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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #30 on: June 16, 2011, 07:14:05 PM »
No i don't like TV either.

Just the odd history program, or documentary.

I hate soap's.  I sometimes here people say

"have to go now, gotta get back to watch Coronation Street"

and i just think - eh why?
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #31 on: June 16, 2011, 07:44:10 PM »
Some TV is okay but so much of the stuff on now is horrid
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #32 on: June 16, 2011, 10:59:39 PM »
Quote from: Jack on June 16, 2011, 06:22:52 PM
Can't really remember when first getting internet.

I think it was 2004 when I first used the internet to join a forum although we had it a long time before then for my husband's work.

He bought a new computer and I got his old one.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #33 on: June 16, 2011, 11:42:18 PM »
Before I had a computer and internet, I used to write often (song lyrics, poetry, journaling). I also read a lot of books and magazines.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #34 on: June 17, 2011, 03:49:21 AM »
I got my own computer in 2005 shortly after I was diagnosed with HFA. So I went on the internet and found WP. I found Intensity in 2006.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #35 on: June 17, 2011, 08:42:57 AM »
Before the internet there was high school.  I got my first internet account my freshman year of college.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #36 on: June 17, 2011, 09:29:39 AM »
Before the internetz there was not a chance I would be in the chat room by myself
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #37 on: June 17, 2011, 12:40:52 PM »
Quote from: Al Swearengen on June 17, 2011, 09:29:39 AM
Before the internetz there was not a chance I would be in the chat room by myself


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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #38 on: June 17, 2011, 12:59:25 PM »
I actually go stuff done on time then,  well not really there was always that one more chapter to read or song to listen to :laugh:
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #39 on: June 17, 2011, 02:12:30 PM »
I was on the old Usenet in the mid-80s, through the uni's computer network. And a few bulletin boards, with a 1200 baud modem.

But when I was a kid, I had something like this (I don't remember the exact model but this looks a lot like it):


I also had a hy-gain but I can't find a picture of one.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #40 on: June 18, 2011, 02:33:42 AM »
I loved walkie talkies as a technology, but I didn't like talking to people using them. Certainly not strangers.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #41 on: June 18, 2011, 04:40:40 AM »
Quote from: odeon on June 18, 2011, 02:33:42 AM
I loved walkie talkies as a technology, but I didn't like talking to people using them. Certainly not strangers.
Did you sing instead then?
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #42 on: June 18, 2011, 04:09:00 PM »
Quote from: bodaccea on June 18, 2011, 04:40:40 AM
Quote from: odeon on June 18, 2011, 02:33:42 AM
I loved walkie talkies as a technology, but I didn't like talking to people using them. Certainly not strangers.
Did you sing instead then?

:lol:

The airwaves would still be recovering if I had.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #43 on: June 19, 2011, 04:16:30 AM »
My brother had found an old wired military phone, after a military training in our vicinity. Two horns, with a long cable between them. We each had a horn in our room, and the cable went outside the house.
Fun to be able to have nightly conversations as a 10 year old.
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