You know you are old when...Y

[PFVA]

I remember the times when the tides left shells on the beach instead of plastic pieces

Left by the Tide

[Orava]

I studied AI at the University of Surrey in the mid 1990s, the best it could do then was to recognise an animal (four legs, humps = camel) it is kind of scary what it can do nowdays.

[Orava]

you are old when you stay up all night and feel shit waking up at 3pm

[zip accident]

you are old when you stay up all night and feel shit waking up at 3pm

Make sure you get 8 hours and it'll probably turn out alright. Works (more or less) for me.

[Orava]

you are old when you stay up all night and feel shit waking up at 3pm

Make sure you get 8 hours and it'll probably turn out alright. Works (more or less) for me.

ti

I am not a good sleeper maybe averaging four hours on and off. Too active mind I suppose. on some cases it has been four days of no sleep until you finally totally collapse. also weird things start to happen when not slept for a few days, the air conditioning unit starts 'speaking to your vision is fucked up seeing shadows and stuff mixing reality with dreams.

[PFVA]

When you get all excited that you finished a 1500 pieces jigsaw puzzle in 36 days.

(the rain helped a lot)

Finished

[Orava]

When your laptop's mousepad breaks and you need to replace it with a mouse. Now where do you find a mouse in a small town in the middle of the days? All major supermarkets did not sell them anymore, nor were there any dedicated computer shops. Finally got lucky in a phone shop... Well that was today's excercise then, some five miles of walking. Yeah Amazon of course but I wanted it today.

[Orava]

...and what is the fourth button behind the clickable scroll wheel then for?

[venusian]

Assuming you don't mean pressing down on the scroll wheel, the extra one usually switches mouse speed. Or rather pointer speed - the mouse speed is limited only by your ability to throw it across the room.

[Orava]

Yeas you might me right, it definitely does not do anything selection-wise. The 'instructions' or 'manual' does not mention it at all, and there would be hardly any space in the paper-area of two matchbox boxes in about 10 languages. Need to experiment more.

[Orava]

Ah, OK got it know, if you keep pressing it down it sort of doubles your mouse cursor speed and then release and it is back to normal. A mouse for impatient people?

[Orava]

Right, it is also an on/off button, if you do not hold it down continuedly but click shortly it will go off and you have to press again turn turn it back on. Strange mouse.

[gilesgoat]

Right, it is also an on/off button, if you do not hold it down continuedly but click shortly it will go off and you have to press again turn turn it back on. Strange mouse.

"In my times mouse had only one button, occasionally 2, you had to clean the ball and often it was even attached to an RS232 port !" ah those modern things !

[gilesgoat]

You are old when ..

1. you enjoy cafes that are quite, comfy, and also sell good pastries and DO NOT have those ultra-bright white neon/led lights !

2. you really enjoy a quite sunny afternoon

3. you may in 2 take an actual nap

4. you don't care wtf is on tv because you don't watch it

5. you still have plenty of things to do if you want

6. you think "most of the world out there" is toally mad ( but in a bad way )

[Orava]

Right, it is also an on/off button, if you do not hold it down continuedly but click shortly it will go off and you have to press again turn turn it back on. Strange mouse.

"In my times mouse had only one button, occasionally 2, you had to clean the ball and often it was even attached to an RS232 port !" ah those modern things !

...and if you had to install an RS232 card, then find out a free IRQ, then use those jumpers to set the same on the card, then plug-in the mouse, install drivers and hope it all works - nowdays I just plugged the mouse in and that's it. I had to do all that and get a VGA card and SoundBlaster before I could play Lemmings on my cheap** ex-office 286* properly.

*A Mikro-Mikko made by............ Nokia!

Oh and I had to cut a hole in the case so you could plug the mouse in.

** About two month's salaries from my summer job and do not even mention the 40MB hard disk cost... Or that you had to format the HD yourself. Without the help of Indian Youtube help videos because...... THERE WAS NO INTERNET. Your internet was the local library who might have some PC-related books.