The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Snarf Zagyg]

Although I'd actually been online since around '95 or so, it was around '97 that I started doing Rocky Horror and discovered alt. cult-movies.rocky-horror and another group of weirdos called alt.basement.graveyard...

While I had dealt with BBSes and the like before, the first time I got really into the internet was with MUDs (specifically, LPMuds), which is also when I got really into C as a programming language.

Good times, for a very loose and counter-intuitive definition of "good."

 

[prabe]

Ah, there you go, missing the point as always.

 

[Ryujin]

While I had dealt with BBSes and the like before, the first time I got really into the internet was with MUDs (specifically, LPMuds), which is also when I got really into C as a programming language.

Good times, for a very loose and counter-intuitive definition of "good."

In my first computer industry job, one of my co-workers operated an Amiga based BBS. In my next job we were selling computers and hardware to a company called Canada Remote Systems who were a large Toronto based BBS network. They were soon slaughtered by public access to the Internet, in the '90s.

 

[trappedslider]

Explosion Light-Years Away Could Obliterate Life on Earth, Scientists Find

Kilonova Wipeout Despite being many light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth. As detailed in a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, first spotted by Universe Today, a team of researchers concluded that a...

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[Ryujin]

Explosion Light-Years Away Could Obliterate Life on Earth, Scientists Find

Kilonova Wipeout Despite being many light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth. As detailed in a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, first spotted by Universe Today, a team of researchers concluded that a...

news.yahoo.com

"YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT COULD HAPPEN NEXT!"

"Nothing, because it can't happen. Right?"

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Honestly, even on its worst day, this place is way better than RPG usenet was. Lordy.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[prabe]

I can believe it's not the 1990s just fine. What keeps tripping me up is that the 1990s were thirty years ago.

 

[payn]

ah.... the 90's

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I can believe it's not the 1990s just fine. What keeps tripping me up is that the 1990s were thirty years ago.

In less than two months, we will be thirty years removed from Kurt Cobain's death.

I was thinking about this when I noticed all of the young people wearing Nirvana gear, and wondering how many of them listened to Nirvana. Alas, the answer (as told to me by a young person) was ... almost none of them.