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There Can be Only One!
Well, if it was an old man, I'd probably risk it, too. Why? I know I can outrun the geriatric redneck fuck!
Online Personality: Fantasy or Reality?
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Well, if it was an old man, I'd probably risk it, too. Why? I know I can outrun the geriatric redneck fuck!
Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
Let's think about that..25 years ago it was 1997, and while there were a few Bulletin Boards, you had to have a TCP connection to get to them and that area of the internet was mighty small.
1997 was the year of the "Auto-Anti '97" anti-punter that didn't work worth a shit.
It was also the year of Havok Tools, Jehovah Scroller, and Crusade.
50% of internet traffic was on AOL in 1997 Dutchy. There were no Bulletin Boards or forums on AOL in 1997, Dutchy. Hmm..
Who was your ISP in 1997, Butch Uncle? How did you connect to the internet in 1997, dude?
1997 was the glory days of AOL; It was before the fags took it over, you could punt or TOS anyone you wanted to if you had a mind to.
With great power also comes great responsibility, though. I've seen a lot of things come and go on the internet.
Phreaking, for instance. I knew a lot of that stuff from my school days and just phones, but the internet propelled that to new heights!
I remember who was the king of that, It was this dude called "Wizard of Woz". He gave me a phreaking program, it was clean, and that stuff worked until around '98.
Ofc he hung in the room with Manson; And really everyone in that room were our direct rivals. We were the PC people, and they were the Mac people.
Can't say they were lame; I went in there talking shit to Manson and got reset fucking mid-shit talk. Manson had some power. Still didn't like him, but I had to respect his skills.
Yeah, the <>< I was doing that on got fried. In 1997 phreaking was going away, but punting and TOSing were still happening and nuking.
Nuking was kicking people off the internet with an instant "Integer divide by zero" error.
I've had it happen to me, and I've done it to people, but cannot find a screenshot of it, or what it looked like anywhere.
By "kicking people off the internet" I mean they had to reboot their computer and sign in again. Nothing life-threatening, but a lot of fun!
Oh! The horror! Wahhhh! I got kicked off the internet and had to restart my computer to get back on!
Today's snowflakes would freak the fuck out about things like that happening.
I bet no one can find a Windows 95 "Integer divide by 0" blue/aqua screen of death screenshot or picture.
It's something that happened a lot, yet there is no documentation of. It was very simple and profound and was wholly an internet occurence (almost)
Yet there's no documentation of it that I can find.
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Dutch Uncle
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Let's think about that..25 years ago it was 1997, and while there were a few Bulletin Boards, you had to have a TCP connection to get to them and that area of the internet was mighty small.
1997 was the year of the "Auto-Anti '97" anti-punter that didn't work worth a shit.
It was also the year of Havok Tools, Jehovah Scroller, and Crusade.
90% of internet traffic was on AOL in 1997 Dutchy. There were no Bulletin Boards or forums on AOL in 1997, Dutchy. Hmm..
The BBSs were in the late 80s and they were local; dial up on our 300 baud modems and join in. At 300 baud you could watch them type the words. About that time 1200 baud came out and we all ooh and ahhed over it.
evince
Truthmatters
I do this weird thing when I feel like someone is trying to intimidate me
My body drains of all fear and I get pissed
I have to watch myself
It may get me killed some day
This poor old guy wasn’t trying to intimidate me
He wanted me to do the white racist fox dance with him
He picked the wrong old white broad
I delivered him some truth and a prediction that came true just a couple of days later
Seriously
This was a couple of days before the deaths in nursing homes exploded
And I told him it was about to happen
Like I said
He caught me in the WRONG day
I have stood down drug dealers twice my size and feared nothing
Im Irish
I swear that feeling I get has something to do with being of the descent Im from
It’s crazy
I seriously feel the drain of fear from my body
It’s wild
I have to be very careful when I feel that drain
I touch no one while in that state
I talk rationally but full of force and conviction
I have never hurt anyone
But seriously stood down HUGE men without a qualm
Never have they tried to hurt me physically
But I intellectually know I'm in danger
I just don’t scare
evince
Truthmatters
Let's think about that..25 years ago it was 1997, and while there were a few Bulletin Boards, you had to have a TCP connection to get to them and that area of the internet was mighty small.
1997 was the year of the "Auto-Anti '97" anti-punter that didn't work worth a shit.
It was also the year of Havok Tools, Jehovah Scroller, and Crusade.
50% of internet traffic was on AOL in 1997 Dutchy. There were no Bulletin Boards or forums on AOL in 1997, Dutchy. Hmm..
Who was your ISP in 1997, Butch Uncle? How did you connect to the internet in 1997, dude?
1997 was the glory days of AOL; It was before the fags took it over, you could punt or TOS anyone you wanted to if you had a mind to.
With great power also comes great responsibility, though. I've seen a lot of things come and go on the internet.
Phreaking, for instance. I knew a lot of that stuff from my school days and just phones, but the internet propelled that to new heights!
Bejebus your stupid
Tech people were all over the internets well before the home PC was a big thing
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
I was on an Apple IIc in those days with a green monochrome screen. 5.25 floppy drive. When the 3.5 inch floppy came out it was awesome! About a year or two later I dropped an entire bonus check of about $4K (almost $10K today) on an Apple IIGS.
evince
Truthmatters
Wow dude
I remember knowing people who did that shit
I had no money to do such things
I didn’t get a computer until the late 90s
It got used mostly for my son and his friends to game on
Shit like Warcraft
I didnt go on until Bush was in the process of lying us to war
I needed to have some way to spread the truth
70+% of Americans were actually thinking Sadam did 911
It was driving me mad
Dutch Uncle
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You're about 10-20 years younger than me. Not having any kids, I was on the ground floor of the computer age and had several computers in the early 80s but didn't get online (such as it was) until the late 80s.
evince
Truthmatters
Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
You still never answered how you got on the internet. How did you do it?
We'll stick to 1997 on that.
50% of America used AOL to get on the internet in 1997; What did you use?
Dutch Uncle
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Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
Oh? I always used "www" to go to BBSs since 1996.
Never heard of 300 baud modems. That sounds suspect.
Who put up these Bulletin Boards back in the day and who had computers to connect to them?
How much was that Apple II in 1984?
I had a TRS-80 in 1984. Cannot imagine the internet being significant in those days.
The college computer lab and dot matrix printers were more significant, IMO.
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evince
Truthmatters
Your field wasnt computers dutch?
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
I was on WoW first. When they imploded I got on AOL. It was about that time that I switched from Apple to PC with Windows 3.1 because I was tired of paying such high prices for a limited number of Apple programs. I didn't go back to Apple until the iPhone 4.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
No on computers. I was a helicopter pilot for the Navy at the time. Just a tech lover.
I'd liked computers since 1973 when I took BASIC computer programming in HS on an IBM 360 with punchcards.
LurchAddams
There Can be Only One!
I canceled on a friend's bbq a few days ago. One of the attendees was a retired FBI agent. Law enforcement folks are usually "pro-gun". I was concerned that if the subject of guns came up the former FBI guy might start saying stuff like, "it's the people, not the guns" after Uvalde. And then I would have ruined everyone's evening by smacking the guy.
So I know what you mean. I rage too, one of the reasons I was expelled from my last discussion forum.
I know my limitations.
evince
Truthmatters
No on computers. I was a helicopter pilot for the Navy at the time. Just a tech lover.
I'd liked computers since 1973 when I took BASIC computer programming in HS on an IBM 360 with punchcards.
Cool
Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
WoW? What was that?
Okay, but using AOL to connect to the internet, you couldn't go to any bulletin boards from AOL, that was verboten.
In 1997, you had to have a dedicated TCP/IP connection to connect to bulliten boards. And there weren't many. By 1998, a whole slew of local and big company dial-up ISPs started.
That's when the bulletin boards were about peaking.
What OS did you use to connect to the internet in 1997?
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evince
Truthmatters
Yeah it’s tuff
I try to avoid anyone who’s a trumper
I just never engage those who I know are in that stupid cult
I don’t like being near them
And like you said
I don’t want to ruin whatever event for the rest of the folks
I find the trumps can NEVER not go to the subject of politics