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Adrian II
01-13-2006, 03:16
You can't help smiling at the naive expectations of the Internet in the early 1990's, as shown in this old CBC news footage (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1460959651832354428).

Well, Total War 'jocks', how has it been for you? Do you enjoy your 'restrained' crosscultural communication without swearing or personal putdowns? :laugh4:

Strike For The South
01-13-2006, 03:23
Ive never met so many baby killing homo surrender monkey communists in my life~;p

Sartaq
01-13-2006, 03:27
go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!go to hell!!!!

ahhh, that better. My yearning to connect is satisfied for today.

Sartaq
01-13-2006, 03:28
Ive never met so many baby killing homo surrender monkey communists in my life~;p
:laugh4: me either

Zalmoxis
01-13-2006, 03:31
Oh BBC, you amuse me so!

Adrian II
01-13-2006, 03:34
Thanks, Strike for the South. I feel rooted now.

Reenk Roink
01-13-2006, 03:46
One word: porn

solypsist
01-13-2006, 03:49
if every porn site on the internet were taken down there would be only one webpage left, and it would say, "Bring back teh porn."

Lemur
01-13-2006, 04:20
I've never felt the urge to say this before -- but that's sig material.

Don Corleone
01-13-2006, 04:30
I don't know that it happens so much anymore, but does anybody else remember the really early days when every yahoo and his brother had their own webpage that they plastered everywhere? Myself included. I actually found mine not too long ago, which doesn't speak so highly for the custodial capabilities of the IT department at the University of Connecticut (I graduated and left my job in 1996).

At that time, I apparently thought the entire world would not be able to live through the night without my list of cool links, to among other things: the band Concrete Blonde and the movie "7". Don't get me wrong, these were pretty cool cultural icons, but who did I think I was, the online Roger Ebert?

The other funny thing... I was absolutely and utterly convinced at that time that by now, actually by 2001, somebody would have found a way to exert mind control by webpage material. :help:

Just A Girl
01-13-2006, 04:45
if every porn site on the internet were taken down there would be only one webpage left, and it would say, "Bring back teh porn."


New sig 4 you solly?

Its probable your gonna be quoted in a few sigs any way now :)
So may as well.

solypsist
01-13-2006, 06:13
"You sit down and say 'What do you think of the raiders?' and 500 people reply"

Yeah, with "Go **** yourself!" :inquisitive:




edit: I miss my modem noises.

English assassin
01-13-2006, 10:43
The other funny thing... I was absolutely and utterly convinced at that time that by now, actually by 2001, somebody would have found a way to exert mind control by webpage material

What makes you think we haven't...:devil:

Adrian II
01-13-2006, 13:28
I miss my modem noises.Good point. I occasionally dream about them. I see myself crouching in a corner with my laptop modem converter plugs inserted in a Balkan or Hanoi hotel room socket, listening for the tell-tale 'glouyrrrng' connecting sound followed by the 'poing poing' handshake and the little Trumpet Winsock pop-up appearing on my screen.

https://img226.imageshack.us/img226/6707/win3xtrumpet8ju.gif (https://imageshack.us)https://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3623/netscape7kb.gif (https://imageshack.us)
:thinking2:

English assassin
01-13-2006, 15:23
I see myself crouching in a corner with my laptop modem converter plugs inserted in a Balkan or Hanoi hotel room socket,

"Journalist" my backside, you are hereby outed as a spook AII.

Anyway, modem sounds aren't real nostalgia, real nostalgia is the sound Defender used to make loading from a tape recorder.

Adrian II
01-13-2006, 16:38
"Journalist" my backside, you are hereby outed as a spook AII.Eww, outed!

https://img400.imageshack.us/img400/5117/homer1hj.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

drone
01-13-2006, 18:06
if every porn site on the internet were taken down there would be only one webpage left, and it would say, "Bring back teh porn."
Without pr0n, the internet would still be a research communication tool. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Video games drive computer performance tech, pr0n drives internet performance. Shopping online wouldn't have gotten nearly as far without the purveyors of smut. :2thumbsup:

BDC
01-13-2006, 22:56
Counter-Strike did it.

Big King Sanctaphrax
01-13-2006, 23:57
When I was fourteen, I used to sneak down at night to, ahem, 'use' the computer without my parents noticing. Those modem noises were the only sound I couldn't prevent. I'd just sit there in the dark listening for any footsteps upstairs, and I wouldn't breathe easy until it had connected.

Ah, the good old days.

Xiahou
01-14-2006, 00:06
Good point. I occasionally dream about them. I see myself crouching in a corner with my laptop modem converter plugs inserted in a Balkan or Hanoi hotel room socket, listening for the tell-tale 'glouyrrrng' connecting sound followed by the 'poing poing' handshake and the little Trumpet Winsock pop-up appearing on my screen.

https://img226.imageshack.us/img226/6707/win3xtrumpet8ju.gif (https://imageshack.us)https://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3623/netscape7kb.gif (https://imageshack.us)
:thinking2:Boy that takes me back... I was in Highschool though- not deep undercover. :wink:

Also, my first browser was Cello- not Netscape. And before that, it was Gopher baby! ~;p

BDC
01-14-2006, 00:06
Ah, the good old days.

Porn through a modem. Ah the humanity.

doc_bean
01-14-2006, 23:43
Emoticons ! :2thumbsup:

Man this makes me nostalgic, even though I've only been on the internet since 1996 (maybe a little earlier). I miss newsgroups these days, they used to be the best way to communicate on the internet, then chatting came along and everything went downhill :furious3:

Adrian II
01-15-2006, 15:34
Counter-Strike did it.Did what? Made the Net great, or destroyed Netiquette? I would opt for the latter; Counter-Strike gave rise to the most inane chatting and flaming cult ever. 'Half-life Technology', what an apt name.

*ducks to evade awp whore*

Reenk Roink
01-15-2006, 15:37
When I was fourteen, I used to sneak down at night to, ahem, 'use' the computer without my parents noticing. Those modem noises were the only sound I couldn't prevent. I'd just sit there in the dark listening for any footsteps upstairs, and I wouldn't breathe easy until it had connected.

Ah, the good old days.

:laugh4:

Viking
01-15-2006, 20:29
edit: I miss my modem noises.

For those of us that still are suffering from modem use, that statement is incredibly hard to understand. :gah:

Reenk Roink
01-15-2006, 20:34
DSL or Cable my friend...It's the wave of the future.

Viking
01-15-2006, 20:37
Yeah, I`m most likely getting optical cable installed this autumn; with a capacity of 6 megabit. Not that fast, but still a giant leap from what I have now...56 kbit.

Byzantine Prince
01-15-2006, 22:17
When I was fourteen, I used to sneak down at night to, ahem, 'use' the computer without my parents noticing. Those modem noises were the only sound I couldn't prevent. I'd just sit there in the dark listening for any footsteps upstairs, and I wouldn't breathe easy until it had connected.

Ah, the good old days.
I did that too. It took like 2 hours to get a 6 minute video, which I had to delete or hide really well afterwards. :furious2:
I still remember my first anal porn experience. Yep, those were the good old days where I appreciated something that tame.

doc_bean
01-15-2006, 22:47
I remember my stash being found when I was 14 :oops:

(just naked women no real porn though)

Uesugi Kenshin
01-15-2006, 23:28
For those of us that still are suffering from modem use, that statement is incredibly hard to understand. :gah:


I agree, I'd much rather have a sleek, silent cable modem than the piece of pcb currently jammed into one of the tower's pci slots....:embarassed:

GoreBag
01-15-2006, 23:34
My friends and I talked about this the other day. We all agreed that the internet sucked back then, when pr0n wasn't raked in freely hand over fist.

Watchman
01-16-2006, 00:13
The fruit of 3,000 years of Western civilization - pr0n and b00bi3z. It's a bit depressing really. :skull:

Byzantine Prince
01-16-2006, 00:36
Civilization was never the opiant of the masses, it was to make rich aristocrats feel important and scientists and philosophers to have the ability to masturbate with their visions of "highness". Hell even Shakespeare incuded some jokes on b00bies and pr0n in his plays for the common people to laugh. What do you expect?

I neeeeeeeeeeeeeed mooooooooooooooooore pr0n!

Watchman
01-16-2006, 03:56
Who do you think Shakespeare wrote his plays for, anyway ? "And the bit with the dog."

Papewaio
01-16-2006, 05:16
The fruit of 3,000 years of Western civilization - pr0n and b00bi3z. It's a bit depressing really. :skull:

It just shows that memes don't yet trump genes.

Adrian II
01-16-2006, 08:44
The fruit of 3,000 years of Western civilization - pr0n and b00bi3z. It's a bit depressing really. :skull:You forgot gratuitous violence and fast cars. I love civilisation! ~:smoking:

Watchman
01-16-2006, 15:35
No, they had those before. Just ask the Romans. Our junk is wimpy compared to theirs.

English assassin
01-16-2006, 16:56
No, they had those before. Just ask the Romans. Our junk is wimpy compared to theirs.

yeah they had pr0n back then, but bandwidth wasn't so good. Downloading one of those mosaics took about 6 months.

Watchman
01-16-2006, 17:16
But they had gladiators, and chariot races, and a lot of bloody wars where people hacked each other to bits with sharp metal implements and AFAIK didn't develop a whole host of psychoses and traumas for it.

We lose. :shame:

Adrian II
01-16-2006, 17:54
But they had gladiators, and chariot races, and a lot of bloody wars where people hacked each other to bits with sharp metal implements and AFAIK didn't develop a whole host of psychoses and traumas for it.No psychoses and trauma's.. rrright..

*checks his Suetonius :book:*

Watchman
01-16-2006, 18:09
Well, put this way - put folks from modern societies through the 25-odd year Legionary tour of duty with its standard quota of bloodbaths and desperate hand-to-hand combat, and how many of them are going to come away sane ? And the Romans were downright reserved compared to their "barbarian" neighbors, for whom fighting to the death was pretty much routine and does not seem to have produced widespread breakdowns...

So, yes, I'd say *our* junk is pretty wimpy in the end. And think about this - at least the inhabitants of Rome got to watch those gladiator fights and chariot races for free, while the vast majority of us must at least pay for our internet connection if not quite its content...

We lose there too. :furious3: Damn Romans.

doc_bean
01-16-2006, 19:23
yeah they had pr0n back then, but bandwidth wasn't so good. Downloading one of those mosaics took about 6 months.

They had sex slaves and lots of orgies back then though...