think they're cutting edge/hip. I remember doubling my modem speed to 2400 baud, hooking that awesome new speed demon to my 1990 Mac SE/30 (1MB RAM, expandable to 32MB and a huge 40MB hd), itty-bitty monochrome display, but I'd still stay up all night carousing with all the other teenage malcontents, haranguing any squares we could find on IRC who took it all too seriously.

My first non-commercial dial-up account was on a VAX machine at the local college...

Text based browsers, anyone? Lynx? We dreamed of the day when the bandwidth necessary for video would arrive.


EDIT: all of a sudden I feel so much older than when I got up this morning...

You! I like you!

And today's youth think that Call of Doody and whatever not is a good shitter  shooter 

are you talking about the hard drive size or getting kb and mb confused ?

iirc max memory configuration on a 486sx mobo was 8mb with a total of 8 1mb sticks, but most of them were sold with 4 sticks of 128kb ram ...

although I spose you could of had one of those early Pentium 1's with the 33/66mhz button on the front and been running a server mobo ...

btw my first ibm type pc had a whopping 280mb hard drive and it still took 2 hours to format the drive ....

maybe in the USA but here in bligthy the 56kflex used a data connection not a standard phone line so your phone could /would ring for voice traffic and it would d/c you every time.

that looks like the original handset of the analogue wireless phones a lot of the middle class had in their houses lol, that "mobile" isn't anywhere near large enough

hmm I might remember repurposing some cutting edge military tech in the mid 90's when the monsterous 4gb hard drive came out of the tech unit for front line field commands to various households..... 24 months later you could buy 10gb hdd's in the shops ........ although to be totally honest the first pc I bought brand new myself (rather than something I took home from work with the aid of a truck) was a cyrex instead 686pr2 (before anthill bought out all its competitors) which had a 20gb hdd built in lan and 56kflex modem card had a whopping 32mg ram and 8mb gfx card as well as a sound card and came with 8 games and 2 versions of office built in and contained win95sr2 and w98 vanilla.....

a few years later I bought a laptop (amdk62 stepping 8) that had a 100gb hdd, 2x 64mb ram sticks and win98sr2 +winme and office 2k..... and a free copy of c&c renegade....

actually I was pretty bad as a sysops admin because it was such a pain ot ad hoc upgrade the workstations I would utilise all the new gear at home for 6 months until there was enough to upgrade all the base units at once, or else I refused ot upgrade them


worst network I ever worked on utilised coax bnc connectors on token ring.....half the clients couldn't connect to each other ever .......

Born after 95? Like dude, don't make me feel old.

If u gonna post a thread like this at least make it 85 or something.

Found these pictures of me in an old photo album, these pics were made in June 1987, means I was 1 ½ years old.


Just wished I could make out what game that was. I remember playing Mouse Trap tho.