In my day ...

[olbriar]

I am not one to know being as I have zero dealings with the stock market. It sounds reasonable however.

 

[The_Chief]

Why not? They still measure gasoline in tenths of a penny...

 

[rootabaga]

In my day bikes had one gear.
And "coaster" brakes.

 

[olbriar]

In my day, everybody rode their bike to school. Nowadays I see one bike rack with a half dozen bikes max in front of each elementary school.

The other day I saw a bicycle half in and half out of a dumpster curbed to be emptied. Back in my day, a bike was never thrown away. It was handed down to a kid in the neighborhood that was a couple of years younger after you received a hand-me-down bike from an older kid on the block. I don't remember who gave me my first bike but I do remember the kid I gave it to.

My father helped me fix my first bike flat. I was on my own after that.

Back in the day it was standard operating procedure to pour evaporated milk into your inner tubes to slow down flats caused by goatheads.

A patch kit consisted of a sacrificed tube for patches and standard school rubber cement.

 

[BrickHouse]

I remember when two bits was a lot of money. I now think that I'm the only one left alive that knows how much two bits is.

Yes, I do know the value of a bit. I remember buying ice cream (three fruit pops) for two bits.

 

[BrickHouse]

You aren't, although I'm a little new to the world to have spent one bit. That's kinda hard to do with the currency we've had for a century.

What we don't have anymore is the "half cent" coins. We haven't had those since the late 19th century.

 

[olbriar]

We still have tenths of a cent but not in coinage.

Copied: In the U.S., a fraction of a penny, specifically a tenth of a cent (1/10th of a cent), is known as a mill. This unit of value is used in areas like property tax, stock issuances, and electricity bills. The term "mill" is used even though there isn't a physical coin with that value.

Gas pricing include 9 mill or nine tenths of another cent.
Probably conceived by the daylight savings dude.

 

[Davdi]

A google moment: The money-related definition of two-bit makes its etymology obvious: it is derived from the noun phrase two bits. However, two bits is an interesting phrase because it actually means "the value of a quarter of a dollar." There is no such thing as a single bit, at least not anymore. The now-obsolete Spanish dollar (also known as a peso or piece of eight) was composed of eight reales, or eight bits, so a quarter of the dollar equaled two bits.

I thought eight bits were a Byte (Plus a ninth parity bit)

 

[Unforgiven]

OK, I actually played this game...

 

[Milo Willamson]

Oh... I had a lot of discs games for the PC through Gaming Monthly games, also I have and still have a lot of Playstation Magazine games too.
(Suddenly I feel my wrinkles.)

 

[rootabaga]

OK, I actually played this game...
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I remember Larry! That was a silly game for sure!

 

[Milo Willamson]

I remember Larry! That was a silly game for sure!

I remember watching the game play it was on G4.

 

[olbriar]

Leisure Suit Larry was a great game! Well written and clever. I still laugh about the law firm
Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe!
Space Quest, Police Quest, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, and can't forget Wolfenstein.

 

[Milo Willamson]

Leisure Suit Larry was a great game! Well written and clever. I still laugh about the law firm
Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe!
Space Quest, Police Quest, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, and can't forget Wolfenstein.

We loved Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego as we were kids.

 

[BrickHouse]

We loved Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego as we were kids.

I didn't get into gaming. I was into programming and code. ..... Forgot it all now.

 

[olbriar]

In my day I tried to play Red Baron. It was a Sierra game that you could fly against others by logging into Sierra online. My internet connection and PC weren't fast enough to compete. I would fly the blue sky looking for enemy and then out of nowhere I'd get shot down.
I think my favorite game was the original Myst game.

 

[Milo Willamson]

I stopped playing pc games ages ago, I really do not see the point of them anyway, when they spend all day typing.

 

[olbriar]

I played no games after the mid 90's. The early PC games were a new form of entertainment.
Early PC owners were accustomed to typing... it was the only interface

 

[BrickHouse]

I played no games after the mid 90's. The early PC games were a new form of entertainment.
Early PC owners were accustomed to typing... it was the only interface

90's? I was introduced to programming in the 70's. I preferred running unix over DOS or ProDOS (on Apple computers of the time). AUnix (developed for Apple computers) was good, it was slightly more stable than Unix on it's own.

 

[Milo Willamson]

90's? I was introduced to programming in the 70's. I preferred running unix over DOS or ProDOS (on Apple computers of the time). AUnix (developed for Apple computers) was good, it was slightly more stable than Unix on it's own.

I was in love with pac man and we had our apple two e, in the early eighties.

 

[Davdi]

Jet Set Willy on C64

 

[Milo Willamson]

In high school jrpgs on my snes, mostly Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy Three.
Game boys all the way throughout time, ah...