Most televisions were black and white.

I started celebrating early. Still 2.5 hours left and I decided to finish off the bottle of wine I opened for dinner.

Most cars still ran on bias-ply tires.

There was still lead in the gasoline.

My family's first two computers were black and white. Then we got a fancy black and green screen computer which had, get this, 3 different levels of green. Dad had to pay extra for the 2-bit video action.

I remember when AOL was the major service provider and Ask Jeeves was a popular search engine.

That's all I got

You and rjones are fossils

What do you celebrate?

The Beatles had not yet come to America.

I was thinking about Ask Jeeves a few days ago.

Indeed. My first computer course was done on terminals that didn't even have screens. They were a keyboard and a printer with a roll of yellow paper in it. The mainframe wasn't the size of a house though. More like a really big refrigerator. There was a giant keypunch rig where the teacher speachified.

My wife's first family computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80.

Poor Jeeves. Sure Ask.com sounds better, but they coulda left the butler on the main screen logo.

Celebrating the passing of Valentines day!!!

And I got a new plant for one of my aquariums!!!!

I'm not even 50 yet.

The death of Vday!

I remember debating between getting a 14.4 or splurging for a 28.8 modem. I also remember upgrading my computer from 2 megs of ram to 8 megs.

Better yet, I remember my Atari 400 computer (had keyboard). Instead of disks it saved programs on cassettes.

Tragic. Mine died about 10 years ago.

I can't stand Dell but I just saw a commercial for the Dell Flipped. That thing is pretty damn cool.

I sorry.

I ran Dells for my business until this current laptop (HP). They were pretty reliable. We still have my wife's old Dell Inspiron laptop (circa 2002) that runs fine -- her main computer is a MacBook Pro now.

We just got some at work. Verdict is still out.

I had Dell desktops in the past and I have had some Dells at my office. My Dell laptop is the biggest piece of crap I have ever owned though. It's the last Dell product I'll ever buy. If my budget allows, my next laptop will be a Toshiba.

I do think that Dells more expensive computers are fine, it's their budget laptops that suck.

Looks pretty cool alright. I wanna know if the display automagically rotates right side up like on those fancy fones.

Yes.