800 baud??!?!?!?
THEONEANDONLYRANCIDMILKO™®© Reaction score 4,621 Location In a kakistocracy Jul 7, 2025 #337,921 800 baud??!?!?!?
THEONEANDONLYRANCIDMILKO™®© Reaction score 4,621 Location In a kakistocracy Jul 7, 2025 #337,923 LOL you could see the characters being "typed" on the screen
THEONEANDONLYRANCIDMILKO™®© Reaction score 4,621 Location In a kakistocracy Jul 7, 2025 #337,925 @Garraty_47 yeah, first time I accessed an foreign BBS I felt like I was hacking the Pentagon
Garraty_47 Have Coffee Will Shitpoast Reaction score 4,069 Location Redneckistan Jul 7, 2025 #337,926
THEONEANDONLYRANCIDMILKO™®© Reaction score 4,621 Location In a kakistocracy Jul 7, 2025 #337,927 @Garraty_47 yeah, first time I accessed a foreign BBS I felt like I was hacking the Pentagon
THEONEANDONLYRANCIDMILKO™®© Reaction score 4,621 Location In a kakistocracy Jul 7, 2025 #337,928 In Brazoo we had "VTX" (videotext) which started as an alternative for the hearing impaired to use phones
In Brazoo we had "VTX" (videotext) which started as an alternative for the hearing impaired to use phones
Garraty_47 Have Coffee Will Shitpoast Reaction score 4,069 Location Redneckistan Jul 7, 2025 #337,929 Clicking a link and having the page appear more or less instantly was like sorcery. Heh
THEONEANDONLYRANCIDMILKO™®© Reaction score 4,621 Location In a kakistocracy Jul 7, 2025 #337,930 But they made it a free BBS that was actually very good, first time I used online chat.
THEONEANDONLYRANCIDMILKO™®© Reaction score 4,621 Location In a kakistocracy Jul 7, 2025 #337,931 LOL keep the page cached and lose your precious megabytes of storage or waiting for it to download LOL
LOL keep the page cached and lose your precious megabytes of storage or waiting for it to download LOL
Garraty_47 Have Coffee Will Shitpoast Reaction score 4,069 Location Redneckistan Jul 7, 2025 #337,932 I didn't spend a lot of time in IRCs; just meeting up with folks I already knew basically. Had some fun scripting in mIRC and interfaces for WebTV users, though.
I didn't spend a lot of time in IRCs; just meeting up with folks I already knew basically. Had some fun scripting in mIRC and interfaces for WebTV users, though.
jack Reaction score 753 Location Upper US Jul 7, 2025 #337,933 I never did WebTV. I did usenet though
Garraty_47 Have Coffee Will Shitpoast Reaction score 4,069 Location Redneckistan Jul 7, 2025 #337,934 alt.weemba is where I ran into the WebTV users.
jack Reaction score 753 Location Upper US Jul 7, 2025 #337,935 Flea said that's where the MSN boards were.
Garraty_47 Have Coffee Will Shitpoast Reaction score 4,069 Location Redneckistan Jul 7, 2025 #337,936 I was just checking out weird group names to see whaatever I found and happened to catch them in the middle of a flame war. LoL
I was just checking out weird group names to see whaatever I found and happened to catch them in the middle of a flame war. LoL
Garraty_47 Have Coffee Will Shitpoast Reaction score 4,069 Location Redneckistan Jul 7, 2025 #337,937 MSN groups were a seperate thing, I'm pretty sure.
jack Reaction score 753 Location Upper US Jul 7, 2025 #337,938 kind of like the SB here at any given moment
Garraty_47 Have Coffee Will Shitpoast Reaction score 4,069 Location Redneckistan Jul 7, 2025 #337,939 Like TalkCity was a propietary IRC, or the Yahoo discussion groups were their own seperate thing.
Admin. Choosy Moms Choose Me Reaction score 17,866 Location Tralfamadore Jul 7, 2025 #337,945 “Jack Has No Balls” The hottest thread in BF History!
jack Reaction score 753 Location Upper US Jul 7, 2025 #337,949 Poor Admin can't catch a break. Must be lonely in that little glory hole he calls home.
Admin. Choosy Moms Choose Me Reaction score 17,866 Location Tralfamadore Jul 7, 2025 #337,950 See Jack, see Jack floundering in his inimitable little man way.