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   vorjack
   Moderator

   I'm working from the assumption that most of you are more tech savvy than I am. What is this Google Buzz thing that's suddenly appeared in my inbox? Is anybody getting any use out of it?

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   yahweh
   Member

   vorjack, I understand that it is Google's version of Facebook or Twitter. By tying it into current gmail accounts, it already surpasses the number of twitter accounts.
   Slick ploy. Below is a link that might be insightful

   http://mashable.com/2010/02/14/google-buzz-column/

   Posted 3 years ago #
3. 

   Ty
   Moderator

   "I understand that it is Google's version of Facebook or Twitter."

   Gah, how do I turn the damn thing off then?

   Posted 3 years ago #
4. 

   yahweh
   Member

   "Gah, how do I turn the damn thing off then?"

   Knowing Google you probably can't. Just part of their world domination plan.
   It may actually be satan. (I hate it when he shows me up).
   One of the signs of the apocolypse?

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   Ty
   Moderator

   I just turned it off. Take that, Google!

   Posted 3 years ago #
6. 

   yahweh
   Member

   Google has just noted your disobedience. You'll never get into Google heaven now. You've just condemned yourself your hell, aka AOL.

   Posted 3 years ago #
7. 

   Daniel Florien
   Administrator

   AOL is worse than any hell I could imagine.

   Posted 3 years ago #
8. 

   vorjack
   Moderator

   I had forgotten that AOL still existed - I guess that makes me an unintentional universalist.

   Anyway, I got my start on the Compuserve bulletin board system, which by analogy would be Sheol. Do your worst.

   Posted 3 years ago #
9. 

   yahweh
   Member

   "AOL is worse than any hell I could imagine."

   **head down** I actually have aol. My wife likes it, so to keep the peace (so I can still get a piece) I have kept our account active.

   Posted 3 years ago #
10. 

    Ty
    Moderator

    "Anyway, I got my start on the Compuserve bulletin board system, which by analogy would be Sheol. Do your worst. "

    Splitter! I began on the C64 bulletin board network, the only true BBs. Downloading ascii porn on a 300 baud modem! That's when men were men!

    Posted 3 years ago #
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    Jabster
    Member

    Well I started on a servive could Prestel on a Speccy 48k ... and I'm buggered if I can remember which BB where available.

    Posted 3 years ago #
12. 

    WarbVIII
    Member

    I was also on Compuserve way back when....and it was even harsher on athiests than todays internet if I remember it at all well.

    Posted 3 years ago #
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    JonJon
    Member

    "ascii porn"

    *headdesk

    Posted 3 years ago #
14. 

    Daniel Florien
    Administrator

    I ran a BBS and played LORD against whoever would dial into my 14.4k life. At that point I was a Catholic and slipped resources on it talking about how Catholicism was the One True Religion. Atheists were like demons — you never met them, but you knew they were evil.

    Posted 3 years ago #
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    Ty
    Moderator

    ""ascii porn"

    *headdesk "

    A young lad like you would be astonished at how much of the storage space on those old BBs was devoted to ascii pr0n.

    Posted 3 years ago #
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    Ty
    Moderator

    "I ran a BBS and played LORD against whoever would dial into my 14.4k life"

    To those who began on 300 baud, 14.4 was like warp drive. An almost mythical level of speed.

    I remember getting my first 28.8 and thinking, "this is it, we have achieved the greatest level of speed possible."

    I now have a 12mb DSL connection, and get pissed any time Netflix streams a movie to my Xbox at less than four bars of HD.

    Posted 3 years ago #
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    ApostateBruce
    Member

    @Ty
    I was right there with you on my hopped up (I added a momentary reset switch!) C64. Never got my Vic20 or Sinclair/Timex 1000 online, though.

    Posted 3 years ago #
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    Elemenope
    Moderator

    I rocked the C64 in my youth but missed the BBS bandwagon; didn't have a modem until about ten years later, a 14.4 which came with the family 486DX2. It still blows my mind when I think about it that it was an awesome computer when it came out, but is now outperformed by most calculators and cellphones.

    Posted 3 years ago #
19. 

    JonJon
    Member

    You guys are all sooooooo old!!!

    Posted 3 years ago #
20. 

    vorjack
    Moderator

    Oh, hush, young'un.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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