Conquer Club

reminisco wrote:wow...

to think, when i was 17, the most sophisticated thing you could do on the internet was to wait 2 hours while downloading that South Park video of Jesus vs. Santa... (assuming, of course, you got the email)

and now all of you 17 year olds are on here day in and day out, reading highly sophisticated drivel on these forums.


and for the record, i'm 28. before this year is out, i'll be 29.

Old... we 22 year olds are where it's at.

I'm sure I've already answered, but as posts in IK don't matter anymore, I'm 16.

Just turned 50.

Been playing risk since my late Father sat me down at 6 and said " 'Bout time you started learning about strategy, winning and losing Son "

brooksieb wrote:46, i'm a old man.

Aren't you only 12 or 13.

Neoteny wrote:

reminisco wrote:wow...

to think, when i was 17, the most sophisticated thing you could do on the internet was to wait 2 hours while downloading that South Park video of Jesus vs. Santa... (assuming, of course, you got the email)

and now all of you 17 year olds are on here day in and day out, reading highly sophisticated drivel on these forums.


and for the record, i'm 28. before this year is out, i'll be 29.

Old... we 22 year olds are where it's at.

way old, 19 is where it's at, yo.

Snorri1234 wrote:

Neoteny wrote:

reminisco wrote:wow...

to think, when i was 17, the most sophisticated thing you could do on the internet was to wait 2 hours while downloading that South Park video of Jesus vs. Santa... (assuming, of course, you got the email)

and now all of you 17 year olds are on here day in and day out, reading highly sophisticated drivel on these forums.


and for the record, i'm 28. before this year is out, i'll be 29.

Old... we 22 year olds are where it's at.

way old, 19 is where it's at, yo.

Hell Yeah!

reminisco wrote:wow...

to think, when i was 17, the most sophisticated thing you could do on the internet was to wait 2 hours while downloading that South Park video of Jesus vs. Santa... (assuming, of course, you got the email)

and now all of you 17 year olds are on here day in and day out, reading highly sophisticated drivel on these forums.


and for the record, i'm 28. before this year is out, i'll be 29.

Interesting to see how the telescope of time continues. When I was 17, the nearest thing to a PC we ever had was a calculator that worked out the 4 basic funtions and a % key...we spent many happy hours working out equations that would create words that one could read on the screen using the numbers, we were also in awe of the word processing machines just hitting the markets, amazed at how they could backspace and delete a letter (only the one mind you). The computer, in the company I worked for, did all the basic accounts (done by tickets being sent to the keying room by internal mail) was about the size of a decent sized living room, all info was input by a series of punch tape operators, it had to be kept in an air conditioned, air filtered environment, and we all scoffed and laughed at the seers who said within 30 years everyone would have home computers the size of a tray that would be hundreds of times more powerful than those computers in existence then...oh how we laughed. The accounts would churn out once a month on huge tabulated sheets, all with codes we then had to check and ensure they all balanced (I had to do bank reconciliations with over 10,000 entries every month, it was then I truly learnt the meaning of boredom).

Space invaders was just hitting the pubs, press button gaming machines rather than one armed bandits as we knew them, a brave new world was dawning..just wish I had bought shares in Apple or Microsoft back then.

I'm 2000 years young. i've been playing risk, in one form or another, since the begining.

Fruitcake wrote:

reminisco wrote:wow...

to think, when i was 17, the most sophisticated thing you could do on the internet was to wait 2 hours while downloading that South Park video of Jesus vs. Santa... (assuming, of course, you got the email)

and now all of you 17 year olds are on here day in and day out, reading highly sophisticated drivel on these forums.


and for the record, i'm 28. before this year is out, i'll be 29.

Interesting to see how the telescope of time continues. When I was 17, the nearest thing to a PC we ever had was a calculator that worked out the 4 basic funtions and a % key...we spent many happy hours working out equations that would create words that one could read on the screen using the numbers, we were also in awe of the word processing machines just hitting the markets, amazed at how they could backspace and delete a letter (only the one mind you). The computer, in the company I worked for, did all the basic accounts (done by tickets being sent to the keying room by internal mail) was about the size of a decent sized living room, all info was input by a series of punch tape operators, it had to be kept in an air conditioned, air filtered environment, and we all scoffed and laughed at the seers who said within 30 years everyone would have home computers the size of a tray that would be hundreds of times more powerful than those computers in existence then...oh how we laughed. The accounts would churn out once a month on huge tabulated sheets, all with codes we then had to check and ensure they all balanced (I had to do bank reconciliations with over 10,000 entries every month, it was then I truly learnt the meaning of boredom).

Space invaders was just hitting the pubs, press button gaming machines rather than one armed bandits as we knew them, a brave new world was dawning..just wish I had bought shares in Apple or Microsoft back then.

hey remember Betamax vs VHS, or i don't know if you were that young but remember playing pong, imagine what it was like if we had ps3s and 360s back in those days.

brookseib wrote:hey remember Betamax vs VHS, or i don't know if you were that young but remember playing pong, imagine what it was like if we had ps3s and 360s back in those days.

I do remember the betamax, along with the 8 track, both far superior products than casette and VHS, but there you go, they died and we got left with what we had. I also remember pong..I had a paddle game given to me in '78...wow what a game, 2 paddles with large plastic knobs to move the bat up and down the side of the screen...black and white of course. We sat there for all of a couple of days until I put it down, never to pick it up again...I think I still have it somewhere in the loft gathering dust.

Interestingly, my Grandson started playing Space Invaders recently online, he thought he was so cool, and asked me if I could play it, chortling to his friends, ...I sat down, and with them offering gratuitous advice whenever I did anything (which I ignored) I got the top score ever....lol...my cool rating shot up with them. Seemed like I had never been away from it.

Fruitcake wrote:

brookseib wrote:hey remember Betamax vs VHS, or i don't know if you were that young but remember playing pong, imagine what it was like if we had ps3s and 360s back in those days.

I do remember the betamax, along with the 8 track, both far superior products than casette and VHS, but there you go, they died and we got left with what we had. I also remember pong..I had a paddle game given to me in '78...wow what a game, 2 paddles with large plastic knobs to move the bat up and down the side of the screen...black and white of course. We sat there for all of a couple of days until I put it down, never to pick it up again...I think I still have it somewhere in the loft gathering dust.

Interestingly, my Grandson started playing Space Invaders recently online, he thought he was so cool, and asked me if I could play it, chortling to his friends, ...I sat down, and with them offering gratuitous advice whenever I did anything (which I ignored) I got the top score ever....lol...my cool rating shot up with them. Seemed like I had never been away from it.

Oh remember atari 2600 and that annnnnnoooooooyyyyyyyiiiiiiiinnnnngggggg comercial in the early 80's £129 pounds of course, "everyone goes atari!, it's the ultimate video game!!"

Fruitcake wrote:Interestingly, my Grandson started playing Space Invaders recently online, he thought he was so cool, and asked me if I could play it, chortling to his friends, ...I sat down, and with them offering gratuitous advice whenever I did anything (which I ignored) I got the top score ever....lol...my cool rating shot up with them. Seemed like I had never been away from it.

That's a sweet story.

Fruitcake wrote:Just turned 50.

Been playing risk since my late Father sat me down at 6 and said " 'Bout time you started learning about strategy, winning and losing Son "

I thought you were forty, your older than me! that's a achievement.

I am 32, will be 33 in May. My oldest son is 11, so I am old enough to mom to quite a few here...yikes.

I started CC in February 2007. I have only played the board game a few times.

We had word processors in my high school to learn to type on. I didn't use the internet until I was 21 - in college. I loved nintendo as a teen - super mario bros was my favorite. i still love that game. and tetris!!

brooksieb wrote:

Fruitcake wrote:Just turned 50.

Been playing risk since my late Father sat me down at 6 and said " 'Bout time you started learning about strategy, winning and losing Son "

I thought you were forty, your older than me! that's a achievement.

It's an achievement I got here quite frankly brookseib, after some of the scrapes I managed to get myself into when I was young and foolish.

Re the atari 2600, I was a texas 99/4A man myself...my Bro was an atari man...I was seriously jealous...

Wasn't it around the late 70s that Zork first hit the market..I seem to recall my Bro setting up the old phone, with great anxiety as it sat in its modem bed, the whistles and crackles coming down the line and the words appearing on the screen....(You are in a large room, exits N & E, there is a sword here)

I think this this age thing would be better in a alphabetical list...
any objections?

Fruitcake wrote:

reminisco wrote:wow...

to think, when i was 17, the most sophisticated thing you could do on the internet was to wait 2 hours while downloading that South Park video of Jesus vs. Santa... (assuming, of course, you got the email)

and now all of you 17 year olds are on here day in and day out, reading highly sophisticated drivel on these forums.


and for the record, i'm 28. before this year is out, i'll be 29.

Interesting to see how the telescope of time continues. When I was 17, the nearest thing to a PC we ever had was a calculator that worked out the 4 basic funtions and a % key...we spent many happy hours working out equations that would create words that one could read on the screen using the numbers, we were also in awe of the word processing machines just hitting the markets, amazed at how they could backspace and delete a letter (only the one mind you). The computer, in the company I worked for, did all the basic accounts (done by tickets being sent to the keying room by internal mail) was about the size of a decent sized living room, all info was input by a series of punch tape operators, it had to be kept in an air conditioned, air filtered environment, and we all scoffed and laughed at the seers who said within 30 years everyone would have home computers the size of a tray that would be hundreds of times more powerful than those computers in existence then...oh how we laughed. The accounts would churn out once a month on huge tabulated sheets, all with codes we then had to check and ensure they all balanced (I had to do bank reconciliations with over 10,000 entries every month, it was then I truly learnt the meaning of boredom).

Space invaders was just hitting the pubs, press button gaming machines rather than one armed bandits as we knew them, a brave new world was dawning..just wish I had bought shares in Apple or Microsoft back then.

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I've got a 2.2Ghz Quad Core with 3 gigs of RAM, a 320GB SATA HDD, an overclocked GeForce 9600GT video card with with HDTV output and dual DVI and a 20 inch LCD monitor with 32 bit (it's 24 damnit! ) colour. My, how things have changed... You can buy more powerful computers than the one you talked about for 2 bucks (called PIC computers, just a small little chip). I'm glad I didn't have to grow up in that dark, scary world of yours...

28

Hmmm, Maybe I'm the old guy at 53. Benn playing for 45 years. I didn't know I wasn't good at it until I joined CC!

hecter wrote:

Fruitcake wrote:

reminisco wrote:wow...

to think, when i was 17, the most sophisticated thing you could do on the internet was to wait 2 hours while downloading that South Park video of Jesus vs. Santa... (assuming, of course, you got the email)

and now all of you 17 year olds are on here day in and day out, reading highly sophisticated drivel on these forums.


and for the record, i'm 28. before this year is out, i'll be 29.

Interesting to see how the telescope of time continues. When I was 17, the nearest thing to a PC we ever had was a calculator that worked out the 4 basic funtions and a % key...we spent many happy hours working out equations that would create words that one could read on the screen using the numbers, we were also in awe of the word processing machines just hitting the markets, amazed at how they could backspace and delete a letter (only the one mind you). The computer, in the company I worked for, did all the basic accounts (done by tickets being sent to the keying room by internal mail) was about the size of a decent sized living room, all info was input by a series of punch tape operators, it had to be kept in an air conditioned, air filtered environment, and we all scoffed and laughed at the seers who said within 30 years everyone would have home computers the size of a tray that would be hundreds of times more powerful than those computers in existence then...oh how we laughed. The accounts would churn out once a month on huge tabulated sheets, all with codes we then had to check and ensure they all balanced (I had to do bank reconciliations with over 10,000 entries every month, it was then I truly learnt the meaning of boredom).

Space invaders was just hitting the pubs, press button gaming machines rather than one armed bandits as we knew them, a brave new world was dawning..just wish I had bought shares in Apple or Microsoft back then.

...

...

I've got a 2.2Ghz Quad Core with 3 gigs of RAM, a 320GB SATA HDD, an overclocked GeForce 9600GT video card with with HDTV output and dual DVI and a 20 inch LCD monitor with 32 bit (it's 24 damnit! ) colour...

And now, it's completely obsolete.

We have several members in our group that are in their 70's.....

I am 13 baby, yea!

I am over 30. More, I will not say. However, I have given referances that pretty well date me.

fwblb wrote:I am 32, will be 33 in May. My oldest son is 11, so I am old enough to mom to quite a few here...yikes.

I started CC in February 2007. I have only played the board game a few times.

We had word processors in my high school to learn to type on. I didn't use the internet until I was 21 - in college. I loved nintendo as a teen - super mario bros was my favorite. i still love that game. and tetris!!

That's Ok, I'm old enough to be your Dad!

I'm as old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.