Remember the old - cool, better - days of DU, when we mailed each other punch cards?

[Rabrrrrrr]

And WaltStarrsFather posted this one to Skinner?




Man, I still laugh about that one.

:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

1. Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

[denbot]

2. Yup, The internets is what we kept our hair in..

Damn kids with their fancy Commodore Computation Machines, GET OFF MY LAWN DAMN-IT!!!!

[Lethe]

5. I see your PET and raise you

a SX64

[madrchsod]

3. we had to learn how to use punch cards

when i took "intro to computers" class in 1982....

[no name no slogan]

4. I remember pounding away on my Wang, posting on DU

Those definitely were the good old days

[Bertha Venation]

7. Oh, the Wang!

Those were the days. How I miss the green screen.

[Doc_Technical]

6. I showed up much later

when we were using 8" hard sector floppy disks.
They don't make them like the
Data General Nova 3/12 anymore.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. And those turtle logo contests? Of course some of us were even more old school...

(Well, not me. But I can draw a mean flight of stairs!)

[madinmaryland]

9. Actually WaltStarrsGGGGrandfather sent a message to SkinnersGGGrandfather

via this service. Three weeks later he was tombstoned!

[DS1]

10. Dear Mr. Skinner,

It is with great regret that I inform you of my wish to be TOMBSTONED RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

Respectfully,
Walt Starr Sr.

[Greyskye]

13. No no no, it says this:

Dear Skinner,

Please FOLD SPINDLE AND MUTILATE ME RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

[KamaAina]

11. In the Hawaii forum, we used abaci

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Personally, I like the DU of the Thirteenth Century BC the best.

This one reads, "King Tutankhamun's vizier was giving him the daily royal briefing one day and told him...."

[baldguy]

14. "How many is in a Phoenician?"