moycon Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Haha I loved that news report! Clips from movies and home video games, too funny. Also...thanks AtariDude for the follow up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkhan Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 We need to do a where are they now on this Network Guy, and Shamus McCoder or whatever his name was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlysublime Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Truth of the matter is that most people did not have modems for their computers (and many people didn't even have a computer) until the World Wide Web was readilly available in the mid 1990's. Still, it was an interesting news report to look at. People had modems for quite some time before the boom of the Internet in the 90s. I was playing games on Atari BBS's long before the public knew what WWW stood for. I had the Atari 1030 300 baud modem. Then I upgraded to the Supra Modem 2400 (2400 baud). Then it was to the PC with 28.8K and 56K modems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhammond Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 The "Pits" is not the problem with E.T., it's the frakin' F.B.I. agents that keep annoying you and stealing your stuff....AHHH! Pits are easy to deal with, but the F.B.I. agents are intolerable...I could like the game if it weren't for them. Just send him back to Washington, D.C. or play on game 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAoIThBDyA when you send detectives/doctor back to Washington, it doesn't last long and they are right back again. right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 When you send detectives/doctor back to Washington, it doesn't last long and they are right back again. right? Depends if you're lucky enough to get them clogged up. You can send one away and he'll stay at the bottom of the screen, unable to leave because the other guy is in the way. Then you're free to walk around the screen and not have to worry about anything. Even when they're not clogged up, they're easy to outrun until you can find a Send Humans Back Zone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Then I upgraded to the Supra Modem 2400 (2400 baud). Then it was to the PC with 28.8K and 56K modems. This was my first modem (1200baud) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygy1 Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 It's a diabolical computer virus! See 2 minutes in this news report from 1988. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQev9Q9XBM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygy1 Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 It's a diabolical computer virus! Swayzak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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