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MadMAxJr

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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #60 on: May 26, 2008, 08:39:26 PM »

Somewhere in the early 90s, my father ran a BBS.  I actually helped a little here and there with some of the ANSI graphics.  We got a second phone line for that.  Know what that meant when the BBS wasn't up?  We were playing fucking Doom co-op for hours on end.  I was more popular than the first kid on the block to get Scorched Earth (also me).  We later found a dos script of some kind that allowed Doom to run over our LANtastic network, simulating the IPX connection.  We were even lucky enough to have one of those MAGICAL doom-hub BBS boards.  The one with four phone lines, and using a custom DOOM-BBS client, you could play with THREE OTHER PEOPLE.  But it was $10 for five hours play, IIRC.  So worth it.

Trade Wars FOREVER.  You'll never collect the bounty on my head, not while I have one of those federation only ships, hidden behind a nine deep hole, completely riddled with mines so the AI-feds can't impound my ship!  (If you understood what I just said, +20 nerd points to you sir).  Thank god for port scanners and the EGA-GUI that came later on.

Slowly the age of the internet came.  In the transition period, we had...  I forget, it was either BlackCat 5 or 6 BBS software that was essentially a dial-up web page.

That didn't last long.  Then we had Compuserve.  Then we had AOL.  Then we had briefly this thing called WOW internet, then we had the local ISP Flash.net for a while.  I was an uber Mechwarrior 2 nerd, playing in a league on Kali.net with the Parkers Pirate Corp (PPC).  They bought a half dozen Jagermechs for me after I withstood the bloody trial of standing against three of the elites in marauders for a little bit.  Only idiots put weapons in arm slots.

Then one magic day, there was cable internet.  Dear god, private IRC networks and FTP hubs.  I had Shogo off a private fserv in an hour.

Somewhere after that I kind of got on board PlanetSoldier.com, one of those heretical gamespy network sites and wrote some boring crap. (EDIT: Holy shit this image is still on the server.  My desk back in 2000 at my moms house.)

Then I blacked out and at some point right around there I met some of you in #finalfight, went away for about a year and a half, then came back and stuck around.  Which makes me recall several things I'm sure Brentai would like to never see appear in conversation again.

Then there were some conventions I was at.  Eastkon, Doomhaus.  Where we prettymuch decided physical activity was overrated and we played a metric fuckton of videogames.  Let me tell you, AD&D: Tower of Doom is meant for four players and only four players.  And the cleric is a tiny GOD on the boat level.

Then there was more internet.  Then there was the community fork.  Then there was now.

Then there's that day in the future where I might actually code something I can actually show instead of doing ten billion bloody practice apps.

I am old.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #61 on: May 26, 2008, 09:01:24 PM »

FUCK YES ALPHA CENTAURI TECH CHART POSTER

I never looked at it, but I had it up for like six years.  It'd still be up today if... I hadn't taken it down... for totally unknown reasons.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #62 on: May 27, 2008, 03:27:43 AM »

I miss that dot matrix printer.  The level of supreme annoyance as I used it to print off about a hundred pages of a D&D adventure I found online.  Oh god the noise.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #63 on: June 01, 2008, 09:01:01 PM »

Oh shit I remember that.

*timewarp*
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #64 on: June 01, 2008, 10:15:41 PM »

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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #65 on: June 01, 2008, 10:18:49 PM »

Ah, CG Shrines.

I, uh, read it for the articles.

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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #66 on: June 01, 2008, 10:28:42 PM »

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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #67 on: June 01, 2008, 10:34:45 PM »

We need to find whoever is keeping that site up still and like, I don't know, give them tribute.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #68 on: June 01, 2008, 10:35:28 PM »

...Fuckers STILL have Terra's last name wrong.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #69 on: June 01, 2008, 11:26:07 PM »

...hey, I remember that site.

Hey, new Emeralda fanart!  I guess a watched pot really doesn't boil.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #70 on: June 02, 2008, 12:53:15 PM »

Speaking of the old days of #verge, I met McDohl today. He got his car towed a whole bunch. I bought a lot of beers he refused to drink and gave a tour of 1up. Hopefully that makes up for it enough that he won't post all those old IRC logs.

God damn it, I said it publicly, in Jerk Radio to not fucking worry about it.  And believe me, it was totally worth it. ::D:
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #71 on: June 02, 2008, 03:13:25 PM »

:mahboi: I'll bid six bucks and a box of expired Hi-C for those old IRC logs.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #72 on: June 02, 2008, 07:06:57 PM »

I don't have any IRC logs, but I bet, with enough effort, I could dig up Sharkey's old VERGE games...
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #73 on: June 02, 2008, 07:38:22 PM »

I found at least one of them kicking around my old archives.  Unfortunately it wasn't the one where his self-insertion characters ripped off Mega Man X.

There's nothing worse than a self-insertion character ripping off Mega Man X.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #74 on: June 02, 2008, 07:46:32 PM »

Funny that, when the conversation that Sharkey and I had that was essentially this thread, that was the VERGE game that popped in to my head.

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I see what you did there, Brentai.  I should have caught on faster.  I'm slipping in my old age.

EDIT2:
God, am I the only one that's getting that Katestory itch again?  I don't think I am.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #75 on: June 02, 2008, 08:32:11 PM »

Don't indulge it; have some cortisone.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #76 on: June 02, 2008, 09:30:34 PM »

You are, trust me.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #77 on: June 02, 2008, 09:38:32 PM »

We tried a pair of continue-the-stories here.  One was about a city that flipped upside down and the setting was too big and it never had a shot.  The other was about a happy picnic and everybody got peed on.
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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #78 on: June 02, 2008, 09:48:53 PM »

I tried to make the story not about penises and public urination.

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Re: What's your internet age?
« Reply #79 on: June 02, 2008, 09:58:37 PM »

Nobody contributed more than one post to the first story, and nobody crossed storylines.  :/
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