[P2TM Chat] The Restaurant at the End of the Multiverse

[Lavan Tiri]

How many can remember dial up? Or the geeks grooving to those sounds?

Dial up?

Ehat?

[Agritum]

How many can remember dial up? Or the geeks grooving to those sounds?

Master Ceri,

Tell me about the Personal Computer Age in 80s Japan. I already know the American and Italian perspectives on it.

[Ayreonia]

How many can remember dial up? Or the geeks grooving to those sounds?

Dial up?

Ehat?

Dial up was the shit. You had wonky sounds, loading a page took like a year, and the connection broke down if someone used the phone in the house.

[Agritum]

3% of US households still has dial-up.

Fucking Amish.

[Cerillium]

Master Ceri,

Tell me about the Personal Computer Age in 80s Japan. I already know the American and Italian perspectives on it.

My mother couldn't afford one when I was a child. They taught us to use them in school but the lessons were ridiculous. My friends were fascinated by the "latest and greatest". I preferred books.

Pardon me, I have to go mock G-Tech's gray beard now.

[Rupudska]

3% of US households still has dial-up.

Fucking Amish.

Either that or the Appalachians.

[Lavan Tiri]

Dial up?

Ehat?

Dial up was the shit. You had wonky sounds, loading a page took like a year, and the connection broke down if someone used the phone in the house.

You poor dears, having to live through that.

3% of US households still has dial-up.

Fucking Amish.

I don't think the Amish are allowed to have computers.

[Ayreonia]

Dial up was the shit. You had wonky sounds, loading a page took like a year, and the connection broke down if someone used the phone in the house.

You poor dears, having to live through that.

Say what? It was awesome. I was eight when my folks got their first computer, and none of us really knew what to do with it. You had to be careful how long you were on the 'net, because it cost a fortune to use it, so I basically used it to play preinstalled game demos and draw shapes on Paint, and occasionally freak the hell out when the thing crashed.

Doesn't sound like much, but it sure was enough to amuse a kid of eight summers.

[Alleniana]

Waaay ahead of you., we're already getting ready to take the customary 50% of all usable organs from his body...

This makes me miss having a character that ate organs to stay young.

Well, it appears that you can revive them now

It is very interesting when you think and realise just how massively the Internet has changed daily life.

I can still remember when it wasn't big (and it was late to India anyway). It's...interesting.

I can't remember life BI( before internet).

Plus, I really don't want to.

We should date all things as Before Wikipedia and After Wikipedia.

Master Ceri,

Tell me about the Personal Computer Age in 80s Japan. I already know the American and Italian perspectives on it.

My mother couldn't afford one when I was a child. They taught us to use them in school but the lessons were ridiculous. My friends were fascinated by the "latest and greatest". I preferred books.

Pardon me, I have to go mock G-Tech's gray beard now.

I would dig up one of those rhymes about Halt Greybeard if I wasn't so lazy.

[Agritum]

My first computer was an iMac. You know, the old ones of the turn of the millennium, colored in the backside. Mine was green.

After a while, dad switched it for an Hewlett Packard. Oh, I remember how cool that PC was. Initially, it ran Windows 98 but we updated it to XP right when it came out.

Oh, the feels

More pleasantly, I believe I was one of the first people in Italy to have access to Wi-Fi. Shit, I had fast internet in a period where almost no one did have a modem or even a wire connection at all.

[Alleniana]

Speaking of computers; what OS?
*prepares for apocalypse*

[Ayreonia]

My first computer was an iMac. You know, the old ones of the turn of the millennium, colored in the backside. Mine was green.

After a while, dad switched it for an Hewlett Packard. Oh, I remember how cool that PC was. Initially, it ran Windows 98 but we updated it to XP right when it came out.

Oh, the feels

More pleasantly, I believe I was one of the first people in Italy to have access to Wi-Fi. Shit, I had fast internet in a period where almost no one did have a modem or even a wire connection at all.

We had those colorful iMac things at my elementary school. There were green ones, yeah, but also pink and... blue, I think?

[Lavan Tiri]

My first computer was an iMac. You know, the old ones of the turn of the millennium, colored in the backside. Mine was green.

After a while, dad switched it for an Hewlett Packard. Oh, I remember how cool that PC was. Initially, it ran Windows 98 but we updated it to XP right when it came out.

Oh, the feels

More pleasantly, I believe I was one of the first people in Italy to have access to Wi-Fi. Shit, I had fast internet in a period where almost no one did have a modem or even a wire connection at all.

……… My first one was a MacBook.

You all make me feel so damn young.

[G-Tech Corporation]

I would dig up one of those rhymes about Halt Greybeard if I wasn't so lazy.

Whippersnappers. I'll get my sword-stick if you keep on about this. First the caning, then the stabbing.

[Lavan Tiri]

I would dig up one of those rhymes about Halt Greybeard if I wasn't so lazy.

Whippersnappers. I'll get my sword-stick if you keep on about this. First the caning, then the stabbing.

But I wuv oo, grandpa.

[Agritum]

Speaking of computers; what OS?
*prepares for apocalypse*

Windows 8.1. Just deactivate Metro with an easy to use and stable utility (and there's lot of them) and you'll get an OS which is GUI-wise identical to 7 but outperforms it in every way possible.

[Ayreonia]

Speaking of computers; what OS?
*prepares for apocalypse*

Windows 7. Not an ideological choice of any sort, just what came bundled with my now 4-year old craptop. I've considered changing to Linux since I don't use this for gaming, but can't be arsed, honestly.

If we go smartphone OS, Android. And this one I'm fanatical about.

[Agritum]

Speaking of computers; what OS?
*prepares for apocalypse*

Windows 7. Not an ideological choice of any sort, just what came bundled with my now 4-year old craptop. I've considered changing to Linux since I don't use this for gaming, but can't be arsed, honestly.

If we go smartphone OS, Android. And this one I'm fanatical about.

Android is God.

And get a distro, they're cool.

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

[The Grey Wolf]

3% of US households still has dial-up.

Fucking Amish.

Either that or the Appalachians.

Everyone blames the hillbillies.

[Ayreonia]

Windows 7. Not an ideological choice of any sort, just what came bundled with my now 4-year old craptop. I've considered changing to Linux since I don't use this for gaming, but can't be arsed, honestly.

If we go smartphone OS, Android. And this one I'm fanatical about.

Android is God.

And get a distro, they're cool.

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

Great list, thanks! So many choices, though.

My only gripe with Android is, strangely enough, the amount of possible customization. There's just too much for a guy like me, who likes to have everything just the way he wants. And I haven't even touched custom ROMs or kernels yet.

[Sentinel XV]

Man, I cannot wait for the final Hobbit movie to come out.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Man, I cannot wait for the final Hobbit movie to come out.

I feel you. On the one hand, I'm certain it will rape canon.

On the other hand, it'll still be a great movie.

[Sentinel XV]

Man, I cannot wait for the final Hobbit movie to come out.

I feel you. On the one hand, I'm certain it will rape canon.

On the other hand, it'll still be a great movie.

Yeah I saw a trailer for it, and it looked pretty epic.

[The Grey Wolf]

Man, I cannot wait for the final Hobbit movie to come out.

I'm just going to wait for Cinema Sins to make a video of it.

Man, I cannot wait for the final Hobbit movie to come out.

I feel you. On the one hand, I'm certain it will rape canon.

On the other hand, it'll still be a great movie.

I stopped caring by the second one. Utter shite.

[Kassaran]

Man, I cannot wait for the final Hobbit movie to come out.

I'm just going to wait for Cinema Sins to make a video of it.

I feel you. On the one hand, I'm certain it will rape canon.

On the other hand, it'll still be a great movie.

I stopped caring by the second one. Utter shite.

Yep yep and yep. I prefer Canon over the rest of this bollocks. The original was filled to the brim with filler enough as it was. no need to add so much more.