Anyone posted the ICQ "ohoh" yet?
I have to, how can there be any questions about the pronunciation of troll it is just roll with a t on the front.
-Online time being valued, as in literally valued because you were paying by the minute so for example everyone would log on to play an arranged game at 8pm and you'd be playing within minutes, not waiting around ages for players to turn up and get ready. If people were online they'd generally be active, not idle
That's life, give people access to something which gets popular then people out there will spoil it for everyone else.
For example, back in 2001 I was on chatrooms (17 years old, had 56k dial from the mid 90's) and meet a girl from Lincoln. It was 6 months before we actually met. This was way before dating sites, what I saw on her photo is what I got. Nice, slim blonde girl, had good fun togetherWith internet dating so popular now, you will struggle to find that now. Instead you get a bunch of fatties trying to look slim with photos from different angles or single chavvy mothers with multiple kids by multiple dads thinking they will find "tall,dark and handsome" on POF, Tinder, etc.
totally agree and kind of my point about not liking social media, it has given people the ability to give out a false impression of who they are causing 100 likes, 2000 followers ect creating huge egos and expectations that are totally unrealistic but this is probably best left for the relationships thread lol
Back in the day,bantz was appreciated, it was understood and taken as such. Today it' results in an RTM and/or toys being thrown out of the pram
^SameThe password i use for most things to this very day (with some variations) comes directly from a password that was assigned to me when i did my first ever angelfire website back in the mid ninties. Times new roman was king![]()
You used to need some computer know-how to be able to use the web in mid-90's so it used to be a bit of a geek/techie thing which required knowledge, which idiots didn't have and weren't willing to learn.
However, access has now been made idiot friendly, so it's filled with idiots ruining what is possibly mankind's greatest invention (all human knowledge available everywhere to everyone) in what feels like the biggest "race to bottom" ever.
So I blame ease of access rather than social media for the downfall of web v1.0 and it's all our own fault that eventually a massively restricted web v2.0 will appear and our kids will wonder just how their parents could let it happen so easily!
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The good old days
One thing which has struck me reading this thread is just how fast the internet has evolved, its so true how internet dating literally was just a single blurry photo of someone and then chatting on IRC/yahoo or a chatroom, I met so many people that way. Sure, 9/10 of them were probably dudes messing with me but the mystery of not knowing so much was intriguing. Hell I even fooled one guy that i was an Olsen twin for months! You just couldn't do that now with facebook etc.
What was once a new "niche" technology which used to be reserved for modem geeks in their mums basement, has now become the popular trend where every duck faced social climber is busy updating their social media pages for a new like.
Forums seem to be the last refuge of the basement geeks, somewhere to hide from the masses on social media.