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I just ran across this in a web search. This is like my freshman year of college encapsulated in a single Angelfire site. http://www.angelfire.com/me/GOTHGIRL/stuff.html quote:YOU HAVE NOW ENTERED THE DARKNESS!! This page contains information about Gothic & Industrial Music yes... I like Industrial just as much. 
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<marquee>Look, I like Depeche Mode as much as the next guy but they're definitely not gothic or industrial</marquee>
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Jul 3, 2015 18:45
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Man, I felt like the hottest poo poo when I discovered the marquee element. Oh to be 12 again.
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Jul 3, 2015 18:50
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Cat Hatter posted:I seem to remember a MiniDisc commercial where some guy sets up a halfpipe in his basement, turns on his MiniDisc player (could have been something else, but I'm pretty sure it was MD), drops in on his skateboard and embeds himself in the drop ceiling as soon as he comes up the other side while a narrator says something about how MiniDisc doesn't skip. I have been completely unable to find evidence of this commercial's existence. pookel posted:I just ran across this in a web search. This is like my freshman year of college encapsulated in a single Angelfire site.
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Jul 3, 2015 18:56
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pookel posted:I just ran across this in a web search. This is like my freshman year of college encapsulated in a single Angelfire site. I'm bummed that there wasn't a web ring for me to click on and find an endless loop of unrelated websites. I also just remembered that I've been visiting Mega Man fansites since 1996, which was when my parents got us set up with dial-up Internet. I still can't believe they had the wherewithal to get a second line that we used almost exclusively for dial-up.
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Star Man posted:I'm bummed that there wasn't a web ring for me to click on and find an endless loop of unrelated websites. I never found any webring that didn't have at least 1/3 of its sites 404'd.
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Jul 3, 2015 20:44
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I remember constantly getting kicked off my connection because my aunt was trying to call my mom, she eventually had figured out that if she kept calling it would kill my connection so she could get through. I still get poo poo for this from my mom and aunt to this day. Apparently we had really good phone lines because I was consistently getting 56k versus my friends getting 28.8. Jokes on me though, they both got cable/dsl while I was stuck with dialup until 2005. I miss the dialup tones, don't miss the slow as molasses download speeds.
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Jul 3, 2015 21:04
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Cat Hatter posted:That's also a big reason U.S. currency no longer has anything larger than a $100 bill. Its a lot harder for a drug dealer to move a pallet of money around than a duffel bag. In general practice, you won't find anything bigger than a $20 in ordinary everyday transactions. Outside of banking transactions, I haven't seen a $50 bill in months, nevermind a $100 bill. It's also why LEOs seem so hard up about seizing large amounts of cold hard cash - it's assumed that if you don't have all of your cash safely tucked away in a bank somewhere, then you're probably up to no good. 
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Jul 3, 2015 22:46
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:In general practice, you won't find anything bigger than a $20 in ordinary everyday transactions. Outside of banking transactions, I haven't seen a $50 bill in months, nevermind a $100 bill. You must not work retail. I count money for a largish retail chain and see fistfuls of each every day. I wish they were obsolete so we would stop getting assholes coming in 2 minutes after opening on a Monday trying to spend hundos. 
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Jul 3, 2015 22:54
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cobalt impurity posted:You must not work retail. I count money for a largish retail chain and see fistfuls of each every day. $100 notes aren't too uncommon either, tend to get them from actually going into the bank and withdrawing from an actual person.
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I see far more $100 bills than $50 in the states. Actually, I think I see more $100's than $10's.
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Jul 4, 2015 01:27
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$100 bills in Canada are very rare, $50 are more common since some ATMs will dispense them. In Russia, American $100 bills are basically the most common way to transport medium to large amounts of money in cash, so I saw a fuckton of those.
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GWBBQ posted:That was an awesome commercial. You're remembering it right. The best/worst advertisement for Minidisc and Sony product in general was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNFyxvIdaM I thiought that kid was soo cool with his NetMD that even had the LCD on the lead. Mine had controls on teh lead but he was ballin'
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What is y'alls earliest internet/computer memory? My family were Mac loyalists, so I never got to play all the cool games my friends had. We had a B&W version of Glypha (2 I think?) on our Macintosh II. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8VqNvUG1rw I also remember using my friend's computer in the basement in the mid 90s to make hours-long movies with the trial version of 3D Movie Maker.   We had an Apple sampler/shareware CD with thousands of games on it. One of our favorites was Dubbelmoral. You are supposed to sit on your room studying, but you can go out on the town to drink beer and dance with scantily clad chicks and pee in urinals. Every now and then your mom would come to check and see if you were still studying. If she found the desk empty, She'd go SkiFree yeti mode and become an invincible juggernaut. Your mom would throw rolled up newspapers at you until you went back to your room to study. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1qUosypbjY Also remember Spelling Jungle. If you mashed Word Muncher and Chip's Challenge together, you'd get this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB_l8Oq9ucE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgrQgbp6XI
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Earliest computer memory is my poor father typing C64 programs in from magazines for me to play, and of playing Impossible Mission and dying laughing at the scream the main character would do when falling down a hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0U6h5mvr9E Still slays me. Earliest internet memory is using Trumpet WinSock in Windows 3.11 probably, but as for the internet itself, I remember when sites barely had images at all, and were usually just text with links to... other text. Also early internet video was a completely awful experience.
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p-hop posted:What is y'alls earliest internet/computer memory? Mine was 10 BEEP 20 GOTO 10 ...no seriously that's the earliest thing I remember. I was like 5 and my dad brought home a computer. He started showing me how to program it and the first thing I figured out was how to make it annoying.
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Jul 4, 2015 10:24
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p-hop posted:What is y'alls earliest internet/computer memory?  It was horrible.
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p-hop posted:What is y'alls earliest internet/computer memory? My family were Mac loyalists, so I never got to play all the cool games my friends had. We had a B&W version of Glypha (2 I think?) on our Macintosh II. I wish I could find a video of it. At the time my aunt and uncle had a computer, our family didn't. It was either a C64 or a TRS80, and my cousin was showing me a music program that played Chariots of Fire. The earliest memory of our own family having a computer to mess with was when the same uncle loaned us their 286 for a couple days so we could get used to DOS prior to buying our own. He told my parents "Don't worry, you can't do anything to break it!" and my dad somehow managed to delete autoexec.bat that night. This was back in the days when it was common to have autoexec loaded with important loads for DOS to even work. Said uncle spent hours trying to piece it back together, and we eventually ended up getting our own 286. My dad was more careful trying DOS commands out of a Dos For Dummies book after that.
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Jul 4, 2015 12:09
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Am I the only one here who bought a SACD player?
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CoolCat posted:Am I the only one
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Well that's a corner of shame not even MiniDisc owners can sit in.
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Technically this is the first computer I got my hands on, at a Target in Oklahoma City around 1971. The little TV screen had me fascinated even if everyone else seemed to walk right by this outlandish looking thing. I used to look forward going to that store just so I could at least stand there and watch the attract mode for a little while.  
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Not my first memory but an early one. Going to the amusement arcade on holiday as a kid and over all the white noise of buzzers, music and bells that was a constant sound every now and then you would hear.... "AAAHHHHHHHGGHHH - GET READY!" As the Space Harrier demo played. I'll never forget that and on the rare occasion I hear it now it takes me right back to being a kid 
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First Internet memory is using the computer at my mom's office to search for WWF stuff (on yahoo).
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p-hop posted:What is y'alls earliest internet/computer memory? My family were Mac loyalists, so I never got to play all the cool games my friends had. We had a B&W version of Glypha (2 I think?) on our Macintosh II. My earliest was when our mother got an LCII for her work when we lived in Germany. Sitting on her lap playing Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego with her translating since it was all in English. There was also some kind of pyramid/archaeologist themed dungeon crawler I totally forget the name of that we filled many hours with. There was also a fierce rivalry for lap times on Imola on F1 Racing between my brother and a foster kid we had for a year. We were a Mac family until about 96-97 when we were given an old PC by the company our mother then worked for because we kept installing PC games on her laptop. edit: first PC games we actually bought: Dark Forces 2 and Oh No! More Lemmings. Not a bad start. Was so exciting to mail order from the back of PC Gamer and have them arrive at the doorstep a couple weeks later.
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Non Serviam posted:First Internet memory is using the computer at my mom's office to search for WWF stuff (on yahoo). It took me a moment to change my frame of reference for what you were probably looking up, because at first I thought you were looking up pandas. My first online memory was looking up stuff from the O.J. Simpson trial.
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p-hop posted:What is y'alls earliest internet/computer memory? My family were Mac loyalists, so I never got to play all the cool games my friends had. We had a B&W version of Glypha (2 I think?) on our Macintosh II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) My dad was a professor at Johns Hopkins in the early 70s. I was 7 or 8 down and my mom took me down to the campus to see him. He showed me the terminal he had just gotten in his office and the first thing I played was this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(PLATO) My first computer experience was qan arena shooter. Explains a lot actually.
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Antifreeze Head posted:It took me a moment to change my frame of reference for what you were probably looking up, because at first I thought you were looking up pandas. I don't even think I found anything. When I got my own pc with Internet, circa 97, I looked up cartoon network, got lots of free Screensavers, and talked in chat rooms. My brother and I also looked up satanism and the church of Satan. We didn't speak English, and neither of us was into it, but it was spooky. So many pentagram gifs!
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The first thing I did when shown a website was wait until no one was looking and try and select all the text and hit delete 
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p-hop posted:What is y'alls earliest internet/computer memory? My family were Mac loyalists, so I never got to play all the cool games my friends had. We had a B&W version of Glypha (2 I think?) on our Macintosh II. Christmas in 7th grade: A Commodore VIC-20 with an RF modulator for the TV, a tape drive, the 8K expansion cart, the Spiders of Mars game cart, and the last three months of Compute magazine. That was the year I taught myself how to program in BASIC and started in on 6502 Assembly Language using a BASIC program with DATA lines for opcodes and stuffing everything in memory via POKES. Debugging that stuff was a stone cold bitch.
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CoolCat posted:Am I the only one here who bought a Sega And Sega Channel.
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Flipperwaldt posted:The retarded keyboard on this: That membrane keyboard is pretty much the only thing preventing the original TRS-80 Color Computer's chiclet keyboard from being the worst keyboard of the early micros.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) This reminded me of a time from my youth. My grandfather had a small business and it ran I think on a VAC or UNIVAC system with maybe ten dumb terminals. It used several modems to phone up the credit bureaus to get information which was then translated by people to interpret credit score (before there was a simple credit score number). That computer had 'Hunt the Wumpus' on it. You could move one of the cardinal directions or shoot an arrow in one of the directions. You would smell the Wumpus one or two rooms away I think. If you went to where the Wumpus was it ate you. If you shot and didn't move, it could move and eat you instead. So you had to sheet in the direction it was before it got you.
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Dick Trauma posted:Technically this is the first computer I got my hands on, at a Target in Oklahoma City around 1971. Beats the hell out of the Pong machine at Eu-Can Bowl in...1973? 1974? Something like that. It was next to a Bally Road Runner machine that was a lot more interesting:  There's an "obsolete" category that hasn't been dug into much on this thread. Electromechanical games were getting really drat fancy right up until the entire category got curbstomped by videogames.
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Lazlo Nibble posted:Beats the hell out of the Pong machine at Eu-Can Bowl in...1973? 1974? Something like that. It was next to a Bally Road Runner machine that was a lot more interesting: That looks pretty freaking cool. Its basically a '70s version of augmented reality.
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Humphreys posted:The best/worst advertisement for Minidisc and Sony product in general was: I never realized just how much Sony placement was in that video.
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I want to see what the dude with the Playstation controller looks like today. (I know DJ Gizmo looks exactly the same as back then; maybe fatter.)
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Flipperwaldt posted:The retarded keyboard on this: We got a keyboard overlay that provided push button keys for the ZX81. But the T & Y keys were accidentally swapped and it wasn't possible to fix. Once I got used to it, for years it messed up my typing whenever I used another computer.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I want to see what the dude with the Playstation controller looks like today. Speaking of PlayStation, some dude found one of the few SNES-CD Sony/Nintendo collaboration prototypes in a box of junk. Image album here: http://imgur.com/a/Ll9kS Discussion thread I've actually seen one of these, in Ken Kuteragi's office when I worked at PlayStation in Japan. (Ken Kuteragi was the engineer who created the PlayStation and eventually became the head of the company)
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My earliest computer memory is playing Car Wars on the TI99/A4. I was like 3 or 4 years old.
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