Yes I didn't read the whole thing and the part I skimmed I didn't understand, but I have the moral right on/. to comment especially after not reading properly.
You've gotten/. confused with Facebook. or Livejournal.
I'd say that generation is already here. My three kids were born into a house that was already online. I got my first computer & modem when I was 17, way back in 1979. (a used VIC-20, thank you. Loved it.) Getting online with that was fun, considering the limit of 40 characters per line on the TV screen.. Got married in 83, etc etc. Early sometime in 1986, I can remember taking my 2nd child in his baby carrier into a local store (he was 3 months old at the time..) to buy what was going to be our third computer.. a shiny new Amiga 500. I walked out of the store with his carrier in one hand and that huge box in the other..:) Went home, unpacked it, and the first thing I did was get online with it. FidoNet and AmigaNet were a large part of my life for so many years.:) In memory of running a BBS and playing on them, my most favorite cell phone ringtone to this day is a fax modem squeal. That's the one ringtone I can't miss hearing, even if I'm somewhere noisy or whatever.. that modem tone gets my attention like nothing else will. Just like the modem during ZMH (Zone Mail Hour) would.:)
I met my second husband via FidoNet too, because of that Amiga. best thing I ever downloaded.;)
Someone should point them over here here. "Oh hai, we rewrote ur article for u. Kthxbai." There's damn sure more information here than in that article.:p
AOL was once upon a time known as Quantum. If you didn't have a Commodore 64, you didn't get to play online. The average IQ at Qlink was a LOT higher then, lemme tell you.
Ha. Hit a nerve, did I? I happen to like amusing machinima, regardless of who made it. FYI I'm so not a fanboy. Do you not know the meaning of the word "wench" ? I'm guessing not.
Anyone with a tenth of a brain stays out of trade chat for either faction on Alleria.:p
One may hope that Nyhm will make a video about the guy.:D
(Don't know who Nyhm is? Have a sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KEK3wfn2hw Not the best quality but it's my favorite of all his machinimas.)
I wish things had worked out differently, i.e. before C= went bust. We know who to blame for that (and not Jack Tramiel.):-p
Some of the Amiga community is still here reading/. I may not own a Miggy any more, may not post all over FidoNet and AmigaNet via dial up or uucp either, and I don't give a damn about Hyperion or Amiga Inc any more... I quit doing those quite a while back.. but I still consider myself a member of the Amiga community. There are a number of people I met via Fido's Amiga echo that I am happy to say are still my friends, 15+ years later. Married one of them, and not just because he programmed in C on the Amiga either.:) I like to think that he's the best thing I ever downloaded.;)
Everyone else -- and that would be the vast majority of the population -- just wants a phone to make and receive phone calls and, below a certain age, send text messages,
Say what? Texting is not age limited. I'm 46 and I bought my Sidekick for the sole reason that it has a full QWERTY keyboard. My husband and (grown) daughter and I use text messages literally all.the.time. They work in jobs where they can't answer their cell if it rings, but texts aren't a problem. We almost never make voice calls.. everything is text. I like my Sidekick, despite its software limitations. TMobile didn't have the Android/Google phone 3 years ago or I'd have one of those. And for those of you who have never seen one, it's called the Google phone because it has a Google logo on the faceplate.
I stay with Tmobile because in 4 years I've never had a problem with them. Not once. I had AT&T for nearly 3 years, both before and after Cingular bought them and never again. Gah. Horrible, horrible customer service.:p
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Yes I didn't read the whole thing and the part I skimmed I didn't understand, but I have the moral right on /. to comment especially after not reading properly.
You've gotten /. confused with Facebook. or Livejournal.
A lot of /. posters seem to have that problem. Try MeFi.
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That is one hell of an astute observation. And you are right.
I met my second husband via FidoNet too, because of that Amiga. best thing I ever downloaded. ;)
Someone should point them over here here. "Oh hai, we rewrote ur article for u. Kthxbai." There's damn sure more information here than in that article. :p
AOL was once upon a time known as Quantum. If you didn't have a Commodore 64, you didn't get to play online. The average IQ at Qlink was a LOT higher then, lemme tell you.
Texas Instruments used to get real pissed off about that sort of thing.
HP outsourced their printer manufacturing from San Diego to overseas somewhat over a decade ago. $0.02
Ha. Hit a nerve, did I? I happen to like amusing machinima, regardless of who made it. FYI I'm so not a fanboy. Do you not know the meaning of the word "wench" ? I'm guessing not. Anyone with a tenth of a brain stays out of trade chat for either faction on Alleria. :p
Seriously. There's the achievement you definitely get for hugging a dead enemy (screenshot: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2008/09/wowscrnshot_090108_234205.jpg its the highlighted one) Details: http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=247 Then there's the achievement for hugging every animal in Azeroth. No, I'm not kidding. "To all the Squirrels I've Loved before" http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1206 and its sequel "To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life" http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2557
One may hope that Nyhm will make a video about the guy. :D
(Don't know who Nyhm is? Have a sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KEK3wfn2hw Not the best quality but it's my favorite of all his machinimas.)
Thanks for the Armory link. I wonder if he did it "For the Horde!!" ?? :)
All the anonymous cowards definitely need to get a life.
:p Not likely, if he was going for the achievement where you /hug a dead player..
Information should be free.
Anyone who posts as anon coward should be ashamed.
I wish things had worked out differently, i.e. before C= went bust. We know who to blame for that (and not Jack Tramiel.) :-p
Some of the Amiga community is still here reading /. I may not own a Miggy any more, may not post all over FidoNet and AmigaNet via dial up or uucp either, and I don't give a damn about Hyperion or Amiga Inc any more... I quit doing those quite a while back.. but I still consider myself a member of the Amiga community. There are a number of people I met via Fido's Amiga echo that I am happy to say are still my friends, 15+ years later. Married one of them, and not just because he programmed in C on the Amiga either. :) I like to think that he's the best thing I ever downloaded. ;)
Still? That's too funny for words. XD
Everyone else -- and that would be the vast majority of the population -- just wants a phone to make and receive phone calls and, below a certain age, send text messages,
Say what? Texting is not age limited. I'm 46 and I bought my Sidekick for the sole reason that it has a full QWERTY keyboard. My husband and (grown) daughter and I use text messages literally all.the.time. They work in jobs where they can't answer their cell if it rings, but texts aren't a problem. We almost never make voice calls.. everything is text. I like my Sidekick, despite its software limitations. TMobile didn't have the Android/Google phone 3 years ago or I'd have one of those. And for those of you who have never seen one, it's called the Google phone because it has a Google logo on the faceplate.
I stay with Tmobile because in 4 years I've never had a problem with them. Not once. I had AT&T for nearly 3 years, both before and after Cingular bought them and never again. Gah. Horrible, horrible customer service. :p
*nods* The bigger the net gets, the bigger the (exponential) increase in signal to noise. :-p
If C= hadn't had their heads up their collective asses.. sigh. I miss my Miggy.
Personally, I think Anonymous Cowards suck, but that's just my opinion.
:) I'm pretty sure dial up Internet access is staying dead. I miss FidoNet sometimes though.