Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today
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@raceprouk Most of what I say should not be taken at face value
Chest value, perhaps, or even shoulder value, but definitely not face value
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@cark said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today
The existing forum is crap but everything will be better when we switch over to the new forum
You're supposed to name things that are not true today.
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@cark said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@raceprouk Most of what I say should not be taken at face value
Chest value, perhaps, or even shoulder value, but definitely not face value
What about lower value? Could use some hip value TBH...
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@el_heffe
The news media reported news
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@timebandit said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
I owned a PC store at that time.
Holy shit, I thought I was ...
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@lolwhat said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@timebandit said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
I owned a PC store at that time.
Holy shit, I thought I was ...
I was 16
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@lorne-kates said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
You can get excellent skyline photos from the top of the WTC.
Cops shot both white and black people.
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Speaking of.
I find it hilarious when people say, "We used to do ____ in our day as kids and we all survived".
Yes, that's called a tautology.
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@xaade said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Speaking of.
I find it hilarious when people say, "We used to do ____ in our day as kids and we all survived".
Yes, that's called a tautology.
Man, we used to drink eight cups of water a day, and somehow we managed to survive!
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@xaade said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Speaking of.
I find it hilarious when people say, "We used to do ____ in our day as kids and we all survived".
Yes, that's called a tautology.
"We never used to wear seatbelts in our day as kids and we all survived."
"My sister didn't."
"..."
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@lb_ said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@xaade said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Speaking of.
I find it hilarious when people say, "We used to do ____ in our day as kids and we all survived".
Yes, that's called a tautology.
"We never used to wear seatbelts in our day as kids and we all survived."
"My sister didn't."
"..."Ouch! Burn!
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Date.now() <= 567993599999
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@xaade said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Speaking of.
I find it hilarious when people say, "We used to do ____ in our day as kids and we all survived".
Yes, that's called a tautology.
I thought it was called survival bias.
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@el_heffe said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Lots of hair
Do they not have hipsters where you live?
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@timebandit said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@gurth said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
The post I replied to was talking about 1987. Hard drives weren’t that expensive anymore then — our 8086 PC of around that time had a 20-MB one.
I owned a PC store at that time. Average PC price (with 2 floppy disk) was around $750. Average 20MB HD setup was around $250.
~1/3 of a PC price was expensive. You could probably buy 2 weeks worth of grocery for a family of 4
The hell? $125/week for groceries for a family of four in 1987?
We spend roughly that much for groceries for our family of four, today, in 2017.
Shit...I forgot...Canada.
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@polygeekery said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
The hell? $125/week for groceries for a family of four in 1987?
We spend roughly that much for groceries for our family of four, today, in 2017.
Shit...I forgot...Canada.Toby Fair: I don't know how much it was since I wasn't paying for it
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@timebandit Do you pay for your groceries today?
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@polygeekery
Not as long as I can run fast enough
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@polygeekery said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@timebandit Do you pay for your groceries today?
Yes, I'm not a teenager anymore.
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@raceprouk said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@luhmann My first Internet experiences were on Windows XP
Really? You don't remember Trumpet?
(Windows 95 was the first version that had a socket API built-in and support for the TCP/IP stack.)
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@anotherusername said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Really? You don't remember Trumpet?
I'm 32
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@raceprouk said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
I'm 32
Are you potty trained already?
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@anotherusername said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Really? You don't remember Trumpet?
The author wasn't really paid for it
http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/
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@raceprouk said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@anotherusername said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Really? You don't remember Trumpet?
I'm 32
If you want to feel younger, you can always claim to be 0x20.
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@raceprouk said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@anotherusername said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Really? You don't remember Trumpet?
I'm 32
I'm 31 and have been using the internet since like 1996.
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@hungrier said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
I'm 31 and have been using the internet since like 1996.
For porn, of course
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Working with large reams of fanfold paper - spewed from a printer at either 600 lpm or 1200 :)
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@hungrier said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
I'm 31 and have been using the internet since like 1996.
I am 39 (not necessarily in decimal notation) and first accessed DarpaNet in 1971 ... Ahh the days when simple things (by todays standard's - trivial) were simply amazing..
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@raceprouk said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@anotherusername said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Really? You don't remember Trumpet?
I'm 32
That's old enough to remember it if you'd used Windows 3.1 to go online.
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@thecpuwizard said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@hungrier said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
I'm 31 and have been using the internet since like 1996.
I am 39 (not necessarily in decimal notation) and first accessed DarpaNet in 1971 ... Ahh the days when simple things (by todays standard's - trivial) were simply amazing..
I'm 10 (base my current age) and I first accessed the internet at age 10 (base my age when I first accessed the internet). I remember Yahoo was actually useful back then
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@cark happy birthday!
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@cark said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
I'm 10 (base my current age) and I first accessed the internet at age 10 (base my age when I first accessed the internet).
Winner!!!!!! (I am so stealing this, it is the perfect solution to never have to change ones age representation)
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@thecpuwizard All we need now is a way to say it in conversation without having to resort to awkward constructions or lots of words.
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@gurth said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@thecpuwizard All we need now is a way to say it in conversation without having to resort to awkward constructions or lots of words.
"My age is my age."
There, done. Next!
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@tsaukpaetra Next problem: writing it down on a form or similar. I suppose something like 10₉₉ would work, but that would still give away your actual age.
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@gurth said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@tsaukpaetra Next problem: writing it down on a form or similar. I suppose something like 10₉₉ would work, but that would still give away your actual age.
The base is 10 in base base. So you can keep expanding that, continued fraction style
10101010...