My never ending quest to decipher 1337 speak...

What the hell does "<3" mean?

heart, or love.... or I love

If you lean your head to the right, Its a Heart.

Lean it to the left and its a Nutsack. lmao

LOL. Thanks.

What else should us old fogey's know about l33t speak?

hmmm...

http://www.ryanross.net/leet/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

google... use it, love it...

Way to kill the thread. 😛

I <3 sarge. Sarge, I am suprised you don't know that, that was more of an ansii char graphics icon from the days of text based web and email. You're old like that.

Bubbaspanky wrote:I <3 sarge.

Let's have none of that. This isn't prison bubba - it's work.

Text based web and email? Never heard of it. Didn't have it when I was a kid. I skipped right to the pr0n, uh I mean, web as we know and love it today. 🙂

When I got on the web it was 1995 and I was using my 486DX4 100 with a 14.4 modem that I paid $60 for. I used Netscape 1.x and there were very few websites. A couple of those first sites I hit are even still around today.

As for email, I used an early version of Eudora and there was none of that html mail, all text.

Oo oo I love this old time computer user pi**ing matches, cause I can often win them. I actually wrote and ran a bulletin board on my c128 from 87-89. My BBS started at 300 baud, and was I think a 9600 when I finally sold the BBS. My BBS won me the 6th grade science fair, because when I explained what a modem was to the judges they were so confused they just gave me the benefit of the doubt. as for actual real internet, it was in the early 90's and I think the text based browser of the day was lynx (where you had to download the pr0n before you could see it...urg) . I remeber being excited when I saw netscape come about. Ahhh the good old days.

First got onto a BBS with a 300baud dialup that used the phone mounted to the speakers (like in Wargames) off of a Radioshack TRS-80, monochromatic goodness.... I was only 3, but was using BASIC by 4.... forgot everything since then... My dad had an Altair 8088 also, but I was too little to remember it.

loved my trs-80, and games on audio tape. My commodore that ran my bbs rocked cause it had a 10M harddrive

Ooohhhh yeah we had some stuff on audiotape, its crazy....

My dad bought a 5MB external harddrive for the TRS-80, it was as big as a 4-piece toaster and just as heavy. Loud as hell too.

Wow Im a F***ing nOOb in this subject.
I built my PC when the BF-1942 Wake Island Demo came out. lol

ROFL.... I used to play Zork and BBS to MUD's like Renegade Outpost....

I played Zork II on my C-64. I still have my notebook where I wrote notes. I bought my first 300 baud modem used for $70. It was a c64 modem from Sears. It was slightly broken. I had to dial the number by the phone, then type in ATA and hang up the phone before the modem on the other end reset. That was 1986. I still have the damn thing. I use to tie up the phone lines all night to download a single game to floppy. :-) My parents use to get so pissed if I forgot to turn it off before they got up. I had to set my alarm and check it before they woke up.

I helped a buddy run a BBS. It was the old C-Net BBS for C64. He bought a dual, side by side 8 1/2 inch floppy drive from a government auction. I can't remember how much data it held, but we had some of the first file shares in OKC. I've actually worked with people 10 years later who knew me from that darn BBS. The cool thing was when we got the 10Mb hard drive. He was saving for his car and instead spent $1200 on the hard drive. The silly things people do.

I upgraded to a C-128 and had one of the first 3.5 floppies around. I also had a 5 1/4 zip drive for my Commodore. It had the ability to compress disks to fit more data and I could flip a switch and it would write to the back of the floppy without having to noch a hole in the side. I can't tell you how cool that was. I actually sold everything for $500. I was planning on getting a IBM 8080, then blew the money. I wouldn't own another computer until my 486 DX100. Imagine the geek I would be if I had bought that IBM. :-)

heheh I tossed my 8088 in january, that machine was a workhorse.

My first real computer was in 1986 and was an 8086 with a 40mb hard drive. It had a 4 color CGA monitor and 640k of ram. Yes I did run a BBS using my 386SX33 and 2400 baud modem, it was the SpitFire BBS. I felt really cool because I had 2 'nodes' on the BBS because I had a seperate phone line from my parents but 2 jacks in my room. I used both so 2 people could logged in at the same time. (My parents hated that) I even had ASCII graphics when you logged in. (Man those were hard to make)

I was helping a friend move last night and found in the back of the closet at her new place a MINT condition Acer 486DX66. I hooked it up to bask in the warm familiar glow of Windows 3.1 goodness. It was really a fucking trip. I hadn't used that OS since my Sr year of high school. Incredibly, the computer ran really well, looked like whoever owned it almost never used it/ put any programs on it.

I still have my 486 motherboard with the chip on it. I also has 8 1mb 30pin sticks of memory on board. I tried to put it back together not too long ago but it won't boot anymore. Guess it made one too many moves. Oh well. One of those sticks of memory makes a really cool keychain.

I still have (1) commodore vic 20, (2) commodore 64's, and (1) Amiga 2000HD in my closet. Not sure where my TRS-80 went 🙂

Dude TRS-80's were awesome...