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1 edit | He forgot to mention... PORN! THE PORN! MY GOD THE PORN! 
I cant stop laughing at him saying that 'theres not screenfulls of go to hell'. | |
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BOOM | Re: He forgot to mention... theres no cursing or swearing...HAH | |
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join:2001-07-23
Whitmore, CA
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Rochester, NY | Re: He forgot to mention... Just another weird dream of the human mind. | |
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join:2003-12-23
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| Re: He forgot to mention... said by tdkyo  :
Just another weird dream of the human mind.
btw, robots are cooler.
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rayondw
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join:2003-10-26
germany
| Remind anyone of TV? Amazing how not very long ago there was no internet. Maybe 10-11 years from now we will be saying something like, "Remember cable internet? That was so slooow. We have 5 gig up/5 gig down."
Didn't they say sort of the same thing when TV was invented? That it would be a learning tool until we got porn. Same thing with the internet. | |
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If you can read this.... RUN
join:2001-02-22
Huntersville, NC | Re: Remind anyone of TV? For the most part, a lot of our video codecs, sound codecs, and image file types were helped created to transmit pornography better. | |
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Westminster, CA | Re: Remind anyone of TV? Wat is TV?  | |
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| Re: Remind anyone of TV? said by nixen :
said by rayondw :
Amazing how not very long ago there was no internet.
How long do you consider "not very long"?? It's been around, in one form or another, longer than quite a few members of DSLR have been alive - even me (and I'm just a few days shy of 34). Or, did you simply mean, "the commercial Internet"?
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Dude, get a grip of yourself! plz and make sure to hold some towels as well because we not even in robot age yet. Sheesh, this still sucks.
I expected the future be here now but we're still in prehistoric time. bahahahahaha! | |
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drizzy
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Brooklyn, NY
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| Re: Remind anyone of TV? said by nixen :
Care to repeat that in something approaching English?
If you check his posts, all he does is troll BBR, don't let him get to you. | |
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swsamurai
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| Re: Remind anyone of TV?
Actually, I am not as old as I make myself sound, I just feel that way. I was about 7 when I would play around with the machines at Taft College, where my Mother went to school, and would sit there and watch her work, then actually started working on them with her.
In High School, I worked on a CCC Mainframe system with about 60 terminals... we also had a smaller lab with a Commodore Pet, PC Jr., and a couple Ataris(computers).
My First home system was a Timex Sinclair 1000, with a tape drive. | |
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LegoPower77
Abecedarian
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Arlington, VA | I believe I saw some of those at the Smithsonian the other month. | |
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swsamurai
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Bakersfield, CA
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| Re: Remind anyone of TV?
Maybe that is why I like this crowd. THese forums are not TOO different than the old message boards! Not as much flaming, but that is fine. I remember that we used to have a local board hopper that went by the name "$.02". Used to start fights about everything. It was fun just to watch this guy rant about absolutely nothing. | |
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Head Ache
Hawaiian Jellyfish
join:2001-01-08
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| Emoticons!Bill Cameron's hairdo was giving me a mild case of the Donald Trump creeps. Let's hope he has updated it since 1993.
I also learned something today.
:-) I am serious.
:-( I am kidding.
Or something like that.
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join:2002-12-15
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clubs: | Re: Emoticons! I learned that Al Gore didn't invent the Internet..... Wow im so crushed
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P2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Lancaster, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
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| wow we've come along way I can remember when I was just 11 years old back in 1991 I was facinated with ham radio and got my ham license. To this day I still am facinated by such things as linking radio sites together, but it's truly amazing what the internet has grown from. I first heard of it in 1994 when watching coverage of a shuttle mission. I first used it at a school I was at in 1997 and was amazed at the amount of info I could find. I never thought even then that I'd have an always on connection to this internet network, here at my house. Granted it's not a T1 connection like that school I was at had, but broadband has come along way. We just need to get more upload speeds now, 3MBPs in both directions would be cool. With all we do on the internet these days, I'm a bit surprised that it's mainly the DSL providers that are willing to give one any more than 256 or 384K on the upload. May the internet continue to grow! | |
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join:2003-12-23
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| Re: wow we've come along way said by kd6cae :
I can remember when I was just 11 years old back in 1991 I was facinated with ham radio and got my ham license. To this day I still am facinated by such things as linking radio sites together, but it's truly amazing what the internet has grown from. I first heard of it in 1994 when watching coverage of a shuttle mission. I first used it at a school I was at in 1997 and was amazed at the amount of info I could find. I never thought even then that I'd have an always on connection to this internet network, here at my house. Granted it's not a T1 connection like that school I was at had, but broadband has come along way. We just need to get more upload speeds now, 3MBPs in both directions would be cool. With all we do on the internet these days, I'm a bit surprised that it's mainly the DSL providers that are willing to give one any more than 256 or 384K on the upload. May the internet continue to grow!
Don't forget those of us oldies thought 28kbps and 56kbps was plenty fast enough in the mid 90's, boy were we wrong! | |
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1 edit | Re: wow we've come along way Bah...try 300Baud when I had a Commodore 64, which blew away the PETs and Vic 20s my middle-school could afford. And the older members of this forum are gonna think "Commodore 64? Spoiled newbie!"  | |
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Java Geek
join:2000-11-27
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| Ah, the memories.. Anyone else remember hanging out on bulletin boards (dial-in, of course) and using this new-fangled-internet-thingy from the more advanced ones?
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join:2001-07-23
Whitmore, CA
clubs: | Re: Ah, the memories.. BBS'ing from my commadore 64 from 1983 to 1992 or so. Chatting with the sysop is old school. | |
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wyked
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join:2001-11-01
San Antonio, TX
| Re: Ah, the memories.. said by logcabinboy :
BBS'ing from my commadore 64 from 1983 to 1992 or so. Chatting with the sysop is old school.
On 300 baud modems even!!!!
I remember upgrading to my 2800 baud, and let me tell you it was faster then all get out!
Then 14400 and I thought I was dreaming!
I was just stating to a co-worked the other day that I remembered when I had to download 1 MB files and it took forever. This was while I was downloading a 600 something MB ISO over our T3 connection
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MY HEAD A SPLODE
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Manchester, NH
| Re: Ah, the memories.. I used to run a BBS, back from '87-'93 or so. Started out on a Tandy 1000 (4.77 Mhz 8088!), then upgraded to a screaming 12 Mhz 286. It had a whopping 320 Megabytes of storage at its peak (dang, my current PC has more RAM than that!) The modem side evolved from a 1200 baud to a 2400, then a USR Courier HST, a proprietary 9600+ modem that was popular amongst the BBS crowd. I had a few door games too, including the original Tradewars and Tradewars 2000, which was an improvement over the original. It was a lot of fun.
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Visit Lovely Downtown Port Starboard
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join:2001-10-25
Silver Spring, MD
| Re: Ah, the memories.. said by kpatz :
I used to run a BBS, back from '87-'93 or so. Started out on a Tandy 1000 (4.77 Mhz 8088!), then upgraded to a screaming 12 Mhz 286. It had a whopping 320 Megabytes of storage at its peak (dang, my current PC has more RAM than that!) The modem side evolved from a 1200 baud to a 2400, then a USR Courier HST, a proprietary 9600+ modem that was popular amongst the BBS crowd. I had a few door games too, including the original Tradewars and Tradewars 2000, which was an improvement over the original. It was a lot of fun.
I miss Tradewars!
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I love making my own beer.
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Pickerington, OH | How about playing Door Games... I started on a Commadore 64 with a casette tape drive, now I am burning CD's.
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swsamurai
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| Re: Ah, the memories..
Hey... you are not too far away from me... Remeber Mustang Software? Used to drive by their home office all the time. I remember in their Heyday the owner bought three Hummers for the other staffers.
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join:2002-10-06
Essex Junction, VT
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| I remember taking the helm of our school's BBS. When it was first born in the '80s it was on a dual floppy TRS-80. By the time I got there in '91 it was rocking a 386/SX40 with a 40 meg drive! WOW!
We were running a TBBS/TDBS system (remember eSoft?) with 3 lines, plus 5 dumb terminals in the school computer lab. Modems were 2.4k, 9.6k, and a shiny new 14.4k that all the other local boards drooled over when we first bought it (by the time I graduated, we were still using the same modems and everyone else had moved to 28.8k... made us look bad. Hehe.) We had an internet gateway setup that let us have usenet stuff, and also let our users use email, which was pretty spiffy.
I guess after I graduated they took it down and planned to set up a MUD or something... but that fell apart too. Sigh.
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swsamurai
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clubs: | Re: Ah, the memories..
With so much attention geared towards the web, I am still kinda tickled to hear that there are a few BBSs still out there.
I guess those are the die-hards that refuse to give in entirely to the 'net. | |
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San Diego, CA
1 edit | I loved my BBSes! I remember starting at 1200 bps, and how stupid I felt when I realized my modem was capable of 2400. I, too, was in heaven when I got my 14.4. And ooooh TradeWars! Anyone remember the "holds bug" where you could cause a rollover and get like 32000 holds? Or the adrenaline rush of having an Evil Starship? *drools*
Man, you guys are making me wanna go back to the addiction. I know there are a few sites that let you telnet to Legend Of the Red Dragon, and even a clone that can run through the web browser. Anyone know of a site that lets people telnet in and play TW2002? (old-school v1 w/ preferred, but anything would be nice)
I always wanted to run my own BBS, and it was especially tempting after I got my own phone line. Unfortunately, by the time I was old enough to have a non-shared computer of my own (let alone a spare to dedicate to the BBS), PPP Internet access had come along. It sure didn't take long after that for BBSes to die out.  I know I never remembered to check in with them once I got the 'net. I've always wondered, though, exactly how long my favorites continued to run after the 'net went mainstream. Surely they didn't all die the day I got my dialup, but I have no idea when they finally did.
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join:2002-10-03
Orange, CT | Re: Very Interesting data BBS, that brings back memories. WOW! All the philes and viruses. Also around that time, the LOD and MOD were dominating the internet.
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Leesburg, GA | Re: Very Interesting data The link doesn't work. | |
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Cunnilingus Is Next To Godliness
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| What I miss most.... about the early days 89-92 was the relative lack of really stupid people. It took a bit of wherewithal to get a computer up and running, (RAM was about $1000 a MB), and Microsucks didn't cater to the double digit IQs as well as they do now.
The bar of the internet was so high back then that one could actually walk upright through it... My how things have changed. | |
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join:2002-06-14
Louisville, KY
| Re: What I miss most.... said by iam me :
about the early days 89-92 was the relative lack of really stupid people. It took a bit of wherewithal to get a computer up and running, (RAM was about $1000 a MB), and Microsucks didn't cater to the double digit IQs as well as they do now.
The bar of the internet was so high back then that one could actually walk upright through it... My how things have changed.
Wow, great logic. Keep it expensive, out of the hands of the less educated...wait, what's the downside again? | |
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Burbank, IL | Re: Ah the days of the simple BBS Ahh the days of Major MuDD, Drool!!! | |
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| said by Ericthorn :
Anyone here remember TradeWars 2002? TW_ATS? I used to play Doom and Duke3D on the Game Connection on a 14.4k dialup and download pr0n that had McHenry BBS tags on it.
I remember my first scat pr0n pic.. HB2A.jpg.. I had to hold a towel to my mouth.
The intraweb has desensitized me.
If you're talking to adult like us, it isn't neccessary to use PRON, its a dumb word really.
It like saying Dmub instead of dumb, stupid kid.
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JERMaCIDE
Death Is Eternal...?
join:2002-09-14
Vancouver, WA
1 edit | Re: downloading memory lane :) I played my friends com 64 non-stop whenever I could.
I can't remember the name, but I had a radio shack pc that had a tape player though. Used to play the text based game Pyramid for hours on the tape deck. The coolest thing was the cartridge slot though. It was the first home gaming system I ever owned.
As for sore fingers, I used to tape up my thumbs when I played NES so long that they started blistering. | |
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Clermont, FL | great reading A great read: "Deus X" by Norman Spinrad. | |
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Why Me?
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Bradenton, FL
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| which is the truth? I listened to the clip and it said that the internet was based on a U.S. military application. Doesn't that contradict what Al Gore said? Al Gore did say he was the one who invented the internet.
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Lake Zurich, IL | Re: which is the truth? Al Gore didn't invent the internet, he "fathered" the internet. I think he did that while pretending to be a journalist in Vietnam (to avoid combat). | |
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Huntington Beach, CA
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| BBSes and BITNET 1981 was the year I started playing rogue on a V7 UNIX system. Zork and ADVENT were avalable on other university systems (CDC Cybers and RSTS/E, I believe), and nethack and moria a few years later on VAX/VMS. With one hand I could fight my way through Umber Hulks and Xorns to find the Amulet of Yendoor, and with the other hand I could surf the mailing lists on BITNET (two adjacent Telray Model 11 terminals in the computer center at 3AM, of course).
1983 saw me purchase a used Heath/Zenith Z-89a (with 56KB RAM and running CPM/80) and a 300 baud Hayes modem. BBSes, MUDs, and the beginning of a life-time of downloading frenzy opened up to me. Throw in Dungeons & Dragons every weekend with a half-dozen friends and that's how I spent most of my 20's (and 30's and 40...). | |
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Asheville, NC
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| good 'ol days I had a Vic-20, tape drive, and a 300 baud modem in the early 80's... Moved up to a Commie 64 and a 300 baud modem, upped that to a 1200 baud modem, and ran assorted BBSs'. Bought a PC n '90 and had a whopping 2400 baud modem. Upgraded that to a 14,400 baud modem. Ran just every type of bbs software from Wildcat, Gap, and ventually MajorBBS. I think that the individual bbs systems had a bit more personality than some of the portals on the internet, but the speed of broadband certainly beats the devil out of x baud...
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join:2002-11-29
Santa Maria, CA
| A friend said it best I sent the link to a friend and I loved his response:
"Ah, puts a tear in your eye....We were so innocent, we believed....It
was going to change the world...makes us all better, happier, smarter,
more informed people. But, alas, as it seems to go in all of man's
endeavors that start with the great promise of a new world: instead of
each of us climbing the Internet Mountain to see what we can't see from
where we are, we leveled it and built a giant mall. Shopping and
pornography. If someone, who doesn't know, asks you what the Internet is
like, tell them to close their eyes and imagine standing in front of a
Walmart that is next door to an Adult Book Store."
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Woot?
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join:2002-12-23
Chicago, IL
clubs: | Re: A friend said it best hold on a sec..
is it me or does it look like (about 3:48 into it)
that in the top left corner that one pc looks like its running xp | |
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join:2003-11-07
La Habra, CA
| Nope I think it just a text screen with a blue top and white text with the bottom of the screen having a black backround with green text on it. It does kinda look like it though, but it's not... | |
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join:2000-06-11
Englishtown, NJ
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Return path for usenet was UUCP via dialup batched overnight.
Since I ran a message hub to relay for many of the "mail networks", my phone bill was a few hundred bucks. Overall, I gotta figure I ran $500 a month in the hole, despite donations.
The internet is way cheaper and alot faster. Although I do miss the community aspects of a BBS. You just cant replicate that on the net. | |
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join:2001-08-25
Claremont, CA | In-terr-net? what's great about that video is the way they say internet. The spokesman said it as if it were a large confusing word. | |
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join:2002-12-08
Collinsville, IL |  100 line games!
A game based on the old TSR "Joust" matrix ('75) was our most popular item. | |
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