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- monolith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ah the memories. 'The sysop is IN', translation 'KevinRose is digging stories!'
- addisonj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Haha, thats great, i love this line "One day in the future we’ll all work at 200MHz tower desktops with 9600 baud modems, but until then we’ll just have to keep dreaming." i am pretty young... but i remember when i first saw a 133 mhz CPU and was amazed, then while surfing on the internet way back when i saw an add for an upcoming 400 MHZ intel CPU and thought "wtf will anyone need 400 mhz for..." even in my short 18 years of life the leaps and bounds computers have taken are amazing
- Interpol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1best engadget post ever!
- dgblackout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://duggmirror.com/
- WillyVolk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love that one of the commenters asked if Engadget had really been around since '85. Durr...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I miss BBSs. I was pissed because things were slow but, today, I realized I had time to think.
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can neither confirm nor deny that I know what you're talking about. Yes I wish for hypothetical purposes that we had an edit comment button.
- DaviDK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As the Simpson's comic geek would say: "funniest ***** ever"
- bilton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haha that's awesome! Memories..
- monolith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember getting a 25mhz machine on my desk. Man, I was the ***** then. There is a great thread out there on usenet... starts out that the best computer is the commodore 64... and devolves from there. At one point the best computer was the original hobby build your own minicomputer that only had leds and toggle switches, preferably with many of them malfuntioning randomly.
But the best was when some one said he had an old school computer that would even wash his cloths, wash his car, take his dog for a walk, and get his lunch, and do all that boring calculation... his graduate students (indentured servants). - pbojovic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice - classic look. I still remember those days vaguely.
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Feel kind of old now looking at all those electronics, though I was only born in 1985, not that I could remember anything from then.
btw for those who think this is real..
What Engadget WOULD look like 20 years ago - jdawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0so hot... love the Discman... i have that one!
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hereby retract my previous comment and disavow any knowledge of it.
- abbtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What a cool trip back in time...
- n3tfury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0absolutely brilliant. i'm not too sure about this quote from "20 years ago" though:
"This baby totally owns.." - Mike.ohara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0(dont we all wish for a "Delete/edit own comment" button)?
- Mike.ohara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sorry 7of7..
its there in Black and...erm.. Yellow for all too see - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0save the images to 3.5-inch floppy disks (if only those things didn’t cost so damn much, anyone have a hook up on cheap floppies?) in a new file format called JPEG, or Joint Photographers Experts Group, that was created last year.
heee-larious - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome!
- Tazwolff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I ran a BBS way back when on an old (brand spanken new back then) 20Mhz system with a whopping 2MB of RAM. I have to agree with OrangeTide, I don’t recall any BBS system that gave us graphics at the time.
- mongoloid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Kind of funny, but its the same jokes recycled.
1) This is so small, how will it ever be smaller???
2) This windows/mac/nokia/whatever will never take off! - 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm not familiar with the history of Engadget. When I read this it seemed a little fake. What's the real deal with it?
- Mike.ohara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0a friend of mine still has his orgininal BBS still intact the machine would still operate if he plugged her into a phone jack...
ahh the good old days...
oh and 7of7... good cover - BPShirase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ah the memories
- motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"This baby totally owns.."
I had a cousin that said that and about 20 other "cool" phrases.
Yes, he's a washed up pushing-40 loser now. Heh... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why do people waste so much time with inconsequential bullsh*t.
- 16x9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mGee wrote: "why do people waste so much time with inconsequential bullsh*t."
Why not?
I thought this "old school" Engadget thing was great! I actually owned or at least used a bunch of the stuff listed. - WolfwoodX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude, That is awesome!! Long live the BBS!!!
- digman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0man the memories of bbs, i remember those days I was in college in 1985.
- CanuckMakem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Outstanding.... this has just made my day :D
- motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy ***** that was awesome. I can't believe I was 12. :-o
1985 was easily the best year for music in the 80s. Good times, good times. - tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha the comments are great
- bndocksnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that's great. somebody took a long time to put all that together. the sarcastic foreshadowing is hilarious. i'm calling to get one of those tapecasts right now!
- zziks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thanks for the memories.......
- digit9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh the days of the Commodore 128...boy, I thought that was all the power I would ever need...
Good find, good digg. - ultimate_ed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What scares me most is all the comments here and there from the kiddos who weren't even born in 1985!!!
Man, I'm getting old.
Great, great posting - rulethirty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0uh.. if i remember correctly, we had proportional fonts around, if not before, we had graphics that looked that good.. *Maybe* RIP could do images like that.. but that was in the 90s.
- Noah0504, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So...am I the only one in the world that can't access the page?
- sabster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0sweet 1985 would suck
- caldroun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0disclaimer: I am talking about my own podcast Technorama
We did a show a while back as if it was 1987. My brain hurt after trying to "think" like it was '87 and not '05. I did goof once and say gig instead of mb.
http://www.chuckchat.com - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0It does not look like any BBS I've used from 1985 - 1995. Even with RIPterm we didn't have graphics. Maybe if you considered some of the stuff MajorBBS did to simulate Prodigy and AOL. But by then they had proportional fonts.
The heavy use of Figlet for the big ASCII fonts seems a bit lazy. And black on white text is just wrong. A full screen of white on a CRT from 1985 is pretty painful to look at. It was only barable on the Macintosh because the screen was so tiny.
DESQview was released in 1985 and there was absolutely no mention of it on that page. DESQview was wildly popular with BBSers in the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike Windows 1.0.
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