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By: Panther Modern
Date: 6/9/98 10:40:34 AM
# Replies: 49
wow. time for my rehash. many many many many moons ago, me and my p1mpin vicmodem found a few bbs's around town.. with such interesting names like The Puss Zone, Backstage, 50K Nuns and Orphens, Call It What You Want, among other ICE, CNET, and 6480 boards. Then, I realized, I wasnt a "post-er"... I was a warez fiend. So I started calling Rad Skater's bbs (whatever it was called, i forget) but one thing we can all agree on .. we all hated the ALL AMERICAN BBS program. No matter that I'm sitting here on my T3 connection at work with my p1mpin PII-333mhz system with this 21 inch monitor... What I wouldn't give to relive the old days of 1200 baud .. with my nasty comm program (which i can still visualize but i cant rememeber the name of.. this is a bad trend) ... downloading at amazingly slow speeds ... watching "---------" creep across the screen one dash at a time, praying for no "*"'s coz thoze meant errors... playing wonderfully cheezy games on my 1 mhz commodore 64. Years pass. Then in a span of literally 4 months, I run into The Dalak (TFP), Beinfang, Cleotis (braindead), Thrasher/Xeonoex, Ronka, Tiger2xlc, Shadow Stalker, and a few others. YEARS pass I tell you. Then I run into ALL these old commie users? My God, I was p1mpin with my k-k00l commodore like, nearly 13 years ago.. I got that sucker when I was like 11. What does it mean? Why so many after ALL these years, when we've all gotten fatter, older, smellier, and balder... some of us have gotten married, others of us are busted by the FBI (literally)... I mean, in a time where the typical handle was "wayrad" (marc), "rad skater" (kenneth) .. look what has become of us. Oh, and in case anyone remembers "Rambler" that ran Phase IV, last I heard, he still runs his Amiga bbs, and is still fat.
Jason Panther Modern http://www.panthermodern.net
Response #1
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/9/98 9:04:54 PM
CommTerm. It was CommTerm.
I find it interesting that the download times for WaReZ has remained fairly constant over the years. In the commie days you'd start a download at night, and then several hours and 360K later you'd have the latest cool game.
Now, you start a download at night, and then several hours and 20 megabytes later you've got the *demo version* of the latest cool game.
I personally consider myself (dare I say) blessed to have been a participant in whatever the heck it was going on back in those good ol' days. It was a weird and special and (dare I say) eeleet subculture we had. We owned computers, and we knew what *modems* could do. Most folks didn't. We met some kindred spirits.
What has become of us? Interesting question. The times have changed. We're older, fatter, smellier, balder, and no longer eeleet. We've got careers, families, prison records, and other stuff we didn't have all those years ago.
But I think we're still pretty cool.
Say howdy to Rambler, and tell him I'm still using the realistic stereo receiver/amp I traded a C-64 with him for.
Response #2
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/10/98 12:57:00 AM
Personally, I used VIPTerm.
The thing I remember most about he 3l33t hackur dayz was having someone I didn't know call me at like 2 in the morning (which doesn't seem late at all anymore) and wanting me to call them and trade warez. I don't remember the last time I used my computer to call someone else's individual computer and talk over some crude chat program, one-on-one. (Okay, the "adult" compuchat doesn't count. Now I just play Bruce Lee with my c64 emulator. Sure wish I could get Mail Order Monsters to work, though.
Response #3 Anyone want to buy a working C64?????? Response #4 I remember my first modem. I got it when I was pregnant with Jimmy. Friends thought that communicating with folks about when and where to meet for coffee, etc. via e-mail was "unnatural". We were the techno-gods of the day, yes indeed. The weird thing was that I was one of the few women involved in the "scene".
And look. I still am. Response #5 Bruce Lee on the C-64? That game kicked mucho buttocks! I liked the fact that the other joystick would control the big green guy, and if you pushed down on the joystick (I believe) he would make this strange sound... Great, now I've got to unplug my Nintendo from my C-64 monitor so I can get the game out of my system again... Response #6 Jim and I found Bruce Lee on the Internet... just like the old days.
Except it is not as much fun as I remember. Response #7 Kathy. Is Bruce Lee your new boyfriend? Response #8 If I say yes, will you never again refer to me as a boyfriendless twit? Response #9
Isn't Bruce Lee dead?
Response #10 Of course Bruce Lee isn't dead! They've got him him, Elvis & JFK's brain hidden in a vault under the Pentagon.
I think I remember the old days, but I'm not sure.
The one thing I miss more than anything, was the sense of our own little communites. Places where we could go, and people knew who you were, and you knew who they were. People down the corner, around the block, where it was actaully feasable to plan to get together and meet occasionally. Now the people that you meet on the net can be anywhere from halfway across the world to next door. Not that it's really a nad thing. (Here lately, I've learned more about the political situation in Austrailia than I ever though I'd know in lifetime, due to talking to someone down there). But with the influx of all those people out there, it makes way more difficult to find someone down the street, around the corner or down the block. Yeah, I'm sure of it, that's what I miss the most. I think that's probably what this whole band of misfits here really like. Afterall, we came all came back like a magnet to it's comfortble refrigerator. I can't say how thankful I am to Fang for giving us all this place. As elitest, strange, bizarre, arrogant, intelligent, boorish, lonely, different or geeky we are, I guess the one thing we all have in common is having a place where everybody knows out name.
I think I'll go watch a rerun of Cheers now. Response #11 Well spoken, Bob.
(ow! OWW! okay, okay, big ASCII smiley here!) Response #12
I think I'm going to cry.
Response #13 how did that all spawn off my message anyway? :)
Response #14 I *am* crying...that was beautiful man!
[scanning the room for a Bud Light] Response #15 Who the hell is Bob? Response #16 "Bob" the immaculate salesman of the Church of the Subgenius?
Response #17 For the record, I'm not noticeable fatter or smellier than I was
in the 3l1t3 commodore days, and you have to look closely to see
that I am balder.
I suspect plugging the C=128 back in and basking in the monitor will
prompt hair regrowth anyway. Response #18 LOAD "ROGAIN",8,1 Response #19 I Still wanna know who Bob is????? Response #20 Bob lives at www.subgenius.com.
Reminder, X-DAY: 5 July 1998. Response #21 I know of that Bob. I was wondering who the Bob was that Fang was talking about???? Response #22 Dammit! Mycroft's a Subgenius, and if he blows up on X-day like all the rest of his kin, I'm not going to be the one scraping his earthly remains off the walls and ceiling! He'll just have to sleep in the tub, where clean-up will be so much easier. Response #23 I'm going to be sleeping in on july 5th.
Response #24 It's amazing that the SubGenii and the Art Bell camp are kind of in agreement on this: Something BIG is going to happen in July.
Art's had Major Ed Dames (remote viewer) and some Hopi Elders (injuns) saying that there's going to be some big geographic turmoil beginning in July, signalling the Beginning of the End. Response #25 Could we sue the SubGenii if it happens? Response #26 The big geographical turmoil is that I'll be stressed out from my parents visiting. Blame ME.
Response #27 I'll probably just be awake the night of the 4th/morning of the 5th. I wanna pick someone where my combustion wil ruin a girl's evening.
*grinning at the though of the Rupture occuring during a "delicate" situation* Response #28 I reeeeeally don't want to think about that, Mycroft.
On second thought, we'll set you up with a nice Discordian girl who'll eat your brain and purify your soul, and have you so distracted that you'll just NOT NOTICE X-day. Response #29 Nice discordian girls?
*snort* *shifts position, lifting left leg and pointing it at Loki*
Pull the other one.
I'ld like you to even find a discordian girl who wouldn't bore me to sleep, let alone show me a good time... Response #30 The big event coming in July wil be...
My birthday!
Ahhh, I remember my big b-day blow-out at the Ale house back in `93/ Wow! what an occasion that was!
I do wonder whatever happened to that cat however. Response #31 Which cat did they have in 93? I'm pretty sure they've upgraded since then.
Happy pending birthday!
July's a big birthday month, if I recall correctly. Spaz, Tess & Format C:, the missing-in-action squiddly, umm... who else? Raise yer hands pleeze.
Response #32 When was the last time anyone heard from Squid? Gawsh I miss her! Response #33
I miss Ale House Waitress Judy.
Response #34 Sigh.
Squid.
Anyone got an email address for her? Response #35 Nope. the last person anywone could think of who might know is in Berma and married to someone other than Squid's mother.
Bryan O'blivian was pretty much it... Response #36 Berma? You mean...
"A country of southeast Asia on the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Site of an ancient kingdom, Burma was a province of British India from 1886 until 1948, when it gained its independence. Rangoon is the capital and the largest city. Population, 35,313,905."
Cool. Whasupwiddat? And what about Squid's mother? Response #37 Ralf, you have WAY too much time on your hands! Response #38 Or maybe just a copy of Microsoft Bookshelf? :-) Response #39 Well, there's always that. Response #40 Or a Playstation... Response #41 Hey, if you haven't done this yet, GO SEE PANTHER MODERN'S WEB SITE!
The design is way cool!
But the MP3's didn't play right when I downloaded them. I'll try again.
Response #42 I've had trouble getting the MP3s to download using Netscape, but Internet Explorer will download them just fine. Response #43 FP, does it d/l the files, and change the ext? If so, that usually has to do with the server side, and the way it has it's mime designations set-up. Netscape is partiularly sensitive about that. Response #44 Yeah. The workaround is to download them then change the extension to .mp3.
Response #45 That's what it is. It's on the server side. It's not had that file ext set up in the mime definitions. If ya get that fixed, it should send the file just fine. Response #46 i would just like to note that i am neither fatter nor smellier than i was seven years ago when i first logged onto the nuns. thank you. Response #47 Wait til ya get closer to 30. Response #48 You mean I get to be 30 again...sigh Response #49 Note: the validity of these claims has not yet been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration.
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