I don't have a mind for dates...I always forget them.
If you ask me how old I was when 'situation X' happened, I probably couldn't tell you. Oddly though, I do remember the first time I saw Metallica was May 1st, 1989.
Still, this isn't about them. They're kinda irrelevant to me, somehow managing to bastardise the epic memories I had of them, turning into a limp parody of themselves. I never liked Kirks solos, I think Trujillo was a bad choice (but an amazing musician), Lars is just a dick, and James...it's hard to see your heroes lose their fire. Did alcohol really make him that good?!
Still, this isn't about them.
As predicted, I have no idea when the following happened:
I was in a classroom, and I am 100% certain I wasn't doing one molecule of work, because I had ADHD before it was even invented. Back then (whenever 'then' was), we were just "bad students".
So I'm in a classroom, and it was before Metallica even formed.
Still, this isn't about them.
And I get pulled out of the classroom and told to go to the library.
I enter.
And there, next to some person I had never seen before, was a list of students names. And next to the list, was a beige coloured box, and something that looked like an ugly T.V, and the union of the two became my first glimpse of a computer.
Ever.
I was instructed to sit down, and type commands into it, because back then (the 80's sometime), if you wanted to use a computer, you had to type a bunch of stupid commands into it. If you didn't know how, then you were fucked.
The screen was green and black, you couldn't look at photos or listen to actual music or watch a movie on it. You couldn't sync it with your mobile or digital camera, because they didn't exist yet.
There are actually people reading this right now who are audibly gasping "No way!"
So I'm sitting there, and when the instructor said "Type '/run'", and so forth, I would spend approximately 6 years locating the correct keys, and tap them one at a time.
And you know what I thought?
"These things will NEVER take off."
That's it for today.
This is knifey, from "the internet."
3 comments:
I had the old Commodore in the early 80's, you had to hook a phone up to it, put the handset..(no cordless phones yet) on the cradle and let the modem talk to the comp....the early social networking sites I remember were called 'bulletin boards" and it was white writing on a blue screen, no graphics and no live interaction..you posted and waited for someone to answer.......there was a half decent interactive fiction computer game called "Zork"...which was similar to those books where you make a decision at the end of a chapter.."go left or go right?..and usually you would get eaten by a monster and sent back to the beginning,oh, and of course PONG......Those were much simpler and much happier times.....
That's nothing!
I remember playing Adventure on a tele-typwriter.
Now that's alternative alternative! :-)
when i was in Yr 2 (1991), A (singular)computer got introduced to my school. And once every so often, you could play it- and kids played trivial games and stuff, like wolfenstein 3d (damn you dos!) and everytime I would choose to play...sticky bear maths. I still remember the name now- it was a mathematics game...I hate maths. Alas...
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