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Thread started 01/31/06 7:13pm

meltwithu

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name something you remember from grade school that is obsolete now

1. film strips! with the record player or tape--BEEP--roll up to the next picture (Roots was just not the same on filmstrip, sorry)

2. those audio islands, where everybody would plug their big ass headphones into this one unit and listen to the same thing
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Reply #1 posted 01/31/06 7:14pm

luv4u

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The strap
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Reply #2 posted 01/31/06 7:16pm

nilegettolrahc

meltwithu said:

1. film strips! with the record player or tape--BEEP--roll up to the next picture (Roots was just not the same on filmstrip, sorry)

2. those audio islands, where everybody would plug their big ass headphones into this one unit and listen to the same thing


OMG!!! film strips!!!

and those humungous video tape machines
commodore 64s
calculators that weighed 500g
poodle perms
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Reply #3 posted 01/31/06 7:17pm

TMPletz

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commodore 64s

You took my answer! mad
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Reply #4 posted 01/31/06 7:17pm

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Smoking in the teacher's lounge...LOL
and "Ditto machines"
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Reply #5 posted 01/31/06 7:18pm

Sinister

People that actually parent their kids....

Kids with sense...

No cell phones....

Being able to wear your own clothes and not uniforms/school determined outfits
clever clever quotation - attention getting quote - sad yet witty remark - look at me! Im deep quote- song lyric about my ex cause that bitch stole my mp3 player! - line from movie I liked - Prince lyric - not very clever sig mocking other sigs
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Reply #6 posted 01/31/06 7:18pm

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The old fashioned apple computers. nod
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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Reply #7 posted 01/31/06 7:19pm

nilegettolrahc

TMPletz said:

nilegettolrahc said:

commodore 64s

You took my answer! mad

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Reply #8 posted 01/31/06 7:19pm

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Definitely ditto machines
Typewriters
Library card catalogs (but I WANT one of these now!)
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Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #9 posted 01/31/06 7:20pm

nilegettolrahc

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The old fashioned apple computers. nod

the "Lisa"?


actually not even I am that old to remember this machine falloff
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Reply #10 posted 01/31/06 7:21pm

Sinister

nilegettolrahc said:

Sweeny79 said:

The old fashioned apple computers. nod

the "Lisa"?


actually not even I am that old to remember this machine falloff


I played pacman on that! biggrin
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Reply #11 posted 01/31/06 7:21pm

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Sweeny79 said:

The old fashioned apple computers. nod

I've seen people convert these into really cool retro aquariums!
Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #12 posted 01/31/06 7:23pm

nilegettolrahc

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nilegettolrahc said:


the "Lisa"?


actually not even I am that old to remember this machine falloff


I played pacman on that! biggrin

biggrin my neighbours had one.

We had some computers at high school called BBCs

we programmed bubblesorts on them
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Reply #13 posted 01/31/06 7:23pm

Sweeny79

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nilegettolrahc said:

Sweeny79 said:

The old fashioned apple computers. nod

the "Lisa"?


actually not even I am that old to remember this machine falloff



No that that old! lol
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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Reply #14 posted 01/31/06 7:23pm

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Lammastide said:

Sweeny79 said:

The old fashioned apple computers. nod

I've seen people convert these into really cool retro aquariums!



Wow I'd like to have one of those! nod

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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Reply #15 posted 01/31/06 7:31pm

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where did Drivers Ed go ?
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Reply #16 posted 01/31/06 7:36pm

meltwithu

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meltwithu said:

1. film strips! with the record player or tape--BEEP--roll up to the next picture (Roots was just not the same on filmstrip, sorry)


cry sad
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Reply #17 posted 01/31/06 7:49pm

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Pogs. nod I think mine are in my parent's garage somewhere...


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Reply #18 posted 01/31/06 7:53pm

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Remember the chalk eraser cleaning machines....turn them on and run the chalky erasers on the belts...dust every fucking where!! But you couldn't wait to volunteer to do it!

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Reply #19 posted 01/31/06 8:05pm

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My innocence.
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Reply #20 posted 01/31/06 8:24pm

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We still use film strips btw. confused
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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Reply #21 posted 01/31/06 8:27pm

Ocean

I've decided I'm not that old after all....I don't know what half the stuff ur talking about is woot! .....unless New Zealand is so far behind confused
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Reply #22 posted 01/31/06 8:31pm

meltwithu

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Sweeny79 said:

We still use film strips btw. confused


jenkies eek
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Reply #23 posted 01/31/06 8:38pm

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-mimeograph copies with the bluish-purple ink
The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp.
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Reply #24 posted 01/31/06 8:48pm

meltwithu

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jone70 said:

-mimeograph copies with the bluish-purple ink

oooohhhh..the smell of freshly made quiz papers stoned
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Reply #25 posted 01/31/06 9:47pm

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Typewriters

Rotary dial telephones

Carbon paper

Microfilm
I'm firmly planted in denial
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Reply #26 posted 01/31/06 9:56pm

Nikster

Atari 400/800 computers.


Our junior high computer lab was full of 'em...


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Reply #27 posted 01/31/06 10:00pm

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BETA. nod
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Reply #28 posted 01/31/06 10:17pm

November

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Nikster said:

Atari 400/800 computers.




Ooooh.....I had one of these with a dot matrix printer.
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Reply #29 posted 01/31/06 10:54pm

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1. Viewfinders

2. Mr. Merlin(i think thats what it was called it was red and you played games on
it.)

3. Chutes Away.
The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything.
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