we are lucky

[cub3pp]

I consider myself extreemly lucky to be alive in this time period, having some of the extrordinary events ive seen in just 16 years.

100th aniversary of flight is definatly one of these.

i always wonder wheni have time, why I am living in this time, and not some other time.  Why am i here?
whoa, after a minute of thinking about this, my head hurts now.

I cant wait untill i see the history books in the near future and say-I remember that.  May be this is why i like History so much.  but the real question to be answered is how do i have a "C" in that class?

[WebbPA]

Did you read Romulus' 1903 post?  I'm sure they were thinking what a wonderful era that was -  horseless carriages, indoor plumbing on a mass scale, radio, moving pictures, world peace.

I guess it depends on your existing knowledge base.  In 1982 I thought $1000 for a 64k computer (including external 5.25 in floppy drive and 24 baud modem) was a great deal.  I had FS2 and a pilot friend told me, "If you can fly that you can fly a real plane."

The last time I read a history textbook (long before 1982)  there were some vague ramblings about the cold war.  I should go to the library and see how they treated Vietnam, lunar landings and the fall of the Soviet Union.

[BFMF]

In 1982 I thought $1000 for a 64k computer (including external 5.25 in floppy drive and 24 baud modem) was a great deal.

Back in '95, my [size=0]dad[/size] paid $2000 for a computer setup. It consisted of a a P133, a generic video card, a 26k modem, 16 megs of ram and a 2x cd rom.

Of course the guy he bought it from was a 'friend' of a 'friend' who screwed us and went out of business shortly after

[WebbPA]

I bought a 486 "multimedia computer", complete with 12" monitor and crappy speakers at a thrift shop for $10.  When they tried to boot it it said "No Operating System".

I opened the case and reset the BIOS to match the hardware.  It wouldn't boot from the HD but I got it to boot from a floppy and found traces of Win 3.1 on the HD.

I eventually got W98 installed on it but it ran so slow I went back to DOS.

Anyway, this machine was less than 5 years old and I would bet the original owner paid $3-5,000 for it.  I ended up giving it back to the thrift shop (maybe they could sell it for $20) with a nice little DOS package on it.

[Paz]

 I would like to wake up 1000 years in the future and see what things would be like, all the stuff we think is so cool and technologically advanced now will be like sticks and stones to people in the year 3000.

[Polynomial]

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