around this time i encounter an early blog, a warcraft 2 site and also personal log of someone going by the improbable name of Shlonglor i wont reveal his name but i understand he went on to join blizzard on the strength of his web design and enthusiasm
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shlonglor, to the best of my knowledge, invented the concept of Smurfing on Kali, which was sort of a battlenet before battlenet his crew got too well known, so they would play with variations on "[X]Smurf" as handles to surprise and stomp randos
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1996: my mom gets tired of me asking for SimCity2000 and tells me that she'll get it for me if I read Moby Dick i read moby dick that summer and my mom has a week of peace we get a windows 95 machine with a pentium chip (I think 120MHz) for $1700
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the way you ordered computers and parts in this period (as far as I know) is you would get a giant catalogue called PCShopper that was entirely ads selling hardware. it was sad to see it get thinner and thinner, later my dad gave me a budget and let me pick out everything myself
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1997: my first MMO, Subspace amazing game. sort of like spaceship bumper cars where you also shoot bullets and bombs. could play in an arena with hundreds of others over dialup--really a feat
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i also make my first web page, crafting the html by hand host it on angelfire its about Final Fantasy 7, composed entirely of stolen jpgs and featuring a nauseating wavy blue background my mother gets a sense that a separate Internet culture exists and it makes her nervous
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also this year, my city is destroyed by a flood and i watch a live webcam of the river from 300 miles away it may not have been _that_ live; i think it uploaded a grainy still image every 5 minutes
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the ubiquity of video content today is jarring when i think about it the older web was a much stiller place. I wonder how the change has affected us
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1998: i am desperately lonely at middle school. at home i play Diablo and hang out in some high schoolers' chat trying to understand their drama i read cnn to try to understand what is happening in the balkans in real time. my interest in the world has been kindled by Durant
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tfw can't go back in time and give you my http://battle.net name in 1998 so we could play d2 together.pic.twitter.com/vuHwSj6GPO
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