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Yeah I sent a recipe for M&M cookies to my bipolar disorder support mailing list. No one really said anything because a lot of people tried it and we set up a separate list to swap comfort food recipes.
Internet 1.0 Stories - Tales of the internet past
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Another sperg post: networking used to suck big time.
In the 90's routers didn't exist as we know them and there were no real reason for a private citizen to own something like a switch so they had price tags targeting business, expensive stuff. The common technology for connecting computers together, at a LAN and such, was through coaxial cables. It's the type of cable you screw into a cable box. Without a central point to connect to you didn't need any expensive equipment, everyone just brought a bit of cable with them. The computers were then daisy-chained by screwing a T-cross into the connector of the network cards, then both ends of the network were terminated with a plug(a 'terminator'). Coaxial connections could be vampire tapped which is neat. Imagine a snake sinking its fangs into a hotdog, the hotdog and the snake are actually network cables, that was a legit method to put more machines on a network. All of this created a glorious network that shared 10mbit of bandwidth.
It was cheap but it wasn't good.
If someone removed the terminator the network died, if someone unhooked a cable(or their computer) the network died, there were no DHCP to assign IP addresses so everyone had to assign them themselves and if they used one that was already in use things would get fucked. If someone used something in a range outside of the subnet mask or have anything else wrong with their network settings they were fucked. If Windows 95/98 felt like it things would be fucked. For some reason IPX was the hail mary protocol that seemed to work best but that meant that everyone had to be on the same page when it came to which network protocol to use.
Years later WiFi arrived and the terror continued. It's good now though, but in the beginning...
In the 90's routers didn't exist as we know them and there were no real reason for a private citizen to own something like a switch so they had price tags targeting business, expensive stuff. The common technology for connecting computers together, at a LAN and such, was through coaxial cables. It's the type of cable you screw into a cable box. Without a central point to connect to you didn't need any expensive equipment, everyone just brought a bit of cable with them. The computers were then daisy-chained by screwing a T-cross into the connector of the network cards, then both ends of the network were terminated with a plug(a 'terminator'). Coaxial connections could be vampire tapped which is neat. Imagine a snake sinking its fangs into a hotdog, the hotdog and the snake are actually network cables, that was a legit method to put more machines on a network. All of this created a glorious network that shared 10mbit of bandwidth.
It was cheap but it wasn't good.
If someone removed the terminator the network died, if someone unhooked a cable(or their computer) the network died, there were no DHCP to assign IP addresses so everyone had to assign them themselves and if they used one that was already in use things would get fucked. If someone used something in a range outside of the subnet mask or have anything else wrong with their network settings they were fucked. If Windows 95/98 felt like it things would be fucked. For some reason IPX was the hail mary protocol that seemed to work best but that meant that everyone had to be on the same page when it came to which network protocol to use.
Years later WiFi arrived and the terror continued. It's good now though, but in the beginning...
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The comment about needing to know someone in college to have internet access reminded me of an old (possibly VAX?) time-sharing system my university had access to during my time there.
I believe it may have been limited to CS students and those in other classes that had a need for an account there because my CS professors mentioned having to fund our accounts each semester. I think one of my professors even hinted that if we went over our budget, he may not have any funding left to extend our access for the rest of the semester. Another even promised extra time on the system to the first person to get an extra credit question correct.
Assignments on this system, whether Pascal or IBM 360 Assembly Language, were submitted as batch jobs - no big deal when everything worked as expect, but annoying as hell when it didn't and a pain in the butt to debug.
The most noteworthy feature for me, though, was its email system. Even though it was very crude, it also had a feature where one could edit (or even delete) a message at any time until the recipient read it. This came in handy when I found someone I used to know on this network and sent an email referencing an event I later realized involved someone else. Thankfully, she hadn't read the message at that point, so I edited out that portion.
Email could also be sent to select networks in the US and the UK. I seem to recall one such network having email addresses that didn't use @ to separate the user and domain but I forget the format, though, if this was true.
Although this system was retired a long time ago, I believe I still have one of the manuals for navigating the system up in the attic, along with the article in my alumni magazine about the system's retirement and former students' memories of it.
I believe it may have been limited to CS students and those in other classes that had a need for an account there because my CS professors mentioned having to fund our accounts each semester. I think one of my professors even hinted that if we went over our budget, he may not have any funding left to extend our access for the rest of the semester. Another even promised extra time on the system to the first person to get an extra credit question correct.
Assignments on this system, whether Pascal or IBM 360 Assembly Language, were submitted as batch jobs - no big deal when everything worked as expect, but annoying as hell when it didn't and a pain in the butt to debug.
The most noteworthy feature for me, though, was its email system. Even though it was very crude, it also had a feature where one could edit (or even delete) a message at any time until the recipient read it. This came in handy when I found someone I used to know on this network and sent an email referencing an event I later realized involved someone else. Thankfully, she hadn't read the message at that point, so I edited out that portion.
Email could also be sent to select networks in the US and the UK. I seem to recall one such network having email addresses that didn't use @ to separate the user and domain but I forget the format, though, if this was true.
Although this system was retired a long time ago, I believe I still have one of the manuals for navigating the system up in the attic, along with the article in my alumni magazine about the system's retirement and former students' memories of it.
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UUCP bang path?
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Do any other girl kiwis remember those online dollmaker sites? I must have spent countless hours building and dressing those stupid things. The Doll Palace and Dollzmania we're two of my favorites I know what you're thinking but no, those aren't porn sites. Although I have stumbled on to a few porn sites while searching for them.
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While I know what you're referring to, and that was covered in the manual, I think the odd address format I'm thinking about was for one of the networks in the UK. I may have to try to find that manual over the weekend to see if it's in there.
Not a girl, but I remember those sites being so popular that it seemed like every other female I knew on social media at the time had those dolls as their profile avatar.
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Funny thing, in high school anything labeled as games was auto-blocked, because of course it was (it was a new feature because some of my teachers were pissed they couldn't play the games on Disney's official website anymore
) but that changed with the arrival of the South Korean foreign exchange student. The block did jack shit for foreign sites, and those dress-up games are/were huge in South Korea. So thanks to the foreign exchange student we could play games at school again. Even a few of the guys got into the dress-up games (but with male characters) just because it was better than nothing. Good times.
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When I was statined in Kingsville in 97-98ish there was a book/movie store that rented PC games out for $2 a night. So I rented a bunch of games over the course of a few weeks and burned them all on to my own CD-R's. I had the best fucking games library until I PCS'd.
Thats how I ended up playing Everquest. Right before I left they had gotten a few copies to rent, having no idea how the online registration DRM worked, so if you got one of them first you had a $2 EQ account with a free month.
Mom and pop places back then were so far behind the curve it wasn't even funny
Thats how I ended up playing Everquest. Right before I left they had gotten a few copies to rent, having no idea how the online registration DRM worked, so if you got one of them first you had a $2 EQ account with a free month.
Mom and pop places back then were so far behind the curve it wasn't even funny
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I did once have to convince my mum that my AOL account had been hacked because I got banned and when she rang customer services they read her a significant amount of my considerable body of work on AIM, everything from hardcore cybersex to some serious edgelordy "What the fuck did you just say about me you little shit" kind of stuff. Luckily my parents are totally tech illiterate and therefore she bought it 100%.
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You are an exemplar, a true bastion of the Kiwi spirit. Semper fi.
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Are UUCP bang paths the ones that use ! instead of @ and you have to specify each hop to the destination? I vaguely recall reading about those.
My very first website was on Yahoo. I looked for it on the Wayback Machine, but it apparently wasn't archived. Which is just as well. It was awful.
I learned some very basic hacking skills because I didn't have a credit card and wanted to get into subscription porn sites. I never actually tried carding even though I wanted to.
My very first website was on Yahoo. I looked for it on the Wayback Machine, but it apparently wasn't archived. Which is just as well. It was awful.
I learned some very basic hacking skills because I didn't have a credit card and wanted to get into subscription porn sites. I never actually tried carding even though I wanted to.
Nowadays, any teacher telling you to do that would probably get fired and rightly so.
I can't remember the link or even name, but I remember frequenting a Pokémon fansite with snippets for G/S before released in the West, and the creator really liked Meowth and had fan art everywhere. It played a really cheesy midi Sailor Moon song, too.
Of course, there was also Planet Zebeth, a Metroid parody comic by Kabutroid, which is still active!
Of course, there was also Planet Zebeth, a Metroid parody comic by Kabutroid, which is still active!
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I'm not sure if this is a story I really want to get into (long as fuck), but the really short version is that Kabutroid is a petty piece of shit who got me permabanned from the official (unofficial?) Planet Zebeth forum for no fucking legitimate reason.
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Eric Conveys an Emotion
It was sad that he lost interest and decided not to update it. I'm surprised there's no spiritual sequel on tumblr.
It was sad that he lost interest and decided not to update it. I'm surprised there's no spiritual sequel on tumblr.
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Ah those halcyon Web 1.0 days when everybody thought the internet would be the technology that would destroy all social and political barriers and bring about an information rich utopia instead of just being porn and cat pictures.
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While I can barely remember Internet 1.0 due to being a very young little sperg that had no literacy in tech beyond mashing a controller, I can remember a sort of email service that was called Juno. Beyond that was some website my brother showed me that I eventually realized was NeoPets. Only other Internet 1.0, if the year 2001-2002 counts as Internet 1.0 was going to my dad's workplace on a navy ship and seeing a sort of internet game where you shoot Osama in a liquor store while not shooting some shirtless hostage.
As for other Internet 1.0 stories, this one is pretty recent though it might fit here considering the site itself: @Guardian G.I. and I stumbled upon a website of some guy with a wolf fetish that managed to legally change his name to reflect his animal. His site was built around the 90's since one of its big focuses was on a sort of 3D chat client that could count as a predecessor to SecondLife. The site itself was filled with some ramblings from this guy, notably one of them was some sort of hatred he had of Goreans. I forgot the name of the site but Guardian G.I. might remember the details better.
Interesting part about that site is that one of Eric's emotions was used for the Van Buren Tech Demo for what would of been Fallout 3.
As for other Internet 1.0 stories, this one is pretty recent though it might fit here considering the site itself: @Guardian G.I. and I stumbled upon a website of some guy with a wolf fetish that managed to legally change his name to reflect his animal. His site was built around the 90's since one of its big focuses was on a sort of 3D chat client that could count as a predecessor to SecondLife. The site itself was filled with some ramblings from this guy, notably one of them was some sort of hatred he had of Goreans. I forgot the name of the site but Guardian G.I. might remember the details better.
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Anybody remember Netzero and how it was meant to be free?