Trae - Returned to her upright position 156,790 17
03/13/2006 11:41 AM

One of my first chat sessions was back in the mid 1980s in college and went like this:



"I hate college, I'm going to kill myself."



"Ok, can I have your beer?"



/end...

Thatguyfromfrance 170 7
03/13/2006 11:51 AM

and so did you get the beer ?

Trae - Returned to her upright position 156,790 17
03/13/2006 11:53 AM

Hell yeah!

Declan McManus-They say that bears have affairs 131,887 36
03/13/2006 11:56 AM

That was a very silly question, mon ami--





Trae always gets what she wants.

Pubah 56,805 18
03/13/2006 11:59 AM

aha, mon faire...But doth fair Trae always want what she gets?

Professor Nutbutter 181,311 35
03/13/2006 12:01 PM

It was about two days after the first time someone said "I sent you a letter in the mail, you should go outside and look in your mailbox."

No_Key_Bandit 76,490 10
03/13/2006 12:02 PM

Actually it was

"whut RU wearun?"



on my 150 baud* Commodore 64 acoustic coupler.



It was to a hot 17 year old Japanese Schoolgirl.**



* That's 0.15K to you whiners who complain about 56K being slow.



** I later found this assumption was "incorrect"; from the arresting officer.

Declan McManus-They say that bears have affairs 131,887 36
03/13/2006 12:03 PM

Pubaugh...it is entirely too early in the week to ask questions like that.





Back to your box.





Now!

Pubah 56,805 18
03/13/2006 12:07 PM

Can't right now, the maid (Consawella) is cleaning my box right now.



One must maintain a certian decorum, Sir McManus.

Mr. Sir. 66,727 9
03/13/2006 12:07 PM

My first experience on a modem was early to mid-80's, on a Commodore 64. It was at my grandmother's house, on my uncle's computer.

He was hella-smart (that's right, hella), but a totally burned-out hippie. Complete with acid flashbacks and everything. He fit in with most of the crowd out in LA.



So, anyways, my first online conversation? A BBC filled with UCLA students, talking about sex and home-made drugs. Now that I think about it, it was a lot like GAB.

No_Key_Bandit 76,490 10
03/13/2006 12:17 PM

"A BBC filled with UCLA students,"



You were talking with the British Broadcasting Corporation?

Mr. Sir. 66,727 9
03/13/2006 12:18 PM

Yes. Yes, I was.

Erika - Chuck Norris's abandoned daughter 76,152 9
03/13/2006 12:22 PM

My first experience with a modem was when we played online learning games in preschool .



</laughs at the dinosaurs>

The Mailman: ringing twice, as always 176,450 56
03/13/2006 12:29 PM

I first discovered the Internet in college, using Unix servers. At the time, we could connect to pretty much any other Unix machine in universities worldwide, see who was connected on those machines, and initiate a conversation with them. Servers were not secured for the most part, so there were no firewalls, and most default services were enabled, which made it easy to connect to just about any stranger who happened to be connected at that moment.



One of the programs we used to get info on people was the Unix program 'finger'. You typed 'finger username' to get information about that particular user.



Then we'd use the command 'talk' to initiate the conversation. The typical opening line was:



- "Hey, I just fingered you, wanna talk?"

Mr. Sir. 66,727 9
03/13/2006 12:42 PM

French people are weird.

Thatguyfromfrance 170 7
03/13/2006 12:45 PM

Oui mon ami

Larry Moeshemp 22,222 17
03/13/2006 08:30 PM

Whats a "modem"?

Declan McManus-They say that bears have affairs 131,887 36
03/13/2006 11:06 PM

In your case, doll, it is something which never should have been invented.





Kisses,





Declan

Witness Protectionat'd 131,068 34
03/13/2006 11:16 PM

<insert "sloppy">

Witness Protectionat'd 131,068 34
03/13/2006 11:16 PM

There is nothing funny about the fact that I wanted to see "sloppy kisses" somewhere on the board.