Dead2009
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Old School Chat Rooms
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...What's AIM?
Sarcasm, very much. I think pretty much all of the old members from the original site used AIM heavily. MSN, too. It was essentially our Administrative/Moderator team's Teams/Slack. @Mark literally just reminded me of his blue Book Antiqua text. A trip down memory lane, for sure.
Teamspeak/Ventrillo was also a big thing.
IRC was probably the ultimate place certain people ended up in so far as a "chatroom".
Actual internet chat rooms at the time were horrifically moderated, though. They were just flooded with kids too young to be unsupervised, just like forums were. Probably wasn't good for our generation.
Sarcasm, very much. I think pretty much all of the old members from the original site used AIM heavily. MSN, too. It was essentially our Administrative/Moderator team's Teams/Slack. @Mark literally just reminded me of his blue Book Antiqua text. A trip down memory lane, for sure.
Teamspeak/Ventrillo was also a big thing.
IRC was probably the ultimate place certain people ended up in so far as a "chatroom".
Actual internet chat rooms at the time were horrifically moderated, though. They were just flooded with kids too young to be unsupervised, just like forums were. Probably wasn't good for our generation.
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...What's AIM?
Sarcasm, very much. I think pretty much all of the old members from the original site used AIM heavily. MSN, too. It was essentially our Administrative/Moderator team's Teams/Slack. @Mark literally just reminded me of his blue Book Antiqua text. A trip down memory lane, for sure.
Teamspeak/Ventrillo was also a big thing.
IRC was probably the ultimate place certain people ended up in so far as a "chatroom".
Actual internet chat rooms at the time were horrifically moderated, though. They were just flooded with kids too young to be unsupervised, just like forums were. Probably wasn't good for our generation.
It was Bookman Old Style, but the internet seems to have forgotten it somewhere in time. I picked that color back then because it was the hex code for the blue on one of my tattoos, and I still use it to this day for a setting on my LED lights.
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I didn't really frequent chatrooms. I might've only ever actually joined one for GW/PIMI through ICQ or something similar. Beyond that, it was just forums and IMs.
TS and Vent both got used a lot though. I was more on Vent for forever until TS3. Then it was just whoever preferred to use what at a given time.
TS and Vent both got used a lot though. I was more on Vent for forever until TS3. Then it was just whoever preferred to use what at a given time.
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Oh god the little sticky notes on AIM that tried to signal that "we werent at the computer right now". Half the time I turned that on and still browsed the internet.
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Wow I can't recall when I last logged into AIM or MSN.. or why I stopped. I guess when FB added the chat feature..?
I remember being in some of those GW AIM group chats but because some people had blocked me, I was only seeing parts of conversations and that got confusing. Good times
How the hell did you manage to piss anyone off enough to block you?
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MSN - yup. Lot of talk about AIM, but since we didn't have AOL, MSN was the go to.
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Y’all… I miss Yahoo pool. That 8-Ball Pool game in the App Store couldn’t hold a candle to it.
Remember Yahoo Towers?
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Played sooo much Yahoo Towers!
I wonder if those games still exist in some capacity… time to go look.
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That makes me incredibly sad.
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It is funny, because there are literal sub reddits out there of people reminiscing about "the old days of the internet" and only having large corporations owning all the social platforms, with no independent forums / communities to hang around on.
We did this to ourselves. We allowed social media to take over. The internet was a much better place before the social media train ruined everything.
We have all the power to make things right again, but will we do it?
We did this to ourselves. We allowed social media to take over. The internet was a much better place before the social media train ruined everything.
We have all the power to make things right again, but will we do it?
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We will in our little dark corner over here, but I don’t have much hope elsewhere. Nostalgia is popular, as it always is, but there’s too much corporate power at play for niche communities to ever be more than that, and I’m cool with that.
I’d much rather be a part of a community with a few hundred people than one with a few million where damn near every conversation gets buried unless it goes viral. I remember back when GW was at peak activity, and even that was too much to keep track of some days. That’s part of the reason we really only saw Al in the mod forum, because by the time he got done with his day to day life, he only had a little bit of time left to run through all of the threads there. Some days, he didn’t even finish hitting all of the threads before he ran out of time.
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100%, I've never personally been a fan of centralized platforms. I've always found it to be a toxic cesspool. There's what you mentioned above, people arrogantly bragging about their lives, people whining & bickering back & forth, and all sorts of ridiculous bullshit. That's always been a problem, even when they first started catching on, and that was enough to know it's not for me.
I'm far happier being in a smaller community where people are more closely knit, and can just relax & be themselves.