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General Discussion => The Speakeasy: OOG/Off-topic Discussion => Topic started by: Casiella on 07 Apr 2011, 13:58
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So who here participated in the glory days of bulletin board systems?
1200 baud modems, door games, "download sections", sysops... man, I totally miss my old culture.
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So who here participated in the glory days of bulletin board systems?
1200 baud modems, door games, "download sections", sysops... man, I totally miss my old culture.
I remember when we bought a bulk load of five 2400 baud modems so that we could get a discount - down to 200 dollars a piece! then discovering that although I could read at 1200baud, I couldn't quite read at 2400 baud, so needed to have page breaks....
And the BBS with only one phone line run out of a friends bedroom, when you couldn't log on if someone was using the local terminal, and the sysop had a habit of falling asleep on the keyboard (thus not being booted for inactivity). We solved this problem by moving into a flat with him so we could shake him awake and send him to bed.
The repeated dialing for hours hoping to get on; the unconventional supertitious methods we used to try to improve our chances. The software to allow you to scan the forums. Thread titles like "Life and a watercolour dawn"...
*Sigh* It was a simpler age, but I do remember it fondly.
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The repeated dialing for hours hoping to get on; the unconventional supertitious methods we used to try to improve our chances. The software to allow you to scan the forums. Thread titles like "Life and a watercolour dawn"...
*Sigh* It was a simpler age, but I do remember it fondly.
:) Very.
(Edited to remove the accidental strikethough that I'd added when trying to editorially correct a typo in the quote.)
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Ogod, please stop reminding me that I was indeed a nerd once.
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"Once"? You spend time pretending to be a rustpunk terrorist with Internet spaceship pixels, and then chatting up other people about it on a forum dedicated to immersive Internet spaceship pixels.
Embrace your inner nerd. Give in to your geekiness.
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Ogod, please stop reminding me that I was indeed a nerd once.
We are the lords of nerdiness!! RPers are nerds that the other nerds look down on!!
Put on your wizard hat and feel the burn!
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I don't have a Wizard Robe and Hat - I have Chain mail, is that ok?
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EVE must appeal to a certain niche of older players, because I'm only 19.
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It trends a little older than many other MMORPGs, but that's just an average. Of course we have some high school and college age students, just as WoW has some middle-aged and older folks, too. :)
But yeah, geeks rule.
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I remember Playing L.O.R.D. on a Friends Spitfire based BBS
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I liked Operation Overkill II.