Comments on: Guest-Starring Amanda Holstein!

By: Majere

Majere — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:28:44 +0000

I was at University in ’92 when the Web was just getting going, aweing my non-online friends at home at weekends with FAQs for Killer Instinct and buying Magic cards from America. Nostaglia!
Then again, when I first found PCW I read all the comics in reverse order, which meant the last (first) few were so dated tech-wise I felt like I’d just stepped out of the TARDIS bearing the gift of fire :)

By: qka

qka — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:53:34 +0000

I started in the days of 200 bps modems, with some stints of 110 bps.

(Why 110? Because back then they used 11 bits to send one byte, starting with 300 bps on, they used 10 bits/byte.

By: Rene

Rene — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:54:18 +0000

I like this one.

I can remember a time before Internet access. The best you could do was to dial a special number to connect to a BBS of a computer club, at 1200/75 bits per second (including an extra bit for every 7 bits to do a parity check). That was 25 years ago, and my computer was a Commodore 128 (1 Mhz 8-bit computer with 128 Kbyte of RAM memory and 180 Kbyte on an external diskdrive).

By: Vuokko

Vuokko — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:02:54 +0000

I remember those times… You would enter the web sites url, grab a cup of coffee and be back in time for the loaded website

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:34:04 +0000

I sound like this now when I’m talking about some tech stuff and I’m not even that old.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:30:36 +0000

I DO remember the days of dial-up,and the long long hours of waiting for pages to load… I’m pretty sure my parents remember the long long hours of waiting for the line to be available for voice calls, as well
:)
And it DOES feel like that was 100 years ago