{"id":7171,"date":"2003-09-23T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/7171\/"},"modified":"2012-06-05T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T10:31:07","slug":"7171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/7171\/","title":{"rendered":"More Signs You&#8217;re Getting Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcentral.com\/articles\/isyn\/default.asp?newsid=20039182&#038;cobrand=msn&#038;LID=3800\" target=\"new\">more signs you&#8217;re getting old<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have to wonder the real age of the person who wrote this, though, because it seems hollow, as though it was compiled by a damn kid writing for us old people.<\/p>\n<p>Some points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Your computer&#8217;s ready-mode was a black screen with a single cursor.<\/b><br \/>There&#8217;s still just a single curser sitting at my computer.  Me.  Actually, my first computer&#8217;s ready screen was blue and grey.  Viva la Commodore!\n<li><b>And you thought it <\/b>[the Pong arcade game] <b>had the most advanced graphics imaginable.<\/b><br \/>\n        Look here, boy, Pong did have the most advanced graphics. <\/p>\n<li><b>AOL was just another start-up online service that could easily have lost out to rivals called Compuserve and Prodigy.<\/b><br \/>\n         Son, back in the day, we had Quantum Link, Delphi, and bulletin boards.  AOL is a 1990s late bloomer.<\/p>\n<li><b>A 1-gig hard drive seemed as big as a warehouse. (Today, most are 40-times that.)<\/b><br \/>\n        Back in the day, the Lt. Kernal 1 Meg hard drive cost $1000, werd.  I never had one.<\/p>\n<li><b>Even though there are plenty of LPs in antiques stores, you still have 400 in your attic, because deep down, you still think the format will come back.<\/b><br \/>\n        Dude, you cannot <i>sell<\/i> records for any decent money.  Last time I tried to sell an LP or 45 was in the early 1990s, and the used music shop wouldn&#8217;t take them off my hands.  So they&#8217;re up there because they&#8217;re worth more for the memories than the money.  And who knows, one of these days we might find a working record player again, and when we do, it&#8217;s gonna be a <i>party!<\/i>.  Albeit a party where one has to pause the beer-drinkng every couple of minutes to change or flip the record.<\/ul>\n<p>Now get offa my lawn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a list of more signs you&#8217;re getting old. I have to wonder the real age of the person who wrote this, though, because it seems hollow, as though it was compiled by a damn kid writing for us old people. Some points: Your computer&#8217;s ready-mode was a black screen with a single cursor.There&#8217;s still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11481,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions\/11481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}