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jre posted:
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funny thing u remembered that is not my first posting home
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Jan 4, 2021 23:29
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jre posted:
lol fark, but i read sa articles then lots of irc for years before
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Jan 4, 2021 23:36
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Hardly surprising since its computre, but Slashdot posters seem to be about 100% fascists now.
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Jan 4, 2021 23:57
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before SA I posted on Zophar’s Domain
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Jan 5, 2021 00:00
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Achmed Jones posted:i really miss gamefaqs style guides to be honest. these days most everything a video with a bunch of ads and stupid voiceovers and it's impossible to find the actual bit you care about. i just want to go to the section for "level seven" and read what i'm supposed to do. dont get me wrong, text with ample screenshots is way better than text alone, but i'll take text-only with sick ascii art over lovely videos any day steam guides are a nice in between when they actually have something i still head to gamefaqs first
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Hardly surprising since its computre, but Slashdot posters seem to be about 100% fascists now. Now ?
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jre posted:Now ? OK but like 15 years ago the fascists were talking about computre, not how much they love fascism and how much they hate things that aren't fasxits, and AOC
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Jan 5, 2021 00:17
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I just remembered albinoblacksheep forums
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Jan 5, 2021 00:28
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i started on forums.somethingawful.com
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Jan 5, 2021 01:06
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I posted a lot on the pc gamer UK forums in like 1999, I really hope that poo poo is deleted though they were a pretty chill place actually all things considered edit: i think I was maybe 15 idk.
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Jan 5, 2021 01:40
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some team fortress classic forums probably
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Jan 5, 2021 01:50
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gamefaqs until i got banned for joking i was 8 years old. i was told that to lift the ban, i had to send what was essentially an id theft kit to show i really was over 13. i declined
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Jan 5, 2021 01:52
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jre posted:
I remember the waves the voices from the hellmouth posts made when America was freaking the gently caress out after columbine  the days when school shootings were rare
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Jan 5, 2021 01:57
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i started on the official counter strike off-topic forum then when it was taken over by gamespy there was a spinoff forum where all the regulars moved to that forum is now lost to time thank loving god
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Jan 5, 2021 04:10
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PIZZA.BAT posted:that forum is now lost to time same wrt aforementioned team fortress classic forums
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Jan 5, 2021 05:07
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I used to read Slashdot for news in the 90s rather than treat it like a forum or something, I mainly stuck to Usenet SA’s the only “web” forum I’ve ever used consistently, and only really started posting consistently after Awful.app was written web pages absolutely suck for anything but running queries and reading, and people need to stop loving trying to push them into roles for which they’re not suited
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Jan 5, 2021 07:14
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the forums should really just be:
and of course the post content should be text/x-bbcode rather than loving HTML, and if you want server-hosted image embeds etc. that’s what MIME multipart message bodies are for
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Jan 5, 2021 07:20
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I’d probably hand jeffery a chunk of change for NNTP support at this point. Goddamn, reading and posting from emacs + gnus... mmmmmhhhhh Beard got a little grayer just thinking about it
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Jan 5, 2021 07:38
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usenet is great but in the year of progress 2021, the client landscape is decidedly not
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So true! > usenet is great but in the year of progress 2021, the client landscape is decidedly not
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lol there was a really early release of a Neil Breen movie I saw mentioned somewhere last year, but it was posted to Usenet 'incognito' with only an ID string as a filename, it wasn't picked up by any indexer so I picked up a no-poo poo Usenet reader to download and boy I'd forgotten how far we have come in ease of use for internet tools.
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started at gamefaqs, moved to penny arcade forums, and heard of SA from there. I was so into gamefaqs too. my granny ran her own antique shop since the 60s, and in summers I worked for her as manual labor because old ladies can't move furniture and stuff. she would often go on buying trips and leave me to run the store (I was ~16), and most of her clients werent the type to just drop in so I was pretty much alone all day. I used my laptop I bought at a pawn shop to tie up her fax line and just read me some gamefaqs. I read walkthroughs from top to bottom as a sort of sick bored let's play. also got in big trouble because whoops people were trying to send invoices and poo poo to her but because of my horrible addiction the line was busy
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Jan 5, 2021 13:01
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honestly? don't remember how I found SA. there was just photoshop fridays and weekend web in my browser one day. before that I was reading the brunching shuttlecocks
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Jan 5, 2021 15:06
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klosterdev posted:I started on gamefaqs.com hell yes gamefaqs was the only place I’ve posted under a different handle
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Jan 5, 2021 15:12
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i like how the top comment on every youtube video about how to solve thing is always like “8:23” and has more likes than the video itself
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Silver Alicorn posted:honestly? don't remember how I found SA. there was just photoshop fridays and weekend web in my browser one day. before that I was reading the brunching shuttlecocks I think it was an friend on icq sharing the icq pranks with me poo poo I wish I still remembered my icq number, it wasn't super low but it was slightly shorter
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Jan 5, 2021 15:39
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i got pretty friendly with a dude on another forum and he kept bugging me to join here before it became a paid membership, but i forgot and ended up having to fork over the 
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Jan 5, 2021 15:40
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jesus WEP posted:i like how the top comment on every youtube video about how to solve thing is always like “8:23” and has more likes than the video itself Someone wading through sewage and filth to unclog the drain for all of us. True heroes.
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Jan 5, 2021 15:41
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I just remembered that I bought a forums account instead of just reading it when it was free specifically to ask a question in shsc about fixing a hard drive that I'd totalled from torrenting in the days before checkpoints or whatever they were. I got through like 4 of those trash 80gb maxtor hdds idk where I heard about SA from. Maybe a link on (shudders) fark to a photoshop phriday?
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Jan 5, 2021 17:04
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after lowtax left planetquake i emailed him asking where cranky steves map reviews had gone and he replied with a link to SA only bothered getting a forums account after hearing that it had good torrents, but those sections were then later closed after the mpaa lawsuits started
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Jan 5, 2021 20:36
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oh! I remember one of the first SA things I saw was the p-p-p-powerbook
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Jan 5, 2021 20:39
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first forum I posted on was for The Sims back in like 2001. last I checked it still exists  I don't know how the gently caress I ended up here. possibly from the "terrible secret of space" flash animation which linked to the original ICQ prank
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Jan 5, 2021 20:56
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SO DEMANDING posted:first forum I posted on was for The Sims back in like 2001. last I checked it still exists it was pretty cool to see pre-release "non-public" developer screenshots of Sims 2 developer builds here before it was released.
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i started my terrible addiction to forums at the old annihilated.com Total Annihilation fan forum sometime in 1999 a fellow poster there who went by the username meltdown chatted me up on ICQ and in late 2000 he started sending me links to stuff on the SA forums i registered during one of the early free-reg periods that used to occasionally happen back then. mostly just lurked my first year or two.
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Jan 5, 2021 21:23
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also holy poo poo as of three days ago i've been a member of this place for twenty years 
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Jan 5, 2021 21:24
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same here in a few months buddy
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Jan 5, 2021 21:46
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eschaton posted:the forums should really just be: rotor alt spotted
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:idk where I heard about SA from. Maybe a link on (shudders) fark to a photoshop phriday? i loving loved jeff k and cliff yablonski which eventually lead me to the forums
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crazysim posted:it was pretty cool to see pre-release "non-public" developer screenshots of Sims 2 developer builds here before it was released. *squints at username* you didn't post on a mildly popular sims forum ~19 years ago, per chance? also that sounds neat, any more to the story? my interest in the sims fell off pretty rapidly so not surprised I didn't see that.
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