EricM Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 and it wasn't so long ago... http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-160820776386465403 ...wonder what the next 15 years will be like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beau 1664876222 Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 So I guess this is Canadian TV circa 2005 or so? (just kidding). Actually, I remember those days well. I lived in San Francisco in the late 80's through 1997, kind of ground zero for the internet revolution. When I met my wife, she was working at Wired magazine. It was an exciting time. It's amazing how much things have changed, and yet sometimes I'm nostalgic for how things were before. For instance, I'm sure the community darkroom I used to haunt, along with all the interesting characters that populated it, are long gone now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m._howard_edwards Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Beau, if you mean the one in the park near Church Street in the Western Addition, it is still there and going strong. And populated with similar characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Rowlett Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 I remember BITNet in college in 1980. My address was <name>@alaska. I remember "Relay" and "XYZZY," tools used for what today we call IM. I was chatting with people all around the world, primarly at college campuses. Was a very interesting time. Backups? We don’t need no stinking ba #.’ _ , J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Rowlett Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 I had a friend who was a SYSOP at the college "node," and at his house he had a small, typewriter-like "terminal" with an accoustic modem (or "coupler") on it. One of the most amazing things to me at the time was when he "dialed-in" to the university computer system at the amazing speed of 300 BAUD (30 characters appearing on the screen every second.) It knocked my socks off. I wanted to badly to go out and buy a "terminal" so I could do that. PCs weren't really too main stream yet. A few months later, I ended up driving 300 miles to Anchorage with the sole purpose of spending $300 on a Commodore Vic 20. It had, what, 3K of RAM? HA! HA! Backups? We don’t need no stinking ba #.’ _ , J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 <i>typewriter-like "terminal"</i> <p> Don't forget the CRT screens where the characters appeared a bright green! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted August 3, 2006 Author Share Posted August 3, 2006 "So I guess this is Canadian TV circa 2005 or so? (just kidding)." heh :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas_sullivan Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 cool news video. For some reason I never really got into the internet, or even cared about it until i found out there were photography sites on it.......then I was hooked. Vic 20.....now computers themselves, well that's what I did for a job, using them to test other electronic devices. Remember when I bought my Vic 20....wrote my first "Machine Language" program from scratch on that thing. Pretty cool. Lost interest quick though...like Tony said, limitted RAM, actually, limitted everything.....tape data storage...ugh. Besides, heck I was using DEC dual bay stations at work. Sometimes I wish I could get into the machine language of this thing I use now.......there are a few things I want to change......heh. As far as what the next 15 years will provide. I once had the URL of a promo type thing from some Japanese company that was their vision of the future. I'll see if I can find it. Was one of those finds that I found while looking for something else.....heh......so my memory is really vague on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Despite being an IT pro for 27 years my experience was (still is partly) with humungous mainframe stuff and I only got into the internet when I switched over to networks/comms some 10 years ago. A little later I got into photography and then some time later still (1999) I tripped over photo.net and it looked like this... http://web.archive.org/web/19970722071912/www.photo.net/photo/ The Leica Forum existed somewhere else back then and looked like this... http://web.archive.org/web/20000303201303/http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=Leica+Photography And here is Tony Rowlett reviewing the 'new' M6 TTL in 1999.... http://web.archive.org/web/20000301091558/www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0017Iz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Someone reviewing a $1000 Casio digital P&S with a 250,000 kilopixel CCD... http://web.archive.org/web/19970722072618/www.photo.net/photo/qv10/ (And note the reference to the $28,000 Kodak DSLR.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Actually that was a little naughty of Phil Greenspun to have that as the ONLY digital camera reviewed given the far better digital cameras already available in 1999-2000.... http://web.archive.org/web/20000902005011/dpreview.com/reviews/ Including a couple of groundbreaking DSLRs from Nikon and Canon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Rowlett Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Now that's a trip down memory lane. I remember there weren't that many of us on the forum, and for quite a while. I don't know what happened. :-) Backups? We don’t need no stinking ba #.’ _ , J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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