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Originally posted by l�cid i also remember being able to create "alt" accounts that looked like other people's real screen names. my friend Nick's screen name was NickRulz and i created a screen name that was "NickRuIz" (capital I looked just like lowercase l on AOL screen names, lol) and talking to all our friends pretending i was him.

Hehe I still do that on AIM, occaisionally

mp3.com back in the day.

My first internet memories....wow, probably about 1993 or 1994 when my father worked from home. He had a Compuserve account (and still does!) and when I got home from school the first day it was all set up he explained to me how the internet worked and thinking how weird and high tech it was. He showed me train timetables and how it was possible to book train tickets from London to Hong Kong!

I rarely used the internet but can remember when British Airways came online and booking my first airline tickets through there and then mucking around to see how expensive bookings I could get. Think I managed to get it to quote me �65,000 for six people!

Also remember when my school went online and everyone got their own email address and thinking how amazing that was! Then went and got a Yahoo Mail address when that started, really impressed I managed to get @yahoo.com and still use it to this day.

I really started to use the internet heavily when I was at Uni and then found internet forums in early 2003. Since then I've made about 16,000 posts across the various forums

Nowadays I look back and think how much has changed in the last 10yrs or so. I can't imagine planning a trip away, writing a University essay, looking up a filming location for a movie or practically finding out anything without using the internet....incredible!

Anyone looked up www.archive.org can look up cached pages of quite a few websites. Amazing to see how much some have evolved....

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Originally posted by mezzir shit what else was there yahoo, altavista, dogpile, lycos, i know i'm missing one or two big ones

I remember my father recommending Northern Light and Mamma.com. It changed pretty much every week though!

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Originally posted by fbgdavidson I remember my father recommending Northern Light and Mamma.com. It changed pretty much every week though!

oh man the search engines used to be rubbish but I'm impressed google has been on top for this long. But I don't see them falling out anytime soon as they keep coming up with new things.

did anyone else have a lovemail account instead of hotmail??

Let's see:

I used ICQ, MSCHAT (remember the little characters? I was Tiki.
AudioGalaxy ruled because you could cue up as many songs or sets
and leave it overnite/day/overnite!
Excite had a Chat Program that allowed you to play the first snippets of music along with any size avatar.
CD burning was the shit at $900 for a mammoth sized 1X Speed PLEXTOR.
Floppy disks were not 3.5, they were 5.5 or some shit.
Commodore 64 had the first "porn game" which the objective was to fap
the cock without cumming too quick

Holy fuck...I'm OLD!!

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Originally posted by DigitalPhoenix Commodore 64 had the first "porn game" which the objective was to fap the cock without cumming too quick Holy fuck...I'm OLD!!

look how much his changed

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Originally posted by DigitalPhoenix CD burning was the shit at $900 for a mammoth sized 1X Speed PLEXTOR. Floppy disks were not 3.5, they were 5.5 or some shit. Commodore 64 had the first "porn game" which the objective was to fap the cock without cumming too quick [/color] Holy fuck...I'm OLD!!

I can remember getting a Compaq Presario maybe 10yrs ago and in the store it was labelled as having a 1x DVD-ROM drive. I'd never heard of DVD so asked the guy working there and he had no clue either! Apparently it was their first DVD based machine and it had only been in a week! IIRC it was 266Mhz Pentium II

I can also remember those 5.5" floppy discs. Had some on my Dad's old 286! Can recall him not buying an Intel Pentium laptop because apparently the early Pentium laptops ate up the battery too fast

Ah the Commodore 64....my grandfather had one of those, with the Flight Simulator game and Harrier Attack ran off cassette tapes I loved those games as a 5/6yr old in the late 80s!

Well Hi there. Thank you for downloading another fine quality comedy product from Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie and your friends at MP3.com - good for you. Of course, if you've downloaded this from Napster - Screw You! You know what - free isn't good enough for ya? You've gotta rip us off? That's okay! I will find you, and I *will* kill you, ha ha ha.

You see, I come from a time in the nineteen-hundred-and-seventies when computers were used for two things - to either go to the moon, or play Pong... nothing in between. Y'see, you didn't need a fancy operating system to play Pong, and the men who went to the moon--God Bless 'em--did it with no mouse, and a plain text-only black-and-white screen, and 32 kilobytes of RAM.

But then 'round 'bout the late 70's, home computers started to do a little more than play Pong... very little more. Like computers started to play games, and balance checkbooks, and why you could play Zaxxon on your Apple II, or... write a book! All with a computer that had 32 kilobytes of RAM! It was good enough to go to the moon, it was good enough for you.

It was a golden time. A time before Windows, a time before mouses, a time before the internet and bloatware, and a time... before every OS sucked.

*sigh*

Well, way back in the olden times,
my computer worked for me.
I'd laugh and play, all night and day,
on Zork I, II and III.

The Amiga, VIC-20 and the Sinclair II,
The TRS 80 and the Apple II,
they did what they were supposed to do,
it wasn't much... but it was enough.

But then Xerox made a prototype,
Steve Jobs came on the scene,
read "Of Mice and Menus," Windows, Icons
a trash, and a bitmap screen.

Well Stevie said to Xerox,
"Boys, turn your heads and cough."
And when no-one was looking,
he ripped their interfaces off.

Stole every feature that he had seen,
put it in a cute box with a tiny little screen,
Mac OS 1 ran that machine,
only cost five thousand bucks.

But it was slow, it was buggy,
so they wrote it again,
And now they're up to OS 10,
they'll charge you for the Beta, then charge you again,
but the Mac OS still sucks.

Every OS wastes your time,
from the desktop to the lap,
Everything since Apple Dos,
Just a bunch of crap.

From Microsoft, to Macintosh,
to Lih-- lie-- lih-- lie... nux,
Every computer crashes,
'cause every OS sucks.

Well then Microsoft jumped in the game,
copied Apple's interface, with an OS named,
"Windows 3.1" - it was twice as lame,
but the stock price rose and rose.

Then Windows 95, then 98,
man solitaire never ran so great,
and every single version came out late,
but I guess that's the way it goes.

But that bloatware'll crash and delete your work,
NT, ME, man, none of 'em work.
Bill Gates may be richer than Captain Kirk,
but the Windows OS blows!
And sucks!
At the same time!

I'd trade it in, yeah right... for what?
It's top of the line from the Compuhut.
The fridge, stove and toaster, never crash on me,
I should be able to get online, without a PHD.

My phone doesn't take a week to boot it,
my TV doesn't crash when I mute it,
I miss ASCII text, and my floppy drive,
I wish VIC-20 was still alive...

But it ain't the hardware, man.

It's just that every OS sucks... and blows.

Now there's lih-nux or lie-nux,
I don't know how you say it,
or how you install it, or use it, or play it,
or where you download it, or what programs run,
but lih-nux, or lie-nux, don't look like much fun.

However you say it, it's getting great press,
though how it survives is anyone's guess,
If you ask me, it's a great big mess,
for elitist, nerdy shmucks.

"It's free!" they say, if you can get it to run,
the Geeks say, "Hey, that's half the fun!"
Yeah, but I got a girlfriend, and things to get done,
the Linux OS SUCKS.
(I'm sorry to say it, but it does.)

Every OS wastes your time,
from the desktop to the lap,
Everything since the abacus,
Just a bunch of crap.

From Microsoft, to Macintosh,
to lih-lie-lih-lie... nux.
Every computer crashes,
'cause every OS sucks.

Every computer crashes... 'cause every OS sucks!

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Originally posted by UWM Am I 1337 if my ICQ account is under 1 million?

lol one of my friends had icq when it was still in its beta phases
mine was 200 thousand something
218429 or something
idk anymore, got bought out by aol/no one used it around me
struggle

Are the people with 3 digit ICQ numbers out there? Or less?

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Originally posted by Akridrot Are the people with 3 digit ICQ numbers out there? Or less?

As far as I remember, I tested it back in the time, and the lowest number I got was 1001.

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Originally posted by jdat Thankfully my e-p3n0r has grown now! And I rebooted the thing under 24 hours ago.

I barely get a fifth of that What's your connection?

(although I've forwarded the ports properly today for the first time )

ps.: utorrent ftmfw

I got the internet 1 week before i registered on this website, with this account.

I remember I was in Res during my first year of university and this nice east indian guy (who loved the grateful dead) told me to take ANY computer course just so I could get internet access.

remember webcrawler? i always liked their logo

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Originally posted by fbgdavidson I can also remember those 5.5" floppy discs. Had some on my Dad's old 286! Can recall him not buying an Intel Pentium laptop because apparently the early Pentium laptops ate up the battery too fast Ah the Commodore 64....my grandfather had one of those, with the Flight Simulator game and Harrier Attack ran off cassette tapes I loved those games as a 5/6yr old in the late 80s!

I was 9 or 10 when all this shit went on...and colors for programming or text were either green...or orange..

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Originally posted by DigitalPhoenix Commodore 64

I had completely skipped all mentions to C64 in this thread!

That was my 2nd computer (the first being a XT ), and I loved it!

traxinspace & computercontrolled (or it's older domain which i can't remember atm)

was anyone else a member on either of those?

oh and hyperreal of course!

What about Amiga Workbench



Also read a hilarious thread about BBSs on another board I use, shame I can't post the link as you need to be a registered user and have 180 posts to read the forum...

I started back in 1992 (think it was 92, maybe 93), I was just a kid (1992...8 years old) and used one of those free internet access for 10 hours floppies they sent in the mail. Can't remember if it was Compuserve or AOL. The connection was through a computer at my dad's office. Sometimes he would take me with him, and I would go wander through the other offices in the building. I remember I got onto a computer, loaded the software, erased the disk, and then downloaded as many games as I could onto the floppy so I could play them at home. Which reminds me of the original Wing Commander, that game is quite possibly the most awesome game I have played, ever. First comp was a 386sx, 20 meg hard drive.

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Originally posted by jdat

Lucky bastard.

My connection gets 40KB/sec. My neighboor's unsecured wireless network, however, nets me internet access in the range of 3900 KB/sec, although typically it's about 400KB/sec. It's hard finding people with upload speeds in the thousands of kilobytes per second, or in the case of BT, several people whose combined upload speeds are thousands of kilobytes per second.

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Originally posted by Psy-T oh and hyperreal of course!

Hey, I remember that one!

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Originally posted by DigitalPhoenix I was 9 or 10 when all this shit went on...and colors for programming or text were either green...or orange..

I remember in 3rd grade I programmed my first computer, I think it was an Apple IIc. One of my friends had a book on programming graphics through BASIC, even animations. It was basically typing into the computer "I want this block on the screen to be this color, and to move in this direction this far after this much time has passed since the beginning of the program."

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Originally posted by UWM

You try too hard.

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