Man, this week’s Dustinland is based on a true story and it sure does make me feel old. I mean, I’m a Gen Xer, and I laugh about how being little and playing Oregon Trail and using BASIC on those stupid green screen computers and doing this whole thing:
10 PRINT “DUSTIN”
20 GO TO 10
30 RUN
In case you don’t remember, that would make an old school computer print DUSTIN in a continuous loop. Yup, that’s about as far as I got in terms of programming. You can probably tell that just from looking at my site but anyway, if you think that makes me look stupid, just wait until 10 years from now when little kids start laughing at you for having CDs. Hell, I just read an article from the BBC where they gave some 13 year old kid a walkman and he reported on how crappy and archaic it was. Well, call me a stegosaurus but I’ll tell you one thing: when my walkman broke, I could buy a new one for about $50 max. These freakin Ipods break after a year and cost $200 minimum. Not to mention Iphones. I know people who have the “old” Iphones and have already been suckered into dropping a few hundered bucks on the new one just so they can cut and paste. Whoopdeeshit!
Alright, Andy Rooney hour is over. At the end of the day, most new technology is pretty awesome so I won’t be bitter because I’m too cheap to spring for it.
The end.
8 responses so far ↓
Nutha GenXer // July 7, 2009 at 12:54 am |
Dude, for the record, email has been around since before we GenXers were born.
Joey Myers // July 7, 2009 at 8:12 am |
Yea, that’s true, email has been around, but it wasn’t used by the general population much before about 1995, which is when (approx) it started to take off. Computers were around long before most of us, but home computers weren’t common before the 90’s either.
Anonymous // July 7, 2009 at 10:26 am |
Look up the top 5 subscribed youtube channels and lose faith in humanity.
Anonymous // July 7, 2009 at 8:43 pm |
Oh, I know! I was watching the end of “Adventures in Babysitting” the other day and I thought “Wow, these kids [teenagers] all look so normal, hard to believe they grew up without the internet.”
I got my first email address in 1994, and was on BME (body modification ezine) soon thereafter, downloading all sorts of delightful salaciousness… I remember ASCII-interface bulletin boards, and when it seemed like the only other people online were ravers. Also remember going to Lollapalooza in 1995 and seeing other people wearing t-shirts with the name of their favorite usenet group printed on the front, and feeling like we were part of some new cutting edge club. That was such a good ‘palooza year: Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Patti Smith, Bosstones, and Moby (relegated to the side stage
). That’s also the year I decided I wanted to live in Woodside, Queens.
Right, the internet is cool.
Jackie // July 8, 2009 at 9:09 am |
Are you still using your Bratz discman?
Ben Bart // July 8, 2009 at 4:17 pm |
Was I the only guy on Prodigy?
dustinland // July 9, 2009 at 9:30 am |
Growing up, I had AOL. That was back when chat rooms were this exciting new thing and not the waste of time we know them to be today.
Anonymous // July 9, 2009 at 9:56 pm |
I used a local college’s ISP program.
Yep, back in the day the best browser out there was text-only Lynx… then graphics-enabled Mosaic. Really amazing how the web has progressed from command lines and text to flash websites.
DJ Lady Bunny’s flash site is a favorite of mine. It has so much (static) content and sophisticated functionality, a great user interface and engages the user.
http://www.ladybunny.net/loader_flash.html