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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Talking about "Forum Kids", I wonder what ever happened to "thekidcollector". Steve  |
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Moderator
 Australia
16826 Posts |
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
9400 Posts |
Thanks Sap, last I remembered I thought he had gone to Singapore or Malaysia. Cheers Steve |
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Forum Kid
 Canada
1074 Posts |
yes looked at his her "the basics" and they haven't posted here in a while!
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12820 Posts |
Ah... this discussion reminds me of being the sysadmin of my BBS many years ago. Times and tech have changed since the 2- or 4- line BBS'es and acoustic phone couplers, but a lot of the basics still remain. People are people, for one. |
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United States
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Could you imagine a place this image-intensive on dialup?  You'd click the thread when you wake up, and come back during lunchtime to actually read the thread. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12820 Posts |
No kidding. At 300 baud you could actually see characters coming across the screen one at a time. Can you imagine trying to grade a coin rendered in ASCII art?! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You'd click the thread when you wake up, and come back during lunchtime to actually read the thread. Ha.....ha.....all the old people here,keep reminding me of days I have forgotten all about.  I remember trying to download a graphic, set to download, go away to do something else waiting ......waiting........waiting......check back an hour later, almost, another 15 minutes .....done. If you ever needed to download a program, set the computer not to sleep, click download, go to bed, by the time you wake up, your 40mb program should be all downloaded. Of course providing something didn't happen at 2:00 am to interrupt the download, in which case you have to try again tomorrow night. The old days Edited by denco7
02/20/2015 2:27 pm
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Moderator
United States
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I am using dialup. My modem is going nuts  swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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My old school's internet sucks, it can take over 5 minutes to load Google to the extent that you can type stuff into the search bar. To be fair though there were some 20-25 people trying to connect at the same time. I first learnt of the internet in 2005 at school. Back then, Yahoo and Wikipedia is the internet . My dad brought his work laptop home and connected a phone cable to it and I remember it made a fax machine noise. It was not until 3 years later that schoolwork used the internet enough that we got a modem. |
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United States
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The first BBS I ran was with my Commodore 64, a single 1541 drive, and a Westridge 300 baud modem. |
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Moderator
United States
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The first BBS I ran was with my Commodore 64, a single 1541 drive, and a Westridge 300 baud modem. OG Net Nerd. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Moderator
United States
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Because if we did designated levels of Stupid, at least one level would require words to describe that we couldn't use in the Forum. We could tell you stories....
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I apologize for hijacking this topic. If anyone's interested in more nostalgic BBS discussion, I've created a new thread in GD for this: https://goccf.com/t/198781 |
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