[WikiEN-l] newbie culture

Sat Jun 17 18:39:29 UTC 2006

* Daniel R. Tobias wrote:

> 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).

Ok, stop... you're making me all nostalgic. I think it all started to go 
downhill when the modems became capable of transferring text faster than 
you could read it (aka 2400 baud). :]