Ot: names

palerider wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 9:20 pm

KnightSleeper wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:43 pm

Gosh, you're old!!!- - And yet Zonker is still so young!!!

You dang kids! GET OFF MY LAWN!

KnightSleeper wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:43 pm

Btw, all this computer history reminds me of Eudora... One of my early ISP's...

I may be older than dirt, but at least i remember that Eudora was an email client, not an ISP.
https://www.actualtools.com/articles/detail.php?ID=875

Dreaming1 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:51 am

“You dang kids! GET OFF MY LAWN!”

That a reference to monster house?

metsfan302 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 2:39 am

Wow reading this thread brings back so many memory's of back in the day computing, wow! I remember being in school using an Apple 2 playing Oregon Trail

Then I go venture off into google to look into equipment I had back in the day and I get this google image - with it being the "30th anniversary of the world wide web" it seems older to me but maybe it was not the www back then

KnightSleeper wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 12:29 am

palerider wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 9:20 pm

KnightSleeper wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:43 pm

Gosh, you're old!!!- - And yet Zonker is still so young!!!

You dang kids! GET OFF MY LAWN!

KnightSleeper wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:43 pm

Btw, all this computer history reminds me of Eudora... One of my early ISP's...

I may be older than dirt, but at least i remember that Eudora was an email client, not an ISP.
https://www.actualtools.com/articles/detail.php?ID=875

I knew it was something important...far different than AOL... yech!!!!!

Okay, I'm going to jump on your name choice Palerider for the Win!!! Beam me up Zonker!!! (Btw, where has Zonker been??? Is he awol???)

Trek-a-Snoreless
Dino-snore.jpg


Woohooo!!!!!


Btw, how many of you remember when Fred & Wilma didn't have any kids yet? They too had a naming-contest for what's her name??? - Btw, what night was the Flinstones on??? No googling???

ImRealPleezApproveMe wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:12 am

How do you change your user name? I joined when cpaptalk had the wagons circled against spam attacks and rarely, if ever, accepted new logins. Now it seems out of context.

Dialup - that was fun for about 2 minutes. The 10th time you saw it take 20 seconds to paint the same screen through the 300 baud modem it got old.

Dog Slobber wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:15 pm

Cynmatthes wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:13 pm

Anyone else here remember a time before the internet?
bbs systems, modems, 3.5 inch floppy drives.

I certainly do.

I remember the Internet, before it was the Internet, at least before it was commercialized and graphical.

We used to dial in with out 300/1200 BAUD modems, connect to a UNIX host. Instead of using the web and a browser we used gopher and then lynx. Instead of forums we used usenet (NNTP protocol), instead of google, search was Archie and Veronica servers. The only thing that really survived from that era was IRC, Internet Relay Chat.

Prior to that, I (illegally) used a dialup service called DataPac, the Canadian equivalent of Tymenet. This was a commercial network service that was used for B2B data services, including education and Interac. Security back then was non-existent and many sites relied on their DataPac address being unknown for protection. Sites often had default or easily guessable credentials.

Using DataPac and its connection to other networks we were running the globe connecting to computers all over the world. Our motivation was to collect and trade host credentials and get access to "mainframes" and "minis" so we could learn "real" computer systems. Real computer systems being HP3000s, Vaxes and UNIX hosts.

Cynmatthes wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:17 am

ImRealPleezApproveMe wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:12 am

How do you change your user name? I joined when cpaptalk had the wagons circled against spam attacks and rarely, if ever, accepted new logins. Now it seems out of context.

Dialup - that was fun for about 2 minutes. The 10th time you saw it take 20 seconds to paint the same screen through the 300 baud modem it got old.

I haven't tried it yet, still looking for a good name but apparently you send a message to a person named carolyn and she might possibly change it for me. (Crossing fingers ).

prodigyplace wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:36 am

Dog Slobber wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:15 pm

Cynmatthes wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:13 pm

Anyone else here remember a time before the internet?
bbs systems, modems, 3.5 inch floppy drives.

I certainly do.

I remember the Internet, before it was the Internet, at least before it was commercialized and graphical.

We used to dial in with out 300/1200 BAUD modems, connect to a UNIX host. Instead of using the web and a browser we used gopher and then lynx. Instead of forums we used usenet (NNTP protocol), instead of google, search was Archie and Veronica servers. The only thing that really survived from that era was IRC, Internet Relay Chat.

Prior to that, I (illegally) used a dialup service called DataPac, the Canadian equivalent of Tymenet. This was a commercial network service that was used for B2B data services, including education and Interac. Security back then was non-existent and many sites relied on their DataPac address being unknown for protection. Sites often had default or easily guessable credentials.

Using DataPac and its connection to other networks we were running the globe connecting to computers all over the world. Our motivation was to collect and trade host credentials and get access to "mainframes" and "minis" so we could learn "real" computer systems. Real computer systems being HP3000s, Vaxes and UNIX hosts.

DNS survived the non-commercial Internet. There are others.

Email
FTP
Kerberos
TCP-IP

jnk... wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 10:46 am

SleepTribbles?