... issues and tissues with a touch of the spicy from the spirit hag ...
Published on October 17, 2004 By mignuna In Misc

 

Were you born before 1970 ? ... do you remember ‘the good old days’ ?.

Webs were for spiders, and websites were spots you avoided walking in your garden. Surfing required water, nets were for fishermen, and a megabyte was what you took when you were really hungry.

A hard drive was a difficult car trip, a download meant a truck had turned over, and a virus was something you went to the doctor for. Wallpaper went on walls, blinds stopped the neighbours peeking in, and windows were things you looked out of.

Networks were for marketing executives, ‘a bit’ was slang for foreplay, and bandwidth meant overweight musicians. A mouse was the last thing you’d want on your desk, and a boot belonged on your foot.

A crawler was an undesirable sycophant, engines ran cars, icons were movie stars, and logs were dead trees. A browser was an aimless shopper, patches went on clothing, and hosts served canapés.

Spam was eaten, crashes involved vehicles, and servers attended you in restaurants. Saving was getting a cash discount, exiting meant leaving, and monitor meant 'keep an eye on'.

Graphic was 'vivid', 56k was a wad of cash, and an active desktop meant having to do overtime. Agents sold houses, links made jewellery, Beta was dodgy pre-VHS video, and bouncing was something balls did.

Drivers had vehicles, dumps held trash, frames sat on mantlepieces, kernels were corn, registries married people, ports had ships in them, and worms lived in the garden.

Ah yes ... how well I remember

 

 

Copyright 2004 Mignuna

 


Comments (Page 1)
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on Oct 17, 2004
very intresting... also quite intresting how fast you got a copyright. You must have been waiting on this article for months? or did you just do a speed Copyright and fork over the cash. I mean that must get expensive

I liked the article, quite cute. Also notice how all the words for the net had a similar value in real life...
~capi crimm of Abeeda.com
on Oct 17, 2004

 

very intresting... also quite intresting how fast you got a copyright. You must have been waiting on this article for months? or did you just do a speed Copyright and fork over the cash. I mean that must get expensive


hi, capi. i wrote this months ago and just found it, actually . and you can assert a copyright as soon as you publish provided you are the actual author of the full work. it from that point becomes illegal for anybody to reproduce the work without your consent, as they are aware that copyright is yours. (as it is under intellectual property laws anyway). i don't do this routinely, but it is a burgeoning trend on blogs to do so, particularly in posts that are vulnerable to copying.


I liked the article, quite cute. Also notice how all the words for the net had a similar value in real life


thanks so much, and nice to meet you .


vanessa/mig XX

on Oct 17, 2004
Meh, I wasn't born before 1970 but I loved my old Betamax VCR. It was the only thing I had that could play my complete collection of Danger Mouse tapes. It was a sad day back in '98 when it finally died.

Another good article Mig!
on Oct 17, 2004

I loved my old Betamax VCR


oh, i remember mine too, cactoblaster !. the loud whirring it would make when it was about to eject a tape !


Another good article Mig!


thankyou very much


mig XX

on Oct 17, 2004
HAHA! I was born in 1970, but I still remember all this. Amazing how much the language has changed in 30 some odd years!
on Oct 17, 2004

I'm proud to be a Woodstock baby.  June of '69, or as Bryan Adams put it "The Summer of '69'.

Yes, I recall the pre-PC days.  And I wonder how in the hell we managed without them now....I was without mine for 3 weeks when we moved, and I about lost my mind.  I didn't realize how much I had come to rely on it...

on Oct 17, 2004
Born in 1960 and I remember it all too well! Adorable blog!
on Oct 17, 2004
Mig..
This was outstanding as usual. I'm sorry I don't tell you that about your writing often enough.
I loved this and pretty much everything of yours.
Thanks for sharing your wit.
KellyW.
on Oct 17, 2004
I was born before there was a universe--in fact, I was the infinitesimal spot that created it--and I did it without viagra or steroids, niether did I have to inject steroids into my asteroids! Incidentally, I apologize for botching it all up.
courtesy of Mig
on Oct 17, 2004
Where were you on my Are you a geezer thread? OH yes definitely before 70.
on Oct 17, 2004
1961 here. Great article.

This comment Copyright 2004 MasonM
on Oct 17, 2004

1961 here. Great article.

This comment Copyright 2004 MasonM


thanks, mason. i'm very glad to see you back and in top form as usual !. and you should copyright your one liners !!!. i'm looking forward to more of them !


Where were you on my Are you a geezer thread? OH yes definitely before 70


i was there. (at least, i'm pretty certain i was). but geezer is my middle name now, ssg geezer !


Incidentally, I apologize for botching it all up.


well, you should !. imagine (to quote kingbee) being silly enough to make the canine lifespan shorter than the human one ! (ps: love the banana ! go the banana !)


This was outstanding as usual. I'm sorry I don't tell you that about your writing often enough


oh, kelly, thankyou so much !. i have enjoyed the comments you have left me, and i'm thankful that you still read and like my stuff. your encoragement is so valuable to me. thankyou ! .


Born in 1960 and I remember it all too well! Adorable blog!


thankyou, wisefawn. i am glad you enjoyed it. doesn't it seem like 'forever' ago now ?


I'm proud to be a Woodstock baby. June of '69, or as Bryan Adams put it "The Summer of '69'


i am with you there, dharma. september '69 and proud !


HAHA! I was born in 1970


you just scrape in, chip !. i just made it too !


 


mig XXX


 

on Oct 18, 2004
My old Betamax, along with a backup, is still running!
on Oct 18, 2004

My old Betamax, along with a backup, is still running


stevendedalus, maybe you can invite cactoblaster over to watch his danger mouse tapes !


email me your physical address, i will go purchase the card and send it to you
 


thankyou so much, sabrina, for looking out for me from across the world !. i'm very proud that you care enough to do that for me. (*resisting smiley*). please could you let me know after you read my explanation below what you think about the card.


 

If you really did copywrite this


sabrina, i did. i really did !. my sister made me !. it's a bit of a long story, but she was doing so for some work of her own, and i needed to copywrite the "cranky old womans' greeting card" slogans as a i had 'given' them to my friend jesse for a card website he has planned, and i didn't want people copying his cards. so, i did this one too on my sisters' insistence, but i only just recently did it. like i said to capi crimini, i wrote it about 3 months ago.


I saw these snippets, almost word for word, on a birthday card today...i was shopping for one for my old Pastor at the baptist church we left behind in Ohio.


that makes me mad, but i can hardly complain, as i had seen the very popular "were you born before 1940 ?" article myself, which inspired me to write this one. (have you ever seen the '1940's' one i refer to ? ... it's quite similar, but with stuff like "pot was what you cooked in" for the 'survivors' of the 60's and 70's). i'm not surprised somebody did a similar thing for the 'modern' age, but since i did write this myself i can still copywrite this version (i will never need to use it, anyway. my family have mauch grander plans for me than i do hehe). mostly i just wanted to stop 'copy & paste' or email reproduction of it.


thankyou again, sabrina, my treasure.


mig XXX

on Oct 19, 2004
copywrite


Arrrgh! (see an old article of mine for full details.... )
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