Good night folks.
itâs been pretty slow lately.
Yeah it seems that way but while I was busy with everything going on this place was hoppin . Think it was 2 almost 3 new volumes geez
What did I miss away for the weekend busy doing tourist stuff!
Well hell! @Greasy I see youâve been one heck of an OGer last night! Awesome of you there cuz!
Congrats to all the dibbers also! looks to be some very nice strains going down! 
I do too. Now that we have it I wouldnât choose to not have internet but pre internet times had a charm to them that weâve lost. Yes I also fully realize the irony of complaining about the internet on the internet 
What blows my mind is how many people were on the internet way before what I consider the start of internet times. It was an aol chatroom for girls, music downloads, GTA, and rotten.com and nothing else for most people I knew in the late 90s. It was a novelty that wasnât part of daily life.
For sure, canât wait for my chemdawg
LOL. It was early 90s, like 92 / 93⌠Doom was still one player on a PC, the only multi player RPG was a game called Major MUD (Multi User Dungeon). Ran on a Galicticom BBS system, the owner had a trunk of 256 phone lines into his house for users to dial into (yeah, there wasnât an always-on internet in homes yet). Major MUD was 100% text based, not a single graphic. Think of modern day Warhammer or whatever the current crazy graphics, multi player game is, but stripped down to room description, room inventory, people in the room, etc. All text.
AND
If we were lucky, our BBS owner would dial into another BBS on the west coast, and we could play ./ chat with new people!
MM was cool though. I had a hacker friend reverse engineer the code and make tools for us to create maps, room descriptions, items, quests, etc. Was funny as hell seeing âGuy in tie-dye shirt attacks you with his bongâ because I could change armour and weapons descriptions as well as create my own. We ran a hacked copy of it for a while, man it was fun being the admin and having god powersâŚ
As for the internet. I love it. As a tool. Having it on our phones is even more handy. But we need to responsibly use it. Back in 2017 I was on the island of Utila for a few months. 2 awesome memories come to mind. 1 was a group of a dozen+ kids, ages 9-13, organized a game of soccer on the sand volleyball court at the dive center. The course directors son runs over to him one time, asks to see dads phone to look something up, finds the answer and runs back to his teammates (was looking up a rule come to find out).
The second was one afternoon on the docks, there were like 15 local kids, all laying on the dock, peering into the water below because there was a stingray below feeding on something. The wonder in their eyes, the amazement with nature, and the TOTAL lack of any electronic devices, was truly a golden moment.
But, believe it or not, Internet on the island is used 10x more for communication than telephone / cell phone. Between whatsapp, messenger, etc, even FB groups, thats how 90% of communication is handled. Cell service admittedly sucks compared to internet service surprisingly, but even internet still âgoes downâ for hours / days at times thereâŚ
Its crazy when I think of the advancements my grandfather saw in his lifetime (born in 1906, died in 1997), and heck, just what Iâve seen in my own (at one time you were RICH to have a PC, now every kid has one plus a tablet AND a cell phone).
I also love the giant mixing bowl of information. So much knowledge (and BS), ya just gotta learn to decipher what you need to find. Pops tried keeping saltwater tanks in the 60s, failed because of lack of knowledge, and limited access to it. I had large saltwater reef tanks from 2000-2010, even bred several clownfish species and cardinals, plus inverts like shrimp and even had coral spawn. 100% attribute my successes there to the internet and access to the authors and scientists that my dad would have had to mail a letter and wait weeks or months for a reply, IF he even got one.
Its an awesome tool⌠but a horrible substitute for a babysitter 
I was operating a CNC lathe in Ok. back in 81 that was running programs generated in NYC. Iâm telling you man, I felt like we were doing some next level Star Trek stuff back then. Remember, Iâm old enough that I watched the first moon landing as a kid. All that stuff was way out there for this boy from the hills.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Watched that too with some Americans we met in a trailer park here in Ontario Canada. I remember it well.
While I was going to college I worked in a mattress factory in Texas. I rebuilt their quilting machine, a Singer from the 1900âs that had been âmodernizedâ with an NC control, paper punch cards. 
I was 20 and remember the amazement in my coworkers eyes when I poured the bearings. âBabbit? Wtf is he?â
I was living back in Raysal WVa back then. There were two televisions in that town. Half the town was at one home and the rest were at the other. It became two block parties. That was a thing back then.
I remember it being a big deal in our house and watching it on the big tube space heater.
My father bought a Curtis Mathes television that someone had blown up and rebuilt it. I learned electronics on that monster. It lasted at least 15 years.
We had the Curtis Mathes console TV / record player (with storage for vinyl) / am radio. That thing was a MONSTER!
They really could double as a space heater. lol In the winter it was always on. Tubes lasted longer. I think thatâs what youth today are missing, regular weekly doses of crt emissions.