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Title: The home computer in 2004
Post by: cahult on 4 August 2005, 15:47

Are any of you any good at foretelling the future? They thought they were in the 50

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: bedouin on 4 August 2005, 16:12

That picture is photoshopped.  The terminal in that picture is from the late 60s or early 70s.

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Refalm on 4 August 2005, 16:48

Quote from: cahult

Refalm, have you seen this site before?

Never seen the site before, but it links to BITS OF FREEDOM (http://www.bof.nl/microsoft/), so it's all right in my book :)

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Lead Head on 4 August 2005, 16:52

I  need to learn a seconed language:(

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Refalm on 4 August 2005, 17:36

Quote from: Put_lead_in_gates_head

I  need to learn a seconed language:(

I recommend Dutch, the most difficult language in western Europe ;)

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Lead Head on 4 August 2005, 17:38

I will try but i will probably get it all wrong and say something insulting to someone:(

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: cahult on 4 August 2005, 18:27

Quote from: Refalm

I recommend Dutch, the most difficult language in western Europe ;)

Then you haven

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Lead Head on 4 August 2005, 19:07

i Wouldnt even dear to try and learn welsh

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: bedouin on 4 August 2005, 19:23

You should just work on mastering English before you tackle any other languages.

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Lead Head on 4 August 2005, 19:26

If you want me to, i will master english

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: worker201 on 4 August 2005, 21:14

That photo is actually a museum display of a submarine.  The panel in the front is actually a plexi-glass case where the details of the submarine controls are listed.  The monitor perched perspectivally impossibly above the display is stock photography.  I have actually seen the real picture, and I was fooled at first too.

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Lead Head on 4 August 2005, 21:40

ya, i was kinda wondering what all the gauges and steering wheel  were for

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Jenda on 5 August 2005, 22:20

OT:
Dutch is quite far on my list... I struggled hard to learn French this year in Canada. German is next. Russian, then Hebrew... I probably won't get that far though. My grandfather was supposed to speak seven lingos fluently and fourteen I think enough to get by.

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Laukev7 on 5 August 2005, 22:26

Damn. And right now I only speak French and English natively, Spanish and still learning German.

I need to learn Russian someday. Dutch sounds OK too.

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Pathos on 6 August 2005, 11:29

English is my first language, I'm about 50% fluent in American.

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Calum on 7 August 2005, 01:57

welsh looks even more ridiculous than gaelic!

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Jenda on 7 August 2005, 12:48

Quote from: Pathos

English is my first language, I'm about 50% fluent in American.

 :D

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Kintaro on 9 August 2005, 09:23

I have seen this picture before.

It is not photoshopped.

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: noob on 10 August 2005, 22:37

i can say llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
if u go to wales a lot like i do, you pick stuff up.

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Kintaro on 17 August 2005, 21:13

ever considered suicide?

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: DBX_5 on 17 August 2005, 21:56

every considering shutting the hell up, you immature twat, kintaro?

Title: Re: The home computer in 2004
Post by: Calum on 19 August 2005, 09:41

breach of forum rules, sad to see that post hasn't been binned yet.