eMachines? Luxury. Real power users used Packard Bell.
My first PC was a Packard Bell. Pentium 133, 8MB RAM, no off-die cache. It was slow as molasses, but I loved it anyway.
Wouldn't put AOL on it though - even then.
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Downloaded AOL 4.0 and found people still using the chatrooms.
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eMachines? Luxury. Real power users used Packard Bell.
My first PC was a Packard Bell. Pentium 133, 8MB RAM, no off-die cache. It was slow as molasses, but I loved it anyway.
Wouldn't put AOL on it though - even then.
Aquamarine
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Rapscallion
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what's your buddy icon? Which song do you have in your profile?
Syphon Filter
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wow never thought of that! will try it.
You and me both.
This thread also made me look up WBS like I usually do every few years or so. Imagine my surprise when I read a wikipedia entry on it and saw that somebody brought the site back in its entirety around 2009. Hit up Anime Chat to see if anybody remembers ol' Trunks-23... Total ghosttown. Maybe I'll invade Roland's Cavern for old time's sake.
The Real Abed
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Well seeing as Egghead.com was bought by Amazon a long time ago...You see that ad for an HP Brio BA200 in the upper-left window?
Yeah...it's a budget computer from 1999.
I can't believe they still have that ad running...fifteen years later.
My first internet capable PC was a packard bell, 100 Mhz. Bought from Sears for like, $1800.
The first website I ever visited was virtual i-o(shitty VR glasses in the 90's).
AOL was amazing though. Before it went unlimited I remember my dad only letting me use it a couple minutes a day.
After the minutes were up, that was when you pulled out the old Encarta disc. Ancient ass wikipedia imo.
The first website I ever visited was virtual i-o(shitty VR glasses in the 90's).
AOL was amazing though. Before it went unlimited I remember my dad only letting me use it a couple minutes a day.
After the minutes were up, that was when you pulled out the old Encarta disc. Ancient ass wikipedia imo.
Syphon Filter
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CreepingFear
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Lol! I did the same thing. "Wait, so I'm just... Always online? Like I don't have to sign in with my internet account?" It was a brave new world...
I tried for a long time last night but I could never get it to work. I tried several versions and the latest one.
5.0 was able to work correctly but everytime I tried to create a username it said it was not supported and when I input a account I made on AOL.com it said it was invalid.
5.0 was able to work correctly but everytime I tried to create a username it said it was not supported and when I input a account I made on AOL.com it said it was invalid.
Sapiens
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Remember MS Comic chat?
It was just a bunch of pervs exchanging their stash of porn pics.
Holy shit, you just took me back to 1997. This was the best thing ever.
manzoman96
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I tried logging in to chat but this came up. Anyone know how to fix it?
Same problem I had earlier in the thread. Not sure what to do.
DemurOnion
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This thread is a cool trip back in time.
manzoman96
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I guess there's only one thing to do: dig out my old IBM windows 98 computer from my basement haha. It probably double the weight of my current desktop.
Liferebooted
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I still remember the 90s when I went into a AOL chatroom asking for Aeris hentai, then got suspended for a tos violation and AOL sent a transcript of my chat to my parents since they had the main username on the account =\ I had to make up some BS about what hentai was, lol
Fun fact: You can connect to any IRC chatroom with this program and it works fluidly, associating every person with avatars and such, and changing their expressions depending on punctuation.Remember MS Comic chat?
It was just a bunch of pervs exchanging their stash of porn pics.
Back in the 00s I remember there were irc rooms was made just for this, with customized avatars and such.
That made me laugh way harder than I should have.
Back in the day I was so desperate to play Starcraft I had to use NetZero (when it was actually free).
Starcraft tried to always have focus, but that NetZero ad banner was a fighter and could halfway be seen at the top of my screen. Every so often I'd of course click on said banner, and begin to lag out of the match while I tried to maximize the game again. My friends always knew what was up and would message me saying stuff like KMD clicking because he was the millionth visitor again.
The stuff I put up with for Blizzard games.
manzoman96
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davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Oh man the AOL TOS was like nazi police on the Internet. I was always afraid of getting banned from the Internet for all the dumb shit is say to people. I suppose that was part of the thrill
I got the account banned for three strikes with the last strike being me saying "mother fucker" in a chat with a ToS moderator. I guess he was an AOL employee. I didnt believe him so I said mother fucker, got booted and banned from signing in.
I had to claim a hacker got into our account and make my mom call to get the account reopened lol. She was very shocked to hear that I had said that word, but I insisted it was a hacker. Lol
I got the account banned for three strikes with the last strike being me saying "mother fucker" in a chat with a ToS moderator. I guess he was an AOL employee. I didnt believe him so I said mother fucker, got booted and banned from signing in.
I had to claim a hacker got into our account and make my mom call to get the account reopened lol. She was very shocked to hear that I had said that word, but I insisted it was a hacker. Lol
I got banned for 6 months after calling people a bitch or worse enough times.
When my dad called back they were surprised we didn't open a new account.
Goddamn we were such noobs. We could have got Netscape or anything to get intronets during that period but didn't.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
yeah, but the chats were what made AOL great. I didn't even care about anything else. The chat rooms made my experience in the 90s/early 00s. It's not like you could stream video or anything haha. Had to be occupied with something.
King Mystery
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Ha! Neverwinter Nights. Also, MUDs!
I put up with the same thing to play Dark Age of Camelot. Can't remeber how many times I would get booted for inactivity in the middle of a PVP zone or dungeon group.
Yeah, I had friends I missed that I met in chatrooms. I'm not even sure if standalone AIM was out yet while I was gone.
BobbyRobby
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Facebook has chatrooms. They are really creepy and high stakes cause you're using your actual name.
I used to mess with people in the Red Dragon Inn on AOL back in 1997, and chat there seriously.
I used to mess with people in the Red Dragon Inn on AOL back in 1997, and chat there seriously.
Shamrock7r
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Sniff, reminds me of the good ol days of exitedly browsing Zelda headquarters (zhq) and being in a bunch of those wrestling e-Feds/ rp Feds.
Unknown Soldier
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You should go into the chatroom and tell them you're from the future and your name is John Titor
Wolf Akela
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I remember spending hours everyday on mIRC. I believe I went to both dalnet and undernet? It's what people used to use.
BouncyFrag
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I once got a $200 AOL bill for a single month back in the day. Long story short, my folks were none too pleased with this and I lost computer privileges for two months.
Remember MS Comic chat?
It was just a bunch of pervs exchanging their stash of porn pics.
Since this just uses IRC it still works. Used it about two year ago for a laugh and what is shocking is I found some people still made images for this!
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