Randy Milholland’s Midnight Macabre is set in the 80s, when locally produced low-budget horror TV shows still existed. Every so often you are reminded of this, as in this strip which mentions a dial-up BBS.
When I was in high school and college, dial-up BBSs were still the thing, at least among people at my level of geekery. Hell, my college didn’t even get on the internet till about my third year of college. Before that it was on “PRIMENET.”
BBS’s were where it was at. I understand that some people still run them, the same way some people still have gopher servers.
Did I mention I remember gopher being new and cool?
I am So. Damn. Old.
Oh, I also got a look at myself in some pictures taken at the beach the other day (I usually am the one taking pictures so I haven’t seen much of myself in pictures in a while). Let’s not even bring up realizing what I now look like in swim trunks. I found out I have a big ass bald spot. That I can’t see in the mirror cause it’s too far back. That nobody ever told me about. (My wife claims she told me about it a few years ago and I reacted so badly that she never brought it up again, but I have apparently repressed this memory.)
So. Damn. Old.
Oh well. I guess I can wheeze and cuss at the young whippersnappers.
And read more comics about aging, bitter Gen Xers.
gopher://gopher.wcsg.org/ still going strong. :) I still don’t know how to put content in there, but the server’s running.