A technology that you miss?

Node Man

As the march of time moves on and new technologies replace old ones, and as our careers progress, technologies we love drift away.

I was just looking at some php code and it made me feel nostalgic.

ThomasITguy

I miss the AOL dial tone noises you heard when you got online....

JoJoCal19

Geocities. Yahoo Directory. I miss the web relics from the 90's.

wd40

My first e-mail account was @usa.net back in 1999 (when it was free ) I do not miss the technology but I miss the care free student life

ThomasITguy

I miss that little annoying paper clip dude that was in MS Word. Where he would help you out... I miss him, I hope he found a good home somewhere...

tedjames

I miss my Commodore 64. Seriously! I loved that little box and learned so much using it. Dang! That was 30 years ago.

danny069

I too miss my Commodore 64 I used to copy games on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks and if they needed more space you'd cut a notch in the side to make it double sided.

ThomasITguy

I will actually admit... I miss MsDos games... commander keen, hugos house of horrors, crystals, duke nukem, etc...

ThomasITguy

And who can forget on the apple computers with the floppy disks.... OREGON TRAIL!!!!!! Never ever beat it... But that was my game growing up.

Node Man

I was a kid and Commodore 64 user in the 80's. Original Sneaker Net

tedjames

danny069 wrote: »

I too miss my Commodore 64 I used to copy games on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks and if they needed more space you'd cut a notch in the side to make it double sided.

Yes! Those were the days! Why waste money on double-sided floppies when you can use a hole punch and make one yourself. I taught myself BASIC and created menus for all of my games. Commodore was the best for graphics and sound back then.

UnixGuy

Sun Microsystems products.

While they're still in production, but I miss the old days of my career supporting SPARC products. Nothing come close to how good and professional they are.

The_Expert

Ah..there are so many (in no particular order):

Atari 800XL, 300 Baud Modem, Datasette, Printer/Plotter, C-64, Apple's eWorld, Prodigy, AOL, Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), 5.25" Floppy Disks etc.

Queue

ThomasITguy wrote: »

I miss that little annoying paper clip dude that was in MS Word. Where he would help you out... I miss him, I hope he found a good home somewhere...

You wouldn't believe it, but after doing the XP to 7 migration here people called and complained that Clippy was no longer a feature.

Apparently it stopped in like Office 2003, but were 13 years behind.

PJ_Sneakers

Stac Electronics Stacker.

OctalDump

Apple's enterprise stuff. The Xserve and proper Mac OS X Server. The hardware wasn't perfect, but it was better than what we have now.

kiki162

Oregon Trail was cool...although try explaining that to the kids these days.
Sitting in a massive server room with the lights off. The air flow, the hum of server fans, and the glow of server lights. Perfect sleeping
AOL dial tone
Jeopardy on a 5 1/4 drive
Geocities was very cool back in the 90's

scaredoftests

Those tubes to put your deposits in at the bank. So cool to watch. A real ringing of a phone.

cknapp78

I miss my first computer back in 1983. 80 lbs integrated monochrome monitor and keyboard. 8 inch disks. ASCII Pacman and text based Dungeons and Dragons. Not to mention my C64, Intellivision gaming system, and the old Mission Impossible C64 game. Got I would spend hours playing that game and getting more aggravated by the minute.

I look at the games today my son plays like Minecraft (still don't get it) and Black Ops 3 (holy twitch mode) and long for the days of Atari and computer strategy games.

God I feel old.

ally_uk

Microsoft comic chat

scaredoftests

Quake on the computer. 1996 version. Loved it.

jeremywatts2005

I miss real technology people. No offense to anyone. When I started many of us wore lab coats, worked on mainframes and had to know very intricate engineering and designs to repair and replace equipment. We did not have people all over the world hacking into systems most of us were not even connected. Alas through simplifying for the lowest common denominator it has become a lot easier to be in the tech business. My first job I worked on ACD phone systems as big as a room and it took huge DAT tapes it was a proprietary type of tape Rockwell made. Yeah that was the good old days. I was highly employable because I worked on stuff no one could work on. You could not outsource me either because I was so specialized in my work. We were short in supply and high in demand

markulous

There are emulators for C64 out there. I went back to it a few years ago and the nostalgia couldn't get me through playing those games. They were so bad

Plenty of free DOS games here too RGB Classic Games - All games that can be played online

ThomasITguy

OMGGGGGG!!!! My weekend is going to be spent playing DOS games and studying Linux! Thanks Markulous!

UnixGuy

jeremywatts2005 wrote: »

I miss real technology people. .... had to know very intricate engineering and designs to repair and replace equipment...Yeah that was the good old days. I was highly employable because I worked on stuff no one could work on. You could not outsource me either because I was so specialized in my work. We were short in supply and high in demand

^^ Sums up the beginning of my career supporting Sun Microsystems SPARC hardware and Solaris OS.

ThomasITguy

Im actually going to purchase a Raspberry PII because I miss Sega and Super Nintendo. That is the technology I miss the most...

reload@

An RS-232 COM port on my laptop.

the_Grinch

Chat rooms. I use to spend hours and hours in different chat rooms. Forums are good, but something about being live and talking to people all over was pretty cool.

JoJoCal19

markulous wrote: »

There are emulators for C64 out there. I went back to it a few years ago and the nostalgia couldn't get me through playing those games. They were so bad

Plenty of free DOS games here too RGB Classic Games - All games that can be played online

OMG Tank Wars!!!! At long last!!! Thanks for this!!!! I owe you mad rep points for this.

Back in the day a buddy of mine used to play these RPGs on BBS' and I used to wonder why one would play a text based one when there was console ones. Now, I wish I knew exactly what it was he played because I would play it now.

the_Grinch wrote: »

Chat rooms. I use to spend hours and hours in different chat rooms. Forums are good, but something about being live and talking to people all over was pretty cool.

Yup same here. I lived in the AOL chat rooms and on AIM.

ThomasITguy

LOL @ Chat rooms... I remember when you could get kicked off the internet if someone reported you in a AOL chat room. But my favs were AOL, and Yahoo chat rooms. And I loved AIM (aol instant messenger) and the famous sounds of

- Youv'e got mail
- Goodbye
- and the many other sounds of AOL

thenjduke

I miss the dialing into BBS on Wildcat on the Commodore 64