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The_Franz posted:Fun fact: the Chex Quest CDs were pressed for free by AOL, because they were allowed to include their 50 free hour demo on them i would often just ask a store if i could have their little display case on the counter full of 20 or 30 sleeves and a handful of places let me just have 'em. pretty fun to fling around / use as coasters / impromptu mirrors
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Beeftweeter posted:i still have this. you could play it on xbox and xbox 360, poo poo was ahead of its time it was better than it had any right to be
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BBS's were the poo poo back in the day. I forget how I found my very first one, but eventually ended up finding about warez scene stuff on them. Found some boards that required you to know what a bunch of scene group acronyms were to apply, and one even called to verify I wasn't a cop which was funny since I was like 12, tho I have always had a deep voice. Playing door games like LoRD and big multiplayer games of Doom and stuff through them with friends was so amazing before everyone had access to the internet.
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nudgenudgetilt posted:freshman year of college we cleaned compusa's entire stockpile of aol cds out for a midnight hallway disc war in the engineering building. our floor of engineers my freshman year did like 5000$ of damage to the dorm according to our ra.
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The_Franz posted:I'd love to know just how many cubic meters of landfill are consumed by all of that e-waste that will probably never decompose. At least you could reuse the floppy disks, the CDs just went straight into the trash or were destroyed in creative ways (drill, hammer, targets, etc…) lol my first job in the local press was on the photo desk, but having some small knowledge of 'online' I was shifted role to their new 'Internet' department for the local paper in maybe 1996? The place had a large staff, and the word got around we were starting 'Internet' for the paper and a lot of folks got the idea that the 'Free Internet Hours' CDs you got shoved through your home mailbox etc every day would be of use to us; we ended up with a double stack of CDs floor to ceiling in a corner of the office.
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i was too young and too dumb to understand bbses, but i spent way too much time in aol chatrooms at way too young an age
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is there a yospos bbs? seems like a project that would have minor interest for a few months until we all get bored and get really into emulating transistor radios or everyone gets their ham license or whatever.
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there's a yosbbs thread for the one jony put up a while back.
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Midjack posted:there's a yosbbs thread for the one jony put up a while back. serves me right for never leaving my bookmarks, then. thanks. 
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is there a yosbbs that’s actually live though?
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Zamujasa posted:i would often just ask a store if i could have their little display case on the counter full of 20 or 30 sleeves and a handful of places let me just have 'em. pretty fun to fling around / use as coasters / impromptu mirrors when you're being hunted by medusa
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I haven't had a board up in a couple of years. it usually turns into LoRD hosting, we all beat it and gently caress Violet and then it peters out one iteration i tuned so much that you could actually browse yospos and read and post straight from the board under your SA username anyways BBSes were great once you got on the QWK packet train. you'd dial in after school or whatever, play your turns on the games, then download a zipped pack of all the new messages since your last visit. You'd then hang up and read everything and compose replies in your qwk reader program, zip up your replies and either dial back in to upload them, or just wait for the next day when you'd do another upload/download cycle. it made for more thoughtful conversations
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKCifxEBLHY&t=455s
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The_Franz posted:The days when you could practically build a house out of all of those "10/20/30/40/50 free hours" AOL disks and CDs. I'd love to know just how many cubic meters of landfill are consumed by all of that e-waste that will probably never decompose. At least you could reuse the floppy disks, the CDs just went straight into the trash or were destroyed in creative ways (drill, hammer, targets, etc…) they gave those away in college, while we had campus internet (???), so we used them to decorate dorm doors Agile Vector fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Nov 13, 2022 |
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A fun thread: https://twitter.com/GerryMcBride/status/1591907714208518145
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Had one of these. It fuckin ruled e: the nokia not the sony https://twitter.com/GerryMcBride/status/1592138322360549377?s=20&t=UcauGnJAdlvm5XL2RCA08w
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most of those owned hard
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Beeftweeter posted:most of those owned hard
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Had one of these. It fuckin ruled i had that nokia -- 3650, I think. keypad was total bullshit.
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Beeftweeter posted:most of those owned hard
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nudgenudgetilt posted:i had that nokia -- 3650, I think. I got good enough with it that I could no-look T9 text with it
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i traded mine for an sony ericsson t610. now that was the loving peak of cell phone design
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had a sony w580 and it whipped rear end peak 2000s phone. java games. funky (yet really well made) slider mech. cloying proprietary adapters everywhere. still huge battery life
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nudgenudgetilt posted:i traded mine for an sony ericsson t610. now that was the loving peak of cell phone design i had this phone
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nudgenudgetilt posted:i traded mine for an sony ericsson t610. now that was the loving peak of cell phone design  
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i used one of those until 2007 and only dropped it because verizon wouldn't let me use it any more
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Jonny 290 posted:had a sony w580 and it whipped rear end hell yes
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i carried that t610 with a sony clie for years, doing hscsd dialup to a local isp. eventually switched to a treo and felt way less cool, only having one device on me.
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it should surprise no one that i have several of these. Honestly to me the sony clies were the best non-phone palm devices
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lol god i had so many palmos devices starting with the pilot pro and ending with the m515, which is still around somewhere. i think the internal battery is dead though loved that form factor  idk why i had them even, i didn't even really do much with em
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rotor posted:it should surprise no one that i have several of these. Honestly to me the sony clies were the best non-phone palm devices unquestionably, i had some handspring poo poo when palm was flailing around and i was always jealous of my buddies with clies
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Jonny 290 posted:had a sony w580 and it whipped rear end Expandable memory! Via Sony Memory Sticks! And the proprietary headphone adapter (YEARS ahead of Apple) would fail after six months, every time, guaranteed.
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Doom Mathematic posted:Expandable memory! Via Sony Memory Sticks! hey, there's precisely two mobile phone breakthroughs i will give apple 100% credit for: they put a 3.5mm jack on their mass-market phone at a time when that was otherwise incredibly niche, and they made a mobile web browser that worked. everything else i can take or leave, but they get credit for those.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:hey, there's precisely two mobile phone breakthroughs i will give apple 100% credit for: they put a 3.5mm jack on their mass-market phone at a time when that was otherwise incredibly niche, and they made a mobile web browser that worked. everything else i can take or leave, but they get credit for those. wild that apple bet so hard on webapps initially. probably the only reason a decent mobile browser exists today.
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i think a working web browser in your pocket was and is the real killer app for smartphones though. from there everything else flows. i also as always note that the headphone jack rapidly disappeared when they were into iphones without jobs input. beginning of the end.
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Doom Mathematic posted:Expandable memory! Via Sony Memory Sticks! I still maintain that memory sticks were the ideal form factor for flash ram. Just big enough to be easy to hold and grasp, not bigger than they needed to be, satisfying click on insertion, just A+ industrial design
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i had a motorola l2 slvr for like 3 yrs. no camera, but the thing was an absolute fuckin tank. i stg i dropped that thing almost daily, but it didn't see more than a few scratches.  before that, i had a Nokia 3300b that i bought on ebay, but it never quite worked right with my cell carrier at the time, and i was a teenager who didn't know how to fix that kinda stuff. i bought it so i could listen to music, but it only fit like five songs lol. i was v disappointed, but i wish i still had it. it was kinda rad looking! 
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