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"Ten Years Ago I Was..."

Ten years ago I was still in college, and working full time as a software developer for a game company.

Those were some fun years, but holy crap, I'm so glad I don't write code for a living anymore.
 
10 years ago I was a recent college graduate who had just lost his first job and was returning home after the holidays not knowing how I was going to pay the bills at the end of the first month of the new decade. It was an interesting time in my life.
 
So as well as being in school I was...

Playing Unreal Tournament, Duke Nukem 3D on a 500mhz Pentium 3.
Making little games with library graphics and favourite TV show midis.
Rollerblading.
Wishing I could get a laptop (so much that I planned if Saddam Hussein bombed us I'd steal one from school and hide in a disused train tunnel)
Having my 14th birthday.
 
Ten years ago I was only 8 years old. I would have been on summer break, more then likely at my grandma's near the coast. I hadn't been exposed to the internet, our family owned a computer running Windows 95 that was only used to play a couple very simple games on. I had just had my first 'girlfriend' (childish, unserious flings, y'know?), and I was excited because I was just about to start the fourth grade at school, which at my elementary school was considered a 'senior' grade (through to seventh grade, after which you go to high school).

Such innocent times, unlike now.
 
10 years ago on New Year's Eve, I was 15 and happily switched the breakers off at midnight to freak out the family. It worked marvelously.:)
 
Ten years ago I was in the thick of 1. trying to sell our house and 2. buy the land on which our house now sits. Really stressful time that seemed to go on for ever but which turned out ok in the end.
 
Avoiding someone's line of fire. Who knew I'd consider going back to it all. :cool:
 
10 years ago I was wondering why the heck I had left my beautiful coastal town to live in the hell of the California Central Valley :( Got back to my coastal town, got married, had 2 kids, great job, etc... Life is good, as they say :)
 
MacVixen said:
10 years ago I was wondering why the heck I had left my beautiful coastal town to live in the hell of the California Central Valley :(
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What are you talking about? Fresno is simply wonderful this time of year! :p
 
Ten years ago I was 11 and in the 6th grade. If I remember correctly, school did not start back until the first week of February due to snow. Ironically, I'm hoping my work will close early this evening for the same reason so I won't have to go to work tonight :D
 
Ten years ago I was living at home with my parents, as yet unlicensed to drive, and starting my final semester of my final year of a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering. We were just starting a group "fourth year project" which was to build different sections of a remote-operated robotic vehicle. In the coming months I would develop a serious crush on one of my fellow team members, but she was way out of my league.

It was a very optimistic time for all of us in computer engineering. The dot-com boom was going strong. Within weeks of graduating that May I would find myself working in a telecom company that almost literally threw money at me. I would periodically receive letters saying "We have reviewed market conditions and are pleased to inform you that your salary has been adjusted to ____". Living at home, driving my dad's car (well, once I finished getting that license), spending all that money on toys and tech. Life was grand, and would continue to be up until the economic crash following the shock of 9/11.

And, of course, I was a staunch PC user. With the iPod not yet invented and OS X still well off my radar, I was using a desktop Windows 98 PC at home. (My first Dell laptop PC would be one of the toys I would buy later.)

We still used dial-up since it was provided free from my school. My friends were bugging me to try this new-fangled "ICQ" program that would let me chat with them, but I preferred using my free Yahoo email account, or calling them on my brand-new Nokia 5190 cell phone. I even had the clip-on analog module for extended coverage.

I'd seen people with these little 64 meg Rio mp3 players, but I was big into Minidisc. If Sony could just market the format a little better, it would really take off, and give MP3 players and Discmans a real run for the money...

I looked forward to the day that I could upgrade my PC to play DVD movies, but wasn't in a rush since there were still relatively few movies available on DVD. Our $500 RCA DVD player would suffice. And one day, soon, I would save up the $800 it took to buy a nice digital camera, but until then, I would continue to use my 35mm Pentax point and shoot.
 
notjustjay said:
Ten years ago I was living at home with my parents, as yet unlicensed to drive, and starting my final semester of my final year of a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering. We were just starting a group "fourth year project" which was to build different sections of a remote-operated robotic vehicle. In the coming months I would develop a serious crush on one of my fellow team members, but she was way out of my league.

It was a very optimistic time for all of us in computer engineering. The dot-com boom was going strong. Within weeks of graduating that May I would find myself working in a telecom company that almost literally threw money at me. I would periodically receive letters saying "We have reviewed market conditions and are pleased to inform you that your salary has been adjusted to ____". Living at home, driving my dad's car (well, once I finished getting that license), spending all that money on toys and tech. Life was grand, and would continue to be up until the economic crash following the shock of 9/11.

And, of course, I was a staunch PC user. With the iPod not yet invented and OS X still well off my radar, I was using a desktop Windows 98 PC at home. (My first Dell laptop PC would be one of the toys I would buy later.)

We still used dial-up since it was provided free from my school. My friends were bugging me to try this new-fangled "ICQ" program that would let me chat with them, but I preferred using my free Yahoo email account, or calling them on my brand-new Nokia 5190 cell phone. I even had the clip-on analog module for extended coverage.

I'd seen people with these little 64 meg Rio mp3 players, but I was big into Minidisc. If Sony could just market the format a little better, it would really take off, and give MP3 players and Discmans a real run for the money...

I looked forward to the day that I could upgrade my PC to play DVD movies, but wasn't in a rush since there were still relatively few movies available on DVD. Our $500 RCA DVD player would suffice. And one day, soon, I would save up the $800 it took to buy a nice digital camera, but until then, I would continue to use my 35mm Pentax point and shoot.
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Ten years ago I was on AOL and if you wanted to put pics on your computer an SCSI scanner was all the rage. You still had to have actual polaroids or go to the 1 hour photo in the middle of the pharmacy parking lot to get your negatives developed. My first mac I owned was an SE 30 with AOL 2.7
 
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