For those of us who've been online for 6 years or more

Post by **Grudge** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:20 am

omg wtf did all those things in wow last night pwnt lol

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:52 pm

4days wrote:my mate's eldest is 19 and it makes me feel sick just talking to the guy - he's a useless lone-wolf tk'ing arsehole in call of duty and he's got all the rl social skills of a block of tofu.

think it's that chavs are still gathering on street corners of an evening, but the kids that are too feeble to join them are gathering on servers instead - dodging the process of natural selection that might eventually make one or two of them into worthwhile people.

how are you supposed to grow up well-adjusted and healthy if you've never done normal, proper things - like felt up a wide range of gum-chewing slags, run more than a block, gotten a bloody nose or been arrested for carrying weapons banned by the geneva convention?

ftw!

Post by **Fender** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:53 pm

riddla wrote:ahhh, the good ol days. I used to spend most of my time in my friend's dorm because it was fiber-connected. this was way back in 92-94 :icon34: of course all we did was uudecode porn over our unix shell accounts lol

*remembers when pr0n went from 256 color dithered GIFs to glorious 32-bit color JPEGs *

ftp
archie
gopher
uuencode/decode
pine
irc

If you didn't use those, you're not old school. We had to configure our own TCP/IP stacks on Windows 3.0. autoexec.bat, config.sys, protman.??? et.al. That was a bitch.

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:11 pm

i'm only 1/3 oldschool

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:55 pm

I remember running a local dial-up BB back in '93 with text based RPGs.

Post by **Captain** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:00 pm

bitWISE wrote:i'm only 1/3 oldschool

Yeah, DOS 4.0 and Windows 3.1 will do that

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:18 pm

6 years? ... newbs.
I remember using gopher, archie, veronica and irc in '92.
ph33r the awesome power of the ISA cardinal 2400.

Post by **dzjepp** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:21 pm

I was online on the govmnts network back in the 60's.

Newbs.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:21 pm

Fender wrote:
riddla wrote:ahhh, the good ol days. I used to spend most of my time in my friend's dorm because it was fiber-connected. this was way back in 92-94 :icon34: of course all we did was uudecode porn over our unix shell accounts lol
*remembers when pr0n went from 256 color dithered GIFs to glorious 32-bit color JPEGs *

ftp
archie
gopher
uuencode/decode
pine
irc

If you didn't use those, you're not old school. We had to configure our own TCP/IP stacks on Windows 3.0. autoexec.bat, config.sys, protman.??? et.al. That was a bitch.

did you get your mind blown when mosaic hit the scene?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:26 pm

i had a 2800 when i first came online... i dont quite rememner what year that was...

broud 2800

14.4

56K flex ( waste of time and money )

Cable... havent looked back

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:51 pm

I was online in the late win 3.x versions right before 95 came out. fun times... full colour images WOW!@!!!

Post by **brisk** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:08 pm

'94 for me on my friends AOL connection. That was enough to put me off until '96 when we had a modem connection at school. And I got my first PC in 1998, with my 56k connection coming later that year. I feel like i've been online forever, but i'm not bored. Theres always something to do, and i'd probably go insane without it.

Post by **farad** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:10 pm

...not me...I'll never tell...

...good un foo...

Post by **Kaz** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:36 am

2002 represent holla

Post by **Caffeine** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:36 am

I've been online for way too many years. I can't even imagine where I'd be if I hadn't discovered local Bulletin Board Systems with my 486 and 2400 baud modem. It all went downhill from there...

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:44 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote:i had a 2800 when i first came online... i dont quite rememner what year that was...

broud 2800 14.4 56K flex ( waste of time and money ) Cable... havent looked back

I don't think a 2800 baud modem ever existed mate.
the popular progression i remember is: 300b

1200b

2400b

14.4k

28.8k

33.6

56k (rockwell flex or USR x2)

56k V.90

Post by **glossy** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:31 am

I was writing QBasic when i was 5 ('92)

Post by **-SKID-** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:34 am

:icon30:

Post by **seremtan** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:58 am

first online chat i had with someone was 1984 or 85. worked for a govt computer centre in NZ, and used to chat with people from other sites via this gym-sized ICL2900, whose combined computational power and memory was probably exceeded by the machine i'm typing this on

it was about this time i first tried programming, in cobol and JCL (ICL proprietary language)

Post by **MKJ** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:18 am

glossy wrote:I was writing QBasic when i was 5 ('92)

qbasic?
stbasic was where it was at

before that, basic on the sinclair. booya

Post by **Deji** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:36 am

I remember being online with my 14.4k modem, when 28.8k was the new hotness. Good times.

Post by **nsaP** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:04 pm

Fender wrote:I've been online for almost 16 years now. Fall of '90. Had fiber to the desktop all the way back then. I got kicked off the network for running Doom, which used broadcast packets and stormed the network.

Got kicked off in '93, eh?

Post by **nsaP** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:04 pm

Dr_Watson wrote:
AmIdYfReAk wrote:i had a 2800 when i first came online... i dont quite rememner what year that was...

broud 2800 14.4 56K flex ( waste of time and money ) Cable... havent looked back
I don't think a 2800 baud modem ever existed mate.
the popular progression i remember is: 300b 1200b 2400b 14.4k 28.8k 33.6 56k (rockwell flex or USR x2) 56k V.90

There were 9800 baud perhaps

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:11 pm

u fucking no0bs...i was on broadband back in the 70's....i was posting on msgboards when star wars first came out...and owned...

Post by **brisk** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:21 pm

I invented ARPAnet. And the telephone. And paper. I was communicating before the big bang. I win.