Kid told me that he just watched “some crazy old movie” about how a kid hacked into NORAD.
You young whipper snappers and your fancy DOS terminals…10,000 years ago I sat at a teletype terminal and tried to learn to program in BASIC. Oregon Trail and Missile Attack are a whole 'nother experience when done by printed media only.
I can still hear the sound of the teletype clacking…
PFY: “Hey, computers used to be all text just like that with no graphics, did ya know?”
BOFH: “No shit” uninstalls X/Wayland from PFY’s computer remotely
Ah memories from BOFH! I used to read that on the 90s
Ah, the way god intended. GUIs were a mistake lol
Which console UI are you using for Lemmy?
There was a time computers had no text but instead had punch cards
I was taught Lotus 1-2-3 on MS-DOS in college. Do with that information what you will.
Ahhh, Lotus 1-2-3… I remember it well. But first I had to master AutoCAD Release 9 in DOS.
I was so sure MicroSoft could NEVER replace Lotus Notes.
My 10 year old niece asked me what my RJ45 wall socket was while I was fixing her mom’s computer.
“It’s for old telephones”
She then asked me if I had an adapter for it so she could charge her phone.
I almost died.
Rj11/12 are for telephones, rj45 is for ethernet
VoIP phone
Oops, yes. Thats what I meant. STILL died.
Won’t work anymore. Our phone line is completely replaced with fiber. On the other hand i can’t remember any unwarned outages in the last 20 years.
Could work in theory. Back then there it had sonething like 40 volts going through the line and you needed some decent power to make the bell in the phone ring.
But I don’t know if that’s still in use these days.
Terminals I played with had no screen just a dot matrix printer. My God, the sound…
Don’t know what the equivalent is today. But that one solidarity Commodore Pet, green screen glowing in the corner of the classroom, will always have a special 32kb space in my heart.
That movie is WarGames (1983)
The kid was blown away by the modem. For those who don’t know it’s a cradle type dial up modem where you place the (land line) phone on a receiver instead of plugging the computer into the cat4. You could get up to 150 bits per second on one of those bad boys.