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Shitposting gamers in the 90's

Man, I miss super shitposting wars on AOL Playstation chatrooms.

Those were legendary.
Someone said "something sucks" = Full on meltdown in seconds that lasted at least 2 hours.

It's like the chernobyl happening at least 5 times a day.

good times!

:)
 
Reading this thread reminds me how old I am that there are people who are in their mid-20's and don't remember or never experienced the 90's Internet. I think NeoGaf actually started out as a forum in the late 90's.

Message boards as an idea have been around in some form or another since the beginning of the internet. They predate webpages.

USEnet and BBS were and are precursors to the internet as you know it. BBSes are long gone but USEnet is still around but it's used more for piracy these days. Back in their heyday, they were a lot like Reddit's subreddit system. One big network with smaller communities all connected to it where people would post ideas, pictures, get into arguments and share files.
 
Wow that sony ponies thing sticked ies
Amazing.
Never was a fanboy.

Mk was better on genesis tho.
Blood!!
 
I'm not going to take sides or anything, but since you mentioned that,
another thing beside that is Nintendo isn't a Slave to the Common thought
that "Canadian/Americans" are Fighter Game/Action Game Freaks, try and
find ONE good RPG for the PSX, <eg>, none. King's Field however is
"supposidley" comming out, Sony has turned down many MANY offers of RPG
ports over, I should have said "ALL", but since King's Field may come
out, that would be wrong to say. Anyways, Nintendo is only a Slave to
making FUN games period. <chuckle>, I should conclude by saying that
this IS HIGHLY opinionated of me. =)

I don't own a PSX, and I don't think I want to, my idea of fun isn't
pressing buttons rapidly for hours, but Sony sure thinks so.

All IMHO ofcourse. =)


Fare Well,

Callsign: Dimo X
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This gave me a good chuckle. Oh Captain Hindsight :)
 
This thread

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PastorOfMuppets said:
USEnet and BBS were and are precursors to the internet as you know it. BBSes are long gone but USEnet is still around but it's used more for piracy these days. Back in their heyday, they were a lot like Reddit's subreddit system. One big network with smaller communities all connected to it where people would post ideas, pictures, get into arguments and share files.
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And most of it unmoderated. It was a wild time. :D
 
Who were these people with internet in fuckin 1989 !!!
That's the year www was born, what kind of person not only had access to a computer but also internet in those days?
 
nOoblet16 said:
Who were these people with internet in fuckin 1989 !!!
That's the year www was born, what kind of person not only had access to a computer but also internet in those days?
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We got the internet in 1988. We connected with a 14.4 kbps baud modem. We used MS Dos running on our 8088. All text, no graphics, of course.

We got a second phone line to dedicate to the internet around 1994.

We got our 8088 back in 1987, IIRC.

I still have that computer, actually. Dunno if it still boots up, though.

Starting around 1997. I'd lug my computer to a local computer club which gave me access to a T1 line at the time. Coincidentally, that was also around the time I discovered Napster.
 
Regiruler said:
You can make decompression faster (to a point) with good coding. It's a bit harder to make loading faster.
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9 women will not birth a baby in 1 month. There are types of compression that you cannot speed up, generally the ones that compress to smaller sizes.

By contrast, you actually can make things load faster by, for example, using storage queues rather than repeated access.
 
Krejlooc said:
9 women will not birth a baby in 1 month. There are types of compression that you cannot speed up, generally the ones that compress to smaller sizes.

By contrast, you actually can make things load faster by, for example, using storage queues rather than repeated access.
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Isn't compression O(N) (size of source) or am I thinking of something else?
 
Huge Succeeded said:
Oh Jesus, what I wouldn't give to see the FF7 meltdowns
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I imagine they went something like this:

Square just shot themselves in the foot.

I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase FFVII, nor will they purchase any of Square's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Square has alienated an entire market with this move.

Square, publicly apologize and cancel FFVII for Playstation or you can kiss your business goodbye.
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Regiruler said:
Isn't compression O(N) or am I thinking of something else?
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there are many, many, maaaaaany types of compression. And it also depends on the size and type of compression. For example, the bigger the atlus in LZW compression, the longer the decompression time. A small atlus might be O(n) but a large one could be O(n log n).

Further, some compression are faster one way than the other. Vector Quantization, for example, can take full minutes to encode, and seconds to decode.

EDIT: And of course there is also multi-pass compression..
 
120v said:
as a nintendo fanboy who lived through it, it kind of wasn't much of a meltdown. everybody pretty much expected it by then.
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Whaaa??? Nobody saw it coming, and I mean nobody. It was all tears of blood and rended garments. It had a HUGE effect on internet gamer culture that carries on to this day. I've been online since summer 1994 and I remember forums being relatively civil and chill until the FFVII announcement. It touched off a firestorm of angry flaming that's never really stopped since. I mean obviously there were trolls and flamewars before that, but it just blew up to biblical proportions. Gamefaqs forums were built on those piles of charred corpses.
 
The funniest thing was how hardcore Nintendo fans suddenly hated Final Fantasy and Square. They didn't need them anyway because they had Zelda coming. That would lead to a million debates about whether Zelda was a RPG.
 
This brings me back to early 2000's internet.

Things were different back then... but also very much the same.
 
Originally Posted by Mike Still 1/13/96

This is very untrue. Square and Nintendo have a very long running commitment
to each other. THere is just as much chance of seeing a Square game on another
system as there is seeing a Mario game on another system.

Mike
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RIP Mike Still 1/13/96 - 9/7/16
 
Wonderful.

There's an almost comforting purity about chest thumping, tribalist system warrioring like this that makes the more modern self-styled PR mouthpieces you get for certain companies these days seem like such a pissweak alternative.

I know I'd gladly read a hundred "*Metal Gear Solid will make everyone forget the limey named James Bond"s than yet another subtlenotsubtle Scorpio sales pitch.
 
Weird looking at this stuff, i.e. my childhood, through lens of console warriors. I loved our SNES and wanted to go N64, play Mario 64, etc. but I wasn't bummed out when we went PS instead. I guess in the late 90s I found DK64 and Banjo Kazooie unappealing from the outside looking in and made some fun of them, but I still played SNES and GameBoy games and liked Nintendo. Still haven't played N64 platformers outside of Mario 64, though.

Also was anti-Pokemon before I was pro-Pokemon, but I tended not to like things I'd not done but heard a lot about from people who, well, didn't like me very much. Still have an anti-pop culture streak in that way tbh, but I try to keep it in check when I haven't actually seen/heard enough to pass judgment.

...

I have more deep-seated and 'considered' preferences these days and they're contrary to the core gaming community's preferences in key ways so that can sharpen the edge of a negative opinion or fortify the armor of a positive opinion.

Also, I'm on the Internet now; wasn't a pioneer in that respect at all.
 
Lol these are gold, people used to take so much pride on the console they owned, the "I almost got in a fight because he wants to buy the Ultra64" comment is priceless.

Anyone got any early 00's Ps2 vs. Dreamcast links? I'm on mobile so it's a little tricky to browse.
 
the Internet was such a random place in the 90's. I loved the basic nature of it.

geocities and angelfire RIP
 
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