David Penfold 
Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️Age verification?
I remember Pong.
Kierkegaanks regretfully
Brother Soul
Estarriol, lucozade dragoncrt televisions and the bbc shutting down in the afternoon here!
Rowan@kbeninato @purplepadma Ah, that brings back memories of the feel of that knurled metal knob that was slightly bigger than it needed to be, making you constantly overshoot where you wanted the paddle to be until you got the hang of it.
@RowanH @purplepadma Back when we had pong skills.
Leonixster@kbeninato I know how to use payphones
EDIT: And rotary phones, for that matter
@Leonixster @kbeninato I still have a Bakelite rotary phone (in a box now) that I found in a tunnel under Foss 4 at Wesleyan University in 1980. And a western electric wall phone with coiled cord on the wall that I bought at an AT&T store in 1986. It moved in 1999 and 2003. I ripped down the Verizon landline between the pole and my house when we installed fiber in 2018, so the wall phone isn’t actually connected to anything right now. If it rings, don’t answer it!!
George 🍦🚲 🥾 ✌️🌎 🌌@kbeninato sputnik scaring the bejesus out of 1st graders that we were behind in the space race
Niek van Leeuwen
Pinchy63 🇨🇦
dugglebutt@kbeninato I think the first video game I ever played was The Legend of Zelda on the NES. I remember Pong but I sucked at it lol. I used to play that with my brother and he would destroy me lol.
There was this really weird thing where naval sailors invented, what is essentially Pong now, on their radars. It’s sort of hilarious.
Everything was green and in a circle. I guess that’s what you do when you are bored and cutting through the pacific lol
There was this really weird thing where naval sailors invented, what is essentially Pong now, on their radars. It’s sort of hilarious.
Everything was green and in a circle. I guess that’s what you do when you are bored and cutting through the pacific lol
@kbeninato I can’t find it, but there are videos of it.
@kbeninato this was sort of what it looked like (I don’t know if this is going to work or not)
Tennis for Two - The Original Video Game
Beige CatsWhoCode@kbeninato I remember when the internet was called ARPANET
markc568@kbeninato My sister and I got this “Telstar Ranger” for Christmas one year. Guessing it was 1977, as that was the year of release. It had tennis (2-player pong) handball (1-player pong) and some other games built-in.
@markc568 Tennis! That was the fanciest.
@kbeninato It also had a light gun for a shooting game. The target was just a white square floating about the screen.
Graceless HippoThat'll do it✅
BearG@kbeninato Age verification: I had a substantial collection of vacuum tubes. And several pieces of Heath Kit test equipment.
Bill Tschumy@kbeninato I even remember Pong’s predecessor, Ping.
SpaceLifeFormI never got carded playing it either.
Lukewarm Flystalker 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱@kbeninato
I remember when pong was only available on large consoles at arcades... Heck, I remember when the board game Careers was first launched...
I remember when pong was only available on large consoles at arcades... Heck, I remember when the board game Careers was first launched...
@bardmoss I remember needing quarters for pong.
Mike Nelson Pedde@kbeninato I remember 8" floppy disks. 🙂