You know what it means to 'shoot your cuffs'
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zortec 11 Junior Poster
You can remember every Steven Spielberg movie.
mrnutty 761 Senior Poster
when you say, "back in my day...".
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Just for curiosity, whats the age group here in Daniweb? Anyone want
to tell their age? I'm 19.
zortec 11 Junior Poster
Sure. I'm 28.
VernonDozier 2,218 Posting Expert Featured Poster
You know what it means to 'shoot your cuffs'
You know what it means to "wind a watch".
when you say, "back in my day...".
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Just for curiosity, whats the age group here in Daniweb? Anyone want
to tell their age? I'm 19.
I'm 39. I'm just starting to say "Back in my day..." and making up BS stories about how rough it was and how coddled today's youngsters are compared to "my day" and how much more we respected our "elders". At 19, you're WWWWAAAAYYYYY too young to say "Back in my day...".
zortec 11 Junior Poster
I'm 39. I'm just starting to say "Back in my day..." and making up BS stories about how rough it was and how coddled today's youngsters are compared to "my day" and how much more we respected our "elders". At 19, you're WWWWAAAAYYYYY too young to say "Back in my day...".
I think even in your twenties, you are still too young to say "Back in my day" until you reach mid-thirties or forties.
vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
... when the birds you watch are in a tree.
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
When you have your first grand-child.
ddanbe 2,724 Professional Procrastinator Featured Poster
If during summer, you start walking around in khaki shorts, white socks and brown sandals!
I'm 57.
mrnutty 761 Senior Poster
>>At 19, you're WWWWAAAAYYYYY too young to say "Back in my day...".
It was just a saying. I don't literally say it. Although I do reminiscent about
my childhood where I had no responsibility.
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
...when you can remember having to use an ACTUAL dial to dial a telephone number.
Or a crank telephone
Or remember watching this presidential campaign ad on tv
almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS
How about if you remember your country's pm going all the way with LBJ
jasimp 427 Senior Poster Featured Poster
So AD, I finally found your secret identity... in the attached screenshot ;)
Simon Tite 15 Light Poster
When you remember when "program" was just a wierd American spelling of "programme", and a "programme" was just something you watched on telly.
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
When your first computer had no harddrive and only two big floppy disk drives.
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
When your first computer had no harddrive and only two big floppy disk drives.
and the fastest modem available was 300 baud.
zortec 11 Junior Poster
It was just a saying. I don't literally say it. Although I do reminiscent about my childhood where I had no responsibility.
I am not sure if you noticed, but the verb form you want is reminisce. Just to let you know, I'm not really anal just thought I could help you out if grammar is not your strong point.
Will Gresham commented: Grammar > everything :P +0
~s.o.s~ 2,560 Failure as a human Team Colleague Featured Poster
...when almost every ongoing discussion on 'teh' internet makes you *sigh*. :-)
Nick Evan 4,005 Industrious Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
When your first computer had no harddrive and only two big floppy disk drives.
My first one had a tape-deck :)
Ezzaral 2,714 Posting Sage Team Colleague Featured Poster
My first one had a tape-deck :)
Mine as well: Commodore Vic-20
:)
vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
My first one had a tape-deck :)
My first computer was an RCA Elf, with a cmos based computer chip used in the NASA moon missions. My main storage was a tape deck too.
mrnutty 761 Senior Poster
I am not sure if you noticed, but the verb form you want is reminisce. Just to let you know, I'm not really anal just thought I could help you out if grammar is not your strong point.
Thanks. I'm more of a math guy then a English one. Plus English is my
secondary language.
ddanbe 2,724 Professional Procrastinator Featured Poster
cwarn23 must indeed be very young. I had a TI99/4A with a cassette deck as I/O and an old TV as monitor.:)
But that does not mean I consider myself an old sack.
gelgin2k 0 Newbie Poster
... when you begin discussing your medical conditions in the most honest of terms with most anyone who will hear... then again that may be a personality issue... still sorting it out...
43 btw... not fully disclosing medical issues... but becoming tempted...
Simon Tite 15 Light Poster
...when you remember bootstrapping the computer by its front panel switches, installing operating system patches with an octal editor, and writing programs on a teletype (thats like a big typewriter with fanfold paper instead of a screen, for you youngsters). Oh, and using telex to supply patches (sometimes even small programs) to clients (beats dictating over the telephone, although the character set was limited, you had to spell out some of the punctuation marks).
Sigh! Those were the days my friends!
Bill Fisher 0 Newbie Poster
...when you can remember having to use an ACTUAL dial to dial a telephone number.
You had a Dial Phone? Trying to put operators out of work?
zortec 11 Junior Poster
How about having to use punch cards to do programming? Our CS teacher reminded us that when he was working on the ARPANET, they did not have compilers with syntax check and auto completion which I think creates a lazy programmer.
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
... when a computer with 64K memory was stored on three floors of a concrete building with millions of huge vacuum tubes.
Simon Tite 15 Light Poster
How about having to use punch cards to do programming? Our CS teacher reminded us that when he was working on the ARPANET, they did not have compilers with syntax check and auto completion which I think creates a lazy programmer.
Yeah, in CS we had to write the programs out by hand, on paper with a little box for each character, then post this into a pigeon hole. Next working day (D+1) (if you were lucky) you'd get back a stack of punched cards, and a printout of their contents, for checking. After correcting the errors (with a red biro) , you'd get the corrected cards back the next day (D+2), hopefully without errors, and hand them back for processing. The next day (D+3/4), you'd get the results, which would normally be syntax errors or typos you'd missed. Red biro, da de dah, D+4 the results of the compiled program. Basically, one working week to enter, compile and run a 200 line program. And another week to fix the logical errors.
But we wuz grateful for it, guv!
Ancient Dragon commented: You made me glad to not have been programming then :) +0
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