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    • scottalanmiller
      scottalanmiller last edited by steve

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0mg9DxvfZE

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller last edited by

        This one is really funny and informative too. The video is only seventeen years old which means that most college students today don't remember the pre-Google, pre-broadband, pre-always on Internet.

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        • Bill Kindle
          Bill Kindle last edited by

          Is it wrong that I'm 29 and feel like a old fogey?

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          • scottalanmiller
            scottalanmiller last edited by

            Here is the original video that the kids were watching....

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81IwlDeV6c

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            • scottalanmiller
              scottalanmiller last edited by

              And more of what 1997 was like...

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYhd3f2l_vE

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              • scottalanmiller
                scottalanmiller last edited by

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjhCzSCkcI

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                • Dominica
                  Dominica last edited by

                  Oh my gosh, this is hilarious. I love the kid that said he used to sneak on Barbie.com when his sister got up.

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                  • scottalanmiller
                    scottalanmiller @Dominica last edited by

                    @Dominica said:

                    Oh my gosh, this is hilarious. I love the kid that said he used to sneak on Barbie.com when his sister got up.

                    That was very funny.

                    It's amazing how shockingly old this is to them. To most of them this was the world that they were born into.

                    I don't feel like things from the year that I was born are surprising to me. I was never shocked by eight track tapes or surprised that computers were in wooden boxes and made from kits.

                    These kids seemed a lot more out if touch with their own history than most people I know are.

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                    • C
                      Carnival Boy last edited by

                      I dunno, a still find a lot of the pre-internet stuff quite shocking, even though I was there at the time. One of my best mates as a kid didn't have a phone in their house. So if I wanted to see him, I'd have to walk a mile to his house and knock on his door. Only to find he was out, and I'd have to walk home and try again later. Even though this was a part of my childhood, it still seems weird when I think back on it.

                      Or in my first job, if I had a problem with Windows, I'd have to phone Microsoft, wait on hold for twenty minutes, then describe the problem to them and they'd give me the answer (or not!).

                      Even sitting at a desk and feeding in 150 floppy disks in order to install Microsoft Office now seems totally weird.

                      On the other hand, I'm still supporting dBase III applications, which is equally weird.

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