Fess up!

[webseitler]

This was you:



And just look at us now... LOL! All grown up and we're digital scrapbookers.

Actually, sometimes when I'm working and I need to zoom in real close, I get all nostalgic about the days when I would play with Paint as a kid--because it looks the same! LOL!

Ah... computers rock.

[joelsgirl]

Haha! It was just so pretty and colorful!

[Lyd]

Um. I think you know you're even older when, as a child, the phrase "going to play with the computer" wasn't even a part of the English language.

[Lindsay]

Playing on the computer for me was a floppy disc of Oregon Trail. This was only at school as we didn't didn't have one at home.

[abm234]

My mom went back to college when we were in elementary school and so we got a computer for her. We were one of the few people who had a home computer. It was an AppleIIGS and the G stood for graphics and S for sound (if I remember correctly)!

[rach3975]

Originally Posted by abm234

My mom went back to college when we were in elementary school and so we got a computer for her. We were one of the few people who had a home computer. It was an AppleIIGS and the G stood for graphics and S for sound (if I remember correctly)!

Similar situation for us; my father went back for his PhD in aeronautical engineering when I was in elementary school, so he needed a computer for analyzing wind tunnel results and who knows what else, LOL. We got an IBM PCXT in about 1984. Here are the stats from Wikipedia:

The XT originally came with 128 kB of RAM, a 360 kB double-sided 5.25 in (133 mm) full-height floppy disk drive, a 10 MB Seagate ST-412 hard drive

It was DOS-based and there was no mouse, so nothing like paint to draw in. I remember using it for word processing--white text on a bright blue background. And "playing" with it meant doing simple programming to make it write your name over and over and over. Eventually I remember having a few computer games on floppy disks, but I can't remember if they were 16 color games for this machine or 256 color games for our next computer.

[NeverendingJen]

haha. now I want to go play in paint. I used to play oregon trail at school and I remember when we got our first computer

[knlchevys]

I loved Oregon Trail. Anyone remember the Lemonade Stand game. You had to figure the cost and sell Lemonade and make the most money? I think it was at school. I remember our first HUGE computer and floppy disks!

[NeverendingJen]

confession: we still own floppy disks and a floppy drive. and zip disks and a zip drive.

[webseitler]

My dad bought a Commodore 64 when I was a kid. It was a turning point in my life, apparently. LOL! He also bought a 128 whenever that came out. But after that, I didn't have my own computer until college... when e-mail was shiny and new and Netscape Navigator was the place to be.

[marlathrall]

Umm.. They have Oregon Trail in the Apple Store for iPhone. I haven't played in a while, but I think it's pretty close to the original. So fun!

[lorryfach]

MS Paint didn't exist when I was a child, and I don't think I'm that old, thankyouverymuch! We did have a C64 growing up but no Windows until I was nearly in college.

[pewtertm]

Originally Posted by knlchevys

I loved Oregon Trail. Anyone remember the Lemonade Stand game. You had to figure the cost and sell Lemonade and make the most money? I think it was at school. I remember our first HUGE computer and floppy disks!

Hahaha we have one of those old MacIntosh computers, and the only thing it has is Lemonade Stand and Oregon Trail. 30+ years old and it still works...and LOL the game is NOT as much fun as I thought it was back in the day!

[sarahbhb]

LOL I so predate paint. I used to get excited to go to the university with my dad and play around with turtle graphics (LOGO). Our first home computer was an Atari 400 (membrane keyboard, cartridges, tape recorder and all). Our next was an Atari 800xl and I remember being so excited when I got a floppy disk drive for Christmas for it. I also used to spend hours typing code in from the magazines to only have it not work in the end because I made more than one typo, and then have to skim through it line by line to find those errors.

Our first PC was probably in 1985-86 or so....My dad built it and of course this was prior to hard drives even. You had to load every disk that you wanted to use...I can remember how excited we were to get that first 5mb hard drive.

[maryinaz]

Originally Posted by ltarbox

Um. I think you know you're even older when, as a child, the phrase "going to play with the computer" wasn't even a part of the English language.

^^This^^ - and glad I'm not the only one.

[nun69]

Originally Posted by ltarbox

Um. I think you know you're even older when, as a child, the phrase "going to play with the computer" wasn't even a part of the English language.

ummm yep this........

[Jenn Barrette]

I can't remember what age I was when we first got our computer, but I remember making "Title Pages" for grade school work in Corel Draw (using clipart) when most kids still used colored pencils to make theirs. lol

[kim21673]

Love it!!

My parents still have our original computer...Commodore 64....my dad uses it for his genealogy stuff. All his stuff is on those big ole floppy disks!! LOL

[KateD]

Originally Posted by ltarbox

Um. I think you know you're even older when, as a child, the phrase "going to play with the computer" wasn't even a part of the English language.

^^^
This would be me, too

[jk703]

oh boy... funny!

Oregon Trail!!! Does anyone remember Carmen Sandiego?Where in the world?! LOL!

[webseitler]

Originally Posted by Jenn Barrette

I can't remember what age I was when we first got our computer, but I remember making "Title Pages" for grade school work in Corel Draw (using clipart) when most kids still used colored pencils to make theirs. lol

Rock on!

Originally Posted by jk703

oh boy... funny!

Oregon Trail!!! Does anyone remember Carmen Sandiego?Where in the world?! LOL!

I do! More so than Oregon Trial... I must have been at home when that was popular.

[AmaG]

Paint and Oregon Trail were the best. I also remember the first time I heard the screeeeech, eeerrrrreeeeeerrrr of AOL dialup!

[rach3975]

I may have downloaded Oregon Trail: Oregon Settler for my phone last week. You know, for my kids. An updated version of the original is available, too, but that one isn't a freebie. After this thread, I may need that one for the nostalgia factor, too.

I haven't thought of most of these games in years. I remember having one of the Carmen Sandiego games, Oregon Trail (and some others in the series, like Yukon Trail and Amazon Trail), Gold Rush, and a strange steampunk game called Space-1889. But Oregon Trail was by far my favorite. We never played it at school, and by the time I got it at home they were on version 2 and the graphics were much better. I loved that game. As for the internet, I was in college when I got internet access and an email address for the first time. Now I feel old, LOL.

[NatalieKW]

I had totally forgotten about this! And Oregon Trail...and Carmen Sandiego! I did all three of these things!

[catgoddess]

Originally Posted by ltarbox

Um. I think you know you're even older when, as a child, the phrase "going to play with the computer" wasn't even a part of the English language.

haha. This is me, too!

[Rubia Padilha]

HAHAHAHAH ok. now I'm feeling old. HAHAHAH

[jenevang]

Originally Posted by AmaG

I also remember the first time I heard the screeeeech, eeerrrrreeeeeerrrr of AOL dialup!

Oh, I remember that noise! And I was fully grown, out of Medical School and married before we owned our 1st computer. How old does that make me? *Don't Answer*