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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Lets have a technology flashback!
What do you remember having when you were growing up?
I remember our NES, GB.
I had a walkman and a beeper! Whoa!
Re: Lets have a technology flashback!
Apple II - It was my grandma's, and I used to love to go to her house, so that I could play Below the Root. That thing had a 5?" floppy drive! My grandma was awesome, because she drew a huge map of the entire game world. If she was still 60, I bet she'd be obsessed with WoW or something. (Instead she's just forwarding me an onslaught of cute videos.)
Also in the borrowed category was my neighbor's Atari. River Raid rules!
Our family's first computer was a Tandy1000. Not as cool, but I remember the happy day I discovered King's Quest (and later Space Quest - which was too awesome to have gotten as little notice as it did).
I have a friend who used a Walkman until last year, when it finally died. She told me about how it ate a tape while she was on the subway, and she got out a pencil to rewind it. The Norwegian teenagers all just stared at her like she was from Mars. (When it finally died, she stepped up from the Walkman to an MP4 player. Talk about a big leap!) This got me thinking: Do kids ever wonder why the backwards search function on their digital video/music players is labeled rewind? Since the whole "wind" thing is completely irrelevant now?
PS - Not really a flashback, but one of our computers has a tape drive.
My brother had an Apple II (E I think) when I was little, but I wasn't allowed to even go near it. Stupid little sisters, right? He built my first computer when I was a junior in HS (Christmas 1994). It was a 486 DX2 66mhz with a whopping 8mb of ram and a brand-spanking new 2x speed cd-rom drive. It ran Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and later NT 3 or 3.5 (don't recall). My brother used it too until I went to college. He got an external modem for it, but I wasn't allowed to use it. I remember the rare occasions that I was allowed to go online to research college information. He would always sit right next to me and monitor everything I did. This was back when Yahoo had a gray background and was the coolest thing ever.
I didn't even have an email address until I went to college. I was the only girl in the dorms to have an internet connection and I didn't dare advertise it!
I loved our old school Nintendo, and we even had an Atari. My brother is 10 years older than I am, so I always had cutting edge stuff because of him! I had my first Walkman when I was about 6 because I got his hand me down one.
I remember playing Reader Rabbit on our old computer, but I don't know what type it was! Its screen was about 5 inches diagonally, LOL.
I used to love Reader Rabbit!
I still have my NES, it works, you just have to blow into it and the game often (remember that trick?). DH and I got suckered into buying this game system at a mall kiosk because it had Galiga, Super Mario, Duck Hunt, Paperboy and others on it. It was definitely worth the $50!
I ran across my Talkboy recorder while cleaning out my grandma's basement.
Did anyone else have WordMunchers and SuperMunchers? I LOVED those.
And, of course, Oregon Trail!!!!!
I vaguely remember Oregon Trail. I used to play Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on the PC.
Pa has died of dysentery!
Lol I remember how annoying it was to shoot a buffalo and have the prompt, "You killed 500 lbs worth of meat but could only carry 200 back with you." THANKS A LOT!
Are you serious???
Typewriters. I recall being excited when they came out with 'word processors' (aka typewriter with a one line display so you could correct your spelling before it typed it out on the paper).
I remember my dad had a Texas Instruments computer and a Commadore 64 when I was in my teens. We got to take a computer class during the summer in HS and the only thing we could do was play Oregon Trail.
I started out with a turntable and 8 tracks for music (I'm old). Didn't have CDs until I was in my early 20's.
We had Atari when I was a kid. I was about 17 before Nintendo came out.
We got a Colecovision Adam when I was about in 10th grade. I was taking a computer class in HS and learning to program in AppleBasic, which has served me well since then (NOT-hasn't been used since).
I remember using my allowance to buy 45 records, then making mix tapes with them on my casette player.
Atari when I was about 5.
Nintendo (NES) GameGlove and dance pad for it.
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I remember playing this game in school, but I could only go halfway because my teacher didn't have the second part of the floppy.
We also had an Atari, with the infamous E.T. game!
Man...I remember Oregon Trail. That game was awesome when I was growing up. I played Carmen Sandiego, too.
My first comp at home was a Tandy...good times, good times.
I had a walkman until I got to high school, then switched to the portable CD player. We had an NES and the original Sega, too. My dad had an Atari, but no idea where it went.
You and my DH could be twins separated at birth.
Or maybe I'm glad he met me before he met you!
My mom hooked up the old Atari last Winter and I had my DS try it.
He was not impressed.
I played NumberMunchers a lot. I loved the cut scenes!!! But I always felt kind of bad for the Troggles during the cut scenes. The Muncher guy always seemed kind of haughty and arrogant. Yeah, I read a lot of character development in the animation of my 8-bit sprites.
PS - I remember when our old typewriter died and we got one of the ones with a built-in eraser tape! So you didn't have to stick the little white-out strip in there and type over the mistake. I thought that was completely awesome!
I Loved NumberMunchers!!!
I played a lot of NES and GB- and I remember having an ancient computer with the black screen, orange letters, and DOS- you had to input a bunch of codes just to get the floppy to work right.
Oh- and the old school printers, the dot ones? Where it made a ton of noise and printed side to side- then you had to remove the dotted stripes on the ends. lol.
Atari
Windows 3.0 (1990)
Commodore 64
My fav games: pitfall, dig dug, frogger, Donkey Kong
I remember the typewriter eraser tape! It was ingenius! I used to get the white out film to use at school too. I hated waiting for the liquid to dry.
I remember my dad getting a typewriter that had built in memory, so you can type a whole line at a time. So if you had a typo, you can actually delete it before it printed. It would print the whole line once you got to the last letter, and it looked like it was printed from a computer.
I'm totally going to show my age here...
- Atari 2600
- Beta vs. VHS
- Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man
- Apple IIE computers in school
- the original Walkman
- NO computer in our house until I was in high school