Remind Me
 

List off some awesome things your peer group knew about in the last 10 years, pref. before youtube.

That if you smacked a dead frog with a baseball bat at a house they exlpoded twice, once from the bat and a second time on the house.

Man, I feel old. All the awesome stuff I was going to post ended up happening over ten years ago. Makes me wonder what I did with all that time.

Well, I should say limiting it to the five years from 2000 until 2005 when YouTube began puts a crimp in things.

Well, 10 years ago puts me in graduating high school+college so all sorts of cool stuff happens then. Like how much you can drink and still try rollerblading home and making it in a decent time.

Old fart. :p

Yeah, ten years ago, I was 13 and in 7th grade. By which I mean I still was running a Win98 machine (not bad in itself) with system specs outdated by the standards of the day and an array of games from the "please just take these fucking things already" bin, plus Grandia 2 and FF7. Given the time of year it is now, I likely had also recently gotten a free fourth-hand PS1 and whatever games Blockbuster was selling for my hard-earned pennies, which, minus Chrono Cross, Legend of Mana, and FF Chronicles, were pretty much absolute shit.

The moral of the story is that when I have kids, I'm going to understand that video games and TV are not silly wastes of time distracting them from living a life of nothing but homework.

I'd say my childhood sucked, but I had FF7, Chrono, and Grandia 2, so it wasn't totally empty. :rolleyes:

Oh man, remember when blockbuster sold N64 gear? That was pretty rad.

Remember seeing the "Nintendo 64 kid" video in the age before video was commonplace? It was the stuff of legends. I remember watching it for the first time and thinking "Dang the kid is crazy." It scared me at first, seeing so much raw emotion in action, completely unrestrained. Then I got nostalgic about being a kid. And then I went out to lick streetlights.

Man, people held on to every last particle of entertainment even then. As recently as five or maybe four years ago, we'd discuss in minute detail, on IRC, the particular wild-eyed stare of the guy going "STFU noobs" in the Attention Whore animation. (Which doesn't play for me at the moment. :()

So yeah, I'm blaming Youtube and its relentless flood of ten hours of video per second for the decline of today's society. Surely correlation equals causation.

If you light the back top non-writing end of a cheap pen on fire, the ink drips out and makes tiny fireballs. If you flick it around, you can send little fireballs everywhere and get lots of tiny burn scars on your arms.

When servicing the insides of a PC with a dial up modem for the love of all that is holy unplug the phone cord. I'm not 100% sure why (though I have my suspicions) but phone lines carry enough current and voltage to make you wish you weren't an idiot. I actually got hit once by connecting two solder points on a modem with the back of my hand then again much later trying to fix a wall jack. After that I learned to respect the hell out of phone lines.

Phone lines? Seriously? But phone lines have just a signaling function, no? Meaning low voltage, low current? I could under stand a fairly high current, to minimize resistance, but why voltage?