Just realize,
we are currently bringing up a generation that will have grown up without ever using or even seeing a mouse with a ball. We'd have to explain to these children what life was like before optical and laser. I'm not an old person, but even those recent days of mouse balls seem far away now. I can't quite grasp the reality of those days. Strange, isn't it? I've forgotten what the touch of mice with balls was like.

Does anybody else remember mice with balls?

No.

Sadly.

What about trackballs?

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lame troll.

trackballs aren't real.

Remember having to replace the little buggers when the mouse started acting up? I used to have a collection of "used mouse balls" when I was in grade school. I just replaced my last ball mouse, and am very happy to be rid of the thing.

My mother still remembers when she was working as a secratary and the computer techs had to work in a freezing cold room so the computer (which was as big as the room itself) didn't overheat. They used punchcards and my mother typed on a typewriter.

I recently used a typewriter for the first time... How amusing old technology is! It even has a primative backspace -- correction fluid!

I'm just now a technical "adult," and I can already see myself telling the young'uns of tommorow:

( LƒÖ`) When I was your age, we had nine planets. Also, computers had floppy drives. I remember when a TB of memory was something only servers used... Ah, those were the days...

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I used to hate optical mice, but that was mostly cause all the ones I used were crap. Now, I wouldn't trade my MX1000 for any other mouse.

I still use a "ballmouse". nothing wrong with it.

touching mouse with balls.. pervert..

BALLS BETTER NOT BE TOUCHING

Remember the fluff that you had to use tweezers to pick out every so often? Or else the mouse would move all bumpy and shit. And then it was so satisfying when you cleaned it all, and the feeling of the arrow moving so smoothly across your screen.

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It feels really good. I miss that feeling since i'm using an optical mouse now.

It's the same feeling you get when you clean out all the earwax in your ears.

My first PC had a trackball and my last ball mouse just broke, so I'm all optical now.

It's certainly weird. I wonder if ICT students of the future will learn about progressions in mouse technology in the same way we learned about progressions in processer technology?

<_>

>>14
Saying that makes you feel a slight bit old, don't it?

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Slight?

No, very.

I fail at youth.

I think that although I am 18, I must have the soul of someone born much earlier. I can only listen to 80's rock, every piece of clothing I own is from vintage and resale stores, and I still freak out that there are affordable quad-cores now.

Intel is running ATI out of business... Things are going to be very expensive soon, I think. Even so, I'm definitely ordering my 9.6 Intel quad-core now that the price is ~$300.

Alas, I digress; gone are the days of ball mice, floppy disks, and zip drives. Does anyone remember zip disks? Now we have jumpdrives...

Zip disks kinda passed me by. I never had a zip drive. I didn't see the point. I had a CD rewriter.

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>Things are going to be very expensive soon...

Really? Seems to me like the prices for what used to be high-end workstations are plummeting faster than I can upgrade my machine.

>>19

I simply see a monopoly coming on...

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Hrmmm, it's true that Intel is everywhere these days.

>the touch of mice with balls
>used mouse balls

Hehe.

I remember when I was younger, playing Bloody Roar on my new PlayStation, my dad told me, "You know, they're going to put movies on those things."

I was like, lol whut.

"Yeah, like your computer games, but they will play on the TV."

Also, I remember using these huge fucking floppy disc things on school computers, up until like 1998. wtf. Get with the times, school.

Strange days...

Duke Nukem anyone?

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DN3D had the best theme music ever.

I still have it.

In fact I think I might play it. If only to pull down the tops of those stripper chicks on level 2.

Hello!

SHAKE IT BABY SHAKE IT BABY YOU WANNA DANCE YOU WANNA DANCE SHAKE IT BABY

And I'm spent.

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really... what is a mouse and a ball?? -_-

lol I had a ball mouse until like 2 years ago

Don't worry, unless it affects them directly this generations kid's don't care. Compare the age of today's Iraq protestors with the 60's Vietnam protestors.

Yes, I remember trackball mice and I'm not sad to see them go. They sucked and gathered dust.

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I really didn't like the mouse & ball. >< Hooray for laser and touch pads/sticks!

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