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rather than curiosity at a new technology.
Call it curiosity at an old technology then - a perfectly respectable pursuit. Give it another few years and someone will end up writing a Sociology thesis on l33t sp33k's calculator-sp33k origins, and spawning a whole new field of study. Social Anthropologists will be beating a path to your door when you're an old man, as one of the last native practitioners of the art
black-n-white TV that weighed a couple-hundred pounds, with a 17" screen
17" screen - in my day that would have been undreamed of luxury!
I may be almost the youngest person on the planet who can remember watching the first moon landing (I was 3 and some months). And the TV was a huge bakelite monstrosity with a tiny circular screen like an oscilloscope. Mind you, I think it was far from new even then
BTW, those fresnel lens screen magnifiers never went away - they just evolved:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/150-DIY-HOME-CINEMA-TV-VIDEO-PROJECTOR-PROJECTION-KIT_W0QQitemZ5879404509
Now why does that strike me as slightly over-optimistic?
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Call it curiosity at an old technology then - a perfectly respectable pursuit. Give it another few years and someone will end up writing a Sociology thesis on l33t sp33k's calculator-sp33k origins, and spawning a whole new field of study. Social Anthropologists will be beating a path to your door when you're an old man, as one of the last native practitioners of the art
..all you kids with yer hippity-hop music and your gaming consoles with more computing power than NASA used to use to get to the Moon... why, when I was young we'd play 'Pong' on a black-n-white TV that weighed a couple-hundred pounds, with a 17" screen and you had to wait for the tubes to warm up for a minute or two before you could even play.
Pong... two vertical lines (well, 3 counting the 'net'...) and a dot.. man oh man, it was like a video version of 'Air Hockey'~~ but I'm just rambling on now, as an old man should. (Oh yeah,forgot to say "and we LIKED it!!)
I know I'm in the wrong forum for rambling, but I'm mid-ramble now so let me just... eh, ramble a bit more about this. Madden Football? Pffft, we had electronic football games too; well, electric, anyway. Little plastic players with magnetic feet, 'running' across a green field of buzzing metal... buzzing because it little more than a vibrator under there, acting as the hardware, software, player control... (wait for it) and we LIKED it!!
Big-screen tv? Who needs it; we had the high-tech wide-screen answer in our living room... basically a plastic magnifying glass- kinda lens-dealie that you put in front of that 17" tv, and suddenly it's home-theatre time! Looked almost like 20" or so, at just the right angle... just ignore those headaches, it's worth it for the space-age experience of watching... well anyway, and we LIKED it!!
Car phones? No need, C.B radio...
Cell phones? What, ya never heard of a walkie-talkie?
DVD players? We had a few V.D. players, but~~ oh sorry, the orderlies here are telling me it's my naptime now. Ahh, naptime... some things will always stay the same.
(What the heck were we talking about? Oh right, calculators. No need, ten fingers & ten toes, there's your 'Metric system' for ya... ooh, the Rx is kicking in now, Grampa SubliminaLiar will now be counting sheep and sawing logs.
To anyone who even read half of this post, sorry for your 3 minutes you've just wasted. The check's in the (e)mail
Pong... two vertical lines (well, 3 counting the 'net'...) and a dot.. man oh man, it was like a video version of 'Air Hockey'~~ but I'm just rambling on now, as an old man should. (Oh yeah,forgot to say "and we LIKED it!!)
I know I'm in the wrong forum for rambling, but I'm mid-ramble now so let me just... eh, ramble a bit more about this. Madden Football? Pffft, we had electronic football games too; well, electric, anyway. Little plastic players with magnetic feet, 'running' across a green field of buzzing metal... buzzing because it little more than a vibrator under there, acting as the hardware, software, player control... (wait for it) and we LIKED it!!
Big-screen tv? Who needs it; we had the high-tech wide-screen answer in our living room... basically a plastic magnifying glass- kinda lens-dealie that you put in front of that 17" tv, and suddenly it's home-theatre time! Looked almost like 20" or so, at just the right angle... just ignore those headaches, it's worth it for the space-age experience of watching... well anyway, and we LIKED it!!
Car phones? No need, C.B radio...
Cell phones? What, ya never heard of a walkie-talkie?
DVD players? We had a few V.D. players, but~~ oh sorry, the orderlies here are telling me it's my naptime now. Ahh, naptime... some things will always stay the same.
(What the heck were we talking about? Oh right, calculators. No need, ten fingers & ten toes, there's your 'Metric system' for ya... ooh, the Rx is kicking in now, Grampa SubliminaLiar will now be counting sheep and sawing logs.
To anyone who even read half of this post, sorry for your 3 minutes you've just wasted. The check's in the (e)mail
17" screen - in my day that would have been undreamed of luxury!
I may be almost the youngest person on the planet who can remember watching the first moon landing (I was 3 and some months). And the TV was a huge bakelite monstrosity with a tiny circular screen like an oscilloscope. Mind you, I think it was far from new even then
BTW, those fresnel lens screen magnifiers never went away - they just evolved:
Now why does that strike me as slightly over-optimistic?
I was even alive when JFK was assassinated; I was less than a month old though, so i neither remember it unfolding nor was a suspect for long.
I definitely recall the Moon landing when I was five, however... we watched one of the greatest in the history of mankind
on a 17" black-n-white tv with bad vertical hold
but dammit (last time, I promise) we LIKED it!!
I definitely recall the Moon landing when I was five, however... we watched one of the greatest in the history of mankind
on a 17" black-n-white tv with bad vertical hold
but dammit (last time, I promise) we LIKED it!!
I was four when the first moon landing occurred. My dad's an aerospace engineer, so he was pretty excited about it.
My husband recalls calling in sick to work that day to watch it on TV. And I thought I was old!
My husband recalls calling in sick to work that day to watch it on TV. And I thought I was old!
I wonder if any of us will live to see another man on the moon? I can't believe it's been over 30 years since the last one 
We have never been there to begin with!!!!
lol just playin.... its funny that people beleive that but with a modestly powerfull telescope you can spot the moon rovers on the surface
lol just playin.... its funny that people beleive that but with a modestly powerfull telescope you can spot the moon rovers on the surface
Jazake, actually even the Hubble telescope isn't powerful enough (or fine enough resolution) to give us images of the Rovers on the Moon. Too small, too far... however, the Astronauts did leave a laser reflector on the Moon, and by bouncing a laser on Earth & timing the return we know how far away the Moon is from Earth. It takes about 2.5 seconds for the light to get to back to us, which using math tells us that Moon is, really, really far away.
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