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For fuck sake

You are going to lose your “readers” with worthless content like this

I don’t watch TV anymore, just YouTube videos on my Roku.

clambo says

I don’t watch TV anymore, just YouTube videos on my Roku.

Like it or not, YouTube is now the greatest repository of vintage music that ever existed and it is free! Just put in any musical style and it will come up on YT. I started my VictrolaJazz channel in 2009 and by 2020 had over 90% of my collection on it. I had over 1,000 subscribers at the end, but only about five active. I started a new channel with the name I wish I had used to begin with, JazzVictrola, before someone else got and am going back through and uploading records that haven't been heard in 10-12 years or by my current clique of subs who live in Old Mexico, Australia, Great Britain and of course the US. Virtually every day I'll get a comment on a record I posted eight or nine years ago on the original channel. My subs also upload their own collections, so it makes for a great association!

ohomen171 says

Each of us probably has YouTube on our computer.

How do I "get" youtube on my computer?
p.s. something my mom would ask...lol

BayArea says

For fuck sake

You are going to lose your “readers” with worthless content like this

Next step, Elena’s Only Fans!

komputodo says

How do I "get" youtube on my computer?
p.s. something my mom would ask...lol

Way back in 97 I got my first computer and started toiling on it to learn it's mysterious wicked ways.
Back then only less than 10% of households even had a computer in it. As popular as Windows 95, and the AOL mailer CD was.
It was still a novelty for most. One night at a family function, my Brother In Laws brother asked me, "Hey can you get porn in there?"
Suggesting that the computer itself had a hidden trove of porn just waiting for his discovery.

Back then porn sites weren't a collection of free porn scenes like they are today. Back then the first thing you ran into was a paywall. So only those willing to get a reoccurring charge on their credit card from BigTits.Com and explain it to their wife, saw porn on the internet.

Porn has really come a long way from the days of the Cable slider box, that if you got it to click just right on the Playboy Channel, you could get some porno suggestive squiggly lines, accompanied by the moans of pleasure sound track. That is after you sat through about 10 minutes of crappy Plumber or Cable guy service call to a lonely housewife dialog. These days, there no bad acting, just straight to the point steamy sex.

I'm surprised YouTube didn't become a source for porn as well.

NDrLoR says

Like it or not, YouTube is now the greatest repository of vintage music that ever existed and it is free! Just put in any musical style and it will come up on YT.

There's no information on youtube, only mindless entertainment. Their policy is to promote American propaganda and that has been their policy for years.

Tenpoundbass says

Way back in 97 I got my first computer and started toiling on it to learn it's mysterious wicked ways.

My first pc was this running MS Dos

komputodo says

My first pc was this running MS Dos

My first PC was an AT&T Globalist Pentium 120 Mhz and a whopping 4 megs of ram. I upgraded to the maxed out 16 megs, and a 1.8 gig hard drive.
It was the first computer to feature a full duplex telephony roadrunner sound card, modem combo. It was manufactured by NCR and was built like a tank.
I kept it for a while, until I realized that eventually the 9 pin monitor connector would eventually be extinct, and I would never be able to boot it for old time sakes, without a CRT monitor.

Tenpoundbass says

My first PC was an AT&T Globalist Pentium 120 Mhz and a whopping 4 megs of ram. I upgraded to the maxed out 16 megs, and a 1.8 gig hard drive.

My first computer had a full one meg of RAM and DUAL floppy discs (5-1/4 inch not those stiff 3-1/2 inchers) It had a green text on black background monitor (text only). With a dot matrix printer it set me back almost $1,500. That was real money back in 1983.

Old joke: What is the difference between a computer and a woman?

A woman will NOT accept a 3-1/2 inch floppy.

Tenpoundbass says

a whopping 4 megs of ram.

Any one remember "segment, offset" addressing in the early PC's?

Onvacation says

With a dot matrix printer it set me back almost $1,500. That was real money back in 1983.

That's why only the kids I knew who's parents had money, owned a computer.
I grew up on my fathers fixed income, he retired from being a Merchant Marine when I was around 6.
There was no way he was buying any tech toys on his SS and Retirement money. He waited until the filament Texas Instrument calculators fell below $100 before he ever bought one. I remember the day he brought it home beaming with pride, he couldn't believe one was finally under $100(A lot of money for our family back then).

It was years later that I saw a documentary on the history of the transistor to the computer age. Just less than 5 years before he bought that calculator and Texas instruments came out with it. Calculators were huge behemoth machines the size of a 90's era office Xerox Copy machine. Only Universities and large Banking institutions had them. They would lease time to other people who had long waiting times to get to do their calculations.

I think had I realized how much of an advancement that hand held calculators were, I might have gave him a more enthusiastic reception in his acquisitional celebration.

SuperCalc anyone? Even before Lotus 1-2-3. How about Enable? Z-DOS for business 8088 computers?

Onvacation says

Any one remember "segment, offset" addressing in the early PC's?

What's old is new in .Net

ArraySegment.Offset

I have you all beat. This was my first computer:

richwicks says

I have you all beat.

Oh yeah? I still have one of these that works perfectly:



Commodore SX-64. A C-64 that was portable with a 5inch color screen. Not battery though, you had to plug in in. Lots of use by businesses.

HeadSet says

Commodore SX-64. A C-64 that was portable with a 5inch color screen. No battery though, you had to plug in in. Lots of use by businesses.

I remember those. They aren't 100% compatible with the C=64.

I would NEVER want to go back to the bad old days. The idea of staring into a CRT monitor for hours gives me a headache and makes my eyes hurt.

richwicks says

The idea of staring into a CRT monitor for hours gives me a headache and makes my eyes hurt.

Believe it or not, I held up fine on CRT's. My eyesight went bad, when I started using a Laptop as my primary computing device. In just one year, went from 20/20 to needing reading glasses. I think the CRT forces you to give your eyes a rest, where as the LCD, LED screens, you don't realize eye fatigue as quickly as I did with CRT monitors. Can spend a solid 6 hours straight staring a screen writing and debugging code often. On a CRT screen I needed a break every hour or so.

richwicks says

I remember those. They aren't 100% compatible with the C=64.

Actually, the SX64 IS a C64 in every way, including the cartridges. You may be thinking the Commodore 128 in C64 mode.

komputodo says

How do I "get" youtube on my computer?

yt-dlp. It's a project that allows downloading from a variety of websites, including Youtube. That way, when Google sensors (or otherwise removes) the content, you'll still have it. My internet connection isn't quite fast enough for 4k video, this allows for viewing where streaming doesn't quite work.

Also, if you're watching from the youtube.com website, please add a script blocker (to prevent at least some of Google's tracking) and advertisement blocker (to prevent you from being annoyed) to your browser.

Tenpoundbass says

richwicks says

The idea of staring into a CRT monitor for hours gives me a headache and makes my eyes hurt.

Believe it or not, I held up fine on CRT's. My eyesight went bad, when I started using a Laptop as my primary computing device. In just one year, went from 20/20 to needing reading glasses. I think the CRT forces you to give your eyes a rest, where as the LCD, LED screens, you don't realize eye fatigue as quickly as I did with CRT monitors. Can spend a solid 6 hours straight staring a screen writing and debugging code often. On a CRT screen I needed a break every hour or so.

I doubt it was the rest, it was just your age.

I haven't had a CRT monitor since, I'd say, 1995. As SOON as LCD was available, I moved to them, lower resolution, but very readable, and no eye strain. I realized I needed glasses 20 years later. They're just reading glasses, but I wear them habitually. Even when I'm outside on a walk I'm wearing them. Screws up my long distance vision, but I don't care. Reading a menu without them is just about impossible or using a smart phone or tablet.

LCD had slower update than CRT did, but I've not actually used a CRT in ages. Just thinking about it, I can remember the headache and eyestrain from it. I appreciate Philo Farnsworth invention, I will never go back to it.

HeadSet says

richwicks says

I remember those. They aren't 100% compatible with the C=64.

Actually, the SX64 IS a C64 in every way, including the cartridges. You may be thinking the Commodore 128 in C64 mode.

NOPE!

Some games wouldn't run properly on it, presumably because the BASIC was different. There's some slight differences to the hardware and certainly software.

And yeah, the 128 wasn't entirely compatible with the C=64.

Doesn't matter, the SX-64 was never a major system, and nothing was made for it exclusively. I remember when they came out, and I thought how cool they were. Well, that's over 35 years ago. Now it's all systems on a chip. I still marvel at a raspberry pi.

I have a friend with young kids, I've offered to give his kids an unlimited access to video games from our time, he's rejected this thinking it will ruin his kids. I kind of push it, so they will realize that they are all a waste of time anyhow. It's better than television regardless, and that's an insidious waste of time. God I hate television.

SunnyvaleCA says

Also, if you're watching from the youtube.com website, please add a script blocker (to prevent at least some of Google's tracking) and advertisement blocker (to prevent you from being annoyed) to your browser.

@SunnyvaleCA - try out the Brave web-browser. Blocks all adds. You'll never see an ad on youtube again.

My first computer i bought at discount auction. It was something akin to a Mac 5200 CD series with 500 Mb hard drive, 14 modem, and 8 Ram. That was in 1996. It was worth learning because I later set up my office in just a few days, including ethernet networking, printing, etc. with cheap macs (Filemaker Pro) a few years later.

Ceffer says

My first computer i bought at discount auction. It was something akin to a Mac 5200 CD series with 500 Mb hard drive, 14 modem, and 8 Ram. That was in 1996. It was worth learning because I later set up my office in just a few days, including ethernet networking, printing, etc. with cheap macs (Filemaker Pro) a few years later.

It's funny the younger generation jumped into this before the older generation. I expect you got into it kicking and screaming, for me, being able to bounce around a square dot on a home version of pong was amazing.

My sister, the cunt, lied to me and said she was able to make the square "ball" spin. I spent like a week trying to duplicate it. What an asshole she was. I bet she has no recollection of that, but do.

I only really got one and learned because I knew I would need computers to make my office and my accounting/billing efficient when I got a business. Using the modem to get into AOL at the time was bog slow, but still fascinating as introduction to the internet.