I'm just wondering how many teenagers are here actively posting on this forum. I know there's me, RoadGeekTeen, ozarkman, and STLmapboy, but how many others are there?
noelbotevera
I'm 16 but relatively new
Quote from: Ketchup99 on June 03, 2020, 11:41:08 AM
I'm 16 but relatively new
But you're definitely active.
tolbs17 (not as active as he was previously). There is also Hwy 61 Revisited (relatively new, still active). Both are 17, so long as the ages given are correct.
Not sure if he's still active, but there is this solcalkid dude.
put me on that list
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on June 03, 2020, 07:21:03 PM
Not sure if he's still active, but there is this solcalkid dude.
SoCal Kid was last active on 29-AP-2020.
I'm 19 and haven't posted a lot recently because I've been busy but I'm still pretty active in at least reading updates
Joined when I was 15/16 I think. I'm starting to age out of that category...damn already?! Why didn't anyone tell me I turn 20 in a month and a half???
A lot of other members joined when they were teenagers, even some who are well into their 20s now.
Sites like this didn't exist when I was a teen. I'm now 49. :(
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on June 07, 2020, 08:56:32 AM
Sites like this didn't exist when I was a teen. I'm now 49. :(
Usenet began in 1980.
I didn't even have an e-mail address until October 2000. Thanks AOL! :(
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on June 07, 2020, 09:13:30 AM
I didn't even have an e-mail address until October 2000. Thanks AOL! :(
I'm the same way. I'm 41 and didn't have the internet until I was 20.
Quote from: Flint1979 on June 07, 2020, 09:22:03 AM
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on June 07, 2020, 09:13:30 AM
I didn't even have an e-mail address until October 2000. Thanks AOL! :(
I'm the same way. I'm 41 and didn't have the internet until I was 20.
<old crotchety man voice>Back when I was a teen, the internet was what we used to separate the sides in volleyball</crotchety old man voice>
Seriously, the system that connected terminals from remote campus locations to the computer in the science building my pre-freshman year had a rocker switch that let you pick between 55 and 110 baud. The 55 baud was to connect via dial-up to the main computer in Northridge. 300 baud was quite an improvement. Some direct-connects in the science building to the local computer could go 1200. The staff pulled cables to more locations on campus by my grad school years, so on campus you could do 2400 or 4800, (or rarely 9600, but the direct printers couldn't handle that speed) but dial up from off campus was still at 300 (or rarely 1200).
Look up Dana Carvey's angry old man character from SNL. Occasionally popped up during Weekend Update. "Progress? Fligitty-FLOO!"
October 2000. I think me and my brother started with AOL Version 3.0. Had an old Packard Bell desktop computer. The local access number was dialed from either Southington or closer to Hartford. I was 29 years old.
Just imagine people trying to do the remote social distancing nonsense if it were 1990! :-o
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on June 08, 2020, 08:28:16 AM
Look up Dana Carvey's angry old man character from SNL. Occasionally popped up during Weekend Update. "Progress? Fligitty-FLOO!"
Not gonna lie, at first glance I just saw "Dana Carvey" and "SNL" in the same sentence and instinctively thought of the Church Lady before reading the full sentence and realizing you were describing a different character :bigass:
I wonder how many sedentary teenage roadgeeks we have on here. Or sedentary roadgeeks of any age, for that matter. :-/
Quote from: GaryV on June 08, 2020, 09:25:58 AM
I wonder how many sedentary teenage roadgeeks we have on here. Or sedentary roadgeeks of any age, for that matter. :-/
I'm kinda sedentary.
Joined in January, turned 17 in May.
Haven't been on AARoads in quite some time. Recently drove to Spruce Pine NC and back... the long way around. Age to the left.
I was on here a lot around age 11 (hadn't joined, just lurking). There seemed to be far fewer teenage roadgeeks than there are now (and more older DOT employees, though this is purely anecdotal).
Quote from: STLmapboy on June 14, 2020, 02:22:57 PM
I was on here a lot around age 11 (hadn't joined, just lurking). There seemed to be far fewer teenage roadgeeks than there are now (and more older DOT employees, though this is purely anecdotal).
Early in the forum's life, one person was banned for being under 13. This has not been a rule for a long time. (The ban was set to expire on the member's 13th birthday, so he/she is unbanned now.)
Quote from: 1 on June 03, 2020, 10:53:39 AM
noelbotevera
Yo.
Joined May 2015, a month after my 11th birthday. Guess there's been a changing in the guard (older folk becoming less active, replaced with younger folk).
Been on City-Data since November 2016, I'm banned there since then. Joined here in June 2019.
I'm still around, I'm not as active because I've been watching the news more and playing more video games.
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on June 08, 2020, 08:28:16 AM
Look up Dana Carvey's angry old man character from SNL. Occasionally popped up during Weekend Update. "Progress? Fligitty-FLOO!"
October 2000. I think me and my brother started with AOL Version 3.0. Had an old Packard Bell desktop computer. The local access number was dialed from either Southington or closer to Hartford. I was 29 years old.
Just imagine people trying to do the remote social distancing nonsense if it were 1990! :-o
I remember my Compaq 8088 with the little 4" monitor and the separate 4 color monitor and my external 2400 baud dial-up modem. Used to call a BBS down in Darien with it. I got my first
intranet Quickmail account in high school, but you could only access it from the computer labs on campus. I did get email in college, but it was a school sponsored email, and when I was home from school, the only way I could access it was to use my dial up to call Philadelphia. It was a little easier when I transferred to a school closer to home, but I got my first personal (MSN) account somewhere around 1998, and upgraded to DSL from dialup in 2000 and got an SBC email account (it's still active somehow, and I use one of the addresses as one of my Yahoo Fantasy profile sign-ins).
I remember there was another younger teenager from CT that used to be on here, but he hasn't been on in a while.
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on June 14, 2020, 07:27:31 PM
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on June 08, 2020, 08:28:16 AM
Look up Dana Carvey's angry old man character from SNL. Occasionally popped up during Weekend Update. "Progress? Fligitty-FLOO!"
October 2000. I think me and my brother started with AOL Version 3.0. Had an old Packard Bell desktop computer. The local access number was dialed from either Southington or closer to Hartford. I was 29 years old.
Just imagine people trying to do the remote social distancing nonsense if it were 1990! :-o
I remember my Compaq 8088 with the little 4" monitor and the separate 4 color monitor and my external 2400 baud dial-up modem. Used to call a BBS down in Darien with it. I got my first intranet Quickmail account in high school, but you could only access it from the computer labs on campus. I did get email in college, but it was a school sponsored email, and when I was home from school, the only way I could access it was to use my dial up to call Philadelphia. It was a little easier when I transferred to a school closer to home, but I got my first personal (MSN) account somewhere around 1998, and upgraded to DSL from dialup in 2000 and got an SBC email account (it's still active somehow, and I use one of the addresses as one of my Yahoo Fantasy profile sign-ins).
I remember there was another younger teenager from CT that used to be on here, but he hasn't been on in a while.
Don't remember username, but he was from near Williamantic and he was a "roadgeek from the middle of nowhere"
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on June 14, 2020, 07:27:31 PM
I remember my Compaq 8088 with the little 4" monitor and the separate 4 color monitor and my external 2400 baud dial-up modem. Used to call a BBS down in Darien with it. I got my first intranet Quickmail account in high school, but you could only access it from the computer labs on campus. I did get email in college, but it was a school sponsored email, and when I was home from school, the only way I could access it was to use my dial up to call Philadelphia. It was a little easier when I transferred to a school closer to home, but I got my first personal (MSN) account somewhere around 1998, and upgraded to DSL from dialup in 2000 and got an SBC email account (it's still active somehow, and I use one of the addresses as one of my Yahoo Fantasy profile sign-ins).
I used to dial in to BBBs on a Commodore 64 with a 1200 baud modem back in the day (I think I might have had a 300 baud one before that, but can't recall). My first PC was a Packard Bell 486 I think, sometime in the early 90s, around when I went off to college. Same here with the dialup getting into Rutgers to access email at the time, but I lucked out because RU has a Camden campus near where i grew up that was a local call to log in - "Local" calls being something the teenage roadgeeks of this thread probably have never had to deal with!