[WikiEN-l] newbie culture

Thu Jun 22 15:14:22 UTC 2006

On 6/22/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Neil Harris wrote:
> > Arwel Parry wrote:
> >> In message
> >> <980278fa0606171146h719fef74g2bc6333b4d42e826 at mail.gmail.com>, John
> >> Lyden <rasputinaxp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes
> >>
> >>> On 6/17/06, Conrad Dunkerson
> >>> <conrad.dunkerson-XfrvlLN1Pqtfpb/ySbbPhw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> 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). :]
> >>>>
> >>> By that measure, my downhill was 9600 baud.
> >>>
> >>> Of course, I jumped right from my 1200 baud Multitech to a 14.4K on my
> >>> 486. Jump to lightspeed!
> >>>
> >> Some of us started out on 10 c.p.s. teletypes and input our first
> >> programs on paper tape....
> >>
> >>
> > Paper tape? Luxury. What's wrong with toggling your programs in using
> > the panel switches?
> >
>
> (mutters something about the luxury of switches and having to rely on
> compass needles twiddling and having to wave magnets, uphill both ways
> in the snow)
>

In my day, our computers and calculators were our fingers and toes. I could
only count to eighteen because I lost my pinky and big toe hunting wooly
mammoths.

(uphill, both ways, in the snow)