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PostPosted: 05/19/03 - 18:22    Post subject: History of the Internet Reply with quote

http://thelemon.net/issues/timeline.php
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PostPosted: 05/19/03 - 18:29    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Scam e-mails replace oil as the chief export of Nigeria.


Haha, so true.

If I have to read another of those "Hi! Im Queen Zumba Bumba of Nigeria! If you send me one thousand dollars to escape I will send you 100,000 dollars!" e-mails im gonna kill someone.
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PostPosted: 05/19/03 - 18:59    Post subject: Reply with quote

199: "Everquest released. People give up repetitive, boring, normal lives in exchange for repetetive, boring, virtual lives" Smile

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PostPosted: 05/19/03 - 19:31    Post subject: Reply with quote

sinrakin wrote:
199: "Everquest released. People give up repetitive, boring, normal lives in exchange for repetetive, boring, virtual lives" Smile

Laughing


Very true, but they're forgetting 1981 or so when the BBS system hit mainstream, and rather than facing repetitive, boring, normal lives, we just spend all day chatting to other people avoiding their repetitive, boring, normal lives.

Oh, and racking up 100's of dollars in long distance phone bills to connect to that porn board over in california.
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PostPosted: 05/20/03 - 11:27    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its really amazing how quickly the internet has evolved over a 10 year period of time.

Atleast the human race can adapt to something...

but then again, a chimp can adapt to big breasts and blow jobs on a screen too =\
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PostPosted: 05/20/03 - 11:55    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm soo glad i wasen't part of those long distance phone charges
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PostPosted: 05/20/03 - 12:01    Post subject: Reply with quote

Remember when "Computer Shopper" used to come out every month, and it was like three inches thick and weighed ten pounds, and the meat of it was huge lists of BBSs in every state?
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PostPosted: 05/20/03 - 18:42    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dont worry rootus. You would have done like the rest of us, and had a war dialer set up to call MCI and hack out long distance phone codes for ya. resulting in about 5-10 free phone codes a night for you to leach with.
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PostPosted: 05/20/03 - 23:37    Post subject: Reply with quote

sinrakin wrote:
Remember when "Computer Shopper" used to come out every month, and it was like three inches thick and weighed ten pounds, and the meat of it was huge lists of BBSs in every state?


yep Very Happy
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PostPosted: 05/20/03 - 23:40    Post subject: Reply with quote

kireol wrote:
Dont worry rootus. You would have done like the rest of us, and had a war dialer set up to call MCI and hack out long distance phone codes for ya. resulting in about 5-10 free phone codes a night for you to leach with.


It's much easier to just set up a secure tunnel to your PC at work, where you have access to every switch they own.
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