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Not me. Last time I played Elite was on the BBC B I think, maybe 40 or so years back. I never bothered with the new one.
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lol me too
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Anyone here buy into Minecraft before Micro$oft bought it? I pledged a chunk of change into it, about 2 years before it reached anywhere near how it is now. Originally you had to play builds via java and there were so many memory leaks on it. I would start it up and within maybe an hour it would have torched all the system ram and be swapping. I used to set max memory to 1GB less than the 16GB total i had in the computer and even then if you got past 90 mins you were lucky.
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Yeah I know. Hopefully that bubble bursts soon, so we can get back to normal.
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I played the original when it first came out also, and yes, in its day fantastic. Elite Dangerous is also fantastic, keyboard/mouse and makes your palms just as sweaty as the OG. The base game was £3 in the last steam sale, give it a spin if you are able. Beg/borrow a VR headset at some point if you do buy it. You can't grasp the real scale and awe until you do. Not touching cloth the first time you fly out of a station in VR is a steam achievement
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I still push out to do a bit of core mining every now and again.
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Haha nice. I just learned how to do that, done most of the stuff in the game except mining until now. Mucking around in Colonia in the peace and quiet, with light jazz music in the background.I played the original when it first came out also, and yes, in its day fantastic. Elite Dangerous is also fantastic, keyboard/mouse and makes your palms just as sweaty as the OG. The base game was £3 in the last steam sale, give it a spin if you are able. Beg/borrow a VR headset at some point if you do buy it. You can't grasp the real scale and awe until you do. Not touching cloth the first time you fly out of a station in VR is a steam achievement
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I still push out to do a bit of core mining every now and again.
The original Elite was born the same year I was - 1984, so I missed out on that. I entered the space sim genre in the 90s Wing Commander - Privateer, and Tie Fighter era.
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I can remember it taking hours to set up Wing Commander 2. Seven 3.5 floppies, and you had to back-swap them multiple times
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This was a few years later but I remember taking Mortal Kombat 2 to my bud on like 15 floppies. The problem was, we were taking that electric trolley busI can remember it taking hours to set up Wing Commander 2. Seven 3.5 floppies, and you had to back-swap them multiple times
with no antistatic bag. The crazy sparks from the wires always destroyed the LAST FEW SECTORS on every disk. We ultimately RAR-ed it to 1.2 mbyte pieces for the 1.44 disk so the last failing sectors remained empty, that solved it. As this was in 93-94, thinking back this was a pretty good tech solution from 9-10 year olds
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I played since v1, the Microsnot takeover was a shyte show indeed. A small group of us have run a server since the beginning, I don't play nowadays other than cruising around in op mode to see what others are doing, my fingers can't take the pace!
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This was a few years later but I remember taking Mortal Kombat 2 to my bud on like 15 floppies. The problem was, we were taking that electric trolley bus
The joy that came when IOMega brought out the zip disk and I had the other one, SuperDisk that had 120MB floppies. My first PC (I built, 80286 16MHz off the top of my head) had an 80MB hard drive. Then the next one 500MB HDD arrived, then 1GB and then maybe around 97 I managed to get a 4GB HDD (memory hazy, but still have two of the Fujitsu drives from that era in a drawer). After that we got into multiple gigabytes and the rest is history. The things I remember moving on floppies were Doom shareware and Duke Nukem. There was a shop near me and they had the outrageous gear no else could afford and they had the Independence Day wallpaper on a 21" CRT and I went there and asked if they could put it on a floppy for me, but it was too big, so it had to be RAR'd across three floppies, some crazy sized bitmap. Same place I got Doom from. Still got that wallpaper on a backup cd I found in a cd wallet a few years back and the doom shareware.
What was your first internet connection? I went to a computer fair with a friend and purchased this big book sized steel box that was a 28.8k modem, which was amusing since at that time I didn't have a phone line. But a guy we knew was a janitor in some mothballed council building (that was in an out of the way place in the city and was never used forever more) and the phone line still worked. So we built a second system that was very streamlined and took it over there along with this chunky modem and a random internet CD, I think Compuserve, but could have been AOL and took the free 30 hours trial or whatever it was (after it ran out we would use a different cd. All this janitor wanted to do was download pr0n, but this was mid 90's so old school bmp pictures where you could visually see the interlacing and pixels. We just wanted to download games. We found the ftp for idsoftware and downloaded all the shareware games they had, same with a few other things, grabbed the emulators and perused some dodgy sites to find the roms for them. Then dumped everything on to a spare hard drive and took that back home with us. Crazy early days of the public facing internet, where a good browser was Netscape Navigator, chat for the gifted was IRC or if you were less gifted msn/aim/icq/ychat (or if you were a super nerd you had them all), email was available but it wasn't widely used. Oh and Microsoft V-Chat, which was actually IRC with a 3D frontend.
I was looking through some files on a hard drive two years back and found the minecraft.jar from long ago. i think i joined around v2, it was when the world worked, but there wasn't much beyond the basic functionality in it. No mobs or anything else, just a basic sandbox. Then after a year or so we had mobs and everything else, plus the nether. When notch said he was selling to Microsoft, well that was the end of Minecraft for me. I recently found Luanti and Mineclonia and started messing around on it. It's pretty much the same, but maybe bigger and better optimised, but easier to tailor to your needs and not run by Microsoft and not made in Java.
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My first WAN connection (if you could call it that) was using a telephone and an acoustic coupler to a networked BBS. I've met radio hams with Morse speeds that were close to the data transfer rate of that thing 
The only things I miss from early internet days was 'The Forum', some of the Usenet stuff like alt.tasteless, and selling pirate CD's like Mr Blobby for pocket money outside computer fairs
The only things I miss from early internet days was 'The Forum', some of the Usenet stuff like alt.tasteless, and selling pirate CD's like Mr Blobby for pocket money outside computer fairs
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I miss IRC and yes I know it still exists, but most of the communities I hung in don't. One community I was a member of I setup an IRC server for them. They were trying to find a replacement for a java chatroom they had that kept dying and I said well find a cheap vps and i'll setup an IRC server for you. So they get this, well, 256mb ram tiny vps, with 100GB bandwidth and maybe 10GB of hdd, I don't remember exactly how much but it was small. I installed an IRC server on it (possibly ngIRCd or UnrealIRCd), configured it, we even had SSL or TLS at a time when most didn't, because the site had an SSL cert, so i used it to secure the chatrooms. That server ran until the community died around 10 years later.
Modem times we used to go to a BBS somewhere, but don't remember where it was, but they ran a gopher server as I remember. I'm also trying to remember what the internet based unix/linux place was I would use. They would give you a basic account with ssh for free with like 100mb of space and you could learn linux or unix on it, host a small website, etc. I used to spend hours there just messing with stuff. I can't for the life of me remember what it was, but I think it used a prq.to domain. Memory fails, until it doesn't. sdf.org
Good times, before social media corrupted the world.
Modem times we used to go to a BBS somewhere, but don't remember where it was, but they ran a gopher server as I remember. I'm also trying to remember what the internet based unix/linux place was I would use. They would give you a basic account with ssh for free with like 100mb of space and you could learn linux or unix on it, host a small website, etc. I used to spend hours there just messing with stuff. I can't for the life of me remember what it was, but I think it used a prq.to domain. Memory fails, until it doesn't. sdf.org
Good times, before social media corrupted the world.
I still have mIRC. When things get spicy it may well become useful again. I was there probably either defending or trying to shit up your channels lol.
I am a reformed character now. I am not sure the MedBud team would concur
.There was a time I believed (naively) that the internet was going to be a new revolution like the printing press for mankind.
The knowledge, the freedom.
How wrong was I! Still I have lived a lot of my life online, yet there are no photo's of me for anyone. I have a love hate relationship with this wonderful medium.
Usenet boards still exist. Along with the legendary warez.
I can share one corner of my old world you may remember. Old ezines. Here is a collection along with a lot of cool ascii art.
There are some legendary groups in there, if you know who you are looking for.
Dont worry its a clearnet repo not darknet despite the .onion
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I'm not worried about .onion addresses. I have run relays and bridges for years (on KVM/VPS servers scattered around the globe).I still have mIRC. When things get spicy it may well become useful again. I was there probably either defending or trying to shit up your channels lol.
I am a reformed character now. I am not sure the MedBud team would concur
There was a time I believed (naively) that the internet was going to be a new revolution like the printing press for mankind.
The knowledge, the freedom.
How wrong was I! Still I have lived a lot of my life online, yet there are no photo's of me for anyone. I have a love hate relationship with this wonderful medium.
Usenet boards still exist. Along with the legendary warez.
I can share one corner of my old world you may remember. Old ezines. Here is a collection along with a lot of cool ascii art.
There are some legendary groups in there, if you know who you are looking for.
Dont worry its a clearnet repo not darknet despite the .onion
Usenet, well I still have some bandwidth left with Astranet, bought maybe 12 years ago, still got a lot left (think I bought 180GB for £17, long ago). I still login occasionally, but i'm not as active as I used to be.
IRC wise, I use Epic on *nix, sometimes via znc.