Dragon Ball Z Uncensored

Theldorrin · (Sat May 12, 2012 6:26 pm)

What else would happen to you if she had her way?
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Action Hank · (Sun May 13, 2012 10:33 am)

I have been on the internet since the late 80s. Prodigy (Mad Maze, anyone?) and dial-up BBSs (used to call into the Sierra hint BBS and print out walk-throughs all the time in the late 80s, early 90s. By the way, just picked up the Quest for Glory anthology off GoG for 5 bucks. Never owned #5, so it was worth it even though I still have original copies of the games on my computer).

First web connection around '93 or '94. Also used to use CompuServ, The Sierra Network/TSN, and early American Online. Used to play dial-up Doom 2 with my best friend across the street all the time. It kinda sucked because 14.4 and 28.8 kbps modems would drop you all the time (and we didn't have second phone lines, so it would drop when someone called in).

Watched my first anime (Vampire Hunter D) in 1992. Used to watch anime movies with my best friend (we would rent the handful of movies available at the rental place at the time).

(Adjusts glasses that are made from other, nerdier glasses).

But I was never a fanatic about the shit. Chris, you can take that to heart, at least.

Theldorrin · (Sun May 13, 2012 10:46 am)

You probably weren't on the Internet if you were just using services like Prodigy, CompuServ and early AOL. Their networks were primarily self contained.
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Action Hank · (Sun May 13, 2012 2:58 pm)

Early AOL had gophers and usenet.

Big Fagot · (Sun May 13, 2012 9:44 pm)

What is the relationship between BBSes and the Internet such that it's possible to be on one and not the other?

I remember posting on a BBS or listserv or some bullshit back in 1995 or 1996.

Theldorrin · (Sun May 13, 2012 9:51 pm)

A BBS is someone's computer with usually one modem, or if it's a big BBS with multiple modems. And you telephone in to one of them to connect.

Generally you're only connected to that one computer, too. Although sometimes BBSes had Internet access that you could use if you dialed in, and there are other networks as well, like FidoNet (which was global).
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Action Hank · (Mon May 14, 2012 6:35 am)

One of the other annoying things about BBSes (other than sometimes getting a busy signal) was that you had to pay long-distance phone charges if the BBS was hosted across the country or the other side of the world. Sierra On-Line was in California, so it cost a little bit of money to call in and access the correct walkthroughs. After a few times, my dad would sit there with me and we'd choose a number of games (even those I didn't own) and just print out all the hints so that we wouldn't have to go through the annoyance of calling in again. We'd have boxes filled with printed hints (the best thing about a dot-matrix printer was pulling off the punched edges).

I don't remember if it was a 1200 baud modem or 2400, or if we had both. 9.6 was such a big deal when it came out.