Memories of technology.

[Alliesaurus]

Drop some of ur brief memories u have with technology.

A remember when a was a kid and ma dad got us cable TV. The installer drilled a hole through the wall of my house for it and we were all looking out of it and shouting through it. A think it was NTL cable TV that we got.

[salamander]

invited a friend of mine at the time over to my house to play some games, he spilled his drink on my pc and it leaked into the case through vents, and immediately fried my pc to death. i wasnt angry at him because it was just an accident

anyway, it was a blessing because i finally upgraded my pc because of it. (this was back in 2011 or so)

[Under there]

late nights on TV scrambled channels would come in with boobs on them and 12y/o me found out that if you stuck a tiny screwdriver into the aux port sometimes you could unscramble them

[Alliesaurus]

Under there lähetti viestin:

late nights on TV scrambled channels would come in with boobs on them and 12y/o me found out that if you stuck a tiny screwdriver into the aux port sometimes you could unscramble them

We had this too! But it was only a 10 minute preview on one of those channels lmao!

[apathy]

I think my earliest memories were learning to work the VHS recorder, and seeing a Dot Matrix printer work for the first time.

[意味のない人生]

I remember when my dad got me a SNES with Super Mario World back in the day. I was pretty bad at first, so we used to play together and he would help me along. We would eventually get stuck on the boss of the 1st castle and that became somewhat of a plateau for a bit.

Eventually I got lucky and crushed that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for us, and suddenly it was like that magic moment when he took the training wheels off the bike and let me ride free. He was always there watching and cheering me on after that, whether it was Mario, Earthbound, Zelda, etc.

Fond memories.. miss you dad.

[Alliesaurus]

意味のない人生 lähetti viestin:

I remember when my dad got me a SNES with Super Mario World back in the day. I was pretty bad at first, so we used to play together and he would help me along. We would eventually get stuck on the boss of the 1st castle and that became somewhat of a plateau for a bit.

Eventually I got lucky and crushed that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for us, and suddenly it was like that magic moment when he took the training wheels off the bike and let me ride free. He was always there watching and cheering me on after that, whether it was Mario, Earthbound, Zelda, etc.

Fond memories.. miss you dad.

The SNES was my dads favourite console, the graphics were his favourite. He got ours from ASDA supermarket of all places. It was a packaged set that came with one of the Street Fighter games (2 a think) and he asked to swap it for Donkey Kong Country and we were hooked forever, playing it long after the N64 was out. I still have that SNES console.

[意味のない人生]

Alliesaurus lähetti viestin:

意味のない人生 lähetti viestin:

I remember when my dad got me a SNES with Super Mario World back in the day. I was pretty bad at first, so we used to play together and he would help me along. We would eventually get stuck on the boss of the 1st castle and that became somewhat of a plateau for a bit.

Eventually I got lucky and crushed that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for us, and suddenly it was like that magic moment when he took the training wheels off the bike and let me ride free. He was always there watching and cheering me on after that, whether it was Mario, Earthbound, Zelda, etc.

Fond memories.. miss you dad.

The SNES was my dads favourite console, the graphics were his favourite. He got ours from ASDA supermarket of all places. It was a packaged set that came with one of the Street Fighter games (2 a think) and he asked to swap it for Donkey Kong Country and we were hooked forever, playing it long after the N64 was out. I still have that SNES console.

Donkey Kong Country was an amazing game with a truly great soundtrack and tight gameplay. I love SF and all, but I think your pops made the right call =)

[salamander]

๋ lähetti viestin:

I have never had cable a day in my life. But I'm old enough to remember when pay phones were a thing and so, there was never any worry about having left your phone at home.

there are still pay phones in some places in my country lol, usually outside of tbilisi (capital). but yes, i grew up with them too. i remember once dialing 112 (911 in usa) as a joke as a kid and being shocked that the police actually picked up the line. 112 is free of charge, i learned then, on pay phones

[Alliesaurus]

salamander lähetti viestin:

๋ lähetti viestin:

I have never had cable a day in my life. But I'm old enough to remember when pay phones were a thing and so, there was never any worry about having left your phone at home.

there are still pay phones in some places in my country lol, usually outside of tbilisi (capital). but yes, i grew up with them too. i remember once dialing 112 (911 in usa) as a joke as a kid and being shocked that the police actually picked up the line. 112 is free of charge, i learned then, on pay phones

The last one in my neighborhood got removed quite recently but it had to go. People were using it as a bathroom and the phone had been cut off it's cable.

[Xero_Daxter]

Original Xbox playing Halo 2.

[salamander]

Xero_Daxter lähetti viestin:

Original Xbox playing Halo 2.

are you having, midnight releases and such in your country? i remember waiting in a line at night with friends, as a kid, for the release of halo 2

[Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...]

apathy lähetti viestin:

I think my earliest memories were learning to work the VHS recorder, and seeing a Dot Matrix printer work for the first time.

i looooove the sound of a dot matrix printer. that brings me back to when we got an Apple II computer from a relative and I would practice typing on it. i always wished we had some games for it, but i didn't know enough to ask.

we eventually did get a computer with windows 95 and i played crayola art studio and i think i had sonic cd then, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WXpFOzJC0g

[Alliesaurus]

apathy lähetti viestin:

I think my earliest memories were learning to work the VHS recorder, and seeing a Dot Matrix printer work for the first time.

Oh God VHS recorders lmao!

[apathy]

意味のない人生 lähetti viestin:

Alliesaurus lähetti viestin:

The SNES was my dads favourite console, the graphics were his favourite. He got ours from ASDA supermarket of all places. It was a packaged set that came with one of the Street Fighter games (2 a think) and he asked to swap it for Donkey Kong Country and we were hooked forever, playing it long after the N64 was out. I still have that SNES console.

Donkey Kong Country was an amazing game with a truly great soundtrack and tight gameplay. I love SF and all, but I think your pops made the right call =)

Same. I miss Rareware. I also remember playing Star Fox for the first time and being completely blown away by the presentation.

Nintendo were experimental during that era, yet nearly all of these concepts paid off in the long-term and created franchises we still have today.

[Pierce Dalton]

The first time I played an online game (Soldier of Fortune 2), my ping was so high that my game was freezing every 3 seconds. I didn't care, though, I was having a blast.