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Post by ride on Jun 12, 2004 12:16:50 GMT
ok call me a dork.... but this is kinda an important day... it's the 486's birthday!! *sniffle* 15 years old... Hard to belive such a tiny thing made of pure sand could bring us all this....  www.pcmech.com/show/processors/35/2 |
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Post by Silentus on Jun 13, 2004 0:17:31 GMT
Dork  |
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Post by Silentus on Jun 13, 2004 11:28:59 GMT
Doh! I misclicked and deleted Mitza's post... It stated: I believe the proper term is 'Geek'To which I meant to reply: Hey, he said 'ok call me a dork....', so I did ( :-/sorry bout that Mitz  ) |
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Post by addicted2rpg on Jun 13, 2004 14:37:55 GMT
You had to be there to feel it. I remember on being a a BBS multi-user chat (10 liner) whose owner is now deceased after running it for 19 years (1984 - 2003, R.I.P.) that in 1992 I remember a huge storm of excitement about the new possibilities opened up by the 486DX2/66 alone. That same year, Future Crew made Unreal II with the first real-time rendered 3D objects (with onboard SVGA) allowed possible by this wonderous new technology. In just four years we were seeing DreamWorks quality computer graphics in our movies at the movie theaters... Those advances wouldn't of been possible without the precedents 486 set Change was in the air. I remember talking with a hobbyist and we marveled that the internet is going to be very cool now. He laughed and said, "It's an information revolution!" Newscasters didn't use the term until a few years later. |
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serpitus
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Post by serpitus on Jun 13, 2004 16:47:49 GMT
Addicted all you missed was
"And here is the rest of the story!" *Paul Harvey voice impersonated
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anomalylone
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Post by anomalylone on Jun 28, 2004 7:47:06 GMT
wow ride , up with the geek talk .. you rule man ..lol Anom . |
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