The map that will never be

[cleveland]

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I fixed it.

[Agrajag]

Piqued by Ich's post I looked around my file system and according to filestamps the best I could come up with is that I first used asshat "definitely before 2006. probably around 2002.", so that doesn't tell me much :S

And in a more topicy note - give us that map

[DigitalSin]

..lol. What monster have I created?

[Edratman]

Thanks for the definition and the very interesting discussion of "asshat".

DigitalSin, you did not make a mistake, but this forum has a more diverse membership than usual on the gaming circut. A substantial percentage of us are 40 or older.

And I, for one, toyed with IM for a while, but decided to opt out of the text message world for many reasons. I also know that many of my temporal peers also eschew the communications mode in its various forms.

[DigitalSin]

Ah yes. Me being a youngun, I have no grasp of how varied the interweb is, I just assume almost all 40+ers are like my parents.. technologically incompetent.

[lch]

Agrajag said:
Piqued by Ich's post I looked around my file system and according to filestamps the best I could come up with is that I first used asshat "definitely before 2006. probably around 2002.", so that doesn't tell me much :S

Your interest made me look a little further and it seems that asshats are popular since the 60s to 70s at least.

DigitalSin said:
I just assume almost all 40+ers are like my parents.. technologically incompetent.

Ah, so I am not alone. Phew.

[Edratman]

DigitalSin said:
Ah yes. Me being a youngun, I have no grasp of how varied the interweb is, I just assume almost all 40+ers are like my parents.. technologically incompetent.

But if you give it one moment of thought you will come to the realization that we (the 40+ers) invented the technology, the web and PC gaming. So not only are some of us technically capable, but also living proof that "once a true gamer, always a true gamer".

There are a couple of us on this forum who have been gaming since the first week, if not the first day, of the home computer. The first PC game I played came on a cassette, identical to the cassettes used for stereos. I will always remember the thrill I got when something I did triggered the cassette drive, because it always meant that I did something right. It was another year or two before the 5" floppy came out. And I was in my early 30's at this time.

[Zorax]

I feel like I should kneel down after that last post.

[DigitalSin]

*Kneels*

[Edratman]

Zorax said:
I feel like I should kneel down after that last post.

Not at all. Just remember it 30 years from now when the kids (and I guarantee that you will think of them as kids) consider you technologically handicapped.

My children probably will tell their grandchildren that they had to walk to the TV to change channels when they were little.

You will probably tell your grandchildren that you only had 250 channels on the TV when you were growing up and it was low def, 2 dimenisional. And they will think that you were raised in the stone age.