So I made up a word for this post... Nostalgic for Technology - Nostalogy. This is what I am. I find that I often think back to technology of old with fleeting whimsy. I miss rotary dial phones, phones with cords, no cell phones. I miss low resolution graphics. I miss getting my computer programming magazine when I was 13 and being all excited about retyping in the hundred's of line of basic code into the school computer so I could create a very basic text game or hear the computer speaker beep out the first few bars of Beethoven's 5th.I miss computer camp and turning on my Apple IIe all the while making sure the boot up disk was in the drive. I miss having to have a boot up disk in the drive in order to start a computer. I miss 5 1/4" floppy disks heck I miss disks in general, most PCs now don't include one.
I miss the days when computers were seen as a fringe phenomenon of ultra-geeks.
...sigh
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Ok, how sad is it that it took this post to make me notice that our new computer (purchased Aug. 2006) doesnot have a disk drive? Huh.
Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?
I am nostalgic for the good ole days of horrible graphics video games. I actually own a still-functioning Intellivision, and it is priceless. Every once in a while we bring it out to play Pitfall or Burgertime and it is just as much fun now as it was in the 80's.
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