# We are living in exponential times. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840 "2008-03-11T17:08:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jay940](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@jay940](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jay940)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/21 "2008-03-11T17:50:04Z")
tandy2000 laptop was bigger than a briefcase, monocolor, and was only good to play text based dopewars lol ---
**Author:** ![psphinx81](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@psphinx81](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psphinx81)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/22 "2008-03-11T17:51:12Z")
rock band! ---
**Author:** ![SoloIIscoob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@SoloIIscoob](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SoloIIscoob)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/23 "2008-03-11T17:53:50Z")
Gi joe and TMNT and looney tunes in the morning before school on cable. atari and nintendo as my only gaming experience. middle school dances and grinding on all my skeezes. all tackle one football(1 person punts it to a group of 5-10 who then try to tackle and stop from scoring the person who catches it) riding bikes to go EVERYWHERE. Building BMX jumps everywhere i could find dirt. alpine ski racing:( winning singleA baseball championships. buying my first cds(Tag Team whoop there it is and wutang enter the wu) ---
**Author:** ![mechanicalmadness](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mechanicalmadness/32/5022_2.png) [@mechanicalmadness](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mechanicalmadness)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/24 "2008-03-11T18:01:41Z")
Bmx’s were RAD!! everywhere there was dirt? I was a city boy, everywhere my bike was:D. GiJoe was the shit, and dont you forget it. TMNT was awesome, and so were the loony tunes. Oh ya untill people started bitching that they were too violent. Come to think of it. isnt that why all of the fights in power rangers started to be like 5 seconds long 4 episodes into the show? Oh ya and why doesnt anyone tackle when playing football in school anymore? Oh ya and didnt we make fun of the lazy kids not wanting to take gym class? Why do people accomodate them now? Why arent there any winners in competition school sports anymore? How come everyone wins? did i miss something or sleep through a class back in the days? ---
**Author:** ![ryanmcell](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ryanmcell/32/7510_2.png) [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/25 "2008-03-11T18:04:27Z")
Senior year of high school I paid 1.03/gal of gas all year pretty much (2001-2002) and cringed in the winter when it would go to 1.11/gal. My 4gb mp3 player in h/s was the size of brick and weighed almost as much as 1. 15" LCD Dell monitor costing 500 bones for college. Fantasy Football in 1999 I created a website for on Geocities with rosters, a live in person draft, and manual stat’s from [cbs.sportsline.com](http://cbs.sportsline.com) each week. AOL dialup way back in the day. Burning cd’s on my 2x burner in 8th/9th grade and selling em at $10/pop. Transferring Mp3’s peer to peer via ICQ. Damn how things have changed. ---
**Author:** ![mechanicalmadness](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mechanicalmadness/32/5022_2.png) [@mechanicalmadness](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mechanicalmadness)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/26 "2008-03-11T18:09:17Z")
“Damn how things have changed.” indeed " ---
**Author:** ![SoloIIscoob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@SoloIIscoob](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SoloIIscoob)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/27 "2008-03-11T18:15:37Z")
my first aol(and im talking aol, not aol 1.0 or 2.0) screenname was ripnfarts and the password was cups. real gangsta. used to go in aol chatrooms and hassle the douche-frequenters of those chatrooms playing doom and castle wolfenstein. floppy discs. hooked on phonics before preschool. singing a song called gray-squirrel in a preschool musical. performing a christmas story in 6th grade. “sneaking out” at sleep overs in elem/middle school sneaking out and pooping in a pizza box and leaving it on homeplate of the baseball diamond where we were having the 6th graders vs. teacher softball game that morning. hiding in bushes and throwing paintballs at cars. climbing every school building in my district(10 buildings) from 6th grade to 9th grade. ---
**Author:** ![Karter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/28 "2008-03-11T18:16:53Z")
people use to drink tap water. the speedlimit was 55 and not 65. the production cars that NASCAR used the bodys from were actually RWD cars. Grand theft auto 1 was the the New hot thing for ps1. Gamegear was the hand held system, and it was 2 feet wide and weighed 40lbs hahahaha ---
**Author:** ![mechanicalmadness](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mechanicalmadness/32/5022_2.png) [@mechanicalmadness](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mechanicalmadness)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/29 "2008-03-11T18:23:59Z")
> [@Just Karter](#): > > people use to drink tap water. > the speedlimit was 55 and not 65. > the production cars that NASCAR used the bodys from were actually RWD cars. > Grand theft auto 1 was the the New hot thing for ps1. > Gamegear was the hand held system, and it was 2 feet wide and weighed 40lbs hahahaha Hahaha. dont get me started on the Doom tournaments we had in the computer lab at at school .Warcraft was like 4 megs in size and took 4 floppies. And here is one I doubt anyone will remember…Skypager anyone? speaking of pagers… how cool were you if you had one? Pretty damn cool. Hah, you could commit a murder with some of the first cell phones out on the marked if you could afford them. thats unless you were too busy calling in airstrikes with them. Lets face it they looked like millitary surplus. ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/30 "2008-03-11T18:29:18Z")
1800 sky pager i was hacking that before i was able to drive - only to get free calls home from the mall :tspry:: ---
**Author:** ![Garick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8797f3/32.png) [@Garick](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Garick)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/31 "2008-03-11T18:34:01Z")
I remember connecting to prodigy with a 2400 bps modem, then 33.6 or something and 56k How about paying for the internet by the hour? ---
**Author:** ![mechanicalmadness](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mechanicalmadness/32/5022_2.png) [@mechanicalmadness](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mechanicalmadness)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/32 "2008-03-11T18:34:27Z")
> [@Locutus](#): > > 1800 sky pager > > i was hacking that before i was able to drive - only to get free calls home from the mall :tspry:: wow. i thought I was the only one that knew about that on here. Thing was pimp:pimp:. I was getting free calls to anywhere from anywhere i tried. ---
**Author:** ![redrum](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redrum/32/7398_2.png) [@redrum](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/redrum)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/33 "2008-03-11T18:47:23Z")
I’ll second most everything on the list, but here is an interesting side point on this subject. The ‘information age’ has obviously been an enormous revolution, but think about everything else that doesn’t involve email, cell phones, mhz, ram, wireless this and that. Very little else has changed since the '50s or '60s. Our entire generation of technological evolution is contained within things that we cannot see or really touch, which in and of itself is a revolution, and also kind of scary. The way that people behave when their cell phone battery dies, much less when the power goes out at their house, is pretty scary. People these days are both dependent on and owned by their technology, to varying degrees. ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Danger](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/matt_danger/32/4981_2.png) [@Matt\_Danger](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Matt_Danger)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/34 "2008-03-11T18:59:27Z")
![http://www.ronlussier.com/CHParchive/Images/Babycha.gif](http://www.ronlussier.com/CHParchive/Images/Babycha.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Ovrwrkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ovrwrkd/32/7586_2.png) [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/35 "2008-03-11T19:02:05Z")
> [@Locutus](#): > > 1800 sky pager > > i was hacking that before i was able to drive - only to get free calls home from the mall :tspry:: > **[\- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjSGE4F3eIA:D)** > > Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Atari, Nintendo, Genesis, b&w Gameboy… A 32MB hard drive was huge, 5 1/4 floppy disks, monochrome displays. I remember building my first PC at college, Celeron 300A o/c’d to 450, 2 Diamond Monster2 3dfx cards in SLI, 512MB of RAM, etc… Ahh… The memories… ---
**Author:** ![9ONA3OOZX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9ona3oozx/32/7242_2.png) [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/36 "2008-03-11T19:11:21Z")
AOL V2.0 call hold/2 lines, caller ID, and 3-way calling NO WAI! winter/snow coming in october/november, gone by march. $1.00 US = $1.57 CA Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? big floppy (literally) discs michael jackson = black pop up video mtv (music tv) plays music videos, always… the first to have sonic 3D! pagers. Double Dare ugh i could go on and on… ---
**Author:** ![matter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@matter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/matter)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/37 "2008-03-11T19:35:32Z")
getting beat in warcraft 2 by a pro-player, come to find out hes 10 years old… fuckkkk (even tho I was 12) ---
**Author:** ![TORQDSS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/torqdss/32/5125_2.png) [@TORQDSS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TORQDSS)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/38 "2008-03-11T19:36:19Z")
how has everyone missed the coolest computer game that ever hit the green screen(and I mean green, it was the only color they had)… OREGON TRAIL!!! That game rocked… broken wheel… lose 5 days. ---
**Author:** ![zero\_assault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/dfb087/32.png) [@zero\_assault](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/zero_assault)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/39 "2008-03-11T19:42:07Z")
I just cant wait to see the shit my kids will have when they are my age now, I cant even begin to imagine ---
**Author:** ![psychopjv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/psychopjv/32/7251_2.png) [@psychopjv](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psychopjv)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/40 "2008-03-11T21:16:50Z")
Sega -CD. Sega Channel. Jams…you know, your favorite shorts. Mountain bikes with shocks. Fila. Teachers not trying to do you. paying .25 for lunch. Land Lines. Mullets. Rape vans. the list goes on and on [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840.md?page=3)