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lücid
electric girl



Registered: Aug 2003
Location: NY

quote:
Originally posted by idoru
- Thinking it was so badass to have my own AOL account

i remember thinking it was so bad-ass to have the "master" account on AOL so that i could create/delete as many different screen names as i wanted.

any of you still remember your first AOL screen names?

my first one ever was moXiegal69 ..

i also had YeeHaw1028 (yeehaw was an inside joke i had with my friends in 8th grade), starXxluvr, fuck i dunno if i can remember any more of them!

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.

god i was a big time dork back in the AOL days.


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david.michael
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Dayton, OH, USA

quote:
Originally posted by lücid
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

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enferno
Penus Maximus



Registered: Jan 2004
Location: jesus land

mp3.com back in the day.

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fbgdavidson
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: New York, NY

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....

quote:
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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jdat
Jay Van Dat



Registered: Oct 2001
Location: I dont even know

quote:
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.

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narcism
faithless fangirl



Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Let go of my mind

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

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DigitalPhoenix
On a new path to success!



Registered: Mar 2005
Location:

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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narcism
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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Let go of my mind

quote:
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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fbgdavidson
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: New York, NY

quote:
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!


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quote:
Originally posted by Brizzo
"It's all gone Pete Tong" is actually a phrase in Europe, England I believe. Pretty sure that's where Pete Tong got his DJ name from as well.


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CleverName
mep



Registered: Dec 2004
Location: home

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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mezzir
BEES?



Registered: Nov 2002
Location: assachusetts

quote:
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


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Akridrot
Suspended User



Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Free Candy! Yay! (Only available in select vans)

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


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