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[quote]John Romaniello wrote:

[quote]Vegita wrote:
I played an MMORPG called Dragon Realms for hours and hours and hours. This was back before “unlimited” internet packages and Way before High speed. I remember my mom got a bill once that was into the hundreds of dollars because I played it so much. I was not allowed to play it again until a few months later when AOL had an unlimited plan come out for like 29.99 per month.

Just checked and it looks like the game is still running. It’s text based.

V[/quote]

UMMM Dude, I played DragonRealms.

I was Trevalin Dagmor, 36th circle Paladin.

Who were you?[/quote]

2 different Runs, Glorfindel Cullane, Level 40 something Elf ranger, and then later Pycon Cullane, a 20 ish Gor’Tog Barb. With him I used to just use Heavy Thrown and carry a big log around and throw it at stuff. As long as I wasn’t fighting anything too fast, I would demolish nearly everything in one hit. My ranger I didn’t power level, I didn’t know about power leveling. The Tog I leveled him a little early with a script I wrote myself. Probably for about 15 of his levels. Honestly, I had to stop playing because I would play it obsessively and sleep about 2-3 hours per night.

V

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[quote]SkyNett wrote:

[quote]John Romaniello wrote:

UMMM Dude, I played DragonRealms.

I was Trevalin Dagmor, 36th circle Paladin.

Who were you?[/quote]

Yea - you probably shouldn’t admit that in public. ; )

Kidding - I’m a big game geek myself… [/quote]

lol too late. Cat’s outta the bag. At least I don’t play WoW.

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[quote]iamthewolf wrote:
good old aol dial-up; now that was fun. [/quote]

I’m still officially on dial-up. Praise the lord for wifi and neighbors who don’t bother with passwords.

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[quote]LankyMofo wrote:

[quote]kothreat wrote:
Downloading music and making cd’s for kids at school. Buy a box of cd’s for 10 bucks sell each one for 5. I think that’s about all I used the tubes for. Oh, and looking at pictures of naked/half naked ladies. Oh how the webz have changed. [/quote]

Dude - downloading songs from servers, remember that?

/servercommand in the chat rooms…something like that, haha.

I remember I downloaded server software and I started my own server chat room but I only had like 40 songs - people requested the list and told me how much my list sucked. Haha, I was the worst server of all time.[/quote]

Never did it this way. I could search and find anything though. It was the best when an open FTP was found, or when deleting some of the address would open up an unlocked larger directory.
Then napster came along and it was like heaven.

Oh, and askjeeves was horrible. Avoided it like the plague. Altavista was good, and there was another one…just looked it up. It was metacrawler. It worked quite well.

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[quote]kothreat wrote:

[quote]LankyMofo wrote:

[quote]kothreat wrote:
Downloading music and making cd’s for kids at school. Buy a box of cd’s for 10 bucks sell each one for 5. I think that’s about all I used the tubes for. Oh, and looking at pictures of naked/half naked ladies. Oh how the webz have changed. [/quote]

Dude - downloading songs from servers, remember that?

/servercommand in the chat rooms…something like that, haha.

I remember I downloaded server software and I started my own server chat room but I only had like 40 songs - people requested the list and told me how much my list sucked. Haha, I was the worst server of all time.[/quote]

Never did it this way. I could search and find anything though. It was the best when an open FTP was found, or when deleting some of the address would open up an unlocked larger directory.
Then napster came along and it was like heaven.

Oh, and askjeeves was horrible. Avoided it like the plague. Altavista was good, and there was another one…just looked it up. It was metacrawler. It worked quite well.

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You just shat all over my internet childhood.

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[quote]Vegita wrote:

[quote]John Romaniello wrote:

[quote]Vegita wrote:
I played an MMORPG called Dragon Realms for hours and hours and hours. This was back before “unlimited” internet packages and Way before High speed. I remember my mom got a bill once that was into the hundreds of dollars because I played it so much. I was not allowed to play it again until a few months later when AOL had an unlimited plan come out for like 29.99 per month.

Just checked and it looks like the game is still running. It’s text based.

V[/quote]

UMMM Dude, I played DragonRealms.

I was Trevalin Dagmor, 36th circle Paladin.

Who were you?[/quote]

2 different Runs, Glorfindel Cullane, Level 40 something Elf ranger, and then later Pycon Cullane, a 20 ish Gor’Tog Barb. With him I used to just use Heavy Thrown and carry a big log around and throw it at stuff. As long as I wasn’t fighting anything too fast, I would demolish nearly everything in one hit. My ranger I didn’t power level, I didn’t know about power leveling. The Tog I leveled him a little early with a script I wrote myself. Probably for about 15 of his levels. Honestly, I had to stop playing because I would play it obsessively and sleep about 2-3 hours per night.

V[/quote]

Haha, I had similar problems.

I didn’t script or power level, although I should have, just sacrificed sleep and played constantly.

I still miss my jade-hilted nimsha, but I have to say throwing a log sounds hilarious.

edit - don’t think I missed out on seeing the LoTR swiped name, Glorfindel. You must have been playing pretty early on in the games existence to be able to grab that one.

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[quote]John Romaniello wrote:

[quote]Vegita wrote:

[quote]John Romaniello wrote:

[quote]Vegita wrote:
I played an MMORPG called Dragon Realms for hours and hours and hours. This was back before “unlimited” internet packages and Way before High speed. I remember my mom got a bill once that was into the hundreds of dollars because I played it so much. I was not allowed to play it again until a few months later when AOL had an unlimited plan come out for like 29.99 per month.

Just checked and it looks like the game is still running. It’s text based.

V[/quote]

UMMM Dude, I played DragonRealms.

I was Trevalin Dagmor, 36th circle Paladin.

Who were you?[/quote]

2 different Runs, Glorfindel Cullane, Level 40 something Elf ranger, and then later Pycon Cullane, a 20 ish Gor’Tog Barb. With him I used to just use Heavy Thrown and carry a big log around and throw it at stuff. As long as I wasn’t fighting anything too fast, I would demolish nearly everything in one hit. My ranger I didn’t power level, I didn’t know about power leveling. The Tog I leveled him a little early with a script I wrote myself. Probably for about 15 of his levels. Honestly, I had to stop playing because I would play it obsessively and sleep about 2-3 hours per night.

V[/quote]

Haha, I had similar problems.

I didn’t script or power level, although I should have, just sacrificed sleep and played constantly.

I still miss my jade-hilted nimsha, but I have to say throwing a log sounds hilarious.[/quote]

It was always good for a laugh or two when going in a hunting party. Everyone would be pulling out swords, axes and bows and I pull a big log out of my sack and start chucking it around. The damage scripts were always great, “Pycon throws his log at a blue Crocodile, The crocodile attempts to dodge failing miserably, The log connects a vicious blow to the crocodiles left eye, smashing it into a bloody pulp”

V

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OLD school hmmm?? Does BBS qualify and a 9600 baud modem?

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[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Yes, the clear skin was the bomb.[/quote]

That’s the only clear skin you had back then, eh?

We had acoustic modems in my house growing up.

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[quote]John Romaniello wrote:

[quote]Vegita wrote:

[quote]John Romaniello wrote:

[quote]Vegita wrote:
I played an MMORPG called Dragon Realms for hours and hours and hours. This was back before “unlimited” internet packages and Way before High speed. I remember my mom got a bill once that was into the hundreds of dollars because I played it so much. I was not allowed to play it again until a few months later when AOL had an unlimited plan come out for like 29.99 per month.

Just checked and it looks like the game is still running. It’s text based.

V[/quote]

UMMM Dude, I played DragonRealms.

I was Trevalin Dagmor, 36th circle Paladin.

Who were you?[/quote]

2 different Runs, Glorfindel Cullane, Level 40 something Elf ranger, and then later Pycon Cullane, a 20 ish Gor’Tog Barb. With him I used to just use Heavy Thrown and carry a big log around and throw it at stuff. As long as I wasn’t fighting anything too fast, I would demolish nearly everything in one hit. My ranger I didn’t power level, I didn’t know about power leveling. The Tog I leveled him a little early with a script I wrote myself. Probably for about 15 of his levels. Honestly, I had to stop playing because I would play it obsessively and sleep about 2-3 hours per night.

V[/quote]

Haha, I had similar problems.

I didn’t script or power level, although I should have, just sacrificed sleep and played constantly.

I still miss my jade-hilted nimsha, but I have to say throwing a log sounds hilarious.

edit - don’t think I missed out on seeing the LoTR swiped name, Glorfindel. You must have been playing pretty early on in the games existence to be able to grab that one.[/quote]

Yea, Like I said, it was before you could buy AOL monthly packages, it was like 2.99 per hour or something. Also the surname Cullane was from Karl Cullane of the Guardians of the Flame book series. Books were by Joel Rosenburg, about some kids who are playing a D&D type game and get magically transported into that world AS thier charachters. The books are light and easy to read and a lot of fun. I suggest them for any fans of the roleplaying Genre.

When I started Playing DR, the Crossing was the only Major City. Many of the other ones were being developed and there were like rumors and things. Oh God I remember getting lost all the time. Drawing fucking maps, Memorizing routes to my favorite spots. LOL The cool thing was that if you went exploring, you had a pretty good chance of running into some monster that would fuck your shit up in seconds. I had my ass dragged to the temple so many times LOL.

V

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It used to drive me nuts when my mom would pick up the phone and it would kick me off AOL. Totally fucked up starcraft games w/ friends in middle school.

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[quote]UFgator11 wrote:
It used to drive me nuts when my mom would pick up the phone and it would kick me off AOL. Totally fucked up starcraft games w/ friends in middle school.[/quote]

I had the same problem while surfing porn, haha.

Back in the day, when it took a minute to download a picture - now you can stream HD no problem. Man I love technology.

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i miss playing quake 1 and 2 and having to install your own grappling hooks to the servers. and playing networked warcraft.

i was a dogpile man, search engine wise.

I used to get alot of software/music from the IRC chat rooms doing the fserves. good times.

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Having to search for porn of older women use to be so difficult until American Pie came along and coined the term MILF.

Now 1 word will get me search 10000000000000 results.

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4 second porno .gif
on a loop

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Who didn’t have a geocities page?

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Played Acrophobia (game)
I mostly used Altavista for search
Still use Winamp
Used Windows Blinds to alter the look of windows
Desktop background was one of the first Digital Blasphemy pics
My first email address was @usa.net when they were still free
ICQ and IRC were my messengers of choice

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I used Netscape Navigator. A guy at university introduced us to the internet and some of the things you could do with it (he was a computer science geek with mad progamming skills).

The year was 1995.

  1. Let’s see we downloaded pictures of Jennifer Aniston, got introduced to IRC chat, surfed adult websites, used Lycos and AltaVista for searching, email programs were shitty back then especially the university one.
  2. We used news groups and bulletin boards, winamp and real player were my music software programs. Shit I was surfing the web on a 486 DX 33 in the beginning with a slow modem.
  3. I’d download scripts to sitcoms like Seinfeld and Friends and distribute them among friends. We’d forward a large file called “jokes.txt” with a ton of good jokes.

That’s all I got for now.

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I remember my dad was like 2 years behind the internet bandwagon. Was using a computer that was ran by DOS (or something like that). I only knew how to open Corel Wordperfect (didnt have MS Word) and solitaire

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I remember queuing up 60-100 songs on napster on a 56k modem then going to bed hoping that in the morning the connection wouldn’t be lost and that at least some of the songs were actually the songs they were supposed to be.
I checked ilovebacon.com for funny pictures most every day.