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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im using GameFAQs at this point as I've found out about emulators. i start jrpgs with final fantasy i on Nesticle this sort of project was what internet misfits were up topic.twitter.com/nd0u5xF9se
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did you have a gamefaqs account and if so, what was your handle? (note: you obviously do not have to faqsdoxx yourself if you do not wish)
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i did but i dont remember in the slightest what my handle was
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They say the Internet is forever, but what they don’t mention is that is only true in bad ways! Most of the content that was precious to me in my prime Internet years is gone forever, archived in no capacity.
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