Dropping a light bulb didn't evacuate a school.
Playing with mercury in your hand was fun.
The smell of a lead gasoline engine.
Going into your local arcade and seeing your first Haunted House with all those flippers and levels.
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Quoted from Enaud:When getting 'online' meant the 300 baud phone modem with the acoustic coupler.
Oh boy yes. Using Kermit, picking the protocol and logging onto you local OPUS or ProCom BBS. Sure we had X-modem and Y-modem. But when Z-modem came out we felt we entered the space age. Now when [not if] you lost connection during a file download it would pick up where you left off.
How about punching a hole in the corner of a 720 KB 3.5" floppy so you fake it as high density and can fit 1.44 MB.
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