And phones with real dials, not push buttons.

Wasn't it cute how they thought they wouldn't lose money?
Howard | 01.30.09 - 9:15 am | #

Dude!!!

You should totally redo your blog template again to look just like that monochrome monitor with that old courier font.
Chris-2-4 | 01.30.09 - 9:41 am | #

Man I got excited when my father finally upgraded the modem to 2400 baud, up from 1200 on our TRS-80.

BBS's and machine language, nope, I don't miss it.
Tito Edwards | Homepage | 01.30.09 - 9:54 am | #

That was my decade. Fun memories.
Dave G. | 01.30.09 - 10:01 am | #

The modem that required the handset to be set on it was a little before my time. I started in the 1200bps days, and we didn't do that any more. It was plenty slow enough. With that thing they had even a page of text would take a while to display.
Allan Edwards | Homepage | 01.30.09 - 10:23 am | #

Though as for me, I do miss the BBS scene a bit. Not really enough to use telnet to connect to ones that still exist, but the nostalgia is there.
Allan Edwards | Homepage | 01.30.09 - 10:24 am | #

I enjoyed the BBS scene as well.

Those were great days.
Tito Edwards | Homepage | 01.30.09 - 12:20 pm | #

That was fascinating, but I have to go watch, oh, I don't know, ALF? Charlie's Angels? Saturday Night Live? I hear that Eddie Murphy Guy is really funny.
Niall Mor | Homepage | 01.30.09 - 2:30 pm | #

For the record, green text on black is still considered by most programmers to be easier on the eyes than black text on white.
Aaron | Homepage | 01.31.09 - 9:14 am | #

The first "personal computer" I personally owned was an ADM-3a dumb terminal, which I connected to university computers using an acoustic-coupled (stick the phone handset in the cups) 300 baud modem. Fidonet and the BBS scene came later, once I got a real PC with an 8088 processor, a 1200 baud modem and a real 10 meg hard drive with DOS installed.

Good times.
Zippy | Homepage | 01.31.09 - 11:15 am | #

That news chick's hair is now on Rod Blagojevich's head. All he did was spray paint it black.

The bald gent gushed, "Anything we're interested in, I can copy it onto paper and save it, wich I think is the future!"

As opposed to just buying the print edition and eliminating the need for the computer? LOL
Sean P. Dailey | Homepage | 01.31.09 - 12:04 pm | #

Wow, haven't thought about FidoNet or the BBSs in years. I dinked around there as a young teenager with my speedy 2400 bps modem. I think I still have my 28.8k external modem somewhere, and I bet it still works.
Kevin J Jones | Homepage | 01.31.09 - 3:01 pm | #