You should, that story's entertaining as hell.Dont even get me started on computers and getting the internet.
Old Heads....How were y'all affording shyt back in the day?? These prices are disgusting
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@ this thread. These prices 
@hexagram23 is speaking facts in here. I was the first person in my family to get a computer and that was in 1998. I knew people who had computers in my neighborhood, but it wasn't commonplace by any means. Nobody I knew did anything on the internet. If they had it.
My grade school had the old Apple computers with Oregon Trail though
And one of my friends had a computer in his room with Sim City
His family literally hit the lottery though
By the time I was in high school, my school library had the internet, and I would go to the duck down forums and argue with people about whether Hell on Earth was better than the Infamous
I'm 35 btw
My grade school had the old Apple computers with Oregon Trail though
And one of my friends had a computer in his room with Sim City
His family literally hit the lottery though
By the time I was in high school, my school library had the internet, and I would go to the duck down forums and argue with people about whether Hell on Earth was better than the Infamous
I'm 35 btw
Animal House
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Breh what do you know about number munchers... my grade school in Jersey had that on deck all day@hexagram23 is speaking facts in here. I was the first person in my family to get a computer and that was in 1998. I knew people who had computers in my neighborhood, but it wasn't commonplace by any means. Nobody I knew did anything on the internet. If they had it.
My grade school had the old Apple computers with Oregon Trail though
And one of my friends had a computer in his room with Sim City
His family literally hit the lottery though
By the time I was in high school, my school library had the internet, and I would go to the duck down forums and argue with people about whether Hell on Earth was better than the Infamous
I'm 35 btw
When we first got a computer, man we had that 2400 baud modem. Had to dial in when you wanted to use the internet. There wasn't even a world wide web yet. You had to individually dial into BBS boards. They were made in ASCII and you basically navigated with DOS commands. I remember it took like all day to download some games that would fill 2, 3.5" floppies and when my mom found out we were on the internet all day, she would chase us with the belt, because calls couldn't come through without dialing in with a special script or prefix. In high school in the mid-90s we upgraded to 14.4K and it came with a special script that would boost it to 19.2K speeds. Youtube or any other site with video was impossible. Yall have no idea how slow that is. When we got to college and got T1 speeds in the dorms, 
. That's when Napster blew up(Music sharing service for you youngins) That was when MP3s, Ipods, etc all blew up.
I see that component rack stereo too. Used to want one badly. But receiver tech was growing quickly and casettes and records were 
, so people just started going with a receiver and a mini stereo for cassettes and CDs. Miss that clean sound from those component racks though.
. That's when Napster blew up(Music sharing service for you youngins) That was when MP3s, Ipods, etc all blew up.I see that component rack stereo too
. Used to want one badly. But receiver tech was growing quickly and casettes and records were , so people just started going with a receiver and a mini stereo for cassettes and CDs. Miss that clean sound from those component racks though.Hell yeah, arcades is where I spent most, if not all my money.
Graphics >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the shyt at home.
Simpsons Arcade
XMEN Arcade
Street Fighter II
It was only when Soul Calibur on DC did Arcade finally become to me
Graphics >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the shyt at home.
Simpsons Arcade
XMEN Arcade
Street Fighter II
It was only when Soul Calibur on DC did Arcade finally become
to me
YOU SAY MONEY WAS "WORTH MORE" .. DO U KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? 80 BUCKS BACK THEN WAS LIKE 160 TODAY
That xmen game was my all time favorite, I still want to put that in my future man cave.Hell yeah, arcades is where I spent most, if not all my money.
Graphics >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the shyt at home.
Simpsons Arcade
XMEN Arcade
Street Fighter II
It was only when Soul Calibur on DC did Arcade finally become
We only got games maybe once or twice a year in that era. Birthday and X-mas is when you got your games. The rest of the year you played your games by going to blockbuster or movie gallery and renting them. The PlayStation era was a life savior in terms of the price of games dropping.
I have no idea where you went to school but the Kansas City, Missouri school district was a train wreck for a solid 40+ years. It's well documented.
Not trying to derail the thread but the vast majority of mid town KC was black/minority.....due to this the school district was around 80% black/minority. Due to that every school from kindergarten to high school was literally 95% black/minority, if not more.
So the schools I went to were basically like season 4 of "The Wire". Well, if it had a few white kids. I was one of 5-10 white kids in the schools I went to. By the time I graduated it was a bit more because they had, no joke, started a desegregation program. Not in the 50's....in the 90's.
Anyway, because of all this nobody wanted to spend money on the schools. Or any funds were misused. There was court cases, all kinds of shyt.
And hell, even their little desegregation experiment failed. A few years ago they closed literally half the schools in KC.
Why did Kansas City's public schools fail? - Rod Dreher
https://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/cr114sa2l.pdf
Desegregation History
Missouri v. Jenkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Public School Desegregation and the White Flight:
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AFRAM GLORY
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@hexagram23 is speaking facts in here. I was the first person in my family to get a computer and that was in 1998. I knew people who had computers in my neighborhood, but it wasn't commonplace by any means. Nobody I knew did anything on the internet. If they had it.
My grade school had the old Apple computers with Oregon Trail though
And one of my friends had a computer in his room with Sim City
His family literally hit the lottery though
By the time I was in high school, my school library had the internet, and I would go to the duck down forums and argue with people about whether Hell on Earth was better than the Infamous
I'm 35 btw
Didnt get internet til 1998(earthlink) too and I agree with everything you said
Knicksman20
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I'm from Brooklyn & @hexagram23 & right on the money with what he said about the schools & home use. You're definitely in a small group that had access like that.
I used to love computer class at school. If it wasn't for carmen santiago and Sim Ant in school, I wouldn't have gave a fukk about computers to this very day@hexagram23 is speaking facts in here. I was the first person in my family to get a computer and that was in 1998. I knew people who had computers in my neighborhood, but it wasn't commonplace by any means. Nobody I knew did anything on the internet. If they had it.
My grade school had the old Apple computers with Oregon Trail though
And one of my friends had a computer in his room with Sim City
His family literally hit the lottery though
By the time I was in high school, my school library had the internet, and I would go to the duck down forums and argue with people about whether Hell on Earth was better than the Infamous
I'm 35 btw
Changed my life, made me wanna be in computers for a living
CoriGunz11
Rookie
Because us real nikkaz sold drugs and made $500 a day back then ..