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I remember eudora and gopher as the beginning of my email/internet experience. But with a 2,400 baud modem, the internet was pretty darned limited.

I remember eudora and gopher as the beginning of my email/internet experience. But with a 2,400 baud modem, the internet was pretty darned limited.

Yep, all of that.  

Mid-90s chatrooms.....when the men were men and the women were women......

I heard it as:
Where the men are men, the women are men, and and children are FBI agents.  

My first modem was 300 baud, I used it to get onto  Compuserve the first commerical online service.  Everything was text driven.  There was an MMA game that was all text.  A number of chatrooms and numerous bulletin boards.  All very exciting at the time. You paid by the minute so you were very careful about how long you were online. Later they started offering blocks of time at a cheaper rate and finally unlimited at a flat fee. 

If I remember right this was 1983.

Same, graduated HS in 1993. 

One thing I've always found interesting is that our HS experience was probably more similar to people 20+ years older than it was to people 5 years younger.  Think about this:

I really do think that our HS experience graduating in 1993 was more similar to someone 20 years older than someone five years younger. 

I think probably the biggest cultural change prior to that was the widespread availability of the pill which started in the early-to-mid-60's so you could even go so far as to say that 1993 HS Graduates had a HS experience more similar to people 30 years older (graduated in 1963, are currently almost eighty) than to people just five years younger. 

I’m ‘94. I’d say I disagree about people who graduated 20 years before. Mostly because the culture was so much different, but also because of the digital divide. People who graduated in the 70,s had no idea about computers or anything even as simple as VCR’s. By 1994, most people in my generation had been raised with technology and the promise of technology our whole life. Sure, it was crude, and klunky, but it was out there, and it was getting noticeably better every year. 

Did i personally have a cell phone in 1994?  No, but we did have a few people in school who did have them. We all had pagers (!).  

Go back and watch some of the TV shows and movies from the early 80’s. Knight Rider, we had artificial intelligence, a self driving car who had GPS, some kind of version of the internet, smart watches ( and really cool stunts!). In the movie “ The Last Star Fighter” they had a smartphone like device with digital pictures of their family. This was early 80’s !  

Were you really surprised when you saw a real GPS device?  We’d only seen it on tv dozens of times throughout the 80’s and 90’s. We’re we really surprised at what computers could do by the 90’s?  I mean, I was, but at the same time I really wasn’t. This was all stuff we’d been seeing in movies and tv for years. 

If you were a kid when You Can't Do That on Television peaked, then you are riding the line between Gen X and Millennial. You probably still know all the words to Ice Ice Baby, and you were in middle school when Nirvana was all the rage.

Don’t know if it peaked or not, but we watched it a few years. Probably about 1987, hell we may have just gotten cable.  Nirvana was HS, extremely popular. As was Ice Ice Baby freshman year. But yeah , pretty much nailed it. 

If you were a kid when You Can't Do That on Television peaked, then you are riding the line between Gen X and Millennial. You probably still know all the words to Ice Ice Baby, and you were in middle school when Nirvana was all the rage.

My favorite bit on that show was the execution always being interrupted.  

I was watching part of some bowl game, I think it was Arkansas, and Aaron Murray was the color guy (he's not very good IMHO).  He claimed that the 12 team payoff had really added interest in CFB, and that many late season games were now more "important" than in the past because more teams are in the running, which I suppose is true.

I heard that too, and it was the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time.

It's bad for the sport.  Maybe more watch in the last 2 weeks of November, but there's now ZERO reason to watch in September.  No big OOC games matter, as they all get a mulligan.
Big OOC games are going to slowly decrease over time, as best record is all that matters, not who it's actually against.

The college basketball model is not a great plan.  Being a 5-month sport and voluntarily making only 1 month matter?  FFS