Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for January 18, 2016

Guh, kids today with their broad bands and wi fi’s and smart phones. Why, back in my day, the internet came through phone lines! And so did phone! They both came through a line! Kids these days, no respect for lines.

I too remember hearing the screeching sound o’er the phone when about to make a call and it turned out someone was on the Internet.

My world was pre-internet….Bulletin boards via acoustic-coupled 300-baud modems on an Apple 2+.

You know Generation X is getting old when they talk like that

42! He knows the answer :)

I’m easily old enough to be this guy’s father so he isn’t scoring any points with me.

I knew nostalgia goggles could favourably distort memories, but I had no idea they could distort them THAT much!

To quote the punch line from a Charles Schulz cartoon about what would now be called a multitasking teenager, “I’m just glad that breathing is automatic.”

When i was a kid computers were owned by the government, IBM and the imaginations of scince-fiction writers. .

“When I was a kid, I had to wait through 45 seconds of those awful modem connection noises – you broadband kids don’t know how good you have it!”

What? You need a cel phone to talk with an absent unicorn? I sort of, well, assumed it was built in at that end. And they say comics aren’t educational!

Grumble grumble…you modern kids have it easy! Why I remember when we had to type a hundred number code, just to make a little man run across the computer screen!

Sorry Phoebe.

Why, I remember when you actually DIALED a phone!

(And let your finger take the free ride back)

When I was a kid, TV only had thirteen channels. Ten of them showed static. The other three showed golf. I preferred the static.Now I have over two hundred channels. And I still prefer the static.

And today in Sweden… My mother makes fun of me because she also has 100 Mb/s when she lives pretty much in a forrest. (dirt road and her neighbor has a lots of sheep you can see from her window). I have100Mb too but I live in a reasonable big city… Cant say I miss the old internet connection :)

Don’t tell anybody I said this, but there are times I can’t wait! Uuhhh…for the paperwreights part, not the walking dead part.

Let’s see…I was in high school when we moved into our newly-built two story tract house. We had one black/white Zenith 25" (diagonal) TV in the family room with the one phone — black, dial-faced, owned by ATT. Shortly after we got a color TV, and as the oldest child still home I got the Zenith up in my room. On it I watched Star Trek, Batman, Wild Wild West, Mission Impossible, etc, while getting redy for dates. Doing my homework I listened to top-40 stations on my clock radio (which explains why 1. I remember ALL the lyrics 50 years later, and 2. didn’t understand a lot of them until I got a decent sound system.) Still only one phone, though. Not even an extension upstairs. Sigh…THOSE were the days!

Ha, love it.

You’re reminding me of my nineties childhood, Phoebe’s dad.

“I’m 12. What’s a CD?”

BeeaahbeeaahbeeKRRRSSSSHKRRRRRRRRRRSSSSHHH

Ah, nostalgia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

Yep. I remember sitting at the computer with a book so I’d have something to read while the dialup loaded a page.

I remember finding a bunch of vacuum tubes in my grandfathers’ attic. He told be they came out of a computer he worked on during the Korean War.A year after that, I did a research paper on computers for class…lol

When I was a kid we built tree forts in the woods next door and rode our bikes three miles to a hardware store, or 13 miles down the Illinois Prairie Path. And phones had dials on them. It’s true, watch the old movies.

And that was before age 13.

Clearly, Phoebe’s dad forgets that this is why you would get a second phone line for the modem! Then you COULD talk on the phone and be online at the same time. (Which was often necessary while waiting on those load times.) ;)

I was doing the exact same thing as pheobe when i was reading this

I remember dial up! :P