A call to all the old timer LoveScent Forum Posters -- State your presence now!

[Mtnjim]

Bruce, I

remember getting my first Netscape set of floppy disks in the mail, but I'll pre-date you a bit, remember

"Compuserve"? Dial-up was a hoot in those days, getting booted automatically after an hour or two and logging back

on again and again to get that coveted 56k connection.

Ummm, Gopher Space??

I started out on "DARPA

Net", later renamed "Internet".

[Rbt]

Oh yes, CompuServe...

On my Apple

II+ (well, actually a B&H 3048D - which I still have)


Whopping 300bps


Danged modem card cost

more in those day's dollars than some whole computers do today...


I even achieved co-sysop status on

our local library's BBS (running on an Apple with a 20mb Sider hard drive). Ah the power I could wield...

[HornyMan]

Oh yes,

CompuServe...

On my Apple II+ (well, actually a B&H 3048D - which I still have)


Whopping

300bps


Danged modem card cost more in those day's dollars than some whole computers do

today...


I even achieved co-sysop status on our local library's BBS (running on an Apple with a

20mb Sider hard drive). Ah the power I could wield...

I remember having the C-Amiga

and an HST 1200 baud modem. Those days 1200 baud was considered very high class.... hahaha how technology has

changed.

I see many of the old time users of this board have gone to become moderators.... good stuff... but

where are the rest of the guys?

All the guys behind the mixes and stuff? I wonder if they all got married

and never needed mones again...

Love scent has terrific products, also the message archives are second to

none. I spend half my time there.

I wonder if a new injection of enthusiasm is needed to kickstart the

forum again... That is the only area I see falling behind over the past year or two...



hornyman

[Bruce]

Wow, the modem days. I was in Japan

when the internet first arrived there. We lived in Sendai and had to dial up a number in TOKYO to hook up to the

internet. That was in 98 I believe. Then we got a Sendai number at some point. Our ISP was called ifnet. At some

point we got a cable TV connection with internet service. That was the year that Apple came out with the first

wireless hub. I think they called it the "airport" in Japan. I bought one of the first in the shop. I also had

one of the first Mac i-books (the "clam shell"). I can remember the look on the kid who came to hook up our cable

internet when I showed him how my laptop connected to the internet without a wire. I guess that must have been

about 2001.

But, yeah, I remember the modem wars. Every few months they came out with a bigger badder faster

one. I think I specifically remember my 256. Wow!

I also remember my first post internet visit to the US. I

set up a mobile Earthlink account I could dial up in my motel room.

B

[Rbt]

Maybe all the older posters with the

"mixes and stuff" died happily doing what they enjoyed the most....

If you catch my drift...

<cough>







And who's getting called "old" anyway. (Notice how long it took me to realize

that... I must be gettin' old...)