You look at a movie trailer and think, "I have that typeface."
You set up an automatic rerouting of your e-mail to your pager.

You get sudden attacks of bittersweet nostalgic feelings when thinking about your long-lost old Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX-81, TRS-80 (or whatever hardware you were raised on), and use large amounts of money/time trying to track one down.

You realize you _never_ cook, eating only take-away pizza.

You check your web access_page more than once a day.

You seriously consider devoting a web page to your computer. (Not the brand, mind you, but the actual computer itself)

You have more e-mail addresses than you do pairs of shoes.

You spend more than 10 minutes contemplating how traffic lights work.

You can talk for hours about how, in 25 years, the whole country won't have E-Mail addresses.

You can explain how AppleTalk Networks work.

You froth at the mouth when someone talks about the "Information Superhighway."

You are a member of the USENET elite, invoked in posts in threads to which you have not posted.

You plot to get your grandmother on E-mail.

You spend a lot of time figuring out which of 100 adult goldfish are the most fertile, have the strongest genes, and combined to produce tiny little goldfish.

You calculate the odds of getting one of the primo parking spaces in relation to your apartment, factoring in time, weather, season, etc, and are accurate over 80% of the time.

You've bought one of those license plate holders on which you can have your URL or E-Mail address embossed.

other than that.. good list

i take offense to the appletalk crack though

You look at a movie trailer and think, "I recognize that software"

You set up email on your web page just so you can digitally sign your messages

When you do cook, it's mostly the same thing

You never, ever, ever want your mom to get email

You wax nostalgic over USENET posts that you liked

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My gramma really does have e-mail.

(By the way, my nostalgia is for an Apple IIe, the first computer I had a serious relationship with. (Anyone remember the printers that used paper with the holes on the side?)

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Tractor-feed dot matrix printers which made so much noise that printing at three am woke people for three square blocks.

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Anyone remember the printers that used paper with the holes on the side?

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Originally posted by chicgeek:

(Anyone remember the printers that used paper with the holes on the side?)

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Originally posted by chicgeek:
(By the way, my nostalgia is for an Apple IIe, the first computer I had a serious relationship with. (Anyone remember the printers that used paper with the holes on the side?)

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My first computer, had to get a summer job just to pay for it, cost me SFrs 4000.- (around $2000 then, 1980/81). Came with black and orange monitor, one external floppy drive and 64k RAM. I can remember buying and 80 column card with had 64k extra RAM on, but you had to program to be able to use the extra RAM. As for my printer, Casio heat printer, you had to buy special paper for it, but no ink.

Still have it and it still works, hmm time to try and finish off Wizardry Two then, or perhaps Might and Magic One.

My first introduction to inkjet printers was an HP tractor-feed printer that used an inkjet head instead of a dot-matrix head (or a daisywheel head) -- my reaction to that was "Wow! It's too small for there to be enough muffling material to make it that quiet. How'd they do that?" (sigh) If such a beast were still made, and it could kick out, say, 5ppm, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

Of course, 132-column printers were nice since it resulted in fewer wrapped lines. And chain printers were even nicer -- prints a whole 132/66 page in one strike at about 2pps by my recollection. I actually saw one for sale a couple years ago at a surplus store for $235. Awfully tempting until I realized that it'd be hard to find paper, even harder to find ink rolls, and even harder to explain to my wife why I had a printer that occupied a 3'x3' space on the floor.

If you don't count the shoes I haven't thrown out yet, I actually do have more addresses than pairs of shoes.  Scary.

You spend more than 10 minutes contemplating how traffic lights work.

You spend more than 10 minutes contemplating how to make the traffic lights favor you, in particular.

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You set up an automatic rerouting of your e-mail to your pager.

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Actually, for a little while you could get telemetry updates from the Deep Space 1 Probe sent to an email address in sorta-realtime. I had it routed to my cellphone.

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Tractor-feed dot matrix printers which made so much noise that printing at three am woke people for three square blocks.

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What's better than old 132-column DM printers? Daisy-wheels!!! Back in high school I had the annoying habit of printing of last night's homework at 4:00am on my monster Diablo. My parents said it sounded like I was listening to gangster movies in my attic room... BRAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT..... Somehow even the most annoying BRRRRRRTTT! of dot-matrix wasn't QUITE so bad.

--You watch a "Nick Burns-Your Companies Computer Guy" skit on Saturday Night Live and not only do you break out laughing... you understand each and every joke.--

You find yourself ignoring the plot of movies/TV shows/commercais and trying as hard as you can to see what OS they're running.

You are 100% sure that you can't eat an Apple.

Someone asks you a computer question and you spend 10 minutes explaining the theory behind it... but never answer the question.

You think Beat the Geeks on Comedy Central is too easy.

You go to see old western buildings because they're made from Adobe.