After Hours 1992

JupiterKid · 24-07-2017 01:31AM #1

So imagine being in a time warp back 25 years (is it really that long??!!) to 1992. What would have been the threads on AH if Boards had been around back then?

Here's a few that I think might have been around...

Will there ever be peace up North?

Italia '90 - A one-off or have we joined the big lads?

Should gay sex be legal?

Bishop Eamonn Casey - The Biggest scandal to hit the church?

What type of home computer do you have?

Will Ireland ever be a rich country?

Why are our major roads so crap?

Are you thinking of emigrating?

Is Bono the greatest Irish rock star ever?

Noveight · 24-07-2017 01:33AM

Oasis or Blur?

Arghus · 24-07-2017 01:36AM

I can't believe I can make new friends through a computer.

jamesbere · 24-07-2017 01:38AM

Denmark will win the euros, call me crazy but I'll be right

JupiterKid · 24-07-2017 01:39AM

Noveight wrote: »

Oasis or Blur?

Bit early for that, no? Oasis only brought out their debut album in 1994!

vegetables · 24-07-2017 01:49AM

phone book late.

telecom eireannn want to charge 2 pound for a listing.

ArnoldJRimmer · 24-07-2017 01:50AM

What do you reckon the Sinn Fein voice actors look like?

Noveight · 24-07-2017 01:53AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Bit early for that, no? Oasis only brought out their debut album in 1994!

Looks like it's gotta be Blur then... :pac:

K.Flyer · 24-07-2017 02:05AM

Using your mobile phone for finding things on the world wide web!!
Is the technology that far advanced, will it catch on or is it just a limited gimic for the wealthy yuppies?

endacl · 24-07-2017 02:11AM

Something about the dole.
Something about travellers.

branie2 · 24-07-2017 02:11AM

I have a feeling Michael Carruth will do well in the Olympics

Say Your Number · 24-07-2017 02:20AM

It's 41 long years since Mayo won the All-Ireland, does anyone else fancy them to break the hoodoo this year?

The band Guns N Roses have a long prosperous future ahead of them, can't see them disintegrate anytime soon, can't wait to see them at Slane.

K.Flyer · 24-07-2017 02:22AM

How do you store your floppys?

sunbeam · 24-07-2017 02:24AM

Show us your Telecom Eireann Callcard Collection
The 25+ person queue to use the college phone boxes on Thursday evenings-will there ever be a solution?
Are perms really over?
Best typewriter to buy for when you can't access any of the computer suites in college(yes this one really happened).
Student digs and the landlady (and her kids)from hell-how to stop her trying to be your second mammy?
Best places to rent your student telly from (when you eventually escape from the hell of student digs).

K.Flyer · 24-07-2017 02:33AM

Why can't the government do something about the lack of Taxis in Dublin. Fed up after standing on a queue for over an hour in the rain on College Green.

Junkyard Tom · 24-07-2017 02:33AM

K.Flyer wrote: »

Using your mobile phone for finding things on the world wide web!!
Is the technology that far advanced, will it catch on or is it just a limited gimic for the wealthy yuppies?

You're way ahead of yourself there, nobody was doing that in 1992. Many of us were still queueing to use a public phone box in 1992, we still communicated by writing letters, you had to buy a camera and a roll of film to take snaps and then take the roll of film to the chemist and wait to see how they turned out a week-or-two later.

K.Flyer · 24-07-2017 02:58AM

K.Flyer wrote: »

Using your mobile phone for finding things on the world wide web!!
Is the technology that far advanced, will it catch on or is it just a limited gimic for the wealthy yuppies?

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

You're way ahead of yourself there, nobody was doing that in 1992. Many of us were still queueing to use a public phone box in 1992, we still communicated by writing letters, you had to buy a camera and a roll of film to take snaps and then take the roll of film to the chemist and wait to see how they turned out a week-or-two later.

I meant that to sound in "coming soon" mode

The first prototype, the IBM Simon, had its debut in Nov 1992, but the first commercially available mobile browser went live in 1994 and it was horrendously expensive to use.
I had my first mobile phone in 1988 and it cost to receive calls as well as make them.

sunbeam · 24-07-2017 02:58AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

You're way ahead of yourself there, nobody was doing that in 1992. Many of us were still queueing to use a public phone box in 1992, we still communicated by writing letters, you had to buy a camera and a roll of film to take snaps and then take the roll of film to the chemist and wait to see how they turned out a week-or-two later.

I used to send postcards to the folks to tell them if I was coming home from college at the weekend to save them having to ring my landlady from the neighbours' phone or have the neighbours constantly having to deliver my messages to them. I was not allowed to use the landlady's phone.

I wrote letters to friends working abroad that summer and was their only source of Irish news.

I think one hour photo opened a year or two later and it was so amazing to not have to wait that fortnight to get your photos back.

harry Bailey esq · 24-07-2017 03:26AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

So imagine being in a time warp back 25 years (is it really that long??!!) to 1992. What would have been the threads on AH if Boards had been around back then?

Here's a few that I think might have been around...

Will there ever be peace up North?

Italia '90 - A one-off or have we joined the big lads?

Should gay sex be legal?

Bishop Eamonn Casey - The Biggest scandal to hit the church?

What type of home computer do you have?

Will Ireland ever be a rich country?

Why are our major roads so crap?

Are you thinking of emigrating?

Is Bono the greatest Irish rock star ever?

I was 11/12 in 1992. I had a commodore 64 computer,how could I ever forget flimbos quest what a f*kin game. Bono was dabbing his toe into dance music with zooropa. We really thought we were sitting at the top table at the wedding concerning the football. Euro Disney opened in Paris. It was a really bad year in the north,really bad. I discovered girls and cannabis. Suede British Knights were the coolest thing to have on your feet, Nike air Jordans all the rage too. There were lots of rave tunes in the charts based on themes from kids shows such as sesame street and the magic roundabout. 1992 was a pretty cool time to come of age.

gammygils · 24-07-2017 03:38AM

How did we not qualify for the Euros? I mean Jaysis! We were planning a mega trip to Sweden :mad:

Junkyard Tom · 24-07-2017 03:44AM

K.Flyer wrote: »

I meant that to sound in "coming soon" mode.

'Coming soon' from the perspective of a quarter of a century later. People had pen pals in 1992 not Whatsapp. In 1992 parents spent several weeks wages on 'Encyclopedia Britannica' to help thier kids get access to information. Microsoft Encarta (digital encyclopedia) was released in 1993 before the vast majority of people even had a home PC never mind an internet connection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LaT5Iiwo4

Realt Dearg Sec · 24-07-2017 03:47AM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

JupiterKid wrote: »

So imagine being in a time warp back 25 years (is it really that long??!!) to 1992. What would have been the threads on AH if Boards had been around back then?

Here's a few that I think might have been around...

Will there ever be peace up North?

Italia '90 - A one-off or have we joined the big lads?

Should gay sex be legal?

Bishop Eamonn Casey - The Biggest scandal to hit the church?

What type of home computer do you have?

Will Ireland ever be a rich country?

Why are our major roads so crap?

Are you thinking of emigrating?

Is Bono the greatest Irish rock star ever?

I was 11/12 in 1992. I had a commodore 64 computer,how could I ever forget flimbos quest what a f*kin game. Bono was dabbing his toe into dance music with zooropa. We really thought we were sitting at the top table at the wedding concerning the football. Euro Disney opened in Paris. It was a really bad year in the north,really bad. I discovered girls and cannabis. Suede British Knights were the coolest thing to have on your feet, Nike air Jordans all the rage too. There were lots of rave tunes in the charts based on themes from kids shows such as sesame street and the magic roundabout. 1992 was a pretty cool time to come of age.

I was the same age, played flimbos quest probably as much as you. But the girls and cannabis? Yeah no this 11 year old wasn't too well acquainted with them.

On topic:
Won't it be great when we don't have to send letters to thousands of people for each thread or reply anymore?

JupiterKid · 24-07-2017 03:54AM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

I was 11/12 in 1992. I had a commodore 64 computer,how could I ever forget flimbos quest what a f*kin game. Bono was dabbing his toe into dance music with zooropa. We really thought we were sitting at the top table at the wedding concerning the football. Euro Disney opened in Paris. It was a really bad year in the north,really bad. I discovered girls and cannabis. Suede British Knights were the coolest thing to have on your feet, Nike air Jordans all the rage too. There were lots of rave tunes in the charts based on themes from kids shows such as sesame street and the magic roundabout. 1992 was a pretty cool time to come of age.

Cannabis and girls at age 11/12? Wow - you started early.

JupiterKid · 24-07-2017 03:58AM

It's pretty sobering to think that as late as 1992 many people did not even have home phones, never mind PCs.

Ireland was shockingly behind the rest of the developed world just 25 years ago. the Economist labelled us "the poorest of the rich."

The catch up we've done since then is impressive when you think of it.

sunbeam · 24-07-2017 04:07AM

I remember that year the college sent us a special offer leaflet on a home computer (and possibly a prehistoric laptop) with our registration pack. Would have been nice to get if it hadn't cost more than my student grant for the entire year.

DrPhilG · 24-07-2017 04:18AM

Flimbo's Quest, holy crap I've been trying to remember the name of that for years!

Brilliant

the_syco · 24-07-2017 04:19AM

K.Flyer wrote: »

Using your mobile phone for finding things on the world wide web!!

WAP.

/shudders

Realt Dearg Sec · 24-07-2017 04:33AM

sunbeam wrote: »

I remember that year the college sent us a special offer leaflet on a home computer (and possibly a prehistoric laptop) with our registration pack. Would have been nice to get if it hadn't cost more than my student grant for the entire year.

I replayed it on an emulator recently and other than the very vivid memories of playing as a child (though for some reason the game creeps me out to think of it) the game itself wasn't up to much at all.

larchielads · 24-07-2017 05:10AM

Liverpool for the league lads

ceadaoin. · 24-07-2017 06:11AM

K.Flyer wrote: »

I meant that to sound in "coming soon" mode The first prototype, the IBM Simon, had its debut in Nov 1992, but the first commercially available mobile browser went live in 1994 and it was horrendously expensive to use.
I had my first mobile phone in 1988 and it cost to receive calls as well as make them.

A mobile phone in 1988? Was it one of those huge things that came in a suitcase?!

Erik Shin · 24-07-2017 06:34AM

Pearl Jam or Nirvana... G'wan Eddie!

After Hours 1992

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