1982 checking in. I felt older than a few of the anecdotes in that story, but that's probably because I grew up in West Virginia and didn't get Internet until 1998 LOL. LAN access in college was such a fucking REVELATION!
1980 here. I remember being a secretary in 1997. it was my first office job. My boss assigned a task that required using the Internet and I vividly remember thinking "oh shit. What do I do? I don't know what I'm doing. Oh wait. LYCOS. I can use lycos. Phew!" Lol.
I remember a PT job I had just out of college(around 2000? 01?), where info was organized in Excel and the owner had to explain each step. Such an innocent time....
1980 here. I remember being a secretary in 1997. it was my first office job. My boss assigned a task that required using the Internet and I vividly remember thinking "oh shit. What do I do? I don't know what I'm doing. Oh wait. LYCOS. I can use lycos. Phew!" Lol.
I remember a PT job I had just out of college(around 2000? 01?), where info was organized in Excel and the owner had to explain each step. Such an innocent time....
LOL.
I took a community college class on Word/Excel//Access/Powerpoint in 1998 and it was probably the most useful class I've ever had.
As another '80, I definitely relate. But I have a somewhat unique perspective in that my dad was a computer engineer, and I went to a school that was early adopting of tech. I had old dos boxes and ataris and compuserve paid for by the minute. In high school my dad was the tech coordinator. We were one of the first schools in the state to use laptops and internet in the classroom. Including an internet version of oregon trail played against other schools.
I also played that slave escape game. You would be faced with situations like "dogs are chasing you. What do you do?" You could climb a tree or spread cayenne on the ground to ruin their ability to smell. WTF
Post by PatBenatar on Apr 28, 2015 11:11:02 GMT -5
Born in 1980 and feeling so much nostalgia right now. We had a Commodore 64 and it was the bomb. Then we got a more modern computer in the 90's with Odell Lake, Quest for Glory (my fave!), Monkey Island and Kings Quest. I remember playing King's Quest with a friend over, trying to figure out all the puzzles since you couldn't just look up a walkthrough online. Those were the days
Also I remember spending lots of time and effort deciding on the perfect AOL away message.
I loved Napster too and also have a dislike for Lars and Metallica. I remember in college making my now husband a mix CD and it took half an hour to download 1 song with my slow dial up connection
Also, we've pretty much seen the shift from records-cassettes-CDs-MP3s. It's crazy how fast that technology has evolved.
Post by Queen Mamadala on Apr 28, 2015 11:22:22 GMT -5
'84 and it's totally accurate. I played Oregon Trail and didn't get a home computer until sophomore year. The days of floppy disk, dial-up and Napster. I met my high school boyfriend and first husband on AOL.
I didn't join Myspace until '07 and FB in '09, so the only social media I was engaged in from high school or shortly after were chat rooms and message boards.
'78 here, so very accurate. I used to looooove playing Carmen SanDiego also. I remember being a junior in high school and my bffs dad was a vp at the telecom company and we would sneak onto the internet to use the aol chat rooms. Oh my goodness, so many hilarious memories from aol chat.
I was actually just thinking about printshop and kidpix the other day. I loved making my own pixel images. I had a whole book for them. We convinced my dad to replace the old printer with another dot matrix because we wanted to keep our banner pages together.
I once actually caught Carmen. I had 3 versions of that game.
I never cared about the games. I rarely played Oregon Trail but I did a new card or seven every since time we were in the computer lab. Print Shop 4 Lyfe!