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Millsapa said:
LOL! Your Goregasm is still going?
Poor poor crazed sex poodle is being mocked by the racist teabaggers and their stupid murderous leader Sarah Palin. Boohoo!
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Have you offered anything to this thread other than pathetic insults (that aren't effective or funny) and this new word "Goregasm?"

If you really can't dispute what Kicky has said and can only come up with these new words while posting pictures of a 40+ year old brain dead mom from Alaska, then perhaps you are the one that has some kind of sexually depraved condition.
 
It quite frankly, never ceases to amaze me how oft some people attack Al Gore and his work, yet flock to worship people like Bachmann and a recovering Alcoholic and drug abuser who never went to college. I may disagree w/Gore's politics, but I don't understand why he attracts so much attention (and hate) from so many. It's not like he's running for President anymore.
 
Does anyone remember AOL and having to dialup to use the internet? Cords too? Before we got a filter (or perhaps they hadn't been invented yet) we couldn't use the phone while someone was on the Internet.

I remember when Hotmail came out with something like a 10 MB account. That was going to hold everything!

Napster was sweet. Then after it was killed everyone seemed to move towards Limewire.

Ahhhh the good ol days of using Netscape Navigator and sites like lycos and yahoo to do my searches.
 
The Thriller said:
Does anyone remember AOL and having to dialup to use the internet? Cords too? Before we got a filter (or perhaps they hadn't been invented yet) we couldn't use the phone while someone was on the Internet.

I remember when Hotmail came out with something like a 10 MB account. That was going to hold everything!

Napster was sweet. Then after it was killed everyone seemed to move towards Limewire.

Ahhhh the good ol days of using Netscape Navigator and sites like lycos and yahoo to do my searches.
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All I really remember is those card punching machines where you typed in data. I'd copy several sheets of numbers, five at a time in specified fields, on each card, and I made a stack of cards about sixteen inches thick that I'd carry around in boxes, and I'd have to check to make sure they were all in the right order, and then wait in line at the Merrill Engineering computer room to have them fed into the computer, and I'd get an output of about one inch thick of computer paper, and take it to the prof/researcher.

My desktop has I think more computing power now.

I remember apple when it was the great new thing, and I had an IBM in the eighties. . . .boy it's all a blurr now. There was a time at one job I had where the really smart people could fight the clingons or something, and a ping-pong paddle that could mesmerize you down to a complete idiot. . . .

then there were green screens in all the profs' offices. . . .
 
The Thriller said:
It quite frankly, never ceases to amaze me how oft some people attack Al Gore and his work, yet flock to worship people like Bachmann and a recovering Alcoholic and drug abuser who never went to college. I may disagree w/Gore's politics, but I don't understand why he attracts so much attention (and hate) from so many. It's not like he's running for President anymore.
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I take this as a point of merit. I am sometimes an offender in being disrespectful myself, but I do realize that useful discussions involving different perspectives require it. None of us are going to improve our thinking by just mechanically running down those who don't see things as we do. We need some input to improve. . . . but I think it's not just the right wingers who limit themselves.

Hopefully, we are all recovering from some aspect of our less-than-stellar origins/past.
 
babe said:
I take this as a point of merit. I am sometimes an offender in being disrespectful myself, but I do realize that useful discussions involving different perspectives require it. None of us are going to improve our thinking by just mechanically running down those who don't see things as we do. We need some input to improve. . . . but I think it's not just the right wingers who limit themselves.

Hopefully, we are all recovering from some aspect of our less-than-stellar origins/past.
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Good post. It is tiring to continually hear each side listening and regurgitating the vitriol from the extremes. They rail against how stupid and evil and retarded and hate-filled the other side is and pretend their side are nothing but perfect little angels with the purest intent and perfect knowledge of all that is good and correct in the world. I really wish people would take off the partisan blinders and view things for how they really are rather than relying on some extremist demagogue to decide what they should think for them.

The fact is every politician has done some good, and done plenty bad, and "swallowed their whistle" (to keep a sports theme =) when they should have spoken up. They support their constituency then turn around and stab them in the back to get the next money-drop from their special interest groups. They make good decisions, then turn around and make spectacularly crappy ones. Sometimes they come out ahead on the positive/negative ratio. Plenty of times they don't. But there is not a single politician in the history of American politics that has done nothing but EVIL or nothing but GOOD.
 
The Thriller said:
It quite frankly, never ceases to amaze me how oft some people attack Al Gore and his work, yet flock to worship people like Bachmann and a recovering Alcoholic and drug abuser who never went to college. I may disagree w/Gore's politics, but I don't understand why he attracts so much attention (and hate) from so many. It's not like he's running for President anymore.
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LOL! Now it's a Goregy!
 
Answer to the thread question.

whatis.GIF
 
dodo said:
I bet your average Internet user cannot answer (without googling) what Gopher or Usenet was (is).
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arrggghhh....


gopher seems familiar but I'd have to google - - and usenet, off the top of my head, wasn't it some sort of electronic bulletin board?

I dimly recall doing research years and years ago where I communicated via usenet (I think) - I'd have to type in a rather lengthy code to get to the right spot
 
Prodigy was where it was at. I remember vividly my first trip to the Interwebz, and it was via Prodigy.
 
Get Down said:
palin's hair stylist was paid more than mccain's foreign advisor during the 2008 election cycle. you welcome
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Well, obviously, since the topic of this thread is "What is the Internet", anything you can put into, or find in, the 'Net, is "on topic". Has anyone googled to find out what Reagan's or Gore's hairstylists were paid? or their wardrobe managers? Clearly, folks voted for Obama because he simply used one of those self-grooming electric shavers with a quarter-inch spacer, and he looked good as well as cheap. Just proves Americans vote for appearances and not reality. And McCain, OMG, obviously he was just a place-holder on the ballot and it was never intended even by the Republicans to actually oppose let alone defeat Bush III.
 
//r00t 4 Jazz said:
A couple of things, ok one thing really if you want us ignorant people to participate in your political or intellectual threads you need pictures or videos to entertain and dumb it down so here is a oldie but goodie and one that applies as well IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg
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WoW video is always a sweet addition to any thread.
 
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