maquiladora
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I remember this on TV. I feel old man.
everyone i knew as a kid had encarta. i had compton's. i guess you could say...heheh...that i'm straight out of compton.
Wow. That takes me back.
And who can forget the day they learned <marquee> tags.
Anyone remember having an expage?
I wanna play that game in encarta where you had the maze with the torches again.
I kicked ass at that game.
HOLY SHIT http://www.wikimaze.me/#
hell yes i remember that. that was fun times.winbolo
YEAH. There were also Dice, which used the outcome of a dice command (I think it was //roll) to decide whether an attack was successful or not.That sounds like simming. I didn't get into the RP thing, but I did "SiM", which was just DBZ chat room combat. Putting your moves into :: :: or -= =-, if your opponent typed something faster as an attack you had to type the attack as if it happened, etc. In essence, it was just one giant typing test.
Example:
::leaping roundhouse kick to the face, sending you flying backwards::
etc. etc.
In the fight you had to type out charging or some shit and not get disrupted, all setting up to using some DBZ finisher to win.
Or the noob version:
::teleport::
::break neck::
I was up to 100 WPM with balls-on accuracy in 7th grade because of this shit. Hell, I knew most of the DBZ names and moves in Japanese because of it as well. Always fond of Piccolo on the show so I rolled with the special beam cannon (makankosappo... had to Google the spelling but damn I was close!).
I can't stress how lame this seems in retrospect. And how awesome.
came to post this. i can't believe i even paid for that fucking service.
YEAH. There were also Dice, which used the outcome of a dice command (I think it was //roll) to decide whether an attack was successful or not.
But TBOP was like writing an essay against your opponents. Instead of just typing ::leaping roundhouse:: you would type something like, "InuYasha jumped as high as he could into the air, his leg left outstretched..." blah blah. And it would go on and on until the opponent could not outpost an attack.
There was also Turn Based Logic which didn't rely on excessive detail: people attacked and defended from attacks "logically", and if you couldn't find a reasonable way to defend or attack without godmodding, you were toast.
Yeah, it was pretty lame. I wasted so much time with that stuff years ago. :lol
/pour beer
there was this one guy on ign that looked like an older version of this guy. wonder if it was him.
holy shit. Just nostalgia bomb'd hardcoreMusic Match Jukebox
I remember in the UK we got freeserve, the first free ISP where you only paid for the phone bill. That was amazing at the time, remembering to disconnect after an hour, random disconnects, redialing etc.
I actually had their mp3's at one point but lost them.
And I do not think an archive exists anywhere. Some brave soul will have to a. admit they backed them up and b. upload them.
I hope they do surface, they were truly hilarious.
Music Match Jukebox
And then before Wikipedia, between playing hours of Sim City 2000, I would just basically get lost in the "encarta hole". I loved it.
I think this is what it looked like back when I used to use it to listen to my napster pirated stuff.
Probably the best example you can think of.
Looking back I can't believe how popular he was at one point.
i still use winamp every single day with that exact skin. nothing better.
i still use winamp every single day with that exact skin. nothing better.