So much stuff I have forgotten. I remember buying Windows ME and then not being able to get it to work. Also there were those RAM expanding programs which were a total scam but I didn't know it at the time.
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Don
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cant remember my number .....
It actually wasn't that much more expensive relatively speaking, especially when coupled with the 0800 providers... 128k when the 2 lines were bonded seemed like a miracle had occurred when compared to 56k.
Also really helped be become the LPB in Quake2, helped my +hook with railgun ability around the map no end
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Spent an ungodly amount of time (56k dial up when everything was delivered in 14mb tar files) downloading "stuff" from #3dwarez on undernet to get me through my degree in the very late 90s/early 00s...
Met some cool people as part of that community and had a few nefarious meetups in London. Life was a lot more exciting then!
Met some cool people as part of that community and had a few nefarious meetups in London. Life was a lot more exciting then!
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I get 8ms in CS2. Toob fibre.
46618262I was more into ICQ back in the 90s. Was fun as hell to me as a teenager.
I almost got kicked off my ISP because I was using both lanes at the same time on an 0800 deal.It actually wasn't that much more expensive relatively speaking, especially when coupled with the 0800 providers... 128k when the 2 lines were bonded seemed like a miracle had occurred when compared to 56k.
Also really helped be become the LPB in Quake2, helped my +hook with railgun ability around the map no end
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Omg, what a throw back and those were definitely the good old days! I remember using NNScript for the main client instead of mIRC:
Quakenet was my place, the fomo for getting Q bot in your channel was unreal! Think you needed like 25 users in the channel to qualify iirc.
Where getting +v etc permissions meant respect.
Used it primarily for gaming, mostly CS (1.0 -> 1.6).
Quakenet was my place, the fomo for getting Q bot in your channel was unreal! Think you needed like 25 users in the channel to qualify iirc.
Where getting +v etc permissions meant respect.
Used it primarily for gaming, mostly CS (1.0 -> 1.6).
Spent much of the late 90s on efnet.demon.co.uk in #warezstoke and then in xdcc channels.
Fun fact - you could crash the gamespy arcade programs chat room by using IRC bots to flood the IRC channel as the program used IRC embedded into the program.
Fun fact - you could crash the gamespy arcade programs chat room by using IRC bots to flood the IRC channel as the program used IRC embedded into the program.
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What client did I use? pIRCh I think it was. I'm on discord these days I must be in a dozen or so channels, thats enough.
I hate discord tbh, it just feels so janky to use and the constant upsells to buy Nitro and all these ****** emoticons type stuff
The only thing imo that has come close to IRC has been Slack for me, just unfortunately with it's quite high pricing a lot of Slack channels have migrated to Discord now which I just have to suffer but would 100% go back to Slack/IRC in a heartbeat.
If you use it's original name, pound, many hashtags become quite amusing.
Especially the MeToo movement that often started with the #....
I was a late user of ICQ but it was the only IRC that we could get past the firewall in college.
Is it wrong that I miss MSN Messenger though?