mr. furley
Footballguy
wait.. what?I knew better than to do that. I often posed as a girl in the those chatrooms.:Samantha Y.:
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Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
I think you meant "Why?"wait.. what?I knew better than to do that. I often posed as a girl in the those chatrooms.
mr. furley
Footballguy
i have so many questionsI think you meant "Why?"wait.. what?I knew better than to do that. I often posed as a girl in the those chatrooms.
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
Joe Bryant touting pyramid schemes.
Old Joe T.
Old Joe T.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
I asked jeeves how to tie a tie.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
Especially if you were in the middle of something ....Getting a prolonged hourglass mouse pointer while on AOL, praying nothing happens....then "Goodbye".
GoFishTN
Footballguy
I can't be the only one who thinks this is actually better.
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
Chris Gough, Chris Santos (Fugee), Mike Murray, Bill Coleman, KOOK John Witzke, Dan Peck, Angel Fontanez...All these guys are still around. Still sending out mass emails (gunshot)... we still had the fantasy league going as of three years ago, and they want to start it up again.'nightmare said:
GreatLakesMike
Footballguy
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GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Metacrawler made me just about wet myself.Made my own website on Angelfire that was truly horrendous as a freshman in college. Was so proud that I immediately called my parents and gave them the address to check it out. They called me back 15 minutes later totally horrified and couldn't figure out why I made and "adult" dating site.It took us a bit to figure out that they had mistyped Angelfire as Anglefire and it autodirected to some porn site. Took a while to convince them that it was their mistake.
Sarnoff
Footballguy
Yeah, HOTBOT was teh #### back in the day. Last search engine I used before switching to Google.EDIT: I mean, look at this bad boy circa 1997. You could search for words, phrases, webpage titles, people, URLs, or use Boolean logic. You could search by dates and/or location of the host. AND you could specify just images, video, audio, or Flash files. It was years before Google caught up to this kind of functionality. If not for Google's better PageRank algorithm, it may never have beaten HotBot.
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Ursa M
Footballguy
I used to drop by alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die sometimes.I was one of the early subscribers and contributors to "alt.duke.basketball.sucks.sucks.sucks".
17seconds
root of all aliai
how about going to newsgroups just to try to download a hot pic?... any hot pic... all you have is the title and you spend 10mins downloading it just to see it.
Billy Bats
Footballguy
+2 I never used AOL, thought the interface was a trainwreck. I started out on Prodigy then went to EarthLink.'PlasmaDogPlasma said:
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
There def were people i used to chat w consistently on aol/aim. Totally forgot about them really.
mquinnjr
Footballguy
The worst is when you would do that, and it was a well known adult star. The sender in this case is obviously not who they purport to be, and/or is oblivious to this, and you proceed to click X now that you know the truth.
mquinnjr
Footballguy
My linkBabelfish, still around, but converted to the Yahoo! dark side. Got me through high school French, until I got a little cavalier and got called out "because we are a year away from learning the grammar for anything you just handed in." Still remember that.
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jeter23
Footballguy
Rick James
Footballguy
TWNPNews!!!!
WCW/WWF wrestling newsboards dominated my internet browsing experience circa 2000. Seriously these things were addicting
WCW/WWF wrestling newsboards dominated my internet browsing experience circa 2000. Seriously these things were addicting
Brock Middlebrook
Footballguy
shout out to former Browns QB Eric Zeigler!'TinHat said:
bentley
Footballguy
I'm with you. ESPN.com is beyond obnoxious. Using Adblock to get rid of the videos is about the only thing hat can make it tolerable.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Are you still in contact with Bubba?Chris Gough, Chris Santos (Fugee), Mike Murray, Bill Coleman, KOOK John Witzke, Dan Peck, Angel Fontanez...All these guys are still around. Still sending out mass emails (gunshot)... we still had the fantasy league going as of three years ago, and they want to start it up again.'nightmare said:
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Guest
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They were real ladies back then! Right?
Sarnoff
Footballguy
...And it came in ten parts that had to be joined before you ran the binary decoder...
Sea Duck
Footballguy
I still use HJSplit on a regular basis.
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
Not since about 2006. He is seriously MIA. He lived in Alaska, IIRC. Maybe he fell through the ice.Are you still in contact with Bubba?Chris Gough, Chris Santos (Fugee), Mike Murray, Bill Coleman, KOOK John Witzke, Dan Peck, Angel Fontanez...All these guys are still around. Still sending out mass emails (gunshot)... we still had the fantasy league going as of three years ago, and they want to start it up again.'nightmare said:
cstu
Footballguy
I still remember the first time I heard about Google on that Leo Laporte show with the hot chick and the kinda funny guy. Amazing what Google became.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
Spent a lot of time on dejanews.com back in the day.
Another vote for AltaVista; loved HotBot.
IE3 - worst thing ever!
Watching images come into focus, layer by layer.
The Netscape mail icon. 0.01% of screen real estate never meant more.
Paying $2,000+ for a PC with a dial-up modem
Another vote for AltaVista; loved HotBot.
IE3 - worst thing ever!
Watching images come into focus, layer by layer.
The Netscape mail icon. 0.01% of screen real estate never meant more.
Paying $2,000+ for a PC with a dial-up modem
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
Did anyone else used to read Alan Sepinwall's NYPD Blue reviews at alt.tv.nypd-blue?
He went from doing that for free to being one of the premier TV reviewers in the industry.
He went from doing that for free to being one of the premier TV reviewers in the industry.
mquinnjr
Footballguy
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
Vaguely remember this guy tried to sue SBC when Borat got big.wasn't Borat loosely based off of this website IIRC?
google says yes.
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
My BIL is a computer whiz, and he helped me pick out and set up my first computer. Probably 1994-ish.
So we are all ready to roll, we fire it up and get online. I had NO clue what I was doing.
The ensuing conversation:
BIL: "Okay, what do you want to learn first?"
ME: "Show me how to find naked chicks."
BIL: "THAT's why you bought a computer?"
ME:
Incidentally, I became the best ever at finding naked chicks.
So we are all ready to roll, we fire it up and get online. I had NO clue what I was doing.
The ensuing conversation:
BIL: "Okay, what do you want to learn first?"
ME: "Show me how to find naked chicks."
BIL: "THAT's why you bought a computer?"
ME:
Incidentally, I became the best ever at finding naked chicks.
mquinnjr
Footballguy
Can't find the video, but reminds me of the Seinfeld Serenity Now episode where they're trying to sell computers. "...they've got porn on them!"My BIL is a computer whiz, and he helped me pick out and set up my first computer. Probably 1994-ish.
So we are all ready to roll, we fire it up and get online. I had NO clue what I was doing.
The ensuing conversation:
BIL: "Okay, what do you want to learn first?"
ME: "Show me how to find naked chicks."
BIL: "THAT's why you bought a computer?"
ME:
Incidentally, I became the best ever at finding naked chicks.
Fensalk
Footballguy
Back in the day, you dialed into the Cleveland FreeNet, which was the state of the art free internet service. Didn't have to pay PRODIGY or AOL to get free email. They basically converted an old gopher service into a public portal.
The trick was someone built a backdoor in at the university of Maricopa, Maricopa county, Arizona. You could browse many university departments across the country, one of the being Maricopa. Tunnel down a few directories into this folder named "oldstuff" and someone left an innocent sounding program called HostLooker. Run that and its a TELNET program you can use in the gopher system. That allowed you to go anywhere you wanted to go. So you had full internet access for free!
Also, I'd go to the local libraries around Cleveland and go to the old file system on the green terminals. All you had to do was hit CTRL-] and it would break you out of the file system and drop you into the shell, from which you can telnet anywhere you wanted to go. I could access various accounts, or play MUDs on the file system at the library. I must've showed around 100 kids in Ohio how to do it. Eventually, every green terminal was occupied by a kid playing a MUD because of me. Their parents must've been so proud that their studious child was always at a library.
The trick was someone built a backdoor in at the university of Maricopa, Maricopa county, Arizona. You could browse many university departments across the country, one of the being Maricopa. Tunnel down a few directories into this folder named "oldstuff" and someone left an innocent sounding program called HostLooker. Run that and its a TELNET program you can use in the gopher system. That allowed you to go anywhere you wanted to go. So you had full internet access for free!
Also, I'd go to the local libraries around Cleveland and go to the old file system on the green terminals. All you had to do was hit CTRL-] and it would break you out of the file system and drop you into the shell, from which you can telnet anywhere you wanted to go. I could access various accounts, or play MUDs on the file system at the library. I must've showed around 100 kids in Ohio how to do it. Eventually, every green terminal was occupied by a kid playing a MUD because of me. Their parents must've been so proud that their studious child was always at a library.
Marvin
Footballguy
There's no EZ Link for the Houston Texans.
Hooper31
Footballguy
MrFootball.com - Because losing sucks
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
PATRICK BOLAND!
SlaX
Footballguy
I have a CueCat. We hacked it so that we could scan any barcode and it would automatically input the item into a database. I cataloged my entire CD collection (about 600+ at the time) in a matter of an hour. And did the same with my DVDs I had. It was a really nice device for free. We never used it for its intended purpose, though.
