Technical The internet & old cars

I was forced to purchase a computer for the girls to help them with their required studies in high school, I had previously avoided the computer like a plague, I couldn't see the benefit of owning one much less the expense of the slow dial-up internet (AOL) at that time.

Being a baby boomer I was opposed to computers & the internet, I never took typing in high school and I though they were just another toy like the Nintendo or Atari.

One afternoon one of the girls called me to their room and showed me a photo of a hot rod, it got my attention and I as was there anymore, she said, "hundreds of cars"

She showed mea few and then went back to her lessons and I didn't think about it anymore.

A few days later I was reading a newest issue of Hot Rod Magazine and there was a article about Bonneville and I mentioned it to Brenda at the dinner table that night and again one of the girls said she could show me a lot of stuff on the computer about he Salt Flats and racing.

We finished up dinner and I followed her down the hall and watched her log on with all the ding,ding and static (AOL) and then she open up a beautiful panoramic photo of the salt flats with a belly tank front and center, I was blow away and i started asking questions on how to look for other pictures and she started explaining the sequences one must go through to locate what you want to see & read.

I went to work the next day thinking about all the fantastic hot rods I saw the night before and when I got home I went down the hall to the twins room and sit down in front of the computer, I had watched intently how the thing was turned on and it took me a good 10 minutes to type in the username & password, I waited with bated breath as the internet dinged ,chimed and then the static ceased and I was online, imagine that I thought to myself I did this with no help at all, this is easy and I proceeded to type in the place my daughter had done the previous night.

As I said earlier I had no concept of how the internet worked and my typing skills were none existent but I managed to hunt & peck my way through, at this point I started typing Bonnieville ( I misspelled it and was my introduction to internet porn, the biggest boob's I have ever seen!

I panicked, I started hitting the escape key and the more I did the more porn kept popping up, Oh No my kids are going to come home and their daddy was looking at porn on their computer, then I had a epiphany,I'll just unplug it then it will go away, again, I didn't know my arse from a hole in the ground about computers

Well, you guys know that didn't work and when the girls turned the computer back on all the images were still there, needless to say I learned the importance of spelling and learned how a innocent phrase can dig a deep hole.

Since my first encounter with computers and the internet I have embraced it and it's a part of my daily life, but we got of to a shaky start.

I stood on the side lanes and observed the hamb for almost a year before I joined, at that time everything was typed and there were no photo's, my typing was agonizingly slow and it took forever for me to reply but I jumped in the deep end of the pool with a stellar into thinking I had nailed it, nope, again my lack of computer savvy bit me in the arse, the caps lock was on and I typed the entire introduction in capital letters, I was proverbially beaten to a pulp.

I laid low for a couple of days and after getting private message from Randy Nash & Denise Sheldon I waded back in and that's my story and I'm sticking with it! HRP

 

Sounds like you had one of those early steam-powered computers . . .

I'm still a bit surprised at how quickly I picked up on this stuff, even from back in the days of a dial-up inter-web connection. Sort of got me prepped for the upgrade to digital photography.

 

As always, you take a simple story/experience and turn it into entertainment. With the highest post count in the history of the Hamb, I guess you got better at typing...
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And here we are.... stuck with you for the last 15yrs.
Funny porn story. I bet you had some explaining to do.
My background actually thrust me into the computer age quite early in the 80’s.
Working for a Truck manufacturing company then, they decided to try out robotics.
With my background in just about every type of welding and early interest in robots as a youngster. I thought this would be a fun venture.
Before you know it it I was programming and operating robotic systems for the next five years. It was fun and I loved it.
From there I went into QC and metrology that provided operating Coordinate Measuring Machines along with learning Word and excel for reports. .
Now I’m back to typing with one finger on my iPhone.

 

A boomer myself, I never went to a formal college but computer programming has supplied me with a great living. In those days you could get into a job if you demonstrated aptitude even without the sheepskin. Sure paid for some overpriced parts and cars :-O

I had a buddy at work that had the accidental porn thing show up when he was showing something to his female boss.

 

Possible Brenda can be talked into telling the story about searching for information about Koi and fish ponds, before all the filters and firewalls on the internet, she was also a recipient of some bazaar pop up porn. HRP

 

I was fascinated with personal computers as soon as they arrived. Bought my first Apple II in 1978. Next to no software then and what there was was stored on cassette tapes. The computer magazines of the time had pages of programs in "BASIC" that you could type in and save on tape. Syntax and spelling were even more important when typing computer languages. than HRP experienced. I remember being bleary-eyed after typing all night, only to find that the program I had just typed in would not run to to an error somewhere.

HRP, I think you would like Joseph Campbell's quote "Computers are like old testament Gods. Lots of rules and no mercy."

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, the dreaded cap lock beat down.......kinda miss that time. I was building my own computers at first (early 90s), running questionable programs, being a hoodlum of the cyber world. I was still looking in the paper for parts, then eBay, then I found here. I still monkey around a little, but cars have overtaken my life.

I started in high school on a IIe .

 

Just be glad you didn't type it as Bonerville. That would have taken much more explaining! Lol

 

When I first started the internet thing I was searching for parts for a 69 Mustang. You can imagine where that got me. Learned more about the Mustang Ranch than I cared too. Needless to say 69 also. And as you said, unable to back out of anything without more endlessly popping up.

 

I had a company marketing automotive art as well as products that were branded with automotive magazine logos. We used Radio Shack TRS80 computers and software was custom DOS programs. Five and a half inch floppy disks were put in a fireproof safe every night. It was a learning curve I hope never to repeat again!

 

I still have my camera that used flop disc and thats what I was posting photo's to the hamb with years ago.HRP

 

Its funny how in 1998 I paid $1800 for a PC that was a pile of crap, had less than a third of the power mythree year old phone I have now. In my house I was the only one that would mess with the new computer, I had taken time off from work because we had just had our last child so when when she was sleeping or after supper I would get on the net and look around but it didn't take long and I had a decent idea how it worked, I thought. After six months the wife and two of my daughters were calling dad a retard and showing him up.
Those where the days.

Oh yeah internet was $20 a month back then!

 

"The Internet! Is that thing still around??"- Homer Simpson

 

I remember the..well maybe not such good memory, but was it a 186, then a 286, 386, etc. the higher the number, the faster, more capable computer it was.
I didn't know what the numbers meant, and still don't, but the beauty of it is, I don't care.
I turn it on, go to my favorites, and here I am.
Still don't know crap about computers, but am on one everyday.

 

I was reluctant, like yourself, Danny, to get a computer, but my Sister convinced me to do so about 17 years ago now. It has truly become a needed tool in the toolbox of life. I don't know how I could function now without one. I'm a curious sort anyway and everything I need to research is right at my fingertips.

 

I'd be hesitant about the Interner as well!

 

Danny that is a very funny story, my experiences aren’t quite that humorous as yours, I laughed my butt off reading your story.

 

So you can teach an old dog new tricks, what’s next video games?.....hell no

 

What was that web site you miss spelled, for research only

 

That’s some funny stuff right there Danny. I am still trying to figure this stuff out. Snowman

 

Me too, I've got boxes of car events lost forever since I can't view them any more. Wonder if somebody makes a machine to put them on those little records. Bob

 

well whatever you do don't type bonnieville nude in google images... don't do it.. consider yourself warned.

 

All I can say is that it's time to change the title! LOL

 

It happens to all of us... Thanks

 

Works both ways. I typed in Horny Ass Maryland Babe and ended up here.

 

Very good story. I was lucky to have a typing classes in high school ... it was 2 years, those old machines with mechanical buttons where you had to use all the strength of your hands to press them.
You're right about HRP pop-up ads ... I remember my friend in the 90s, he and I were in a computer room... (A room where you paid per hour to use computers), that day there were a lot of people using computers ... suddenly my friend beckoning me, I gets close to his computer and I think there were about 150 porn pop ups ads, he was desperate! it was his first time... I just pressed the reset button and voila. These computers have a program that deletes all the information when it restarts.

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A little while back, I was looking for information on locking grease gun couplers. There are a few on the market, Lock and Lube being probably the best known.

Another is made by an Australian company called “KY”.

Unfortunately, having searched for these, I’m now seeing ads for industrial sized containers of KY lubricants, something I was not previously aware existed.

Bought the grease gun coupler, though. Not sure it’s going to it in to the U joint that needs greasing though. Right now, I can only get the regular coupler on it from the top.



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Today something very interesting happened to me while I was taking my children to school ... It was their last day of school ... while it was getting time to enter the school, we were looking for a place to park the car ... After parking a block from the school, my wife, my two children and I walked out ... hurried to arrive, my 5 year older son tells me ... Dad! You saw the old car ... I have not seen him I replied ... I was in a hurry to arrive on time ... we will see him on the way back!
Upon returning I ask my son ... where is the car? In that garage that is open answers me! I look out and there was a beautiful 1938 Chevrolet 4-door.
Maybe we need to educate and be educated by our sons too....

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