...and forgot to wipe.
No, really, I messaged JP, see what happens.
If one of you pricks knows something that I need to know, tell me post-haste and forthwith and stuff.
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...and forgot to wipe.
No, really, I messaged JP, see what happens.
If one of you pricks knows something that I need to know, tell me post-haste and forthwith and stuff.
Ok i will bite, and Idol will confirm i may be a little prickish :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
What the Heck are you talking about??
JPaul hasn't been mucking about, so I'm trying to flush him, hoping he's still alive and being himself and not someone else-ish.
If he'd assumed room temp, I'd hope someone would tell me.
Biggles?
Bigboab?
Others?
Anyone have particulars?
I think either Bigboab has passed away or not able to use a PC?? Reasons?? He never missed a day to post in the word game section, and to myselfQuote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
personally, a real mensch and really missed:cry:
As for your mention of Biggles or others?? I have no clue......
I went to the Ouija board for an answer so there is a high probability this is coming directly from either Bigboab or Satan. Anyway the board says "As opposed to having passed away and still able to use a PC, numbnuts?"Quote:
Originally Posted by shaina
That Bigboab/Satan, what a card.
I will say it is actually nice to see a positive post from you Idol, and knowing that since i have posted on this site, seeing theQuote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
many conversations you had with Bigboab in the word section, because you so enjoyed it .....
I will respectively have to say, you are an .................
Wherever you are Bigboab, you are greatly missed.
I'm an ellipsis?
At least that explains the stutter.
You know i luv ya buddy, but there was just so many words that could have filled that blank space, i left it a mystery for you to fill in;)Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Anyway...who knows what about whom?
If one were to connect with Bigboab on the Ouji board, only one letter would be changed at a time. :)
Ouija board says that 1. You can't spell fucking Ouija and 2. Besides yes and no, one letter at a time is how I've always operated, idjoit.
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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
:happy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fc74snmK8
Boab was always up for the game - don't think he ever got cranky with me either.
Had some style, he did.
God's Embrace, buddy.
And JP lives...I have that on his own authority. ;)
:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Amen :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
I did follow some back J2K4 on the longest member here (not the oldest in age:D)?? Was that you?? And how did you fall on to this place?? That would be interesting to know:yup:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Or maybe we can ask Idol to pull out the Ouija Board and get the answer from him:unsure:
MJMacky
Manker
Piercerseth
Just a few, where did they go........
I'm sure manker is okay. He always had a policy of disappearing from the forum completely whenever he had to focus on work. Unfortunate, but understandable.
There is a pretty direct line from the old Audiogalaxy (sort of paralleled Napster, but same/different) to FST, and a lot of Post-Iraq War/9/11 floating around.Quote:
Originally Posted by shainaI did follow some back J2K4 on the longest member here (not the oldest in age:D)?? Was that you?? And how did you fall on to this place?? That would be interesting to know:yup:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Or maybe we can ask Idol to pull out the Ouija Board and get the answer from him:unsure:
I and some others instigated the Drawing Room to accommodate politics/INTL affairs, and learned how to co-exist with the freer world to be found on-line.
Made some good friends doing it, and a few - possibly - mortal enemies.
Hope so.Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
Post up if you confirm?
J2K4: Well that didn't really answer my question or maybe i am not getting it...
EG.. I did a search and my actual purpose was to get free NZB's at the time, never did i have an intentions to post on a forum, still the jury is out if that was a positive.....
So seeing you didn't say Usenet or Torrents pulled you here is interesting....Seems like Politics and Patriotism pulled you in??
And i posted those names not for tragedy or that bodily harm has come to them but for missing them posting here:)
Boab as Satan...an oddly comforting thought, but not possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787I went to the Ouija board for an answer so there is a high probability this is coming directly from either Bigboab or Satan. Anyway the board says "As opposed to having passed away and still able to use a PC, numbnuts?"Quote:
Originally Posted by shaina
That Bigboab/Satan, what a card.
That would ruin evil's evil reputation.
Torrents came a bit later - for me, I think I did my last DLing of anything at all ten or so years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by shaina
FST was literally a place to exchange info about DLing music, which was so time-consuming as to preclude anything as absurd as video files, which were so large by comparison.
I remember setting up for perhaps five files that would/could take days to DL.
Videos - again, for me - sort of became routine with cable and Demonoid.
You could do a movie a day, then a movie in about ten minutes, and people went nuts buying storage and blank media.
My, how things have changed.
All the chat and political stuff was just social fallout.
How about hobbes?
Sadly I'm not in touch with him outside this forum, but I believe benchez and Snee are.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
That they have. I remember Kazaa, MP3.com, and waiting a half hour to get a low quality (by modern standards) song. If you stayed up until late enough, you might be able to get an extra KB/s. Oh, and my country didn't have flat telephone rates at the time, so the Internet was like an arcade game - a quarter for two minutes of play.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Zackly.
Kazaa slipped my mind, which is weird.
Spend LOTS of time there...
Well FST was originally the KazaaLite forum if I remember, Random_Nut used to post his updates here.
I think I was on another forum for the FastTrack network, Morpheus maybe, and someone (I can't remember who) posted "Hey! Join my new forum for Kazaa Lite" ... so that was that.
So when you say that Barbarossa?? Do you mean it was an indexing site here?? Or they posted links to Download?? I can't see it just being a Forum with no agenda?? As long as i have been around it was advertised as an NZB site....Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarossa
And then i assume it was a indexing site for Torrents, and then NZB's??
And was it always the same owners here?? Being more the original guys here, did you know the owner??
Can't exactly remember it was a long time ago, but it was before bittorrent got popular. I think you came here to discuss how to install and use kazaa lite, and news and updates were posted here. Then because downloads took so long, other forums were opened up for people to chat while they were waiting for stuff to download. In fact, wasn't a link to the forum built in to kazaa-lite itself? My memory is hazy on that.Quote:
Originally Posted by shainaSo when you say that Barborossa?? Do you mean it was an indexing site here?? Or they posted links to Download?? I can't see it just being a Forum with no agenda??Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarossa
And then i assume it was a indexing site for Torrents, and then NZB's??
And was it always the same owners here??
It must have done something right, because in the 6 months between me joining and j2k4 joining it had added 90k members. (Which in 2002 was about half of all internet users :dry: )
Funny in these days you speak of , i never downloaded music until they had actual players that were equipped for it....Quote:
Originally Posted by anonThat they have. I remember Kazaa, MP3.com, and waiting a half hour to get a low quality (by modern standards) song. If you stayed up until late enough, you might be able to get an extra KB/s. Oh, and my country didn't have flat telephone rates at the time, so the Internet was like an arcade game - a quarter for two minutes of play.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
In my days you either had cases and cases (I am talking hundreds) of original Cd's or Cassette tapes:D, and i am still trying to get rid of all of them..
Shit i still remember looking at all the local stores when Verbatim disks went on sale or price matching them at BestBuy or a store Called Future Shop....Online shopping didn't really exists, even know i was not really into it.....Those were all over the house too!!!!!
Oh the good ol days Anon:D, and it seems that you started at a much younger age as well.....
When one of my friends really got me into downloading stuff, (Giganews days), he actually had a FTP server that he gave me access to to get stuff from, but once i started to see stuff from a Usenet indexing site, i saw his taste of things wasn't the best match , so i joined myself..
It is to this day still really funny that i never got into Torrents??
Holy Shit!!!, are you sure your not exaggerating on the number of members?? If not, that is crazy!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarossa
I have to assume that there wasn't very many sites like this then?? And really i wonder what happened to a ton that are non existent now??
Again as you read the post to Anon , i never downloaded music that early....Until my kids had Ipod's :happy:
Same. I burned a lot of CDs back in the early 00s, copied from family and friends in the beginning, then downloaded off the Internet once connection speeds improved. Then last year I had to give or throw most of them away because I didn't listen to them anymore :)Quote:
Originally Posted by shaina
You might remember Teltron "golden" discs, which were more expensive and supposedly lasted longer because they were dusted with (0.000000000000000000000000000001 grams of) gold? Marketing at its finest... but there were differences among brands, and choosing the right burning speed was also a factor.
I think Kazaa still technically works if you have a public IP or use KaNat, and wait a day or two for it to connect. Not that I have much interest in trying...
Oh the days using a pirated copy of Nero LOL!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
I think we are forgetting the VCD days as well:D Disk1 and how many frigging times you had to search the rooms for Disk2 LOL!!
Was it the old Bin and Cue, and the days when you thought a Cam was the greatest;)
Honestly no Anon, i don't remember using that brand of disks, but you got me curios to look at some of the ones i do have left in drawers to check out.. The same you talked about speeds, the same the days where you needed a certain burner for Xbox (360)games Lite on or Pioneer drives and it has to be a certain rev and model LOL!!!!Quote:
You might remember Teltron "golden" discs, which were more expensive and supposedly lasted longer because they were dusted with (0.000000000000000000000000000001 grams of) gold? Marketing at its finest... but there were differences among brands, and choosing the right burning speed was also a factor.
My memory back my first DVD drive was a Plextor 4X burner, and fuck was it expensive!!!! you can buy a reasonable laptop today:)
That is interesting , but really who needs it?? I mean between torrents, usenet, one click, or even free music sites right, plus how many people have services to stream music today...Quote:
I think Kazaa still technically works if you have a public IP or use KaNat, and wait a day or two for it to connect. Not that I have much interest in trying...
As you know personally, i also had a ton of Ghetto Blasters and mini cd stereo players that i either won on charities or golf tournaments, again i threw out or gave away most of them, but kept the ones that could play MP3 disks that you could put 200 plus songs on a standard cd, and also has ports to plug in a MP3 players. I have original Apple phones and older Ipods all over as well:). That's what i use in the Backyard...
I was thinking of the name most people use now in there backyards Sonos right?? I assume the service is world wide?? I never used it, the same i won a serious radio thing, used it for a year now it is in a drawer too...
The other thing i found still in the box Sharp IQ-8100M with all the modules LOL!!, I think i bought it for my wife because it has a Tetris module, and she liked the game:wacko:..
Ya it is end of the year, you know Tax season for Accountants LOL!!!, Really i don't know if he really is or not, but i still bugged him about it....Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
The better stories and great poster in my opinion was MJMacky, i wonder if he is living in a tent on some California street, or shacked up with some he/she chick:unsure:
Just from his brief times in and out posting here, i know if he does come back he will have some really good stories to tell......
Anon: The really strange one is Piercerseth?? I haven't PM'd him in a long time, so i am not even sure if he pops in here on not?? He was a good guy as well.....
Yeah, Barbs - your memory is better than mine, and yes, we idled away time posting, waiting for DLs to complete.
All this also morphed rather quickly into pirate OSs with all sorts of stuff slip-streamed in - I think that was our modus (mine, at any rate) from Win 98/SE all the way to Win 7.
MS couldn't keep up with us...:lol:
Random_Nut...there's a handle I haven't heard in eons.
I used Easy CD Creator, from back when it was made by Adaptec. I tried Nero for some time, since it was supposed to be a role model for disc burning software, but found it too complicated and bloated for my taste. Not to mention "unauthorized" registration keys stopped working every now and then :whistlingQuote:
Originally Posted by shaina
Believe it or not, I had zero interest on movie piracy until around 2009, and by that time we already had devices that could read them without transcoding and from memory cards, so there was little reason to bother with VCDs or optical media at all. Before then, I just watched them on TV, or rented them from a video store in the case of highly anticipated flicks :O
My first burner was a HP CD Writer Plus 9300i. $350 after tax. And blank media was really expensive too, so getting a coaster due to a burning error was painful. The wisdom of the time was: turn off the antivirus, close all programs, disconnect from all networks, and don't record faster than 4x (or even 2x) no matter what your burner supports.Quote:
Honestly no Anon, i don't remember using that brand of disks, but you got me curios to look at some of the ones i do have left in drawers to check out.. The same you talked about speeds, the same the days where you needed a certain burner for Xbox (360)games Lite on or Pioneer drives and it has to be a certain rev and model LOL!!!!
My memory back my first DVD drive was a Plextor 4X burner, and fuck was it expensive!!!! you can buy a reasonable laptop today:)
Another gimmick you might remember: CD-Rs with completely black recording surfaces. Original PlayStation games used these, but that wasn't the only part of their copy protection, so you still needed a modchip.
My point exactly :PQuote:
That is interesting , but really who needs it?? I mean between torrents, usenet, one click, or even free music sites right, plus how many people have services to stream music today...
I only ever had a Philips AZ1101. Used it until the laser stopped working, then gave it away last year too. Boomboxes with MP3 support were amazing when they came out because you could fit so many more songs than in a regular audio CD, but I think mobile phones and minicomputers have diminished the appeal now.Quote:
As you know personally, i also had a ton of Ghetto Blasters and mini cd stereo players that i either won on charities or golf tournaments, again i threw out or gave away most of them, but kept the ones that could play MP3 disks that you could put 200 plus songs on a standard cd, and also has ports to plug in a MP3 players. I have original Apple phones and older Ipods all over as well:). That's what i use in the Backyard...
I was thinking of the name most people use now in there backyards Sonos right?? I assume the service is world wide?? I never used it, the same i won a serious radio thing, used it for a year now it is in a drawer too...
No idea on the backyard thing, but you probably did the right thing shelving it, I'm not a big fan of having microphones in my house myself...
This seems like a good moment to mention I have a Texas Instruments PS-3660i and use it almost every day.Quote:
The other thing i found still in the box Sharp IQ-8100M with all the modules LOL!!, I think i bought it for my wife because it has a Tetris module, and she liked the game:wacko:..
He's been gone for a bit more than one year, though :(Quote:
Originally Posted by shaina
Absolutely agreed, I loved reading his threads.Quote:
The better stories and great poster in my opinion was MJMacky, i wonder if he is living in a tent on some California street, or shacked up with some he/she chick:unsure:
Just from his brief times in and out posting here, i know if he does come back he will have some really good stories to tell......
Several years ago he made a thread in the staff area asking to be demoted because most of his NZBs were getting copyright takedowns, and he wanted to take a break. I guess said break was permanent. Other than that, I know as much as you do.Quote:
Anon: The really strange one is Piercerseth?? I haven't PM'd him in a long time, so i am not even sure if he pops in here on not?? He was a good guy as well.....
And he was a fan of Boards of Canada, which automatically makes him a great person :smilie4:
Then you likely remember the names 98lite, nLite, AntiWPA and MicroXP ;) Windows 98 was so much faster if you used the 95 shell. Same goes for XP if you created a custom CD with all useless features removed and updates integrated (which meant your disk wouldn't be filled with uninstallers).Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4