20 Years Ago

[Josephus]

20 years ago Pink Floyd released The Division Bell. In one month they're about to release stuff they recorded for it but didn't put on it.

So really, not much has changed.

[mongers]

20 years ago... I think I used the internet at the library to get into arguments on alt.skinheads on usenet.

Wouldn't it be cool if that stuff were still out there in the ether? 

[mongers]

I don't think I really discovered the internet yet. I do remember a "guy I knew" who used to download games with his telephone from something he called "message board", but I had no real idea what he was doing, other than he was amassing really expensive phone bills.

I played trade wars on a message board - but that was longer than 20 years ago.  More like 30 years ago.  I had a 300 baud modem.  The download speed was so slow I could read the text as it loaded onto the screen.  The message board only had two lines in and so a lot of time was spent dialing in to try to get an open line to connect to the board.  Then I found a message board called Mindlink.  It was amazing.  It had something like 30 lines in and so you hardly ever experienced a busy signal.  It also gave access to something called the internet.  But that cost extra and by the minute.  It also required knowledge of specific code commands so I didnt it.

Mindlink sold its operation a few months before Netscape became widely available.  Now that was some good timing for the vendor.  Not so good for the guys who bought it.

I just missed out on that era, had a friend that had dabbled a bit with bulletin boards, but compuserve seemed to us non-techies the modern thing that blow them away/made internet access easy.

[garbon]

All things considered, I'd rather be in 1994 right now.

I wouldn't. I didn't really even know what sexuality was back then. Hell, I think I had just learned about sex.

[mongers]

All things considered, I'd rather be in 1994 right now.

I wouldn't. I didn't really even know what sexuality was back then. Hell, I think I had just learned about sex.

Back the We didn't know what your sexuality was.   

[mongers]

I should add, it was pretty common if you wanted to sell something, you'd but an advert in a newspaper or magazine with you home telephone number.  ......

Some weeks later someone might phone you up and arrange to come and have a look at it, or they'd then send you a cheque and you'd post the book/game/boardgame/camera thingy etc off to them.   

[garbon]

All things considered, I'd rather be in 1994 right now.

I wouldn't. I didn't really even know what sexuality was back then. Hell, I think I had just learned about sex.

Back the We didn't know what your sexuality was.   

Who are the We?

[garbon]

I should add, it was pretty common if you wanted to sell something, you'd but an advert in a newspaper or magazine with you home telephone number.  ......

Some weeks later someone might phone you up and arrange to come and have a look at it, or they'd then send you a cheque and you'd post the book/game/boardgame/camera thingy etc off to them.   

That was pretty common up through the craiglist era in the past decade. Wasn't necessarily physical newspaper put still not too strange.

[Eddie Teach]

Back the We didn't know what your sexuality was.   

Or his race, or his name, or whether he enjoyed drinking chocolate milk out of water fountains.

[mongers]

I should add, it was pretty common if you wanted to sell something, you'd but an advert in a newspaper or magazine with you home telephone number.  ......

Some weeks later someone might phone you up and arrange to come and have a look at it, or they'd then send you a cheque and you'd post the book/game/boardgame/camera thingy etc off to them.   

That was pretty common up through the craiglist era in the past decade. Wasn't necessarily physical newspaper put still not too strange.

I think the newspaper/magazine was the crucial thing in my tale, the idea that you'd have to post off an advert, on a little form, and it would be put in next month's issue, so it might not be up to 7 weeks before anyone had a chance of contacting you.

[garbon]

Fair enough. I had embarrassingly forgot at one point how people applied for jobs before the internet.

[Josephus]

Internetz killed newspaperz

[Razgovory]

All things considered, I'd rather be in 1994 right now.

I'm down with it.  You figure out a way to reset the clock I'm on board.

[HVC]

Internetz killed newspaperz

you had a good 500 year run.

20 years ago I was 10, so I don't have a good grasp of how much life really changed.

[mongers]

All things considered, I'd rather be in 1994 right now.

I'm down with it.  You figure out a way to reset the clock I'm on board.

I'm in too; three dis-functional time travellers with issues.