I am now in the 21st century.

***BIG TEXAN*** · 06-04-2003, 09:16 AM

Well, fianlly after years of going without, I have caught up to the 21st century. We now have the surround sound entertainment system (which I still am not sure if it's hooked up right), dvd player, computer and the internet. After finally having all this I can say I hate technology. I have more wires, remote controls and crap in my living room than ever before. What happened to only having to use 1 remote? No, now you have to use 1 to turn the tv on and the volume, another for the digital cabel, and another for the damn surround sound/dvd player.

At least I know have the internet at my house and can be on AR without worrying about my supervisor walking into my office and catching me.

**KeyMastur** · 06-04-2003, 09:18 AM

Now just get a wireless router and network card and you can sit in front of the TV while on AR. (or just get some really long cords)

**EXCESS** · 06-04-2003, 09:42 AM

Your remote control problems are about to come to an end...if you're rich.

http://www.pronto.philips.com/

**BigGreen** · 06-04-2003, 09:52 AM

Actually for under $200 you can pick up something similar at best buy, etc that "just" does the entertainment system...much better than the clutter or five or six remotes...and who needs to remote control their fireplace anyway?

***BIG TEXAN*** · 06-04-2003, 09:55 AM

Hell, it's taken me this long just to be able to afford the stuff I have now. By the time I could afford something like that we'd all be driving cars that hover and fly.

I'm just a poor, white, bastard.

**mammoth** · 06-04-2003, 10:08 AM

You have children right BigT?! Just wait a few years and those little buggers will be able to do it all, and you won't have to learn any of it!

Anyhow, welcome to the 21st century!

***BIG TEXAN*** · 06-04-2003, 10:26 AM

mammoth- I know I can't wait. Hell I remember growing up, I WAS the remote.

These young 'uns today just don't know how easy they got it. I remember playing PONG on my ATARI was the greatest thing back than, hell the games they have now a days....

**BigGreen** · 06-04-2003, 10:34 AM

P-p-pong??? Atari? What are these things of which you speak? Is "playing pong on my atari" slang for "shooting hoops on the court" or something like that? Or maybe it's a regional thing and those words have meaning in Texas? I'm very confused. What do "pong" and "atari" have to do with technology?

***BIG TEXAN*** · 06-04-2003, 10:43 AM

Damn I'm only 25 and you're making me feel like I'm 50.

Better behave before we make you sit in the corner..... without your binky!

**BigGreen** · 06-04-2003, 10:49 AM

As usual, i'm just kidding...I am only slightly younger than you in the grand scheme of things, but those couple of years represented a BIG change in technology. The first thing I remember playing was supermario brothers and duck hunt on the original nintendo. Also, my best friend's brother (who is only 4 years older than us) took a computer class in junior high that basically involved playing "Oregon Trail" and actually doing BASIC...by the time we were in 8th grade, we were doing some early photoshop type stuff and using "prodigy", etc.

**Juggernaut** · 06-04-2003, 11:04 AM

Mammoth's talking the truth there BIG TEXAN. I went to play on our computer at home and my 13 year old daughter said "Don't go messing around too much on the computer dad, it took me a whole day to fix what you screwed up yesterday". She said if I up her allowance she'll teach me how to set the time on the vcr......Smart ass kid.

**Red Ketchup** · 06-04-2003, 11:06 AM

Hmmm I remember around 1976 going to the mall and playing Pong in black and white on the old analogue tv "game console" at the Sears electronics dept.

Nobody I knew had a pong game as they were just too darn expensive.

Of course in '79 or '80 the Atari 2600 cartridge console was just IT! Again is was quite costly and nobody I knew had one, so I remember spending hours and hours with my buds at the mall playing in stores until we were kicked out

I wish I had an old pong console just to see what my kid makes of it!

Ah the good old days!

Red

***BIG TEXAN*** · 06-04-2003, 11:58 AM

Hey Red Ketchup, I still have my Atari with all of the games ever sold for it. I've had numerous offers from people to buy it for some reason but declined. I'd make an exception for you, just as long as you let me know how your kids react to it.

**ripsid** · 06-04-2003, 12:11 PM

... I do the computer thing for a living, but my fiancee was having troubles (2yrs ago) my son who was like 4 at the time, fixed her problem and then showed her the right way to navigate through what ever she was working on! Hell, he helped my dad once, he called me at work and was like "I'm never watching Carlo again! He just made a total fool out of me!" LOL!!!!!!
Big T, but do you have high speed access???? That's the key my brother! My fiancee could never go back to dial up! Even she admits it now! She had AOL and I had High speed, she was blown away! All the porn at our finger tips...

**mammoth** · 06-04-2003, 12:18 PM

Anybody remember the intellivision system? Or the vector system? Ahh, those were the days. I never really lost touch with consoles until I got my first 8086 back in 82. It was all text based adventures back then! Zork, Planetfall, and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (based on the Douglas Adams series). It wasn't until the advent of CGA that I got interested in sex! It's sad when my first boner came about after the first few hours of playing Leisure Suit Larry! Man I miss those days!!

***BIG TEXAN*** · 06-04-2003, 12:22 PM

Originally posted by mammoth
Anybody remember the intellivision system? Or the vector system? Ahh, those were the days. I never really lost touch with consoles until I got my first 8086 back in 82. It was all text based adventures back then! Zork, Planetfall, and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (based on the Douglas Adams series). It wasn't until the advent of CGA that I got interested in sex! It's sad when my first boner came about after the first few hours of playing Leisure Suit Larry! Man I miss those days!!

I'm having flashbacks!!!!

ripsid- I got Roadrunner baby!!!!! I wasn't about to full around with dial-up. Of course my slow ass computer makes up for it though.

**Red Ketchup** · 06-04-2003, 02:46 PM

Hee hee thanks Big T, but believe it or not, I got a 2600

Picked it up at a yard sale a few years ago for a song and a dance. (Of course it's in a box in storage downstairs, but I'll pull it out one of these days!)

As a kid I had an Intellivision (with the voice synth module to play "Beeee seveeeentteeen Bawwwmer!"), and a few years after I got a colecovision! now that was da shit! Even had the steering wheel to play Turbo!

Yep, the good ole days

(I won't even get into my first computer... an Apple ][ with 16k ram, 40 columns display on an old TV and a normal tape cassete drive

only got a disk drive, 80 columns card, a green monitor and a whopping 64k ram a year later

)

Red