Baffling Knowledge Gaps

[Massive Urethra Chode]

Talk to any kid about online gaming.

Mention a dial up modem and 100 kbs a second download speed and watch their head tilt and jaw fall as they try to mentally compute what you are saying, then question if you are taking the piss.

Always ends up making me feel old and them feeling 2000ms of lag on COD aint so bad afterall.

So while my parents had broadband internet since 1997, i’ve always had access to older tech and things like that. I find modems and other digital to analog tech to be very fascinating. I actually got an old modem to work and made a video of it because i found the aesthetic of it to be so pleasing

I wish more people my age knew of and appreciated things like this.

 

[SouthtownKid]

I jokingly texted back to a girl at my work tldr to a message she sent me. She had no idea what that meant. She is 28 and I figured anyone in that age group would know what TLDR meant, guess I was wrong.

Depending on how good looking she is, she may never have encountered it, because she lives in a world where no guy has ever not hung on her every word.

 

[titchgamer]

So while my parents had broadband internet since 1997, i’ve always had access to older tech and things like that. I find modems and other digital to analog tech to be very fascinating. I actually got an old modem to work and made a video of it because i found the aesthetic of it to be so pleasing

I wish more people my age knew of and appreciated things like this.

You really are one in a million LOL

Dial up modems give me nightmares!

Unless you had experienced the pain of loosing your dial up internet connection just before you bust a nut watching Jenna Jameson getting cream pied you prob wouldnt understand!

By the time you got back online after listening to that damn dial tone screech through you the moment was ruined

Thank god for broadband.....

 

[theMot]

You really are one in a million LOL

Dial up modems give me nightmares!

Unless you had experienced the pain of loosing your dial up internet connection just before you bust a nut watching Jenna Jameson getting cream pied you prob wouldnt understand!

By the time you got back online after listening to that damn dial tone screech through you the moment was ruined

Thank god for broadband.....

I used to download those 30 second Tera Patrick or Nikki Nova porn samples, it would take about 45 minutes. I couldn’t wait and would start playing it one second at a time, would be lucky to get an extra frame every few minutes.

 

[evil wasabi]

I know the name Christiano Ronaldo and associate it with soccer but I couldn't tell you what team(s) he plays/played for or pick him out of a line up.

I also cannot name a single American soccer player.

Soccer blows. Ties are stupid, a clock that counts up is stupid, and a clock that they don't stop leads to them playing a seemingly random amount of stoppage time at the end of the game and nobody is 100% sure when it's over. The stopwatch isn't a new invention, figure it the fuck out like every other sport. Aggregate scoring is stupid too. Promotion and relegation is stupid.

that's okay. To most of the world, baseball is stupid, and for fat ugly people. So it makes sense you don't understand soccer.

 

[famicommander]

that's okay. To most of the world, baseball is stupid, and for fat ugly people. So it makes sense you don't understand soccer.

I do understand soccer. I understand that it's a boring game for 8 year old girls.

 

[evil wasabi]

I do understand soccer. I understand that it's a boring game for 8 year old girls.

it's kind of creepy if your knowledge of soccer only involves 8 year old girls, considering the quality of women players who are adults.

your opinion seems like something Michael Jackson might agree with.

 

[Heinz]

You really are one in a million LOL

Dial up modems give me nightmares!

Unless you had experienced the pain of loosing your dial up internet connection just before you bust a nut watching Jenna Jameson getting cream pied you prob wouldnt understand!

By the time you got back online after listening to that damn dial tone screech through you the moment was ruined

Thank god for broadband.....

56k porn really was an ordeal.

I do understand soccer. I understand that it's a boring game for 8 year old girls.

Soccer is about 90 minutes of tension, waiting for that 30 second moment of glory. Probably like sex for some people.

 

[Taiso]

I do understand soccer. I understand that it's a boring game for 8 year old girls.

Khazakistahn greatest country in whole world.

But yes, soccer is pretty dull.

But going to game is actually a lot of fun. Been to a handful of Chicago Fire games and had a great time. Good atmosphere. Lively crowd. Intimate park.

Hope I can go again some day.

 

[Burning Fight!!]

56k porn really was an ordeal.



Soccer is about 90 minutes of tension, waiting for that 30 second moment of glory. Probably like sex for some people.

"The Next Glory" is what I call sex. And I had as many as SNK did sequels to Sidekicks.

56k porn was infuriating, and I loved when servers dropped your connection and you were stuck with half a "high res" 1024x768 pic of a nude girl, with the good parts not loaded in.

 

[DevilRedeemed]

I was chatting to this chick the other day and suddenly she flips out because a rodent had come in through the window. I asked if it was a rat or a mouse
She was vexed, said to me how the fuck should I know if it was male or female (rata is rat, raton is mouse in the local tongue)
What?
Long story short we fucked

 

[Massive Urethra Chode]

"The Next Glory" is what I call sex. And I had as many as SNK did sequels to Sidekicks.

56k porn was infuriating, and I loved when servers dropped your connection and you were stuck with half a "high res" 1024x768 pic of a nude girl, with the good parts not loaded in.

ASCII porn at 1200 baud (or slower) is where it’s at! I have no romanticism for the dial up internet days, but I wish i was around for the BBS golden age

 

[2D_mastur]

I think it's baffling that some Americans don't remember the Pythagorean theorem or the order of operations. They learn it in grade school and just forget it. Same with fractions, long division and basic multiplication tables.

Jesus Christ... I know most people never use it... but in reality it's like 1+1 = 2.

 

[Heinz]

"The Next Glory" is what I call sex. And I had as many as SNK did sequels to Sidekicks.

56k porn was infuriating, and I loved when servers dropped your connection and you were stuck with half a "high res" 1024x768 pic of a nude girl, with the good parts not loaded in.

Back when you had to download your porn first before busting out the KY.

 

[SouthtownKid]

the Pythagorean theorem

I've heard of that!

I remember the multiplication tables for some reason. But most of the rest you listed, yeah, that's more or less gone.

 

[Lagduf]

I, embarrassingly, probably couldn’t graph an equation.

Like anything it comes down to use and interest.

If you don’t use it you will lose it.

I do find basic algebra useful as well as geometry.

I work in a school environment though so I tend to get some refreshers.

 

[wyo]

Wyo thinks people lack inquisitiveness because they shit on him for getting all his information from Russia Today outlets.

Only you and your lapdog shit on my political posts.

 

[fake]

One thing that always gets me is how people on Jeopardy have a hard time with questions about the order of the planets. It's easy. Mercury. Venus. Earth Mars JupiterSaturnURANUSNEPTUNE

how do they not remember?

 

[DevilRedeemed]

Poor Pluto...

 

[fake]

Poor Pluto...

My master plan is to use Pluto to perform a colony drop on Earth. Not even Amuro could stop that.

 

[Lagduf]

One thing that always gets me is how people on Jeopardy have a hard time with questions about the order of the planets. It's easy. Mercury. Venus. Earth Mars JupiterSaturnURANUSNEPTUNE

how do they not remember?

I used to get confused past Mars until I made the mnemonic JSUN to remember the order.

 

[evil wasabi]

Only you and your lapdog shit on my political posts.

How much money are you getting paid to repost RT talking points?

 

[LoneSage]

My master plan is to use Pluto to perform a colony drop on Earth. Not even Amuro could stop that.

Bro, I just made a colony drop post in the Gundam thread and now I see your post. Serendipity.

 

[lithy]

And you can remember that Uranus rotates on its side.

Why? Because Uranus got smashed into hard by something big.

 

[Neodogg]

Ronaldo will be the one rolling on the ground.

Laughed hard than I probably should have...thanks