I used to chat in a Blues Traveler forum area ... the Brown Lantern or something like that. There was also another chat site ... I don't remember what it
was called, but it had a bunch of rooms with limits to how many people could go in at once, and private rooms as well. There were 10 or 12 larger rooms with
funky names and one was a lounge to sing in. ?!?!? That was in around 1993 or 1994 I think. I wish I could remember what it was called.
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Posts: 458 (06/27/08 3:03 PM) |
Beyond Jehovah's Witnesses.
Yes, believe it or not, I used to knock on doors and didn't celebrate my birthday. It's the toof. |
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Posts: 12112 (06/27/08 3:15 PM) Greed Is Good |
Lonely Planet Forum.
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Posts: 38523 (06/27/08 3:18 PM) |
Citizen Postal wrote: i'M NOT SURPRISED THAT YOU'RE A BRAINLESS DUMB FUCKING LOSER.....that's how your posts come off as. That's why nobody likes you. I told you to change your avatar.
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Posts: 21989 (06/27/08 3:19 PM) Registered user |
Over 20 years ago: mostly rec.music.misc, talk.religion.misc, talk.origins, sci.skeptic, and alt.drugs.
I remember collecting lyrics from LISTSERVE and was the first to upload the entire lyrics to Zep's Physical Graffiti. |
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Posts: 12106 (06/27/08 3:30 PM) Come Again? |
You guys know the little linky thing that you click on to get to another page?
Slip was involved in its inception. I listen when he talks about the early days of the internets.
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Posts: 6011 (06/27/08 3:31 PM) Registered User |
Gamefaqs...
msn.com chatrooms... I'd actually tell people I was 14 in those. Gawd, so many windows to check. |
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redundantly redundant wrote: Oh It goes way back before that. When I was in the Air Force - circa late 60's - I worked on a data communication project that wound up failing spectacularly due to the limitations of serial communications in the case of a nuclear war. As a result of that projects failure, the military went on to invent ethernet and packet communication.I also personally invented the mouse pad
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Posts: 1639 (06/27/08 3:41 PM) Registered user |
CBS Survivor Chat. It was during Australia. Prior to that I didn't have cable internet and I had no local dial up number. It cost a fortune to be online
because it was long distance phone call. My time was limited to checking my email!
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Posts: 232 (06/27/08 3:46 PM) |
Anybody remember the run news command. Usenet was pretty much just university/military.
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Posts: 4173 (06/27/08 4:08 PM) |
Remember the unix finger command? Boy, didn't my friends and I have a lot of fun fingering each other and reading the clever messages we created for it.
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Fork wrote: "run news" was very different from the usenet fed "news" and of course the later "NeWs" which lost the bitmap desktop standard to X was something else entirely. Did you know that the NeWs team went on to become the original core "Java" team? There was a really cute bear on that team that I was fucking back in those days! |
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Posts: 3134 (06/27/08 4:13 PM) Lazy ass bitch, please |
chicaguapa wrote: Ooh, did you know a poster named LoneParent?
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My first internet hangout was Sucks or the Mr Slippery Show Off Board.
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numb wrote: I was wondering when you were gonna start that up again. You hadn't insulted me in months - I was verklempt! |
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Posts: 29424 (06/27/08 5:00 PM) Not a Registered User anymore |
I used to post in AOL chatrooms and looking back I wish I never did.
Then a roswell messageboard and their sister boards then here. |
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Posts: 134 (06/27/08 5:08 PM) |
You hadn't insulted me in months - I was verklempt!that wasn't an insult! you should be proud that thousands of sucks retards love to read your bragging. although it's quite a comedown to go from inventing the internet to spending your days wallowing in a pissy backwater you admin. i think al gore chose the smarter route. though i suppose it would be hard for you to go enviro-nazi without seeming a hippocrite- you do produce more methane than the world's cattle population after all! |
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I didn't say I invented the internet, I invented the MOUSEPAD.
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yeah well i invented surfaces.
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numb wrote: I can see you are skeptical, so I will tell you the tale of how I invented the mousepad. It was 1981 or 1982 and I was working at University Art Center in Palo Alto.Most of the Palo Alto tech houses had "open Purchase Orders" with UAC so engineers could just come in and buy stuff on their signature. One day a guy named Bill English and another guy from Xerox Parc Labs came in to the store on a mission. They were looking for some heavy and thick paper stock with a lot of "tooth" I asked them what they wanted it for and they explained to me that they had a new device they called a mouse and then they drew me out a diagram of how it worked. They explained how they used bit mapped screens with graphic interface and that a graphic pointer moved on the screen in concert with the mouses movement on the desk. Anyway they further explained that the Altair computers they were working with had a stand that sat on top of the main housing and which put the monitor at a good ergonomic height. This created an empty space about 8 inches high above the CPU and under the monitor. They wanted to use the mouse in that space between the top of the CPU and under the monitor, but the wheels skipped due to the slick paint on the metal cabinets. (yeah the early mouses used wheels, the ball came later) They wanted something with "tooth" to allow a better - smoother operation of the mouse. I told them that I doubted paper would do the trick and suggested that something more durable might be better. I showed them some "Borco Drafting Board cover" which is a soft vinyl and has a smooth side and a toothy side and we agreed that this would be perfect. They explained that the space in the stand was about a foot deep, so I sold them a square yard of Borco and cut it in square foot shapes. They charged the Borco to Doug Englebarts Xerox Parc Open PO. I think it was around Five Bucks or so and they had to buy some other stuff because there was a ten dollar minimum for a charge. These were the first 9 "mouse pads" ever and I manufactured them by my own hand in the Palo Alto store of the University Art Center. oh - and 100
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- Big Brother - PAST SEASONS
- The Apprentice
- American Idol
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