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Aamry

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I know microfiche was used in a lot of movies. Anytime a reporter or lawyer was shown researching they'd be at the library pouring through them. Like, I bet Erin brockovitch used them.

I've personally used microfiche like 3 times.

I learned to type via a mix of typewriter and EverQuest hah. We had a rotary phone growing up, alongside our regular dial-tone phones.
 
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Hoss

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I've personally used microfiche like 3 times.

I learned to type via a mix of typewriter and EverQuest hah. We had a rotary phone growing up, alongside our regular dial-tone phones.

My usage is pretty close to that. I only used it for research papers in college. So however many of those I had to write.

I learned to type on a typewriter in typing class because in my HS that was considered a computer class. It was actually useful. The funny thing is that the next year I had the same typing teacher in my BASIC programming class. Her qualifications were that she taught typing. How different could it be right? Then she taught a computer math class, which was still BASIC programming but we used it to solve math problems. That was a great time, she came to me when kids asked her questions. But she was sweet and she cared. She always wanted to know the answers too, she didn't just send people to me and read a newspaper.
 

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You know you are getting old when you wander into the Thot thread and have no idea who any of those skanks are and think to yourself "why would anyone give money to some chick who isn't doing a donkey on the web when normal porn is free"?
 
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You know you are getting old when you wander into the Thot thread and have no idea who any of those skanks are and think to yourself "why would anyone give money to some chick who isn't doing a donkey on the web when normal porn is free"?

Do you realize that it's your cheap ass not paying for porn that brought us thots? The market had to evolve because of you. It got hyper focused on the types of guys who would pay and it turns out they're a bunch of fucking losers who just want a girl to talk to them. If you'd kept paying for it like God intended, they'd all be spending a year or 2 in hardcore then retire and complain about how people keep recognizing them while they're trying to bag groceries.
 
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Talking to my sister a few weeks back, the conversation went onto my niece. She's got a job at a local club / tavern. She's actually behind the main bar serving drinks.

O - kay then.
 
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it's friday night game night, which I have busted butt all week to get too. It's been a thing for over 20 years, and no one in your inner circle is online. "what do I do now!?"
 
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When you don't care if people die or not. In fact you spend most of your days wishing everyone was dead. Now get the fuck off my lawn.
 
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When you don't care if people die or not. In fact you spend most of your days wishing everyone was dead. Now get the fuck off my lawn.

I have noted that as I get older I get less and less upset at funerals, It's like Old is just a variant of Sociopath. heh
 
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Sanrith Descartes

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I had to look up what TIFU meant. Fucking kids today. In my day we just changed the meanings of words around. Lazy fuckers today dont have the attention span to go beyond initials.
FML.
 
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You remember this...

We didn't have cable when this was a thing, so it didn't click til the HBO logo showed up. Buddy's dad had hacked satellite, so I spent an entire weekend watching The Crow and other shit that was playing.
 
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Not only remember this, I remember the 'making of' video for it as well. Sad to think it was so mind blowing at the time.


Was that a flyover of the town from back to the future?

I didn't really recognize it till the hbo logo came on. We stole cable and HBO was the only one that wasn't scrambled.
 

Aamry

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Was that a flyover of the town from back to the future?

I didn't really recognize it till the hbo logo came on. We stole cable and HBO was the only one that wasn't scrambled.

The town from Back to the Future is a set. It's been used in quite a few movies and TV shows.
 
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Not only remember this, I remember the 'making of' video for it as well. Sad to think it was so mind blowing at the time.

I looked up a youtube vid for better quality, then found myself watching more than I care to admit of a 4 hour 80s commercials youtube vid. In the middle of that was an ad for a missing kid, where I then learned about an Australian serial killer in the US during the 80s. God the internet just sucks you in sometimes lol.
 
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