GIF files were the One and ONLY video format.

I remember when i was in 6th grade and we first started using computers. You would type a word and slowly watch it appear letter by long pause by next letter by next long pause.
I wondered what was the point if i would be there all day trying to get one sentence done.

we could play DOS based Oregon Trail with green pixel graphics on the school computer and it counted as "learning."

.... and I was beta testing Kings Quest on floppies that were mailed to me weekly...

I remember when I first used a computer it had a floppy disk drive and ran on ms dos

I remember when a tv had no remote control.

casette tapes would help me pass time when im bored. not playing it but winding it with my hands lol

my first had a cassette drive.

I remember a dial-up connection at 14,600 kbs. Using AOL to connect.
Downloading a huge 100 mb game demo for hours just to have it fail in the last 3 seconds.

I remember huge 15mb hard drives. We used to put CNC
drill programs on cassette tapes.

my first PC had antenna's

i remember this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5_ZiNXsA5c&t=8s

I remember when mobile phones were as big as a brick.

i remember when they were as sturdy as that brick too

They came out with this new game called Pong.
Had to take the back off the TV to connect it.
It also had a game called hockey.

This guy down the road a bit had a computer in his house. It took up the whole room. It was really hot in there and us kids were not allowed in there. I remember wanting to ask the computer if I would ever grow muscles?

I installed mobile phones in cars for a company I worked for. The base unit took up the whole trunk on some cars and had to be isolated because of the heat.

I did data entry for 3 fleets from written files. The first fleet was the equipment on base and that was in 1986-87. So technically, I have been working with computers since 1986.

I remember when windows first came out. It was stupid.

The Sun 2000 series diagnostic center was cutting edge in 1981. It was a huge panel on a roll cart with meters and dials and an occiliscope. The dash board in todays cars is more precise and reads more data with a chip the size of a thumb drive.

I remember my first computer........
When it broke you walked over to the sharpener turned the handle

I remember there where times when we didn't have electricity for a very long time and the only thing I had to use was candle lights to do my homework..

I remember when I used to have to spend a few minutes establishing a slow noisy dial-up connection to send and retrieve Juno emails, thenclosing the connection after the process was complete.

I set up the first computer network for Ma Bell
on the west coast..guess what we used (as the
personal computer was not born yet?)

We used the teletype to exchange data between loactions.
We leased computer time from a mainframe computer
located offsite..as did everyone before the PC came
to the market.

You newbs ;-)