Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes

Re:Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes by LoSboccacc on Sunday March 17, 2019 @04:36AM (#19412939)

there's people working in the sector today that never heard a honest landline tone, only the sound mobiles still play for us nostalgic.

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Re:Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes by mirkules on Sunday March 17, 2019 @04:55AM (#19412990)

I routinely now work with people who never experienced the world without the internet.

When cars, airplanes, radio and TV were first invented (and commercialized), it must have been relatively easier for folks to imagine life before them. Immediate access to information is truly jaw-dropping.

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Re:Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes by pavel_lishin on Sunday March 17, 2019 @10:25AM (#19414158)

I had the odd experience of nobody at work recognizing the Sputnik satellite. Granted, I'm probably somewhat nerdier than average, and am originally from Russia, but still - a 0% hit rate seemed odd.

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Re:Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes by reaperducer on Sunday March 17, 2019 @10:50AM (#19414296)

I routinely now work with people who never experienced the world without the internet.

One of the people I work with didn't know what a tractor feed printer is when I mentioned it to him. And this is an IT (networking) guy.

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Re:Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes by jvolkman on Sunday March 17, 2019 @11:26AM (#19414488)

Maybe it's terminology? I had them as a kid but referred to them as "dot matrix".

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Re:Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes by LoSboccacc on Sunday March 17, 2019 @07:50PM (#19417593)

tractor feed use the tearable holed paper to feed and might or might not be dot matrix, which is how ink gets transferred to paper, you can still find tractor feed lasers around

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