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Originally Posted by Brad.loo

I remember 13 very well, sleepless nights on the my comp which at the time was in the family room of our old house (moble home ). I kept the family up all night with the thing, dad hated the typing and my brother (who slept in the family room because I kicked him out of mine) hated the glare and the typing aswell.

Sorry, but I cracked up when I read this!

When *I* was 13 we didn't have computers like you know in our homes (just commodore 64's, and yes, I had one LOL). We didn't connect to the internet. We idolized geeks in movies like "War Games" when you used an old-fashioned analogue corded-phone to connect with a 2400 baud modem (yes, 2400, not a typo), but not to the internet There certainly wasn't UBB or VB or any BB, and a BBS, well I'm not sure the little local ones were even in existence yet (remember the ones you dialed into locally and used basically a dos screen to chat to other members with? Remember MUD rooms? Do people still MUD?)

And just think, when my mother was 13, they barely had color TV!

Good luck to you Gio~Logist... like all true computer geeks (a compliment) you'll be back