2007

[sodamntired]

I was writing a cheque and putting the date 09/09/07, when I realized something that I haven't thought twice about.

 

It is 2007. 2007. Now I want the older posters (born in the 80's and earlier) to go back to when you were younger and think about who you were and what you thought the 2000's would look like.

 

for me, 2007 back then would hold flying cars and space travel. I'm still waiting to adopt my robo-pet.

 

do you consider 2007 to be "the future?"

[Shiri]

Of course not. I was sure it will be completely Fifth Element-esque ;)

Edited September 9, 2007 by Designate

[Hyphnip]

in many ways it is. things that I'd see on Star Tren TNG when I was a kid have been invented and improved upon to some degree. things that 25 years ago couldn't even be possible are common and hum drum now.

imagine, 1984, you want to listen to music while you jog, you'd need a walkman, your shitty headphones and whatever tapes (or mix tapes) you wanted to listen to. now, you can bring your entire collection of CDs and DVD (something no one had in 1984) with you on something aroundthe same size as the cassettes that you would've been listening to in your walkman.

it's pretty amazing stuff

[Sparq]

I was kinda expecting that we'd all be dead, so perhaps it's going well.

[Ravenous megin-sane]

it's not the future, it's progression.

 

of course new technologies have been created, and we have a lot more than we did when we were little. it's all relative

[Hyphnip]

my dad was born in 1936. we were talking about how much things have changed. he can't even believe it.

[Azalroth]

I was kinda expecting that we'd all be dead, so perhaps it's going well.

I figured on self annihilation

[Some Random]

i'm waiting for one piece, silver jump suits. and house hippos!!! snap to it, science. i still want house hippos!!

[Shiri]

If people aren't flying, it ain't the future.

[sodamntired]

the reason i started this thread is because I have experiencing a of nostalgia/looking back.

 

23, almost 24 is way too young to be looking back at the days of renting VHS tapes and DOS computers with floppy discs, that were real floppy discs. remember the big black one's?

 

this was triggered by two events at work. The first was a question I asked the cashiers, something to pass the time when we're not ringing up guests. What would your life be like if you didn't have the internet? a girl responded, "I can't even remember my life without the internet..." yeah, well, i can.

 

the second was a wolman and her son were in my line. she told her son that something me and her were talking about was old. he asked her, "old? like from the 90's?"

 

ugh.

[spring90]

I remember when we had the internet but I was too young to go on it (My parents are both computer programmers, so we had the internet before you had to pay for it.)

 

But yeah, I can remember playing DOS games. Actually, I still play some DOS games...

 

And I never particularly looked to the future

[sodamntired]

there was a time when you turned on your computer and you weren't greeted with the Window/Mac logo, you had a black screen that said C:

so you'd pop in the floppy disc and type

C:run.exe or whatever you had to type to get your copy of Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego

 

i'm making myself sound older than I am.

Edited September 10, 2007 by sodamntired

[RicardoObviouso]

my biggest fear was that we'd have cars that ran on tracks or at least fully governed so you couldn't go fast.

 

i'm not into sci-fi at all, so the spacey shit never appealed to me.

[Sparq]

Hell, I did that on a Commodore 64. Golden Axe, motherfuckers.

[Seanathon]

Scorched Earth!~

 

The game, not the future.

[silentshadow]

I remember Oregon Trails. Stupid educational games.

[spring90]

there was a time when you turned on your computer and you weren't greeted with the Window/Mac logo, you had a black screen that said C:

so you'd pop in the floppy disc and type

C:run.exe or whatever you had to type to get your copy of Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego

 

i'm making myself sound older than I am.

I remember that, coz my parents had a game on the computer where I typed in my name there and then the game popped up.

 

 

Ahhh, that good old (educational) ABC game...

[Lauren]

as people have mentioned... i remember going to the library and playing oregon trail on a commodore 64 (i actually never played, i just watched my older sister and her friends). those were shit.

 

as meg said.. i don't think we can get to the future. we're just perpectual forward progession.

[Some Random]

my biggest fear was that we'd have cars that ran on tracks or at least fully governed so you couldn't go fast.

my biggest fear is flying cars. specifically, random, aging, senile baby boomer assholes in flying cars.

[Sparq]

But it would have given me a valid reason to have point-defense phalanx guns on my roof!

[Lauren]

my biggest fear is flying cars. specifically, random, aging, senile baby boomer assholes in flying cars.

if they ever made flying cars, the rules and regulations would be so strict. it's like flying a mini-plane. they'd have to change the laws.

[Some Random]

if they ever become common place, i'm building a bunker in the woods.

[mrs jesus]

or you could just come to texas, where we will only have flying TRUCKS, which is nothing at all like a flying car.

[Some Random]

if i moved to texas, i'd have to live in a bunker, anyway. tornadoes.

[mrs jesus]

oh, right. it feels like fall outside!