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You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when...
    #4399299 - 07/13/05 10:29 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

...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:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399312 - 07/13/05 10:36 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Heh, gopher...ahhh sweet text.


I remember my 2400 baud modem like it was yesterday!


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399317 - 07/13/05 10:38 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Haha! Yeah I remember my first 2400 baud modem, too!

The speed was BLAZING! :lol:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399318 - 07/13/05 10:39 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

My dad got us AOL right when they went from being a regional company around Virginia to advertising around the country. Man, those were the days. I even remember my first internet friend, her name was Shari and her screenname was MoRAM22.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399324 - 07/13/05 10:42 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I used to trade DOS games on a dialup BBS using my "Zenith Data Machine."

My first AOL screen name was five letters and no numbers.  It was AOL 1.0.

"warez" and pirated software used to be hosted on free websites- because NOTHING was bigger than 5MB.

Credit card fraud was rampant because there was no way to validate the info.

You could whistle commands to your modem via your house phone on the same line.

Good ol' days.  :grin:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399330 - 07/13/05 10:45 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

You know that AOL started out as a BBS?


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Drink_Punk_Soda]
    #4399331 - 07/13/05 10:45 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I still use my original screen name from AOL 2.1.X.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399332 - 07/13/05 10:45 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I remember paying for access to, and then using for about 69 hours straight (for downloads) the TOTSE dial-in BBS back in the dizay.

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399338 - 07/13/05 10:46 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Nope I didn't trendal...I used to use a program called GEnie that was all text and no graphics at all before I ever used AOL.  I remember it so clearly, they had awesome games you could play, text-based RPG's and trivia games...I just hung out in the music rooms to be cool like my sisters. :smirk:


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-Erik Davis

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399356 - 07/13/05 10:57 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Yeah a GOOD number of the early ISP's all started out as local BBS systems. As the technology to link networks of BBSs together got off the ground, it became possible to link your BBS to the Internet.

People started paying to use these BBSs, at first FOR the BBS but later increasingly for the INTERNET that was available ON the BBS. Eventually a lot of these decided to scrap the BBS part of their business and just give out dialup Internet access. Thus the local-ISP was born!


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399360 - 07/13/05 10:59 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

And the Shroomery is keeping the BBS tradition alive, in a psychedelic fashion.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399364 - 07/13/05 11:01 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Exactly!

First we had the BBS. Then BBS with net access. Then we just had net access. Now we have internet with BBS access.

It all comes full-circle :wink:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399390 - 07/13/05 11:06 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Next up...telepathy!


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399396 - 07/13/05 11:08 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

And then, BBS via telepathy! :grin:

Imagine "running" something like a BBS from your own brain!


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399401 - 07/13/05 11:10 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I think I just had a near-aneurysm trying to process that...I'm not ready!


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-Erik Davis

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399405 - 07/13/05 11:12 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Before we have telepathy, we'll need the telepathic equivalent of
routers and dedicated servers.

i.e. dishes of cloned neurons stacked twelve high, or in a honeycomb
configuration, connected to a high-power version of our own implanted
neural antenna.

Somebody call William Gibson!


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399407 - 07/13/05 11:12 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Definitely, I remember downloading game patches that were less than a 1mb, and it taking over 30 minutes, and I thought it was pretty quick. Technology is scary.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #4399412 - 07/13/05 11:14 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I remember getting my first isp. Netcomplete in 93. My first modem was a 14.4k external texas instrument modem.

man those were the days.

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399423 - 07/13/05 11:19 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

...when your ICQ number only has 7 digits.

...when you still use ICQ. :smirk:

Or maybe that's more like an 'internet old fogey'.

"DAMN KIDS, GET OFF MY PORTS!" :grin:

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399432 - 07/13/05 11:24 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I'm not an old timer... but definately middle ager....

I still have my first AOL screenname, lets see here, I was in 6th grade that would make it nine years ago. I dont have ICQ anymore, but I had a five digit number.
Me and my buddy played Duke Nukem 3d over modem.

We hadn;t figured out how to turn off call waiting yet... and as you may know if someone calls you get kicked off. It still remains that way I think. My friends babysitter was calling every ten minutes and I cussed her out. She came and bitched at my mom, and my mom flipped her off.

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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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-Erik Davis

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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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-Erik Davis

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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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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Phluck]
    #4399581 - 07/13/05 12:06 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Oh man, I almost saw them last year at Central Park, they definitely rule. I don't know if I could make it out to Ohio just for Devo though! Who's opening?


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399607 - 07/13/05 12:12 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

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

1276392

Though I don't use ICQ anymore :smirk:




hehe 2845383 here.. a bit older than you, but still an old ass icq account. i actually still use it (connected through GAIM, though), to talk to my boss, because MSN has a much smaller limit on the amount of text you can send in one message, and you can't send messages to offline users with it.

i remember having a Mac LC II in 1992... i actually think my parents still have it in their basement somewhere :grin:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399625 - 07/13/05 12:15 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

The Beat UK is opening. a few people are going to be in Ohio then though, it would be cool to have a party afterwards, but yeah, it's a pretty long drive for you.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Phluck]
    #4399636 - 07/13/05 12:18 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Plus I don't have a car or a driver's license, and my girlfriend woul dbe all "naaaah" about driving.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4399682 - 07/13/05 12:27 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Ah, that's a shame... I looked it up, they're actually playing Atlantic City the day before, you should check them out then.

I really want to head to NYC sometime this summer again, that'd be pretty sweet. It's a nifty city, I'd love to get a chance to take some acid there.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Phluck]
    #4399694 - 07/13/05 12:29 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

:yesnod: :yesnod: :yesnod:  I should be moving into a new place between Aug. 1st and Sept. 1st.  Probably more room if you needed a place to crash once I move to the new one...


Acid, NYC, yessssss!


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Phluck]
    #4399731 - 07/13/05 12:40 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

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




Googling my real name, the only legit hits coming back to me are for doom and dukenukem levels i made too :smile:

I would make fairly simple in design but great for DM levels and we would play 4 player ipx(wow that was so cool!) and dialup.

fun times.

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: baraka]
    #4399742 - 07/13/05 12:45 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

it's time to chew bubblegum and kiss ass, and were all out of gum....
those were the days...


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4399838 - 07/13/05 01:18 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I remember dialing into a bbs in order to connect to the net. And when everyone started getting the net, I always said it was just a phase and would pass.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: baraka]
    #4399849 - 07/13/05 01:20 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Devo's playing at the Scene Pavillion in Cleveland.
http://www.hob.com/tickets/eventdetail.asp?eventid=32120


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: InsatiableThirst]
    #4399917 - 07/13/05 01:39 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

And when everyone started getting the net, I always said it was just a phase and would pass.

:lol: How wrong you were....

Actually I seem to remember QUITE a few people saying this, in the early days of the internet boom. Many industry insiders were even convinced the internet would just be a "passing fad". :smirk:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4400195 - 07/13/05 03:05 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

...if you remember Excite chat....Vplaces.


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    #4400249 - 07/13/05 03:17 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Do you remember iparty?


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4400568 - 07/13/05 04:25 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

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You know that AOL started out as a BBS?




yep i remember when it was...back in the day

i got my start with a commodore 64 back around 1983. I had what I think was a 800baud modem that I would use to send text messages to my father across the country.

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    #4400801 - 07/13/05 05:15 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I had a C64. I had to type in these games out of the program book before I could play them. Those were the days.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4400899 - 07/13/05 05:49 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

We were talking about this on irc the other day.

I first used Usenet in early 1993 when I posted an ad for an old 2400 baud modem in one of the forsale newsgroups.  I had just upgraded to a slightly better 2400 baud modem, which in itself was an upgrade from a 1200 baud modem.  I'm too young to have used 300 baud modems.  So I started to use the Internet before the graphical www. ; The first graphical web browser Mosaic was released in the fall of 1993.

I first used irc in 1993 when there was only one network.  That's right, EFNet was it and there were only a few thousand total users.

Back in 1987, I used AOL before it became AOL.  At that time it was known as QuantumLink.  I was 12 at the time and my father turned it off when I managed to rack up a $100+ bill.

I distinctly remember the switch to IDE hard drives.  Many people were introduced to IDE with 120 MB hard drives installed in, if they were lucky, 486 DX2-66 systems.  This was around 1992 or so.

I vividly recall installing Linux in 1994 and struggling for several days to get PPP working.  Once I got Linux working my GPA at the university was doomed.  It had already declined significantly once I really started using irc and Usenet in 1994.

I remember when AOL joined Usenet in 1994.  That was the beginning of the Internet for everyone, as opposed to the Internet for computer experts.

Enough rambling... :rolleyes:

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Roadkill]
    #4400956 - 07/13/05 06:10 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

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...if you remember Excite chat....Vplaces.




After I got banned from AOL when I was only 13 years old I started going to VP. :smile: Had some very good times there and met a shit load of knowledgeable cool people.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4401075 - 07/13/05 06:37 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

:lol:

there were only like 10 web sites when i first used the internet.

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    #4401697 - 07/13/05 09:36 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

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I had a C64.  I had to type in these games out of the program book before I could play them.  Those were the days.




Yep, I think it was Computer Games Magazine that had games you could type out over like 4-8 hours :smile: One mistake and it was all ruined lol...

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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4401799 - 07/13/05 10:26 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

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...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:




Heh! I started using the net when the old Mosiac browser was being introduced. You could actually put pictures on a webpage! (albeit as an inline link)  :eek:

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    #4401968 - 07/13/05 11:38 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

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I had a C64.  I had to type in these games out of the program book before I could play them.  Those were the days.




Yep, I think it was Computer Games Magazine that had games you could type out over like 4-8 hours :smile: One mistake and it was all ruined lol...




lol I had a few game books where it was just pages and pages of code.  All I remember was that the one I used the most was a blue book.  It had all the cool games. haha

There's another game that I can't remember the name of.  It's a trivia game that you have to pay for now but back then it was free.  You played with two players and you got a screw that you could use to make your opponent answer the question if you didn't know it.  The name is on the tip of my tongue and it's going to drive me crazy all night.  If and when it comes to me, I'll post it.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: InsatiableThirst]
    #4402614 - 07/14/05 07:05 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Having to write down web addresses to remember them.

Being so happy when I remembered a web address and got the right end to it off the top of my head (for instance typing "www.yahoo.com")

AOL actually being a neat and relevant program.

Endless games of Command and Conquer

Compuserve... what a strange service I never really understood.

This is going to get some bad looks but downloading pictures and watching and waiting as the pictures slowly loaded. I swear I was only interested in nature pics.

Local Web Community Programs. For instance it'd be like AOL but just for your town.

For computer memories, we had a c64 too but I didn't get on the internet until we got one of the very first pentium computers ever made. On the C64, it didn't have a hard drive and had to use floppy disks and you had to type the name of the program in you wanted to play. We that computer so long that the floppy disks for it actually wore out long before we ever got a new computer. I can remember bowling, Fun House  :grin: and some game with Chuck Yeager where you had to type in some information about plane as a password that was in the guidebook, but we lost the guidebook and could never play again. I must've spent hours sitting at the computer as a five year old with several books about airplanes trying to somehow get into the program. Crazy.

For a time my biggest fantasy in life was to be able to have a computer that could play Falcon 3.0 :smile:

Hmm... those are the ones off the top of my head.

By the way, is the game you're thinking of "You Don't Know Jack?"


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4402634 - 07/14/05 07:23 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I used to play Legend of the red dragon.. Oh but wait.. I now play Legend of the green dragon.

Back then, porn was also available on BBS's. And the quality was sublime.  :grin:


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    #4402671 - 07/14/05 07:56 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

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By the way, is the game you're thinking of "You Don't Know Jack?"




YES! That was it! I love that game!


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    #4402676 - 07/14/05 08:03 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

For those of you wondering what we're talking about, all of the computer magazines of the day used to carry pages and pages of this:



Yes, we really typed this stuff in. I'm telling you, hex listings are the reason ADD/ADHD wasn't common in those days. If you could manage to enter 30 pages of hex listings, there is nothing you can't endure.

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    #4402689 - 07/14/05 08:09 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I used to play this all the time:


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    #4402700 - 07/14/05 08:15 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

hahaha hunt the wumpus.

i had a computer science teacher in highschool who made us learn how to do hex/binary/otherweirdassnumbersystems algebra... i still have no freaking clue why.


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    #4402724 - 07/14/05 08:25 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

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hahaha hunt the wumpus.

i had a computer science teacher in highschool who made us learn how to do hex/binary/otherweirdassnumbersystems algebra... i still have no freaking clue why.




Well.. because someday someone will come up to you and says something like:

F00 CCF F33 333 300 666 600 999 900 CCC C00 FFF F00 CC9 933 CC6 633 330
000 660 000 990 000 CC0 000 FF0 000 FF3 366 FF0

And then the secret code that the evil teacher (who actually was a martian spy) implanted in your feeble brain will automatically make you build the deathray.

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    #4402730 - 07/14/05 08:27 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

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I had a C64.  I had to type in these games out of the program book before I could play them.  Those were the days.




Yep, I think it was Computer Games Magazine that had games you could type out over like 4-8 hours :smile: One mistake and it was all ruined lol...




lol I had a few game books where it was just pages and pages of code.  All I remember was that the one I used the most was a blue book.  It had all the cool games. haha

There's another game that I can't remember the name of.  It's a trivia game that you have to pay for now but back then it was free.  You played with two players and you got a screw that you could use to make your opponent answer the question if you didn't know it.  The name is on the tip of my tongue and it's going to drive me crazy all night.  If and when it comes to me, I'll post it.




My fav c64 game of all time was Seven Cities of Gold. They still haven't made a game as amazing as that one, on ANY system. I still fire it up on my emulator sometimes.

I remember the game UTOPIA, that we typed up out of the magazine. It was one of the last ones we ever did, back in the late 80s. That game was so awesome. Two players, each controlled an island and you planted different crops and spent money on fishing boats and battleships and tried to make your island better than the other guys. There were moving weather patterns that affected crops, etc.

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hahaha hunt the wumpus.

i had a computer science teacher in highschool who made us learn how to do hex/binary/otherweirdassnumbersystems algebra... i still have no freaking clue why.







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    #4402799 - 07/14/05 09:00 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

The Seven Cities of Gold!! How could I forget! That game was the shit. That was where you were like.. Christopher Columbus and you had to go seek out new land, right?


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    #4402874 - 07/14/05 09:26 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Yeah you were an explorer for Spain and traveled west to discover the new world and explore it. That game was so HUGE.

Nothing beat having the game create a new random "new world" for you so you didn't know where you were exploring.

It took like 45 minutes back in the day, now on my emulator it's instant lol!

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    #4402892 - 07/14/05 09:30 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

I really miss that game. I should see if it's available nowadays.


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: InsatiableThirst]
    #4402951 - 07/14/05 09:48 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

it is if you get the emulator and then get the game

good site for more info

http://www.c64.com/

i just played cities of gold a couple weeks ago

http://www.c64.com/detail.php?gameid=100099


hell they even just came out with a c64 emulator for PDAs!

another great game was paradroid
http://www.c64.com/detail.php?gameid=1136

and agent USA
http://www.c64.com/detail.php?gameid=64

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    #4403000 - 07/14/05 10:00 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Oh right on! Thank you!  I think I've found a new addiction. :wink: I put it in my favourites. :thumbup:


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: InsatiableThirst]
    #4403168 - 07/14/05 10:52 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

Does anybody remember the Gorilla bannana throwing game that was one of the demos in Q Basic?


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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
    #4403188 - 07/14/05 10:57 AM (18 years, 8 months ago)

... i used telnet to chat with colleges from other universities.

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