Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for May 09, 2017

I remember “Pong”! I remember it as a great breakthrough (well, sort of) in video game technology.

Tony asked, about 6 hours ago

Do you?

Yes.

I’m so old, I even remember Pong when it still had a “Ping” in front of it.

I still have Pac Man wrist.

BTW… SFReader asked a question the other day about why her posts seem to disappear…

A couple of answers were given, and later in the day, I explained a goof of my own that can cause it to happen, as well.

It was the last post, and I doubt anyone saw it….

So, in case it might still be useful to someone,….…. or you do come back this way, SFReader…

Please, the rest of you forgive me for re-posting it here:

Sfreader… I can tell you why it sometimes happens to me …

I do it myself, accidentally, and it took me ages to realise my silly mistake.

Before the site changes of a few months ago, the font in the comment box, where we enter our text, was very different from that of the posted comments.

Plus, there was always a clearly framed area around the space.

But since then, we type in what looks to me like the posted font…

And if you click or touch outside the box, the frame disappears.

Now, a posted comment will have your user name on it, in bold, plus a line in lgrey caps that says how long ago you posted.

But I usually post late at night, and when I’m tired, I think I sometimes re-read my comment,

which almost but not quite already matches the others on the page,

and don’t even realise that I haven’t hit “submit.”

Close the page, and buh-bye comment.

Gone forever.

Well, Firefox, but no other browser I know of, can occasionally get it back,

from the recently closed windows menu, but only if I haven’t opened more than one or two other pages …

But I seldom realise in time.

Yes, but I’d rather forget.

Pong, oh yeah it was an amazing thing then. From it a monster industry has evolved. Kinda like Television in the 50s.

Home or Arcade version?

Yes, Tony, I remember Pong.

@Tony:

Yep, I do. And video games just escalated from there. I used to have an Atari 2600 (it’s long gone now), now I still have the original NES and Super NES systems. And they still work just fine, thank you. And I will thank you if you can take the time to answer today’s…

Second “Daddy’s Home” Question:

What’s your favorite video game?

I do remember pong, I loved Ms. Pac Man and Galaga. I guess I’m answering the second question now. No, I’m not.