jayboat

Some clarification to post #15, item 5. This is the internet-- it's important to get it right.
And, I was thinking about this very thing last night.

Here's some of my story-
first, about the polaroids- bought my first in 1966- anyone else remember having to coat them with that nasty clearcoat?
second, nearly every major job in my life has involved a darkroom, or management of a darkroom (first hand developing in 1964).

Like Dave, I was a bit resistant to the internet, but had been using an Apple IIe to run proprietary software for a long time (90-98).
Never had any real issues with software or hardware- thanks to watfor and cobol software classes in college (70,71).
Watched with fascination as the entire graphics/publishing industry went from analog to digital in the blink of an eye in the late 80's thanks to desktop publishing.
Even in those days I felt one could get an education from corporate 800 #s- plenty to learn from a prospectus.
(easier than the library- they deliver to your door, kinda like ebay).
And in the late 70's, I was WOT in Atlanta. Had a small agency running out of a 2nd bdrm.
One of my wealthiest clients had the first bag phone I remember- 1979. Had it built into the console of one of his Mercedes.

Was thinking about time spent running around to typesetter, art supply store, color separator, printers...
Using waxers and PMT machines to prepare art... or pounce wheels for sign patterns.
all the while wishing for a 'graphics workstation' that sold for 150K and didn't have the power of a smartphone.

For someone who's been a part of the media for over 40 yrs, the cosmic changes we are witnessing are fascinating.
I remember using a laptop and downloading music from Napster, and watching the worldwide music industry have a collective freakout
until apple showed everyone how to monetize it.

the upheaval continues. out with the old, in with the new.

Smarty

You hit it on the head with that sentence. I loved going boating with my father in the 70's, 80's, and 90's because we went out every Sunday and looked for races, and the thrill was you rolled up along side of another boater., you had no idea who they were, and most of the time, unless you had people talking about you/making a reputation they did not know about you, we raced so many boast through the years, and like Biggus said, we had a Nordskog speedometer, and a before that a Keller Speedometer, and I lived for day when Hotboat and Powerboat Magazine arrived in the mail.

The internet and OSO have taken away some of the mystery surrounding a performance boat if there is any information on a boat out there, especially if the boat has a name on the side or on the transom , other than being that all-white Cigarette type boat. For 19 years my father and I raced as many boats as we could in the yellow Magnum pictured below, when I was just a toddler to four years of age he used to race the flat bottom V-drive crowd with this Carlson tunnel boat. When you own a yellow boat named "the Hairy Canary" people tend to remember, when you have an outboard tunnel boat running close to 80 mph people remember, and word does get around, but more people knew about my father's Phantom than the other two boats combined, due to internet....no mystery about the Phantom.

One more thing, the older race boats, and the Magnum had high-speed compasses built-in, if you did decided to run offshore, the offshore held in Pt. Pleasant in the 1970's and 1980's a race boat could be seen just idling or stationary going in one direction then the next direction, almost a circle, as a kid I wondered what the hell they were doing, my father explained to me they were setting the compass/making sure their compass was true. Many a race was won or lost due to missing the way offshore/outsight from land check-point, so an accurate compass was a must.

There used to be a radar shoot-out on Barnegat Bay (NJ) in the 1990's and that was the last time there seemed to any mystery how fast boats really went, because the radar gun humbled the best speedometers available to boats, the allegedly 88 mph boat may only have radared at 80 mph, the boats that had the Faria gauges, well they were really humbled. Lots of hurt feelings once that radar gun was used, everyone knew, and everyone ran slower than they thought, and or wanted to believe. Good thread. I do enjoy all the information and pistures of boats and hardware that OSO and the internet provides, I am on here multiple time a day everyday, always waiting to be amazed and impressed with who has what, how fast it goes, or how much it costs.

The Jones boats from 1966 to the present...

FIXX

life was good,,more peaceful,,did not have everyone crawling up your ass,,wish they would go back to dos..its now a police nation and it will be soon be ilegal to say the word pig..

mosi

......let alone....
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..... phucking, low life, pond scum sucking, ....pig

US1 Fountain

Technology is nice but consider it a step backwards when it comes people skills. Internet is great for resources.
My #1 gripe, trying to have a conversation with someone and all I'm doing is talking to the top of their head cause they are f$%cking with their phone texting or whatever. Have a buddy that you can't get more than a couple minutes of his time before he's responding to texts. I'd be better off and should just sit next to him and text him. At least he'd be concentrated on the text's.

I work in a University and find humor just walking thru a crowd of students and see that over half are in head down mode with phone in hand. Everyday task most of us grew up with is a challenge to the younger crowds. Had a student a while back that couldn't figure out how to open the drawer on a toolbox. I had to open the lid for him. Maybe he shoulda googled the answer for that task! But in all fairness, they know the ins/outs of PC's and phones. It's a techno world out there now

northernoffshore

boat trader and trading times mag. I had the south fla boat trader (and a couple of others) delivered to me in ill. and actually received them before they went on sale locally

Jupiter Sunsation

I had an employee that was great from 7-11am.......then the texting would start (from his girlfriend, she got up around 11 everyday). Nonsense texts, like What R U Doin?, Im sooooo hungover, etc......Finally I told the kid if he couldn't leave the phone in his car then don't come to work......he never came back!

12meter joe

Awesome.

JRider

Life before the net...lots of chitty VCR porn.

Dave M

I feel like sucker punching those types and then stomping on their phone........and then tell them to wake the F up!