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Thursday, May 03, 2007

I'm Old

I remember when gas cost less than $1/gallon
The first president I remember is Richard Nixon
I own a Betamax VCR
I had a pager
My first cellphone was a Radio Shack bag phone
I remember where I was when the Challenger went down
The first remote-controlled television I had was in college. My junior year. And it was a wired remote, that just changed the channel. And I remember it.
My college tuition at UT Austin, for a full load, with football tickets and a parking pass, was $250. Dorm room at Jester with 20 meals/week was $350/month.
To get into UT Austin you needed an 800 SAT and top half of your class
I remember before AIDS, when the worst STD you could get was herpes
I remember when they landed on the moon. The first time.
The first olympics I remember was in Munich
I remember when a public phone cost 10c
I remember the first time I accessed the internet, in college, before the world wide web. Through a text interface. On a mainframe.
I remember the Apple IIc and the Tandy TRS-80
I remember the Osborne 1 and the IBM PC
I have logged into BBS's
I knew all the DOS commands, both internal and external.
My first copy of Windows was version 3.0
I remember before digital watches and digital calculators
I've used a slide rule
My first computer class in college used a mainframe and terminal, you had to go to the central printing office to get any output
I am twice as old as I was when I turned 21
I'm three times as old as I was the first time I drove a car
I've been out of high school class 26 years
Elvis was younger than me when he died, and weighed less (oops, not true, one report said he weighed 250 lbs., Wikipedia says it was 350 lbs.)

The year I was born, LBJ was president, the Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show, the government made their first warning about smoking cigarettes (they're bad), plans to build the World Trade Center were announced, the first Ford Mustang is produced, the first Basic program runs, and the Vietnam war starts

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