Things that make you feel old

[northernladuk]

Reading the Video games thread made me feel old.
.

There is a very good reason it makes you feel old.......

[MrMarkyMark]

Yeah me too - became the top insult for a few years until Gaylord became popular.



Ernie was his slightly less disabled mate who translated for him iirc?

Yup.

[motoukenin]

Indeed I got paid a lot of money (at the time) for going into the office and making sure the photocopier still made photocopies?

And the phones still rang....

I think a lot of people had no ******* idea what the problem was and therefore what could be affected.

Summs Brexit up perfect

[Paddy]

Oh yes. So many upgrades and new installations, rates were sky high.

Yep, the only time I was paid more than a QC.

[Eirikur]

Can't wait for the year 2048 bug when the year in the binary calendar jumps from 11111111111 to 100000000000

[administrator]

Things that make me feel old...

Stack of IDE hard drives here, my very first GB drive included!

The death of Flash - I think I started using that on V3 in 1999 when it was Macromedia Flash.

Found a grey eyebrow hair the other week

[OwlHoot]

Just chatting to some student placements. They covered the Millenium Bug in their History of Computing course. One of the students commented she'd had to do a presentation on it - but she'd never met anyone who'd worked through it.

Those students will be old timers themselves by the time the 2037 epoch date bug is imminent.

(although by then computers will probably be practically self-aware, and thus able to fix it on their own)

[Bee]

Makes you feel old when you curl your hands up and yell 'Joeeey' at someone that's just said something stupid. You instantly realise...

1) No one probably remember who Joey was and why you are doing that.
2) They world has moved on far enough for this to be incredibly offensive even if they remembered
3) Even back in the day it was immature and childish.

There you are feeling old, incredibly stupid and totally ignorant in one fell swoop.

Who was Joey?

[kevpuk]

Who was Joey?

Joey Deacon

[Bee]

Things that make me feel old...

Stack of IDE hard drives here, my very first GB drive included!

The death of Flash - I think I started using that on V3 in 1999 when it was Macromedia Flash.

Found a grey eyebrow hair the other week

In my case, it's starting from the bottom, and I think it's time to shave all my pubic hair.