Funny Apparently we are really quite antiquated!

[Stevenson]

From The NY Times today:

"As a teen in the early 2000s, I spent a lot of time on online message boards. They were funny, chaotic places where my fellow nerds and I spent hours arguing about everything under the sun: sports, music, video games, the latest episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

No matter the topic [even a "Deal Coming Soon!"] there was one universal experience: On every board, some divisive issue would inevitably erupt into conflict, and an angry group of users — often led by a single, vocal one who felt they were being treated unfairly [MarAzul?] — would lead a rebellion against the “mods,” the moderators who had the privileges to delete posts, ban unruly users and set the rules of the board.

Sometimes, the mods quelled the fight or struck a compromise, and brought the board back into harmony. [Thank you Sly!] Other times, the angry users broke off and started their own forum, or the board simply became so intolerable that everyone left.

But that internet is long gone now. Social media apps killed the messy, unruly message boards and replaced them with slick personalized feeds...."

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Ah, but not here. Love live the "messy, unruly" S2 Blazer and OT Forums. Let the wild bickering begin!

 

[HailBlazers]

 

[e_blazer]

Only time there’s anything slick around here is when Sly has been scooting again.

 

[riverman]

Your talking to a guy who still has a cassette tape library in his man cave and got his first cell phone a couple years ago!

 

[wizenheimer]

Your talking to a guy who still has a cassette tape library in his man cave and got his first cell phone a couple years ago!

I still remember that my first computer (business) had a 60MB hard drive. That's the size of an HD photo in a camera now

 

[riverman]

I still remember that my first computer (business) had a 60MB hard drive. That's the size of an HD photo in a camera now

I had the original Apple with the built in 400kb drive....could add and optional 800kb external drive...still no color screen...

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I remember the first naked picture I downloaded online took overnight. Amber Lynn. I met her years later.

 

[barfo]

I had the original Apple with the built in 400kb drive....could add and optional 800kb external drive...still no color screen...
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I've still got mine.

barfo

 

[riverman]

I've still got mine.

barfo

those things were indestructible!

 

[PCmor7]

those things were indestructible!

Think they'll survive the riots?

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Your talking to a guy who still has a cassette tape library in his man cave and got his first cell phone a couple years ago!

Dad? Is that you?

 

[riverman]

Dad? Is that you?

I did give the VHS collection to Goodwill but still have two high quality players and some blanks for recording

 

[Stevenson]

I had the original Apple with the built in 400kb drive....could add and optional 800kb external drive...still no color screen...
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OK, so maybe you can finally explain this to me - what the hell was "Hypercard"?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I post on the forum using a fax machine.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

I did give the VHS collection to Goodwill but still have two high quality players and some blanks for recording

My dad has a collection of about 300 cassettes along with the wooden boxes that separate each one to display. He’s looking at getting rid of them all since he switched to CDs a while back. He’ll load up on a dozen CDs he finds at goodwill for next to nothing.

 

[Minstrel]

OK, so maybe you can finally explain this to me - what the hell was "Hypercard"?

A scripting language. You could write simple programs or (what would later be called) PowerPoint-like presentations in it.

 

[riverman]

My dad has a collection of about 300 cassettes along with the wooden boxes that separate each one to display. He’s looking at getting rid of them all since he switched to CDs a while back. He’ll load up on a dozen CDs he finds at goodwill for next to nothing.

I made a huge mix tape compilation of my cassette collection that went way back....left the collection and had fresh tapes with the best of ...lot of old Chess and Stax blues stuff...some out of print..glad I actually preserved them....left the old collection with a library in Taiwan

 

[riverman]

OK, so maybe you can finally explain this to me - what the hell was "Hypercard"?

not sure...probably a floppy disc program...I used Master Tracks on mine for midi recording and it was a looper for sounds....Herbie Hancock used one on Rocket man...

 

[riverman]

I actually have copies of Beatles LPs and Hendrix LPs that were recorded to cassette and then transferred to CDRs.….best sounding in my collection by far...

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Dad? Is that you?

I personally was expecting that exact same response from @BLAZINGGIANTS.......

 

[andalusian]

OK, so maybe you can finally explain this to me - what the hell was "Hypercard"?

It was an early system that combined hypertext, scripting and pre-defined UX components. It was basically a very early implementation of what the modern web evolved into, but without the network connection foundation.

I had a summer internship in Birmingham writing a front-end app to a Unix (pre-Linux days) system in it. It was a nice idea (as the modern web proves), just too early to be really useful and obviously missing a lot of stuff we take for granted today.

 

[wizenheimer]

It was an early system that combined hypertext, scripting and pre-defined UX components. .

ok, that's pretty clear

just one thing, what do you mean by "hypertext, scripting and pre-defined UX components"?...

 

[andalusian]

ok, that's pretty clear

just one thing, what do you mean by "hypertext, scripting and pre-defined UX components"?...

You know how the web has scripting (javascript), hypertext (linking) and pre-defined UX components (input tags in html). The same - they had components for text, linking and input.

Iirc, a card is the same as a html page, you had a basic like script, they had buttons, input boxes, lists, links etc...

Edit: Found this on youtube, from 1991, so a later version than the one I used in 1989 or thereabout:

 

[Lanny]

I still remember that my first computer (business) had a 60MB hard drive. That's the size of an HD photo in a camera now

First liar has no chance. My first computer had a 50kbyte memory and used a stored phosphor image for it's visual memory. It was called a Tektronix 4051 computer and I still have it.

 

[Lanny]

I actually have copies of Beatles LPs and Hendrix LPs that were recorded to cassette and then transferred to CDRs.….best sounding in my collection by far...

I've got numerous 33 1/3 LPs including the Beattles' White Album. That has been played at many pot parties. Never cared for Hendrix but I've been to his grave and left a lit cigarette. His grave was about a mile from my apartment in Renton.

 

[Lanny]

not sure...probably a floppy disc program...I used Master Tracks on mine for midi recording and it was a looper for sounds....Herbie Hancock used one on Rocket man...

Lord, I use to love Herbie Hancock.

 

[Lanny]

A scripting language. You could write simple programs or (what would later be called) PowerPoint-like presentations in it.

The only scripting language I ever knew was Perl.

 

[Lanny]

I post on the forum using a fax machine.

Been meaning to talk to you about that.

 

[Lanny]

Dad? Is that you?

I've still got a CD recorder and a cassette recorder. Yes, it's grandad.

 

[Minstrel]

The only scripting language I ever knew was Perl.

I knew Perl back in my programming days (Hypercard pre-dates my programming days by a bit). I also learned some ASP when I needed to do some file access stuff.