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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: adrug]
    #4399466 - 07/13/05 11:35 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Lol! I still have (and know by heart) my FIRST ICQ account number!

1276392

Though I don't use ICQ anymore :smirk:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: YidakiMan]
    #4399472 - 07/13/05 11:38 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Me and my buddy played Duke Nukem 3d over modem.


Haha, yeah I spend MANY saturday afternoons killing a friend of mine in games of DOOM over our 14.4 modems!

I had a 486DX2/80 with 20 whole MB of RAM and a 540 MB hard disk! He only had a 486SX/25 system with 8 MB of RAM, and my computer would load into DOOM significantly faster than his...which would ALWAYS cause connection problems.

Our fix: he played DOOM from within DOS...I played from within Windows and would have to Alt-Tab OUT of the window as it loaded up, wait a few seconds, then Alt-Tab back. That would slow down the loading just enough for his box to catch up to mine :grin:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: YidakiMan]
    #4399475 - 07/13/05 11:39 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Happy birthday, by the way!! :smile:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399495 - 07/13/05 11:44 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

trendal said:
...when you remember a time when no one had to put numbers in their nicknames...because there were still so many names not being used.


Anything else?

Oh!


If "gopher" means something other than "animal" to you...you know you're an Internet Oldtimer :smirk:





Luckily, I have never had to put numbers in my nickname. Guess I'm the only one sick enough to use this nickname.

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399497 - 07/13/05 11:45 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

When I was about 10, my dad showed me how to dial into his shell account at the university. Their server was running Solaris, he explained that it was kind of like DOS, and I explored from there. I remember being amazed when he showed me how to gopher into a computer in ENGLAND, no long distance fees!

Then I started out on USENET for a while. Eventually we got a PPP dialup account, and a copy of the Mosaic browser... there were pictures on the internet!

I remember going to yahoo, and finding pictures of girls in bikinis, and a web page about rectal foreign bodies (which I believe still exists, it's been around for ages).

Dr. Fun cartoons were neat.

I still have a copy of "The Internet for Dummies" that only has one tiny little chapter about the WWW, it had longer chapters about usenet, telnet, gopher, e-mail, and IRC.

I wonder what I'd have turned out like without the internet...


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Phluck]
    #4399498 - 07/13/05 11:46 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Probably a neurosurgeon or an astrophysicist.  Now you're a moderator on a mushroom website instead.  :wink:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399502 - 07/13/05 11:47 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Definitely an improvement!

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399507 - 07/13/05 11:49 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Yeah! If you google my real name you'll find Doom levels I made when I was 12.

My friend Luke and I also used to play Duke3D all the time, it had the best map editor ever, really flexible and extremely easy to use. We used to design maps to play against each other on, and we'd hide all kinds of secret passages and control rooms so that we could trap one another, it was awesome.

I started working on a single player duke3d level once that I intended to try and make as good as one of the levels in the game... I actually got fairly far into it, but gave up, it took WAY too long to do all the shadows and effects, but I still fondly recall the Build editor. That was truly a great piece of software.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399519 - 07/13/05 11:52 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Dang... hehe


Oh yeah, I went to buy Stop Making Sense, but couldn't find it, so I picked up a Talking Heads greatest hits album put out by Rhino, and I've been listening to it non-stop all week. I had always intended to pick up something from them but thanks to you the idea was in my mind.

I'm gonna have to get some more albums soon...


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Phluck]
    #4399521 - 07/13/05 11:53 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Yeah the editor for D3D was WAY better than anything else out at the time!

Most of the Doom level editors were truly horrid.

"I'm gonna rip off your head and shit down your throat!"

I remember hearing that SO many times while playing that game over and over and over again :smirk:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Phluck]
    #4399524 - 07/13/05 11:53 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Awesome man! What was the name of the best of?

They recently put out a 2-disc live set of their live stuff. Disc 1 is 1977-1979. Disc 2 is 1980-1981. All the songs are culled from lots of different live performances and strung together to sound like one show, it's cool. It's called "The Name of this Band is Talking Heads."


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399525 - 07/13/05 11:53 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

And then, at the end, you actually DO tear off its head and shit down its throat! :lol:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399544 - 07/13/05 11:57 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Yeah, a lot of the Doom editors were a real bitch to use, which is frustrating considering that the engine in Doom was much simpler than Duke3D... I still haven't seen anything to this day that matches the simplicity of the Build editor.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399548 - 07/13/05 11:59 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I remember when the only .html editor was notepad, and if you told somebody 'I design web pages', it would actually impress them...

I remember when you could get warez from a web browser...

I remember when there was little to no advertising on the internet... performing a search actually turned up relevant information instead of a million viagra ads...

I remember calling my friends up with a modem so we could play eachother on Duke Nukem 3D.

I remember having to use the same email account as everyone else in my household, which resulted in my parents finding out all kinds of shit about my personal life I would have rather them not known...

I remember the phrase: "Get off the internet: I need to use the phone!"

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399553 - 07/13/05 12:00 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

It's just called "The Best of the Talking Heads".

This is it:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det...nce&s=music

Also, I read through a bunch of David Byrne's blog while I was supposed to be working yesterday, he's a cool dude.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399560 - 07/13/05 12:01 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

trendal said:
Yeah the editor for D3D was WAY better than anything else out at the time!

Most of the Doom level editors were truly horrid.

"I'm gonna rip off your head and shit down your throat!"

I remember hearing that SO many times while playing that game over and over and over again :smirk:




dude, I remember I put together this Duke3D level that was a shopping mall, complete with department stores, food court, and arcade...  There was a network of secret passages and tunnels that connected all the stores...  that shit was so badass...

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Phluck]
    #4399564 - 07/13/05 12:02 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

:yesnod:  He makes really really interesting observations.  Did you see his post about the new "Freedom Tower" at the old WTC site? brilliant.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: DoctorJ]
    #4399571 - 07/13/05 12:05 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Notepad?!!?

Vi, my friend... no, EDLIN. Yeah. And I'd write the browser in machine code because assembler is for pussies.

You still can get warez from a web browser... just not from a regular search engine.

Here's one thing that's not so long ago: I remember when popular search engines would all go through the same process. They'd start getting popular and more comprehensive, and then they'd end up being overrun with ads. Either because people were paying them to come up often or because people were figuring out ways to manipulate the engines.

Then came google, who could do no evil and we were all saved.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399575 - 07/13/05 12:05 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Nope, I'll pull that one up now.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399578 - 07/13/05 12:06 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Oh yeah, do you like Devo? Do you want to see them Aug 18 in Ohio?


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