I'm old school as well. I'm in IT, however I'm unemployed (still haven't started on my first career job) and hell yeah, I was on IRC a lot. BBS too. Didn't get around to do MUDS as I didn't know it existed until I got into college. AOL was awesome back then until it went into the shitter.
My first computer was an Amiga lol. I'm currently running Fedora 33 on my computer and have been using Linux for about 10 years now. Got tired and bored of using Windows and I wanted to push myself further.
Yeah 4chan was confusing at first until I installed the "4chan X" extension. It helps you track the comments and such. Give it another try with the 4chan X extension, and it may be a better experience for you but I do agree, it's confusing for any normie to follow.
Also yeah I agree they do have their weird standards that everyone have to follow and if you don't, you get shamed as a "newfag" or a "summerfag". I don't really participate and like I said, I'm just there to find any new info not found anywhere else.
Gab is off to a slow start and surely they will get to where FakeBook/Twatter are at now. I do wish Torba well and lots of luck because I'm sure he's under constant attacks from the DS.
Heh. Yeah, I got into Slackware and FreeBSD in the mid 90s. I was a channel warrior on EFnet for quite some time. I never did the AOL thing. I guess that's because by the time AOL was big I was all in on EFnet.
See that newfag thing was something I ran into. The people on 4/8chan are incredibly unfriendly. They can babble all they like about you have to be tougher etc but with the way they treat people plus how confusing it is I'm shocked it has as many people as it does. I agree they dig up a lot of good info, but they don't seem to understand that how they behave slows down the spread of that info. Sort of defeats the point if you asked me.
For me, I started out with AOL then eventually I found out about IRC (forgot how I found out but somehow I transited from AOL to IRC) and used it since. Had AOL because it was "pre-Fakebook" and my IRL friends were on it and not on IRC. lol
I'm sure you've done way more than I have as I was still "wet-behind-the-ear" with IRC, despite learning my way around it with IRC commands and all. I almost never know which channel to go in so I just find one of the randos from the list then enter. Boring? leave. Weird? leave. I almost never find a channel I can stay for a long time. I was also trying out different servers like DalNet, EFnet, Freenode, ircnet (I think this one is the default one cuz I used mIRC and it was almost always trying to connect me to ircnet?) and some more I forgot... wow. Brings back memories and maybe I'll give it another try.
For me, the Internet back then was glorious and I was learning a shit ton of stuff until they bottled it down in the mid 2000's and on.
Yeah, I left IRC in 2000. Long story. I've only been back once for like just a few hours looking for an old friend. Its not like it used to be. When I was there in the late 90s EFnet was a literal war zone. It was the wild wild west. IRC on any network now is nothing like EFnet used to be. You can't take over channels. Unlike you I had places I called home. 90% of my friends were online. I met my wife(now X) on IRC.
When I left IRC I started playing MMOs. Asherons Call, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, then EVE Online. I quit all of it because it was just taking up too much time.
Darwyn, I think might know you from Eris lol. This obviously isn't my nickname there, or elsewhere. But if yours is close to what it is here, we've met.
Regardless you guys are making me happy talking about all this stupid shit afterive had an absolute ball breaking day.
This is actually my real name. I gave up on using an anonymous handle online. Its far to easy to track people down. I used to do it all the time. I would tell you my nickname on EFnet but I try not to write the two in the same place. I guess you could say I was a white-hat channel hacker and a lot of very bad people would love nothing ore than to hurt me. Its been 20 years but there are a handful of people that if they could find me IRL I really believe they would show up at my house and try to harm me. Although sometimes I'm not sure why I care any more.
EFnet used to be Dodge City back in the day. I was there for Pepsi and puke and smurf etc. I used to have all the tools of the trade even made a few of my own with help from friends. The only person I really miss is my old pal Dianora. Hehe. I'm not sure if she hated me or loved me but she was always fun.
Thanks for the stories, my day got better, as they always do. I've been on ef since 94 or so, and have hung out with all kinds of wack jobs, criminally insane and pure evil people. Some saints too, but they're further apart and tend to die or move on. Dianora rings a bell but only in the "the totally a woman on IRC's nickname." kind of way. It is a shame we have to be so obtuse with our identities but we all know why. it may be easy to find us, but might as well make it hard to tie us together.
I'm old school as well. I'm in IT, however I'm unemployed (still haven't started on my first career job) and hell yeah, I was on IRC a lot. BBS too. Didn't get around to do MUDS as I didn't know it existed until I got into college. AOL was awesome back then until it went into the shitter.
My first computer was an Amiga lol. I'm currently running Fedora 33 on my computer and have been using Linux for about 10 years now. Got tired and bored of using Windows and I wanted to push myself further.
Yeah 4chan was confusing at first until I installed the "4chan X" extension. It helps you track the comments and such. Give it another try with the 4chan X extension, and it may be a better experience for you but I do agree, it's confusing for any normie to follow.
Also yeah I agree they do have their weird standards that everyone have to follow and if you don't, you get shamed as a "newfag" or a "summerfag". I don't really participate and like I said, I'm just there to find any new info not found anywhere else.
Gab is off to a slow start and surely they will get to where FakeBook/Twatter are at now. I do wish Torba well and lots of luck because I'm sure he's under constant attacks from the DS.
Heh. Yeah, I got into Slackware and FreeBSD in the mid 90s. I was a channel warrior on EFnet for quite some time. I never did the AOL thing. I guess that's because by the time AOL was big I was all in on EFnet.
See that newfag thing was something I ran into. The people on 4/8chan are incredibly unfriendly. They can babble all they like about you have to be tougher etc but with the way they treat people plus how confusing it is I'm shocked it has as many people as it does. I agree they dig up a lot of good info, but they don't seem to understand that how they behave slows down the spread of that info. Sort of defeats the point if you asked me.
For me, I started out with AOL then eventually I found out about IRC (forgot how I found out but somehow I transited from AOL to IRC) and used it since. Had AOL because it was "pre-Fakebook" and my IRL friends were on it and not on IRC. lol
I'm sure you've done way more than I have as I was still "wet-behind-the-ear" with IRC, despite learning my way around it with IRC commands and all. I almost never know which channel to go in so I just find one of the randos from the list then enter. Boring? leave. Weird? leave. I almost never find a channel I can stay for a long time. I was also trying out different servers like DalNet, EFnet, Freenode, ircnet (I think this one is the default one cuz I used mIRC and it was almost always trying to connect me to ircnet?) and some more I forgot... wow. Brings back memories and maybe I'll give it another try.
For me, the Internet back then was glorious and I was learning a shit ton of stuff until they bottled it down in the mid 2000's and on.
Yeah, I left IRC in 2000. Long story. I've only been back once for like just a few hours looking for an old friend. Its not like it used to be. When I was there in the late 90s EFnet was a literal war zone. It was the wild wild west. IRC on any network now is nothing like EFnet used to be. You can't take over channels. Unlike you I had places I called home. 90% of my friends were online. I met my wife(now X) on IRC.
When I left IRC I started playing MMOs. Asherons Call, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, then EVE Online. I quit all of it because it was just taking up too much time.
Darwyn, I think might know you from Eris lol. This obviously isn't my nickname there, or elsewhere. But if yours is close to what it is here, we've met.
Regardless you guys are making me happy talking about all this stupid shit afterive had an absolute ball breaking day.
Thanks all of you k-rad dewds.
This is actually my real name. I gave up on using an anonymous handle online. Its far to easy to track people down. I used to do it all the time. I would tell you my nickname on EFnet but I try not to write the two in the same place. I guess you could say I was a white-hat channel hacker and a lot of very bad people would love nothing ore than to hurt me. Its been 20 years but there are a handful of people that if they could find me IRL I really believe they would show up at my house and try to harm me. Although sometimes I'm not sure why I care any more.
EFnet used to be Dodge City back in the day. I was there for Pepsi and puke and smurf etc. I used to have all the tools of the trade even made a few of my own with help from friends. The only person I really miss is my old pal Dianora. Hehe. I'm not sure if she hated me or loved me but she was always fun.
Anyway hope your day gets better.
Thanks for the stories, my day got better, as they always do. I've been on ef since 94 or so, and have hung out with all kinds of wack jobs, criminally insane and pure evil people. Some saints too, but they're further apart and tend to die or move on. Dianora rings a bell but only in the "the totally a woman on IRC's nickname." kind of way. It is a shame we have to be so obtuse with our identities but we all know why. it may be easy to find us, but might as well make it hard to tie us together.
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