Have you ever looked up at the stars at night and wondered...........

**Times Roman** · 06-17-2014, 09:28 PM

.........if anyone was looking back?

When I was a boy, we'd go camping off the coast of Northern Cali, and it would be pitch dark at night. You could see every star, even meteors were common to see. So there I was, maybe 8 years old, in my sleeping bag, under the sky looking out, and wondering.

**David LoPan** · 06-17-2014, 09:31 PM

Roman you can remember being that young? Were the dinosaurs neat?

**Times Roman** · 06-17-2014, 09:41 PM

I remember the birth of the internet and color TV, does that count?

and I remember the birth of Cable TV
the birth of MTV
cell phones
mobile phones
the birth of personal computers....

and I remember the exact moment when Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the moon.

I bet you would freak if I told you I had two years of computer programming over at Berkeley Lawrance Hall of Science? Would you believe it was 1972? Would you believe it was on a main frame? Would you believe it did NOT have a monitor, but instead used an output devise called a teletype printer?

**David LoPan** · 06-17-2014, 11:19 PM

I remember writing programs on my commodore 64 with a tape memory . . . crap I am old as well. Remember most of those things but the moon thing.

**Succor** · 06-17-2014, 11:23 PM

When I go out at night and look up at the stars it's peaceful and relaxing in a way to me. Little scary too. Life is beautiful and I'm not religious by any means but it makes you wonder how much more to life there really is. How expansive the universe is and how much is unexplored. What all could be out there. Makes me smile looking over at my dog laying next to me when I do thinking about how simple her life is.

**lovbyts** · 06-18-2014, 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by Times Roman

I remember the birth of the internet and color TV, does that count?

and I remember the birth of Cable TV
the birth of MTV
cell phones
mobile phones
the birth of personal computers....

and I remember the exact moment when Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the moon.

I bet you would freak if I told you I had two years of computer programming over at Berkeley Lawrance Hall of Science? Would you believe it was 1972? Would you believe it was on a main frame? Would you believe it did NOT have a monitor, but instead used an output devise called a teletype printer?

Originally Posted by BigTahl

I remember writing programs on my commodore 64 with a tape memory . . . crap I am old as well. Remember most of those things but the moon thing.

Same here, I remember all that except the moon landing.

My early computer experience was for CNC machining. It was all done with punched tape. 1981

Have you ever looked up at the stars at night and wondered...........-papertapes-5and8hole.jpg

Oh and if you wanted to look at naked or near naked pictures of girls you had to find a good sears catalog for a tease or for the good stuff an actual playboy/penthouse. Hardcore was Hustler.

Luckily my much older sister who lived near us was pretty liberal and had a boyfriend who had a large stack of magazines and I had a key to the place.
I spent a lot more time looking through those magazines than I did up at the stars.

To this day I can still remember quite a few of the pictures and stories. Yes I actually read the articles/stories...

**Times Roman** · 06-18-2014, 03:55 PM

I think I was about six (6) when I asked my dad if I could look at one of his "naked lady" books. So he brought one out, and I sat there flipping through the pages, with my younger brother looking too, right in the living room.

**bass** · 06-18-2014, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by lovbyts

Same here, I remember all that except the moon landing.

My early computer experience was for CNC machining. It was all done with punched tape. 1981

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Oh and if you wanted to look at naked or near naked pictures of girls you had to find a good sears catalog for a tease or for the good stuff an actual playboy/penthouse. Hardcore was Hustler.

Luckily my much older sister who lived near us was pretty liberal and had a boyfriend who had a large stack of magazines and I had a key to the place.
I spent a lot more time looking through those magazines than I did up at the stars.

To this day I can still remember quite a few of the pictures and stories. Yes I actually read the articles/stories...

haha CNC tapes! yea I remember those too!

**lovbyts** · 06-18-2014, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by Times Roman

I think I was about six (6) when I asked my dad if I could look at one of his "naked lady" books. So he brought one out, and I sat there flipping through the pages, with my younger brother looking too, right in the living room.

You probably thought eww gross?

When I was six I had several female playmates who always wanted to play show and not tell. all the kids my age who lived close were girls. They sure seemed to know a lot back then also but that was probably due to older brothers and sisters.

**Times Roman** · 06-18-2014, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by lovbyts

You probably thought eww gross?

When I was six I had several female playmates who always wanted to play show and not tell. all the kids my age who lived close were girls. They sure seemed to know a lot back then also but that was probably due to older brothers and sisters.

I knew what sex was long before I really knew what it was....
....even a six year old can have a libido!