[WikiEN-l] newbie culture

Sat Jun 17 18:15:32 UTC 2006

On 16 Jun 2006 at 11:37, "Lord Voldemort" <lordbishopvoldemort at gmail.com> wrote:

> Still longer than me, and the rest of us wahoos.  We never had to walk
> to our dial-up computers, uphill both ways, on Windows 3.1, from AOL,
> like you oldbies. ;-)

AOL as a source of "oldbies"?  The *serious* oldbie crowd regards 
them as the biggest source of clueless newbies!  And Windows 
(whatever version) just brought more crowds of people too computer 
illiterate to handle a command line interface.

No, the *real* oldbies were the ones who used computers without a 
wimpy graphical interface... maybe a printing terminal using a modem 
switchable between 110 baud and the "high-speed" 300 (like they had 
at the high school I attended in the early '80s)... or even punch 
cards (like they also used when I was in high school, taking a class 
in Fortran).

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