Back in High School, we had 16k pet computers in our computer lab.

[Strychnine]

When I loaded my first game with this^

 

[Darth_Inv1ctu5]

Yup I did uphill each way and it did not matter what season it was.

Snowstorm one way, Mojave heat otw back

 

[Losfer Words]

 

[Possum Jenkins]

Ok, everyone needs to stop adding apostrophes to shit that doesn’t need an apostrophe.
You only use an apostrophe on the word “its” if it is a contraction of “it is”.

Before the internet, my grammar and spelling was razor sharp.

Now thanks to autocorrect, spell check and YouTube, I read way less and have become a complete idiot. How many Ms and Ts does "commitment" have?? Fuck!

(I spelled commitment with two ts originally but changed it thanks to the Sherdog spell check)

 

[ookii]

Hahahaha ya fuck I went to school in the 80s and 90s I remember the computer "labs" fuck

And each computer has a floppy disk of Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?

 

[lostdog000]

got this in 86 for $1,000

 

[ookii]

When I loaded my first game with this^

I hated having to wait 5 mins for it to load at a friends house. I didnt have a commodore, only the apple II that produces crappier graphics compared to the commodore

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

my computer lab when I was in H.S.

 

[HomeCheese]

Had to take the public bus for a 30 minute ride, then hop in a shuttle bus to the facility to get to the nearest computer that offered public access. It was part of the UC Berkeley campus. Back in the 70's our high school did not have a computer as far as I can remember.

 

[Devout Pessimist]

The first time I got to use a computer was when I was in grade 7. We learned to use a program where you programmed a turtle to make shapes. It looked something like this:

The computers looked like this:

 

[rj144]

I remember when me and my buddy would spend hours typing in the code for games that magazines used to give out. They always sounded amazing but usually turned out to be a couple of pixels that you could move round the screen

Not for me. Those games were pretty cool.

Compute's Gazette?

 

[Joe_Armstrong]

Anyone had those expansion cartidges like Final Cartidge III or Power Cartidge ?
It had a windows like menu and could also cheat in games.
Man, the games of Defender of the Crown I played on my C64

 

[ThunderL1ps]

I'm so fucking old, I remember when a PET computer was brought to our school and they would send students two at a time to the library to use it for 10 or 15 minutes.

I remember thinking it was bullshit even back then. Maybe I was 9 or 10 years old at the time.

 

[IloveTHIS]

I was the first kid that figures out how to use a proxy to get around the school filters so everyone could play games or use myspace on the school computers. so I was pretty popular

 

[frye666]

Ok, everyone needs to stop adding apostrophes to shit that doesn’t need an apostrophe.
You only use an apostrophe on the word “its” if it is a contraction of “it is”.

And I am one to notice such things and get pissed off about it as well.

 

[rj144]

I remember upgrading to a commodore 64 after years of using cassettes on my Vic 20.

C64s originally had a cassette. I had one for mine for a couple of years before I got a disk drive.

 

[rj144]

One megabyte is 1000k. These mothers had 16k memory. If you wrote an essay with more than 6 paragraphs the computer would run out of memory. Plus they used a cassette recorder to save and load your projects. You would pop your cassette in, press play, wait 10 minutes or so, then 50% of the time it would not work so you had to start over, and THEN your three paragraphs were loaded. Of course, there was no windows so to even start you had to type in a bunch of basic code just to get the loading started.

Being born before the internet and living through it's rise has been pretty fucking wild. It is almost like those apocalypse movies where there are the old guys that remember "before" the end of the world.

Back then 1 MB = 1024 KB.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

And I am one to notice such things and get pissed off about it as well.

It doesn’t piss me off. But it makes it hard to take someone seriously when they do that. I can only imagine how poorly their job applications are written. I am trying to help them. No matter your qualifications, those mistakes will signal the wrong thing to those who might otherwise hire you.

 

[rj144]

It doesn’t piss me off. But it makes it hard to take someone seriously when they do that. I can only imagine how poorly their job applications are written. I am trying to help them. No matter your qualifications, those mistakes will signal the wrong thing to those who might otherwise hire you.

Its an epidemic here to.

Spoiler: Spoiler

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Its an epidemic here two.

Spoiler: Spoiler

Fixed