Anybody up for a random meme dump?

[reddvltj]

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[Zorba]

20 here, I can't believe rabbit ears, 8 track tapes, and having to get up to change the channel on the TV weren't on the list.


I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but....

Cursive is only good for confusing the younger generations who didn't learn it and haven't figured out their phones can translate it for them. Long before AI, there were software programs created to convert cursive to text. According to a simple internet search it started in the 60s with programs designed for recognition of hand written text. Widely available cursive-to-text conversion has been a feature of software for about 30 years. AI is continuously improving the ability.

My father never had to get up to change the channel - he had a voice operated remote back in the mid 1960s!

The redundant term "Software Program" is something I haven't heard in many years now - but it still beats "App"!

 

[srimes]

Trouble is, nobody else can read it either. Most people's cursive is illegible - especially mine!

I loved the switch from printing to cursive, whatever grade that was. It's much faster, smoother and easier. But more importantly for someone with mild dyslexia, it's great for hiding spelling mistakes!

Never mind that I often couldn't read my own writing...

 

[reddvltj]

My father never had to get up to change the channel - he had a voice operated remote back in the mid 1960s!

The redundant term "Software Program" is something I haven't heard in many years now - but it still beats "App"!

"Voice operated" Yep!! My father had the same style remote, 2 of them in fact, and if they didn't work "instantly" there was usually some form of flying object involved to get them to perform the required function.

 

[Zorba]

"Voice operated" Yep!! My father had the same style remote, 2 of them in fact, and if they didn't work "instantly" there was usually some form of flying object involved to get them to perform the required function.

Yep - and my dad's remote also turned the antenna rotor to the correct position automatically as well!

 

[Zorba]

I loved the switch from printing to cursive, whatever grade that was. It's much faster, smoother and easier. But more importantly for someone with mild dyslexia, it's great for hiding spelling mistakes!

Never mind that I often couldn't read my own writing...

I never found cursive to be faster nor easier - but that's me. I can block print pretty neatly if I take the time, sloppily if I don't - HOWEVER - my fast block print is about the same speed as my Cursive, but is still mostly readable whereas my Cursive definitely is not! I always got Ds and Fs in handwriting.

We started Cursive in 3rd grade.

 

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I loved the switch from printing to cursive, whatever grade that was. It's much faster, smoother and easier. But more importantly for someone with mild dyslexia, it's great for hiding spelling mistakes!

Never mind that I often couldn't read my own writing...

 

[Apparition]

I don't see him getting married for a while but, I'm sure he would slip her the wood though.

He can do better

 

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[TJMexico]

18. Even back then, nobody would admit to having an AOL address, and I never had a walkman or similar.

Come to think of it, I never did have an AOL address, but I did have a Compuserve address. I think that's worth two AOL addresses.

 

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[reddvltj]

What's the context for those of us without twitter/X?

 

[Zorba]

Come to think of it, I never did have an AOL address, but I did have a Compuserve address. I think that's worth two AOL addresses.

Yep - I was on CompuServe back in the day - in fact, I was the company contact for a co-worker who went to Antarctica as I was the only person who had an email address which was through CompuServe. You had to connect via a paid dial-up network which charged its own rates in addition to CompuServe when you got connected to them through the network you had called up - TYMNET comes to mind. 300 baud unless you wanted to pay a hefty premium for 1200 - but 300 was just fine as that was about reading speed! I remember the hullabaloo in Byte magazine about CompuServe and "The Source" - it was the next big thing, an "Information Utility".