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| Randy 2001-06-11, 11:09 am |
| Does anyone here ever get nostalgia for gopher sites? | |
| Nicole 2001-06-11, 1:51 pm |
| Only about as much as I miss strapping the phone handset into my modem. | |
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| Ah, well, was just a question . . . | |
| pitbull 2001-06-11, 6:50 pm |
| ok.....i'll ask...whats a gopher site? i voted you as being weird by the way. | |
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| Talk about a blast from the past  | |
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| Trouble Man 2001-06-11, 8:38 pm |
| Whew!! That's old!
Remember before the internet when people used to have boards at their houses and you had to dial in to them, and Captain Crunch whistles could get you free long distance?
What was that, early 80's? mid 80's? I remember my old Tandy---what a piece of crap. Two 5.25 drives, no hard drive, and a whopping 384K memory. Imagine trying to surf the net on that now. At least it was better than my old TRS-80 Level II, which had 16K memory and you had to load the programs through a cassette tape (the ones you listen to music on). It took half an hour just to load Eliza. | |
| Trouble Man 2001-06-14, 12:39 am |
| Hey,
Does anybody miss Tandy's?? | |
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| Never had one. I was using ATARI 2600 back then! | |
| Firebird81 2001-06-14, 9:05 am |
| TANDY! I had a COCO and then a COCO3. I was an avid subscriber to the Rainbow magazine and that's where I learned how to program my very own text and "graphic" adventures in BASIC. I'll never forget drawing my scenes on graph paper-remember what a big deal it was when 640-192 became the high resolution? I remember when hard drives first came out. They were in a big box that sat next to your computer and were an Add-on peripheral. I remember playing the original text-based Zork on an original TRS-80 with a cassette. Anyone remember the games Hammarubi or Rogue? | |
| Trouble Man 2001-06-14, 8:49 pm |
| I used to play rogue. There are a lot of good rogue type games out there now (Zangband, ADOM, Angband, ect.). On my TRS-80 I had this Star Trek game with great graphics. The Klingons were a K, and the Enterprise was a <->. The stars were *. | |
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| I haven't used it since back when I was UG. Stay late at night look for resource to write my term paper and coding... | |
| ace123 2001-08-29, 12:18 pm |
| I use to love playing Rogue | |
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| [QUOTE]Originally posted by Firebird81
[B]TANDY! I had a COCO and then a COCO3. I was an avid subscriber to the Rainbow magazine and that's where I learned how to program my very own text and "graphic" adventures in BASIC.
I was the same. This is where I first started and got hooked. Remember, these PC's used ROMPAK game cartridges you inserted into the side (you almost needed a mallet to get them in)and had the worst joysticks in the world. (I've still got all the gear packed up somewhere at home)If I had never been exposed to these, why I could have ended up as an accountant or in some other meaningful career. | |
| Sotet 2001-08-30, 10:05 pm |
| I used gopher alot when researching NATO and other gummit stuff.
Gopher originated out of the Univ. of Minnesota, notice the link below
as contained in the : gopher://gopher.tc.umn.edu/11/
Much more tedious to use than a search engine....Yahoo was the bomb when it came out!
You can find several more Gophers searching the ol-Deja/Google Advanced search option:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=gopher%3A//gopher | |
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| I remember Yahoo shortly after this, there was a bit more to their page than this...
I think I first used Yahoo in early 95...
Kinda cool someone kept an old version of their page, wish there were some more them.
http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/History/yahoo/ |
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