I'm a silver surfer!

[robinturner]

The delectable Sevi on the BBC's Click Online just introduced websites for "silver surfers" by saying "for those of you who remember Neil Armstrong landing on the moon." So it's official - I'm a silver surfer! Personally, I prefer the term "old-school geek" - one of those grumpy old guys with a pony tail who say things like:

"You want a word processor? What's wrong with vi?"
"1.5MHz CPU? You must have a hell of a lot of code to compile."
"Well, if you will use Windows ..." [ominous pause]
"When are they going to re-issue Elite? Can't beat those wire-frame graphics."

Comments

[kristian.livejournal.com]

Hey, you don't have to be old to remember the original Elite! I used to play it when I was like, I dunno, 9? or 10? Who knows. A long time ago. I guess it still makes you old though, coz you were probably like, 20. :P

And they have reissued elite! Elite+, Elite II, Frontiers, Frontiers: The First Encounter, and Elite 4 is now in progress. Oh... you wanted LINUX ELITE? Hrrm...