The Ledge is Banned at School / Homecoming - Page 3

rubytuesday · #31 10-13-2009, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by LukeA

Call me fascist, but color me surprised by the notion of a school (during school hours) allowing internet access for purposes other than for assignments. I don't necessarily oppose the idea- but a case could be made that its unnecessarily permissive and a huge distraction.

I also say this as someone 27 years old and who has used the Internet for nearly twenty of those.

20?! I didn't know it existed way back in 89. But yeah I went to boarding school and there's no way that we could use the school computers for browsing just anything we liked. But the access in the dorms was the same so there was really no fun in the internet until I left school.

Dodfather · #32 10-13-2009, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by LukeA

Call me fascist, but color me surprised by the notion of a school (during school hours) allowing internet access for purposes other than for assignments. I don't necessarily oppose the idea- but a case could be made that its unnecessarily permissive and a huge distraction.

I also say this as someone 27 years old and who has used the Internet for nearly twenty of those.

How on earth is the business of this forum what you consider to be appropriate internet use at school? At least this thread began with a specific mention of The Ledge....

LukeA · #33 10-13-2009, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Dodfather

How on earth is the business of this forum what you consider to be appropriate internet use at school? At least this thread began with a specific mention of The Ledge....

Consider it mostly apropos of nothing. I was just honestly surprised, that's all.

daniellaaarisen · #34 10-13-2009, 05:16 PM

I think its time to drop this.

LukeA · #35 10-13-2009, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by rubytuesday

20?! I didn't know it existed way back in 89. But yeah I went to boarding school and there's no way that we could use the school computers for browsing just anything we liked. But the access in the dorms was the same so there was really no fun in the internet until I left school.

Newsgroups (USENET) have been around since 1980. My elementary school's gifted program communicated with other schools across the country via a controlled BBS for a project we were all working on- this was 1989-90. I also started using Prodigy (a long defunct online service provider) on a regular basis at home that year.

fleetwoodtrick · #36 10-13-2009, 05:33 PM

Wooo, I was surprised at all of the replies on this.

They really don't let us use the internet for anything non-educational anymore. They're banned everything that has any type of video on it too, because it used up too much bandwith (?I think?) or something. There is a filter that bans social networking sites/ other things not appropriate for school, but they do ban websites that they see a pattern of us going on. And though I may be the only one, they don't know what I'm posting. It cold be dangerous. -gasp- Either that, or someone hates Fleetwood Mac.

And Luke -- I got your PMs yesterday, I'm sorry! It takes me forever to think of / revise my replies, so expect it sometime soon!

Black_Moon · #37 10-13-2009, 05:38 PM

At my school, Facebook, Hotmail (there's a trick of getting round this, just type in .co.uk instead), MySpace, YouTube -- generally most social networking sites -- are banned. If I try and access things that aren't banned but I'm not supposed to be on them (Last.fm for instance) I'll be able to go on the site for about fifteen minutes before the page is closed automatically.

nailatixela · #38 10-13-2009, 06:10 PM

The Ledge is banned on at my school too. I tried to go on and it was banned - so they must have some way of blocking groups of sites...cause I'm sure no one was trying to get on here before me.

One thing I can get to is the Q&A sessions from a link I've saved in my e-mail inbox. There is down time at school where I have nothing to do and sometimes I have a computer in front of me. I'll surf around during those times if all my work is completed.

holidayroad · #39 10-13-2009, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by GODDESS6

i am jealous, my brother & i were fighting over the merlin & my mom took it from us & i never saw it ever again~ & i noticed at baker's, a local grocer here that they have a new retro version of atari, i had to chuckle when i saw it~

I had to rescue my Merlin from my mom's 'give away' bag many times

As for the Atari 2600, there was no way anyone was tossing it! I got it for Christmas of '84 and I still think it's one of the best presents I ever received. In the early '90s, I bought an Atari 7800. I still play them. I also have an Intellivision and an Odyssey... I guess you could say I love classic video games!!

GODDESS6 · #40 10-13-2009, 07:41 PM

[QUOTE=holidayroad;847088]I had to rescue my Merlin from my mom's 'give away' bag many times

As for the Atari 2600, there was no way anyone was tossing it! I got it for Christmas of '84 and I still think it's one of the best presents I ever received. In the early '90s, I bought an Atari 7800. I still play them. I also have an Intellivision and an Odyssey... I guess you could say I love classic video games!! [/QUOTE]
my husband & son would be so jealous of this!!!~

paleshadow · #41 10-13-2009, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GODDESS6

the computers we had in highschool were exactly like the ones that molly ringwald & andrew macarthy used in 'pretty & pink", black screen w/ huge orange letters~ the things were so huge & monstorous~ i had an atari tho & merlin does anyone remember that hand held game?~

I think we had apples in school. They were huge and we used cassette players and floppy discs to record data. I had a Texas Instruments computer at home, and remember how exciting it was that I could program it to make a rainbow on the screen. It took about two hours and 40 commands to do it, but it was exciting back then.

My sister had Merlin, but she hardly ever let me play with it. When I did, I used to mostly pretend it was a phone!

holidayroad · #42 10-13-2009, 09:20 PM

[QUOTE=GODDESS6;847117]

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Originally Posted by holidayroad

I had to rescue my Merlin from my mom's 'give away' bag many times

As for the Atari 2600, there was no way anyone was tossing it! I got it for Christmas of '84 and I still think it's one of the best presents I ever received. In the early '90s, I bought an Atari 7800. I still play them. I also have an Intellivision and an Odyssey... I guess you could say I love classic video games!! [/QUOTE]
my husband & son would be so jealous of this!!!~

I forgot to mention that I also have a Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and a Sega Genesis!

GODDESS6 · #43 10-14-2009, 05:33 AM

paleshadow, my brother used the merlin as a phone too, & that is why we were fighting over it, i wanted to play a mean game of tic tac toe

~ & i believe you are right, the comps in school were apples & it was so hard getting in that class because all the schooleys (that is a comp geek nowdays

) took most of the spots~

holiday road (that is my fav lindsey song btw), i still have my sega too~ lol, man i kicked ass on mortal combat, i always was ripping out the hubby's spine when we would play, so he quit playing w/ me

~

i still have playstation I, but now we got xbox360 for my son & PS3 for games & mostly to watch stevie on bluray

~

i love talking about old toys~

jannieC · #44 10-14-2009, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

And your Camaro was powered by Fred's two feet too? They've had those clicker remote control things since the 1970's at least... and it seemed that everyone had a Commodore 64 or an Apple IIe/IIc.

Yeah, we had it rough compared to the kids of today... but it wasn't that bad. I wrote my entire Senior research practicum on an Apple IIe and printed it out on a dot matrix printer- I felt like I was on the cutting edge!

Hm, I *did* have a camaro- how did you know that?

Seriously, my family did not have a remote control! We had a cable box on top of the TV and you had to get up and change the channels. Also, I am certain there were no computers in my school. Of course, I am from a teeny town out on Long Island, so maybe we were a bit behind the times.

GODDESS6 · #45 10-14-2009, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

Hm, I *did* have a camaro- how did you know that?

Seriously, my family did not have a remote control! We had a cable box on top of the TV and you had to get up and change the channels. Also, I am certain there were no computers in my school. Of course, I am from a teeny town out on Long Island, so maybe we were a bit behind the times.

we didn't have a remote either jannie & the only way we had a vcr was because of my stepdad's company~ because when i was a kid they weren't commercially available, where i lived at least~ his company used them for meetings & they were the same type used in schools that were absolutely huge & the tape went in the top & you had to use 2 hands to push the monstrous thing down to play~ we had one of those, but you could only use it to tape off of tv, renting videos hadn't happened yet~

also my granny refused to buy a color tv until her black & white had finally died, & that was the 80's

~