nendil | This new-fangled technomology's too much for me

From my ever-amusing-yet-painful computer networking textbook:

(For those too young to know, a rotary phone is an analog telephone with no buttons - only a dial.)

Oh man, that is sad. ^^;; What, is it just because I grew up a little in China that I've actually seen - and used - rotary phones and B&W TVs? I remember when I volunteered at the Tech Museum in high school, we had a rotary phone as one of the small hands-on exhibits at the info desk in the Communication gallery, and little kids would come up and be like "This is a phone?" I'M NOT OLD I'M ONLY TWENTY

The big-ass thunderstorms are rolling in again - fun, because I'm safe and sound indoors! ...But it should be safe for me to be on the computer, right? I mean, these big, sturdy dorms are well-insulated, right? ...>>;;

Edit, just because I feel like it: In China we had a color TV, even with a remote (although it was attached by a wire), because my dad went to America on business and brought back much bling. But my neighbor friend downstairs had a B&W TV that tried to pretend it was color by tinting the top, middle, and bottom different strips of colors. I always thought there was something wrong with it - didn't find out until recently that there were TVs made like that in an attempt to simulate sky/flesh tone/grass. Heh.

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I'm only 21, and I feel old knowing that there are kids in HIGH SCHOOL who grew up on the Playstation, not the NES. This boggles the mind.

Just think, one day (shockingly near) the kids will be like "You used to have a *Gamecube*? OMG THAT'S ANCIENT"

Oh well, I think it actually speaks well for how fast technology is improving these days. But man... cassette tapes are NOT OLD DAMMIT

When I was in Yugoslavia in '95, I had to help some friends figure out how to work their microwave because they were the first in their neighborhood to own one.

But at least microwaves aren't getting obsoleted anytime soon. Horray for frozen dinners!

Didn't Mr. Spring talk about those tri-color things for B&W TVs? Except he said they were to simulate the colors in westerns. That'd be neat, if the color strips were different in different countries based on what kinds of shows people watched.

I was always kind of sad when new computers stopped having the huge-ass floppy drives, and my toaster won't even have a small one. Just two summers ago the lab I worked in still stored most of their data on disks and were just starting to use USB drives -- but I wasn't cool enough to get one. Nowadays everyone has a USB thingy.

Then again, last week the older community people who come to anime club showings were talking about super old school computing, when magazines would print source code for you to type in, and subroutines were referenced by line numbers. :P

I like my NES and GBC. >.>

This new-fangled technomology's too much for me

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