The curse of Monkey Island, Rainbow Six, and Half-Life for me.1997 & 1998 were the peak of human existence. Two flags and these babies.
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The curse of Monkey Island, Rainbow Six, and Half-Life for me.1997 & 1998 were the peak of human existence. Two flags and these babies.
I must say the board population is a lot older than I thought it was. Explains the mature debates we have on here
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Well I questioned myself, hard to believe huh! I dodged the fountain pens and ink monitors. Vaguely remember a daily assembly and national anthemI was going to mention abacus, but I didn't think anyone would believe me!
You might have been in my class, then! Did you know his son Richard? Or, indeed, are you Richard?
Darcy Cox is a relative of mine, lovely man.
Not just an assembly, we had to march. Some lucky students even got to play the Bass Drum or Snare Drum whilst marching. Ended by looking up to the flag with our hands on heart, and a rousing "God save the Queen".Well I questioned myself, hard to believe huh! I dodged the fountain pens and ink monitors. Vaguely remember a daily assembly and national anthem
I remember singing “God save the Queen”. I remember sixpences! I remember getting our first black and white tv when I was six years old (dad won a tv/sterogram at golf). I remember the funeral of JFK. Landing on the moon. I remember Gough Whitlam being sacked. I remember skipping school and going to anti-apartheid marches. I remember learning how to type on an old manual typewriter, and how amazed I was when electric ones came in. I remember tippex! I worked on the first computer I’d ever seen when I was a teller at a credit union. Using one of the first facsimile machines at Parliament House (where you had to be there to receive it). i remember buying our first Betamax video recorder. Then buying our first video camera (which was enormous and very heavy). Our first ever computer was the very first Apple Mac which we bought when we lived in Palo Alto in the US (we still own it today). our first game console was a Hanimex...then we moved up to a PlayStation. I remember trying to tape songs from the radio and the frustration in trying to get the DJ NOT talking over it! Our first home phone was a big old, black rotary dial. My first car was a souped-up mini (had been a rally car and had an amazing engine) that cost $550. we got the Internet in 1999. My first mobile phone in 2001.Well I questioned myself, hard to believe huh! I dodged the fountain pens and ink monitors. Vaguely remember a daily assembly and national anthem
Hey I got two in the national library and finished another two. Just started another one. Writing is something I find relaxing.
You are both men of taste.The curse of Monkey Island, Rainbow Six, and Half-Life for me.
We had one of those Hanimex consoles Everyone else had an AtariI remember singing “God save the Queen”. I remember sixpences! I remember getting our first black and white tv when I was six years old (dad won a tv/sterogram at golf). I remember the funeral of JFK. Landing on the moon. I remember Gough Whitlam being sacked. I remember skipping school and going to anti-apartheid marches. I remember learning how to type on an old manual typewriter, and how amazed I was when electric ones came in. I remember tippex! I worked on the first computer I’d ever seen when I was a teller at a credit union. Using one of the first facsimile machines at Parliament House (where you had to be there to receive it). i remember buying our first Betamax video recorder. Then buying our first video camera (which was enormous and very heavy). Our first ever computer was the very first Apple Mac which we bought when we lived in Palo Alto in the US (we still own it today). our first game console was a Hanimex...then we moved up to a PlayStation. I remember trying to tape songs from the radio and the frustration in trying to get the DJ NOT talking over it! Our first home phone was a big old, black rotary dial. My first car was a souped-up mini (had been a rally car and had an amazing engine) that cost $550. we got the Internet in 1999. My first mobile phone in 2001.
We had Commodores 64 at school, Granny's Garden et al. However PCs at home, anyone go deep down the rabbit hole trying to get enough memory to run games with mouse and sound?
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WarCraft, StarCraft, Age of Empires 1&2, Diablo 1&2, Half-Life, Counter-Strike - there goes my years as a teenagerThe curse of Monkey Island, Rainbow Six, and Half-Life for me.
it was always great waiting 15 minutes for the game on the tape to load, only for it to have a error and you had to start all over again
After I met my now wife, I went home and contacted her on Facebook unfortunately she was a MySpace girl and took nearly a month to get back to me!
Not quite but the ColecoVision we had looked pretty close. This was what we had, complete with the Atari 2600 add-on on the front which we took for granted then but is pretty mindblowing thinking about it now. Was like if Sony said "Here you go, we made an attachment for the PS4 that plays Switch games."
Good on you for understanding how to internet. Now let me blitz your veggies for you.
We must be the around same age. I remember that too, and I was uni age at the time.Biggest social upheaval from my youth was when a girl toppled off the balcony at the Royal Hotel at Kent Town. Turned out that she was underage. Awful that she died of course but also meant a crackdown on fake ID's which was devastating
“Quadrangle”...Strangest school memories:
Writing with a nib and powdered ink.
Being an Ink Monitor, and mixing the ink.
Marching around the quadrangle.
The closest thing there was to a calculator was a slide rule.
Ah, 1955, what a time to be born....
Not quite but the ColecoVision we had looked pretty close. This was what we had, complete with the Atari 2600 add-on on the front which we took for granted then but is pretty mindblowing thinking about it now. Was like if Sony said "Here you go, we made an attachment for the PS4 that plays Switch games."
Not for the first time, actually that was the first time!She put you on ice Fr0ggy!