Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

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I will stay on the topic of landlines.

I upgraded from a 36.6k modem to 56k modem for faster internet connection speeds.

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#ImNotSayingImOldBut I remember the Bicentennial.

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#ImNotSayingImOldBut I remember this joke:

If 10 birds are a flock
And 10 fish a school
What are 10 buffalo?

A Bison-tennial 🤣

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#ImNotSayingIMoldBut we remember seeing the world's first Cooking Oil Bus in #Auckland. A Stray tourist bus running on recycled waste oil from the local fish and chip shop.

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I remember when movies on pre-recorded media were very expensive ($80-$100 in the early 1980s) so by the time the 1990s came round, I had one, maybe two pre-recorded tapes (and one that had a special sleeve with some words about "scientific value" on the tape, but we all knew it was porn ;o) and a whole bunch of tapes manually recorded at EP speed because "by golly they said it was 6 hours; I'm GETTING 6 hours on here!"

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@ClaraListensprechen4 This implies that a boot is a cycle. 🤪

#ImNotSayingImOldBut I remember when TV would stop broadcasting during the night
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#ImNotSayingImOldBut the first computer I encountered had 32K of RAM, no GUI, and stored data on a 5.25" floppy as the *fancy* option - and I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen 😁
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Catalog shopping was our convenience shopping.
You wrote it out on the enclosed form and sent payment then waited weeks for it to arrive.

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Thanks, @davew, I almost forgot the Sputnik era! #ImNotSayingImOldBut
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We knew how to make our own toys and we taught our toys how to be fun.

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#ImNotSayingImOldBut I used to load computer programs one diskette at a time, all 28 of them - and it would take 2 hours to finish. You needed to plan your day around it.

Oh Captain my captain
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