What a wasteland . . .

Kind of sad, I remember when it was a hopping place to be.

I just sent you a message, or tumbleweed ;)

Icq war chats FTW

let's all go oldschool ftw!!!
Shut down AT!

I'm sorry that we coded proper, simple messaging into the forums and provided a stable IRC server and easy-to-access IRC client.

although the forum messaging could be improved, IMO. I wrote some new stuff for a new hosting site and it's pretty tight. it'll make it's way into the next redesign once the forums/game are fully merged.

my irc and icq brings up pang's, martian's and qz's homes..

i had a nice nostalgic walk down down memory lane with ruth. we are old, we'll i'm old, ruth is just less young than she used to be.

+1

LIKE YOUR SEX LIFE AMIRITEBRO????????

"uhh ohh"

http://web.archive.org/...arguide/history/ceeq.html

went away for a weekend came back to 'stuff'.

Yep, middle console, proper napster. Funny how youtube HQ rips are even faster and better sounding these days and totally unmolested by the gov't. Short cuts on the system tray were winamp, zone alarm, icq, napster and two things I can no longer identify. Windows 98 maybe?

Listening to a mislabeled Veruca salt song at 12:34am CST wondering if If a 19 year old boy could be anymore cool probably, heh.

http://www.last.fm/music/Veruca+Salt/American+Thighs/Celebrate+You


Think below is a version of an ICQ e2025 war chat. Constant drops, people couldn't see each other, really was like some ancient mode of warfare.

http://web.archive.org/...de/history/legionwar.html

Displayed here are two awesome internet artifacts, Netscape navigator, the number one choice for anyone without a mouse in 2001, and the SETI project. Seti was kinda cool, a lot of earthers donated processing power to it for a time. It had nice graphics and no aliens.

http://members.shaw.ca/qzjul/deskktopp.jpg

heh i found an ancient desktop of mine

circa 2004 is not ancient, bro...

Haven't been on in forever

:)

mine brings livefeed from your bathroon.

<3 archaic

I hit earth pretty young....now I have one, maybe twenty grey hairs? lots of fresh body wrinkles too. I mean, I'm still pretty sexy for a prancing walrus. But when I was 19 - 22 and flailing around.... what must have the older earthers known that I'm only figuring out now?

I would have scorned me. The internet was so fresh then though, wasn't it.

0/

heh well i have no older screens; much before then they would just be XP; unless they were from the '98 days before then... i think i have screens of my power mac from 94-98... but i wasn't storing things online back then...

good save archaic.

I have a lot of earth stuff saved on ZIP drive.

Dunno how I can access that without a parallel port, lol

LOL, I call bullfluffe. I have proof lying around here on a 5-1/2 floppy somewhere...

SPlit ICQ chats FTW!

wow Tirol ... that would be harder to recover than the zip drive, lol

Multi proxy back then qzjul?


What's that for?

Found a very old harddrive with an install of windows for workgroups 3.11 on it. Put that into an old Dell Optiplex GXa last night, and it booted right up...sort of. It kept telling me something about sound drivers (which is odd, since the system didn't even have a soundcard), and the mouse driver didn't load. Keyed navigation FTL.

I could tell the harddrive wasn't mine, mainly because of all the love letters, poems, and essays I found on it. I couldn't actually boot into windows itself, but the system deposited me on some sort of primitive graphical DOS desktop, where almost everything was password protected (except for Wordperfect 6.0). Everytime I would try to choose Windows from the menu, it would always pop up a blue screen, saying something about a sound driver, and then I'd end up back at the desktop.

I opened Wordperfect (I believe I had to press 'A' to open it), opened a few documents (Alt+F+O, F5 for File Manager, Enter), tried to copy all documents to a 5-1/2 floppy disk I found on the floor in the corner of my room under a bunch of stuff, had to scavenge another floppy drive from another computer and connect that to the system, had to find another floppy disk that would format (using a slightly newer system running XP), then had to exit the DOS GUI into the DOS CLI to copy all the documents to the disk. Then, swapped the floppy disk to the XP system, copied all the files to that system, then used a NetBIOS share to copy those files to my Win7 laptop, where I could then open the files using...Microsoft Office 2010. No file extension on most of the documents, so it was "choose program to open" everytime. All the documents came right up.

I was also able to play a few rounds of Doom 2 (Hell on Earth). Unfortunately, this was made slightly harder because the mouse driver wouldn't load (CTRL to shoot or use the chainsaw?). I should perhaps try putting the harddrive in an old gateway I have lying around somewhere (which, IIRC, has a soundcard), and seeing what happens.

try this http://www.amazon.com/...table-Drive/dp/B00000J3Q7 or this if you have larger disks http://www.amazon.com/...ernal-Drive/dp/B0000300QN

NukE, I went through a similar dance a few years ago trying to locate and recover a book my mom was working on before she died. Unfortunately it turns out that the old desktop I was trying to salvage was one my brother swiped from a bar he used to work at. I now know how much it cost to get 8 pool tables re-felted in 1992, but I'm no closer to mom's memoirs. I have an old box of 3.5" disks I need to go through some day, but there are about 200 of them and . . . well, 200 is an awful big stack.

hmmm ... they make a usb to parallel port adapter for 10 bucks

might have to give that a shot, i have a few disks labeled earth stuff and more importantly, a few labeled mp3's :)

oh snap ... i found one on amazon for 25 cents with 2.99 shipping, lol

and few are labeled as hot guys? :P

usb floppy-drive ~15-20 bucks and copying 1 disk doesn't take long ,let's say 3 mins so ~10 hrs, totally different thing is to get those files opened if they have been made with some prog which haven't existed since last centurty.

Hey...turns out, the mouse driver was loading...it just was expecting a serial mouse, not a ps2. I have one laying around somewhere...

Ah I was trying to figure out how proxies worked back then; never got it to work properly =/

I've been hoping to buy/build a windows 95 era computer for a year or so now.

I have all kinds of old ones laying around, including a windows 3.1, 240mb HD. That old stuff really blows my mind.

Mostly I want to play SimTower and older games that are no longer compatible with 64 bit systems =)

Oh, young Jedi, you STILL have much to learn. :p (But you were still pretty cool way back then. lol)

buy from ebay some Pentium II-Pentium 4 comp with something decent at that time graphic card and also Win95 CD with licence and install it.

I have a harddrive with a fresh win95 install on it. Boots up just fine, has AOL 4.0 on it.

I think I have a harddrive with win98 on it, but it's not booting for some reason.

Hell, I've got both Win95 and Win98 machines in my basement. lol

Qz were you in gnv?

I have two of these running in my house, slow as fluff but they do have paralle ports, lol

From time to time, I still use my newest desktop's parallel port to JTAG install firmware to a router's motherboard. The desktop itself will boot only after you've turned it on, reached the "boot device not found" error, then turned it off and back on again.

It's just as well, since it has the same XP installation it had on it since ~2006.

Trife: nope, just RED/Evo; and part of a set in Sanct when I hopped over because of retal rules in RED heh; and a set in LaF and LCN each when RED outposted in them;

Ahh okay

I have P4-mobo (S478) but no processor or memories for it cause I was too lazy to figure why it didn't work (due memories or processor or mobo itself (seller said mobo works so ...)). Also I have quite good (at that time) graphic cards for it (Radeon x800 AIW and Radeon x1600 Pro and Radeon x1950 Pro).