#iamold — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117092286164675600

I feel like those of us who went through the advent of DejaNews learned an important lesson.

#IAmOld

Whatever fiend decided that 300-weight dark gray Montserrat on a light gray background was the new cool font for web pages needs to die in a fire.

No, really. I wish that human searing pain and death.

#Webdesign #IAmOld

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/116799767080343592

This thread is targeted abuse.

#IAmOld

Had to buy new lightbulbs for the first time in many years, since the early days of LEDs.
Amazed at the explosion in varieties, while the plainest of bulbs have simplified. The cheapest bulbs were switched-temperature. Close in price to the last incandescents I bought. <$2 each in a box of 8, likely will go to my estate.
#IAmOld

RE: https://worldkey.io/@LibrarianRA/116581301209780664

Boy that takes me back! #retro #iamold #backinmyday

When I was a kid in the 90s, I remember my dad watching classic Tom Baker episodes of Doctor Who from 20 years prior.

My kids are now watching some of my favorite David Tennent episodes of Doctor Who. I just realized that those episodes are now coming up on being 20 years old.

David Tennent is my Tom Baker.

#DoctorWho #IAmOld

@ariadne @adrienne But that’s what I use to find my pointer….

#IAmOld

Just scheduled surgery for my trigger thumb. It will be my first medical treatment on #Medicare.

We tried the steroid shot and although it relieved the pain and reduced the swelling, the thumb still "clicks." I want my left hand functioning normally!

#IAmOld #GettingOldSucks #StillBeatsAlternative

OK, which one of you clowns decided that Monserrat should be the standard web font???

No one? Fine, I’ll just take the hit out on the designer. Because it is garbage.
#IAmOld

The year was 1996 and #MagicTheGathering was a relatively new game (surely a new game in Italy). A lot of my friends were playing, and while I never spent a enormous amount of money on it, I played it too for a while.
Riding the wave of its success there were many "side" products, related to the game but not part of it, including this book of puzzles that used the cards available at the time to create what were effectively Maths puzzles. Some where easy, some were fiendishly difficult, all were fun to try to solve.

#Memories #IAmOld

There’s probably a few people who don’t understand why I bothered posting that.
It’s simple: #IAmOld.

The first electronic data storage devices I used was a stack of 5MB (1/200,000th of a TB) drives from Tandy/Radio Shack, each in a full AT-sized case. Each cost thousands of dollars in the early ‘80s.

A decade later my boss spent ~$2k to buy a 2GB Barracuda, in a full-height external case. I scolded him for buying more room than we'd ever need.
1/2 https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/115678924833760573

@alda NWN was actually the first real game I played on Linux back in the day. Might need to revisit that classic again this holiday season.

#OldIsGood #IAmOld

@kottke I saw it in the theater... and Clerks too. #IAmOld

I remember the flying dreams, but I don't think they were because I was a bird in a former life, I think it was oxygen deprivation while I was asleep. A couple years of CPAP therapy (nasal pillows ftw they don't leave a mark) and I don't have those dreams anymore. Or that one about being late for class.

#cpap #nasalpillows #iamold

What's that work thing that I keep forgetting about until I run into it while doing something else and realize that I really need to fix that?

Why don't you know?

#Sysadminnery #IAmOld

Random…

HBO has been running ads for “Task” quite heavily this week on Discovery channels (e.g.Science Channel) at a rate of once or twice per ad break. Which is bad enough, but that’s just the framework into which they assort at least 3 *slightly* different 15-second edits. It’s very annoying.

Of course, I grew up in a time when ads were all 30 seconds and they wouldn’t dream of running the same one twice in a break, which is now routine. So I guess this is an #IAmOld toot

@quin_antarctic glad you were able to repair this, but clearly we have very different ideas of what a 'walkman' is... clearly, #iamold

Das gibt doch harte Bruchweg-Vibes #Mainz05 #IAmOld

„Alle Stehplatz-Dauerkarten ausverkauft in der MEWA-Arena“

Argh, das geht nur per Link zu Twitter:
https://twitter.com/1FSVMainz05/status/1925876024937533900

Did you know that people born in 2007 can be legal adults?

I don’t like this.

#iAmOld

I switched on the bold text on my iPhone. I find this embarrassing because it is quite ugly but it is also quite helpful for my tired old eyes.

#IAmOld

I exerted myself in less than a minute strenuously enough that I have obtained quite the endorphin buzz. The kind that feels like a shot of Demerol into the IV...

This tells me that in about 3 hours my back will explode.

#IAmOld #IAmStupid

I randomly found myself on the react subreddit and had the bizarre experience of seeing react devs talking about server rendered web apps as if they were some newfangled niche tech. #iamold

@astrid there was, it got subsumed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X87 #iamold

these levels are starting to feel a bit like the old wendys tables. #iamold

A sign of the times...

The 3.5" floppy disk icon to "Save" a file is replaced. I don't suppose too many people today ever used this 1980s tech, so it makes sense.

#Iamold

Back to playing the Talos Principle.

It's a bit less nauseating if I go to third-person mode 😁

#PCGaming #gaming #MotionSickness #IAmOld