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Hurdergaryp
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:09 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:It took a few years for Netscape Navigator to fade away, but its halcyon days clearly were in the previous century.

Well, 2002 was a moment where Firefox was just starting out. So I did a Netscape -> Firefox switch at some point.

Just not sure when :)

And the Jolt forums never looked the same again.


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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:15 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:It took a few years for Netscape Navigator to fade away, but its halcyon days clearly were in the previous century.


Well, 2002 was a moment where Firefox was just starting out. So I did a Netscape -> Firefox switch at some point.

Just not sure when :)

Firefox in 2002 was my first internet browser I'm pretty sure.

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The Blaatschapen
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:22 am

Heloin wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
Well, 2002 was a moment where Firefox was just starting out. So I did a Netscape -> Firefox switch at some point.

Just not sure when :)

Firefox in 2002 was my first internet browser I'm pretty sure.


Initial release September 23 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox

Possible :)
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Postby Heloin » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:25 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Heloin wrote:Firefox in 2002 was my first internet browser I'm pretty sure.


Initial release September 23 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox

Possible :)

Sounds about right. The first time I used the internet more or less on my own would have been around the Holiday times 2002.

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Postby Hurdergaryp » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:30 am

Heloin wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:Initial release September 23 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox

Possible :)

Sounds about right. The first time I used the internet more or less on my own would have been around the Holiday times 2002.

Inevitably leading to you falling in with the wrong crowd.


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Postby Heloin » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:31 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Heloin wrote:Sounds about right. The first time I used the internet more or less on my own would have been around the Holiday times 2002.

Inevitably leading to you falling in with the wrong crowd.

*looks around here*

Yep.

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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:34 am

Heloin wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
Initial release September 23 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox

Possible :)

Sounds about right. The first time I used the internet more or less on my own would have been around the Holiday times 2002.


Excuse me while I run off and cry.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

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Postby Hurdergaryp » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:40 am

Heloin wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Inevitably leading to you falling in with the wrong crowd.

*looks around here*

Yep.

My point exactly.
Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:Sounds about right. The first time I used the internet more or less on my own would have been around the Holiday times 2002.

Excuse me while I run off and cry.

The bittersweet memories of your favorite bulletin board systems overwhelming you?


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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:42 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Heloin wrote:*looks around here*

Yep.

My point exactly.
Ethel mermania wrote:Excuse me while I run off and cry.

The bittersweet memories of your favorite bulletin board systems overwhelming you?

More thinking of thr first time I compiled a Netscape server on a sun sparc 2 in the middle of the night prior to a trade show in Las vegas
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The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Postby Heloin » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:51 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:Sounds about right. The first time I used the internet more or less on my own would have been around the Holiday times 2002.


Excuse me while I run off and cry.

Time continues to pass, much to everyone's surprise.

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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:55 am

Heloin wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
Excuse me while I run off and cry.

Time continues to pass, much to everyone's surprise.

Its not always a positive
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Postby Heloin » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:58 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:Time continues to pass, much to everyone's surprise.

Its not always a positive

We're going to keep on rocking forever!

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Postby The Blaatschapen » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:58 am

Heloin wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
Excuse me while I run off and cry.

Time continues to pass, much to everyone's surprise.


We could send Gandalf to stop time?

Then maybe it doesn't pass.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:00 am

Heloin wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Its not always a positive

We're going to keep on rocking forever!


I went to a hot tuna concert a few years ago and I swear I never saw so many women wearing biker jackets and using walkers in my life.
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https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Postby The Blaatschapen » Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:05 am

Ethel mermania wrote:


I went to a hot tuna concert a few years ago and I swear I never saw so many women wearing biker jackets and using walkers in my life.


A hot tuna concert?

I know that you're a cat, and that you play with your food. I wasn't aware of the food playing music though :)
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:07 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
I went to a hot tuna concert a few years ago and I swear I never saw so many women wearing biker jackets and using walkers in my life.


A hot tuna concert?

I know that you're a cat, and that you play with your food. I wasn't aware of the food playing music though :)

Kind of like a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Postby Kannap » Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:07 am

Heloin wrote:In what can only be described as the greatest news of this year, the old Space Jam website is still preserved https://www.spacejam.com/1996/


This is painful on the eyes, like in a Biblical way.
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:26 am

Kannap wrote:
Heloin wrote:In what can only be described as the greatest news of this year, the old Space Jam website is still preserved https://www.spacejam.com/1996/


This is painful on the eyes, like in a Biblical way.

To us children of the Digital Age this is our history. Embrace it.

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Postby Loeje » Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:27 am

Kannap wrote:
Heloin wrote:In what can only be described as the greatest news of this year, the old Space Jam website is still preserved https://www.spacejam.com/1996/


This is painful on the eyes, like in a Biblical way.

It also looks like it's from Biblical times. :p
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:28 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:Time continues to pass, much to everyone's surprise.

Its not always a positive

For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on


“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:38 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Its not always a positive

For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on

With all these bells getting rung, I feel punch drunk.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Postby Heloin » Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:52 am

One of these days I'll become obsessed with something that's easy to google.

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Postby Hurdergaryp » Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:35 am

Heloin wrote:One of these days I'll become obsessed with something that's easy to google.

But where's the challenge in that?


“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
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Postby Xmara » Sun Apr 04, 2021 12:37 pm

My aunt stopped by today to get some old pillows and rugs from mom, and she brought me a birthday card. My birthday isn’t until July?
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Postby Heloin » Sun Apr 04, 2021 12:53 pm

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Heloin wrote:One of these days I'll become obsessed with something that's easy to google.

But where's the challenge in that?

You don't always bring out the burning torches when you want to juggle.

Xmara wrote:My aunt stopped by today to get some old pillows and rugs from mom, and she brought me a birthday card. My birthday isn’t until July?

Happy early Birthday!

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