In the GoodOldDays:
BasicLanguage was language everybody started with. PascalLanguage lovers were scared to admit it.
CLanguage was a very cool language you have heard adults talking about.
- Using Windows was not a sin, in fact, it made you look very cool.
- People using Windows NT were gods.
- Being a geek meant knowing the difference between high-memory, conventionnal memory, extended memory, paged memory and upper memory.
- Being l33t meant getting over 620k free of conventional memory in DOS with every drivers your daddy needed still in memory.
- Writing "l33t" would return: "Bad command of file name".
Everyone was scared of WordPerfect's unfriendly blue screen. That fear of blue screens still exist today.
at most of all...
We actually programmed instead of wasting our time looking at PornPictures, chatting on the IrcChannel or writing stupid stuff on wikis! ;P
Wow, Windows NT existed in the Old Days? You all must be really young (and I'm 18!) - ctkrohn
Must be some kind of parallell timeline... AFAIK using windows was always a sin 
And writing "l33t" still returns "Bad command or file name". -- MarkusB
Lol, not if you write a file named 133t.bat which conatins the single line: echo You are 133t -- CJSilver
Really we all know that the old days were about: * Playing DOS games -- Rafik Rezzik
Nah, the good old days were about having a box with a 40Mb hard drive and thinking that was massive -- DavidStill
And I remember using a 1200 baud modem to dail in to BBSes. Yeah, we shared C code too. Those were the good old days for me. 
--YeohHS
For me, the good old days were when I was still in high school, had extra money, didn't have to study, and could spend my time programming and playing basketball. *sigh* -- MikeLeonhard
ctkrohn: Windows NT 3.51 (I think), floated around while Windows 3.x evolved (or unevolved) to Windows 95. -- FrancoisDenisGonthier
And before that It was windows for workgroups 3.11 when windows 3.1 was realeased. I am only 15 and even I remeber what computers were like then although I now use linux and love doing so. -- EwanMarshall