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Let's nostalgia! Tech from 80's, 90's, early 2000's

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Boss Doggie

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You know, stuff that you probably won't see nowadays what with these kids and their smartphones and cloud storage and social media and whatever.

Let me start off with the 56k modem sound. Such wonderful memories. Also I'm surprised that people actually had postpaid/subscription for that - I thought prepaid service matched it more.
 
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BertramCooper

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Probably my favorite Christmas gift ever.
 
Boss Doggie

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Also, I remember submitting computer work and assignments in floppy disks.

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When I look at my CPU today I kinda miss having a floppy drive.
 
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Ultima_5

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We have one of these bad boys sitting under a pile of stuff in my garage. I've been trying to talk my dad into helping me clear it out for awhile now so I can play with it.
 
pr0cs

pr0cs

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Soooo many good memories, I just wish Commodore didn't fuck it up, I wonder what technology would be like now if the Amiga really took off like it should have.
 
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Hackbert

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every kid in my street got a freaking (s)NES for christmas.. but i don´t know to this day why,
but i got a
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At first i was shocked, cause i did´nt know Sega lol.. but after a few minutes of Sonic i was hooked. Consolero for life ^^

Also i can´t remember the year, but my dad brought home from work sometimes a very old Thinkpad with Win 3.1 .. My first contact with PCs.
Funny to think, that i learned to use one with a laptop rather than a desktop. That came years later.
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Nice thread. I love the look of alot of old tech. My Dad was thankfully a bit of a technic nerd himself.. interested at least.

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to this day i have and use his old Stereo Deck ^^
 
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Jobiensis

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Hackbert said:
Also i can´t remember the year, but my dad brought home from work sometimes a very old Thinkpad with Win 3.1 .. My first contact with PCs.
Funny to think, that i learned to use one with a laptop rather than a desktop. That came years later.
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That is not Windows 3.1

Parent's basement when I was a kid
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Big ass winchester removable hard drives, line printers, paper tape, those were the days.
 
bengraven

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Hackbert said:
Also i can´t remember the year, but my dad brought home from work sometimes a very old Thinkpad with Win 3.1 .. My first contact with PCs.

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Funny to think, that i learned to use one with a laptop rather than a desktop. That came years later.
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My mom bought one of these for waaaaaaaaay too much at a pawn shop in the late 90s. It was completely wiped clean except the OS - no programs except those necessary to run Windows. I had to steal Paint, Word, and a JPG viewer from a library PC. No CD drive. Nothing.

But because it was so bare I could use it as a word processor. Wrote my first novel, "Self/Inflicted" on it during a very emo period of the year 2000. lol


Mike M said:
I use this for listening to my iPhone in my car : /
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Yep, I used one of these religiously with my iPods until I accidently left it in the sun one hot Florida summer day a couple years ago.

Thankfully our new car has an output port.
 
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GhaleonEB

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Dot matrix printers. I really loved the sound those things made, especially the fast ones.

I also enjoyed tearing off and playing with the strips of paper with the holes on the sides of each sheet. My mom would do a big project, and I'd have strips 20 feet long to play with.
 
LQX

LQX

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My beloved walking robot my grandpa bought for me...
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Popeye mini arcade. I actually sold this thing for like $10. Its now worth hundreds.
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Also this...
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I now Feel like an idiot for not holding on to the toys I had as a youth.
 
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PalaceBrother

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replicashooter said:
Psion 3 was so future in the past, exceedingly handy thing to tote and these 3D Tomy things that looked like this:

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And played like this:

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My eyeball
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I have this in my basement right now! I'm putting batteries in it tonight.

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LQX said:
Popeye mini arcade. I actually sold this thing for like $10. Its now worth hundreds.
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I think I still have a Donkey Kong Jr. cabinet that looks like this. I haven't seen it in years though...
 
bengraven

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Man, this thread is nostalgiaing me. I'm so fucking nostalgiaed by some of these old LCD games.

Dark Octave said:
LOL OMFG!!!

I just bought an external 1-terabyte drive for $99 the other day.
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And if you went back 15 years and told someone that, they'd be like "That's too much space! Games are only 100-200 meg in size on average! You don't need that much!"

Just like when someone in 1999 told me "I have an entire harddrive full of music I ripped on it...ONE...FULL....GIG" and I whewed, "That's a LOT of music".
 
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