in which a simple statement made me feel OLD!

[Sarlon]

So Saturday I went to the gas station near my house to pick up some drinks for the game that evening....and me and a friend made small talk with the cashier.

We were talking about things when we were young (she can't be older then 18 I'm guessing)....and my friend said he was once told that he looked like MaCully Culkin when he was younger....































The cashier asked...."who is macully culkin?"

I feel old.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGUP-...eature=related
(appropriate clip from Home Alone)
I remember. I need to see what that dude's been up to... and that movie's a classic!

[AdminAssistant]

Breaking up with Mila Kunis, it seems. He also frequently does voice work for Robot Chicken (he's good friends with Seth Green).

[thansal]

ow

seriously

ow

I think one of the recent ones for us was realizing that NO ONE getting a CS degree these days knows what a DOS prompt looks like.

[Kogarashi]

Quoth thansal

I think one of the recent ones for us was realizing that NO ONE getting a CS degree these days knows what a DOS prompt looks like.

Why do I find that scarier than not knowing who Macaulay Culkin is?

[Sarlon]

dear ancients...*I* remember dos....and 5 inch floppies...and when a 25 mb hard drive was HUGE!


I'm old....

[Sheldonrs]

Quoth Sarlon

dear ancients...*I* remember dos....and 5 inch floppies...and when a 25 mb hard drive was HUGE!


I'm old....

I remember when "Computer" meant a huge machine with magnetic tapes and punch cards and the machinery took up an entire room.

[telecom_goddess]

Quoth Sarlon

dear ancients...*I* remember dos....and 5 inch floppies...and when a 25 mb hard drive was HUGE!


I'm old....

me too .....me too. First computer was a dual floppy, next one was an XT with a 20 meg hard drive. Green screen. no windows. no cd rom. At least XT had a modem. 2400 baud.

Don't miss that at all.

Quoth Sheldonrs

I remember when "Computer" meant a huge machine with magnetic tapes and punch cards and the machinery took up an entire room.

Don't fold spindle or mutilate! (for punch cards and the card board checks people used to get)

[draggar]

Quoth Sarlon

dear ancients...*I* remember dos....and 5 inch floppies...and when a 25 mb hard drive was HUGE!


I'm old....

Don't you mean 5.25" floppies?

[Racket_Man]

Quoth Sarlon

dear ancients...*I* remember dos....and 5 inch floppies...and when a 25 mb hard drive was HUGE!


I'm old....

I think I still have PC/MS DOS v1 disks around somewhere

and I remember the Cider HDD for the Apple][+ at 10M and I had the top of the line Apple][+ with 64K of RAM with 2 5.25 floppies,a color monitor, RF TV interface a 4 axis joystick, CP/M board with OS, and an Epson MX-80 dot matrix 80 column printer (I still have printer and it still works) and for $150 extra I bought Visi-Calc (the granddaddy of spreadsheet programs)