What is your AGE?

I'm almost 16 and 1/2.......

Mental or Physical ?????

Physical..... some people would say I act like I'm 3 although I'm leaning towards 2..... :stickout

*lol* At 28 I'm an older minority. amazing.

Greg Moore

just call me grandpa at the age of 36
LOL

Aloha frigin A I am 37 if you are grandpa am I great ???

ahhh well I live on Maui dive at least once a week so life is good
I just do not heal as quickly my one dive bud who is super old like 45 or something
heheheheheh
is the same way
getting old physically sucks
watched some show with this lady who was like a 100 she said the hardest part is your mind never ages and you feel like you can still do stuff as you were a teen.

ahhhh life is good though

later

cough*cough
Im not saying.
Surprised at those poll results though.

Come on Martie, fill us in.

34 here.

Originally posted by Marty
Come on Martie, fill us in.

34 here.

Hi Marty!
ROFL!! You wish!

Wow! As it is now, there is somewhere between 12%-42% non-adult people on this board!

Okay, and who is 10 and below?
:)

hehe

do you guys think that in 4 years... those current peaks
17-21
22-26

would slide over to
22-26
27-31
?

or is hosting an interest in between the age group of 17-26?

would be interesting to find out! ;)

Aloha,
what would be curiou sto se is the amount of money age groups bring in


I made the most money of my life around 23-27

hehe Honu,

what happened after you turned 28?
got tired of all the money making and decided to chill a little? :D

Aloha,
yup


basically yeah dropped out and now live on Maui have a great wife a nice car a nice truck own a place and trying to get a boat soon love spearfishing and diving I do one day a week on a boat ad work as a profesioanl magician for corporate stuff and have my own web biz
www.happyfish.com

closed down my shop and we were very large about $500,000 in just skateboards a year
dj co was solid to

just wasn't happy on the mainland I am an island boy all the way through

I do not make as much but am way happier
made good bucks on the mainland so took a few years off and travelled lived in the bay islands of Honduras for a year
went to micronesia but based out of Maui
lived on Lanai (part of Maui county)
killer life now

yeah if any of you WHT people get out to Maui we can hook up talk story and have a drink or something
at least we have puters and stuff in Common so

again
later

27-31

:(

I've got socks older than most of you...

43

-t

Originally posted by thewitt
I've got socks older than most of you...

43

-t


I'm with you dude... 1958.. :eek:

...but my left socks are still regularly swallowed into the other dimension where left socks go, so I throw the right socks away and therefore none are older than my 5 yo daughter... :D

Originally posted by Honu
Aloha,
....
yeah if any of you WHT people get out to Maui we can hook up talk story and have a drink or something
at least we have puters and stuff in Common so

Do they have broadband out there on the Islands?

Aloha
yeah I am cleared for a 1.5 Mbps
but not enough Kala to pay for it
so I use teh bronze package
128 up / 768 down

I get pretty good connections but they are not as fast as the mainland.

for grins this is the co I use http://www.pixi.com/dsl.html
OH we also have one of the biggest super puters in the world on Maui
to run the observatory here
if ya live here people can tell ya the starwars project is alive and well and living on Maui.
some strange stuff goes on up there sometimes.
the tech park is pretty advanced.

OH and our beaches our amazing ;)

What i've been wondering for a long time is ...do they have broadband in TAHITI ? :D!!

Originally posted by thewitt
I've got socks older than most of you...

43

-t

Heh... don't tell us about your 'other' unmentionables.

Where's projo?

21 here, for another half a year then i reach 22 where ive been told its all down hill !

Originally posted by xtstrike
21 here, for another half a year then i reach 22 where ive been told its all down hill !

I can tell you in about 10 days. Although, I have a lot of things to hope for and look forward too. I just hope things work out.

33 Here.

Anyone want to chip in for some new socks for thewitt?


Hehe

Best Regards,

Offer from the WHT gang:

If thewitt sends us him mailing address, I'll send him some brand-new socks imprinted* with the WHT logo!






*Letters W-H-T written on with magic marker

Me 22 yrs old :)
Will be 23 in october.

Regards,

Manish Kapadia

I'm old enough to know better, young enough not to care :D

Originally posted by iBiz
just call me grandpa at the age of 36
LOL

At 34, I'm another member of the 'Old' guard.

36, 34 and I am 33 - maybe we should build up the WHT grandpa's club :)

Originally posted by Walter
36, 34 and I am 33 - maybe we should build up the WHT grandpa's club :)

We can get corporate sponsorship from Depends...

Or is grandpa-hosting.com still available? What a great business idea!

Not that old age is much to brag about but I am older than many of your fathers. I have aches and pains older than most all of you. I will let these 45-year-old youngsters run the grandpa club. I think I am beyond that.

On 4 Oct I will be 59. Well actually that is only partly true. You see, when I was born I weighed about 6 pounds.
So, less than 6 pounds of me (a very small percentage) will be 59. Most of me is much younger. On the average I
am quite young. I just don't renew well.

Gary

Gary, if you look at it this way most of you is 3 years old :) Everything except the brain is renewed continuous and as far as I know it akex aprox. three years.

17 here, its going to be pretty amazing to see what happens in the future with all these younger people growing up with this technology and knowing it better then the older generation.

Originally posted by CoyLee
17 here, its going to be pretty amazing to see what happens in the future with all these younger people growing up with this technology and knowing it better then the older generation.

LOL. There are "old people" who know the Net from the beginning - I wouldn't bet that you know technology better than this oldies.

For that you can check out the world around you today.

My parents aren't too handy with CD's, though give 'em a record and they cue it up just fine. My mother *still* can't tape a show with the VCR (I wrote up step by step instructions but she doesn't want to be bothered). Just mention 'email' and she starts to itch.

She's getting better though. :)

Originally posted by CoyLee
17 here, its going to be pretty amazing to see what happens in the future with all these younger people growing up with this technology and knowing it better then the older generation.


Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. - George Orwell

Originally posted by CoyLee
17 here, its going to be pretty amazing to see what happens in the future with all these younger people growing up with this technology and knowing it better then the older generation.

Originally posted by Walter
LOL. There are "old people" who know the Net from the beginning - I wouldn't bet that you know technology better than this oldies.

Amen fellow oldster...

The WYSIWYG GUI's that make things so easy for people to use computers and the Internet didn't spring full-blown from the mind of Bill Gates. Before Windows 9x, there was Windows 3x, and before that DOS, and before DOS, nothing but a prompt that said: READY:

This technology had to come from somewhere, and it came from:

Members of the older generation who were using modems (anyone else remember acoustic couplers) 22 years ago to log into timesharing systems on big iron machines.

Members of the older generation whose first 'personal' computers were VIC 20's, Timex Sinclairs or TRS-80's. On which they wrote programs in character-based (not Visual) BASIC.

Members of the older generation who posted to USENET newsgroups, who can remember when AOL wasn't unlimited (or full of idiots and spam), and who beta tested early web browsers.

Members of the older generation who designed the first web pages using Notepad, because there were only a few other options at that time, and those were all in 1.0 release or beta and didn't work very well.

Members of the older generation used WAIS, Gopher, Archie and Veronica, Lynx and Mosaic. We had email addresses before most other people did.

Members of the older generation who became NT 3.51 and 4.0 server administrators the hardway by learning it hands on, before the advent of MCSE's and the trendy paper MCSE's.

Members of the older generation who ran BBS', hacked in to various government computers and founded the first ISP's and web hosts.

This is what we were doing when we were teenagers and twentysomethings. To many those years are the before time, a forgotten history when dinosaurs ruled the world, but that is a history that we helped write.

We started out when the technology was intended for technical people, not consumers, and was not exactly IDTenT proof or user friendly (there were no Imacs), and there was no 24/7 hot and cold running tech support-we had no choice but to figure it out on our own-user groups were very popular in those days. And the technology changed so quickly that we were constantly learning (and upgrading).

don't confuse us thirtysomething techies with your parents who are new to computers and ensure your place as alpha geek in the household. Your parents called us geeks and nerds and dorks back in the before time (aka high school), but now, they call us for tech support with their email.

so, don't get too cocky, we've got a big headstart, I've been a techie since I was 12 years old.

Originally posted by Mike the newbie



Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. - George Orwell

Ok, I get your point, we do think of ourselves more intelligent than the one that went before us. But each person in their own rights is leaving trails of history after them in this technology world. And I must thank personally the older techie generation that gave us what we have today. But most people that does the leaps and bounds in the tech world are in the early years of their life. Just look at how old Bill Gates was. When he went to the first factory where he would distribute his windows the owner looked at him and always thought he would be older. But being younger might have its disadvantages, just look at the bugs in Windows ;)

So to the older generation, thank you.

To the younger, lets leave them in amazement.

Originally posted by Phoenix


Members of the older generation whose first 'personal' computers were VIC 20's, Timex Sinclairs or TRS-80's. On which they wrote programs in character-based (not Visual) BASIC.

Members of the older generation who designed the first web pages using Notepad, because there were only a few other options at that time, and those were all in 1.0 release or beta and didn't work very well.

This is what we were doing when we were teenagers and twentysomethings. To many those years are the before time, a forgotten history when dinosaurs ruled the world, but that is a history that we helped write.

don't confuse us thirtysomething techies with your parents who are new to computers and ensure your place as alpha geek in the household. Your parents called us geeks and nerds and dorks back in the before time (aka high school), but now, they call us for tech support with their email.

so, don't get too cocky, we've got a big headstart, I've been a techie since I was 12 years old.

Here! Here!
We are not your parents and we were playing with computers before they were cool. Our group should remember playing Zork using b/w tvs for monitors.

age = wisdom, I think

hmmmm, Chicken falls into our group, too.



:)

Originally posted by iBiz
Our group should remember playing Zork using b/w tvs for monitors.:)

Oh, dear God!! I remember that!!

Where is my cane?

Not to turn this into a remember when thread, but I remember when I received my first disk drive.

The paper tape reader was still on the bookshelf where it had retired a year before.

The cassette deck interface was a breadboard that occasionally needed to be wiggled to make it work.

That 8 inch floppy disk drive with it's factory-built controller card arrived in the mail, plugged right in and only needed to have the driver code tweaked a little bit to run (10-12 hours of assembly language hacking).

Man was that exciting!

CP/M rules baby! :cool:

-t

My first computer - http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/artifacts/database/X00589_1985.tdb. Literally.

I got it in 1977, and I donated that IMSAI to the Boston Computer Museum in 1985. BCM, in turn, gave their computer collection to TCMHC a few years ago. Still have my S-100 bus catalog downstairs, though. Along with a 1982 Microsoft product catalog.

... and I played Tank (handwired in discrete logic chips) not Zork. :D

Dear God... I remember when.....

In 1972 I joined the newly formed "Computer Club" at high school and with our 'punchcards' in hand we dutifully attended the bi weekly meetings where I witnessed the birth of a new generation of 'out of the closet' geeks....

Those were the days, when "hard drives" were in fact "bus tickets"....

:eek:

I also remember when a 500Mb HD cost $20,000 down here... no bull..

Old men and their war stories.... :sickface: <= if the image is missing it's sickface...

At 30, I guess I'm "on the fence" of the Whipper-Snappers & old farts club. Let's say, I've got the energy and the wisdom. :cool:

However, after sittin in "the chair" for the last two years getting my business up to where it is.....I'm getting a severe case of secretaries *ss! Not good.:cartman: