[[GBS]] Town hall meeting. 2.0 - Order in the court! Pizza is here

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Luvcow: Jul 1, 2007; One day nearer spring

genesplicer posted:

Long, long ago, in 1976, I was part of my high school's crack computer team. Our school didn't actually have a computer. We had a teletype machine and a 300 baud modem. With this, we connected to the MIT mainframe and assisted seniors in finding colleges that had the progams they were interested in taking. During downtime, I figured out something. We used numerical codes to navigate, so I decided to see what other codes would do. After finding very little of interest, I managed to stumble upon the complete list of codes.

With this I was able to enter into parts of the server I was not authorized to enter. I managed to figure out a few passwords (not nearly as secure as they are today) and accessed even more. About this time, we had to do a report on some topic in biology. I decided to wow my teacher, and do my report on genetic engineering. This was a new technology (the first experiments had been done in 1973), and MIT was at the forefront. Since I had access to their primitive email system, I sent a few messages to the grad students asking questions. Eventually they figured out I was not an MIT student and questioned me. I explained what I had done, and the students approached a professor. They gave me limited access to their mainframe, in exchange for me not trying to crack the system any further. Quite a coup for a freshman high school kid.

The professor set up my account, with the tounge-in-cheek name "Genesplicer" (actually, it was "gensplcr", because login names were all 8 characters)

So, in December of this year, I will haved used the name "genesplicer" on various websites, etc, on the ARPANET, BBSs and the Internet, for 40 years.

holy poo poo thats like a super hero origin story

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genesplicer posted:

Long, long ago, in 1976, I was part of my high school's crack computer team. Our school didn't actually have a computer. We had a teletype machine and a 300 baud modem. With this, we connected to the MIT mainframe and assisted seniors in finding colleges that had the progams they were interested in taking. During downtime, I figured out something. We used numerical codes to navigate, so I decided to see what other codes would do. After finding very little of interest, I managed to stumble upon the complete list of codes.

With this I was able to enter into parts of the server I was not authorized to enter. I managed to figure out a few passwords (not nearly as secure as they are today) and accessed even more. About this time, we had to do a report on some topic in biology. I decided to wow my teacher, and do my report on genetic engineering. This was a new technology (the first experiments had been done in 1973), and MIT was at the forefront. Since I had access to their primitive email system, I sent a few messages to the grad students asking questions. Eventually they figured out I was not an MIT student and questioned me. I explained what I had done, and the students approached a professor. They gave me limited access to their mainframe, in exchange for me not trying to crack the system any further. Quite a coup for a freshman high school kid.

The professor set up my account, with the tounge-in-cheek name "Genesplicer" (actually, it was "gensplcr", because login names were all 8 characters)

So, in December of this year, I will haved used the name "genesplicer" on various websites, etc, on the ARPANET, BBSs and the Internet, for 40 years.

thats cool as gently caress

# ? Feb 3, 2016 23:10

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

hah, recalled it correctly

have you ever played d&d or other nerd games

# ? Feb 3, 2016 23:10

NurhacisUrn: Jul 18, 2013; All I can think about is your wife and a horse.
We are working on some SERIOUS SHIT in here.

Luvcow posted:

holy poo poo thats like a super hero origin story

Agreed. Thanks for sharing that with us Gene.

# ? Feb 3, 2016 23:15

bring back old gbs: Feb 28, 2007; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

tahts a cool story.

u guy ever heard of the birthday boys? watched episode 1 last night, its pretty funny show

# ? Feb 3, 2016 23:19

Ratjaculation: Aug 3, 2007

im lowtaxs alt, ama

# ? Feb 3, 2016 23:19

bring back old gbs: Feb 28, 2007; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Ratjaculation posted:

im lowtaxs alt, ama

have u heard of the birthday boys??

# ? Feb 3, 2016 23:22

Ratjaculation: Aug 3, 2007

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

have u heard of the birthday boys??

no, but remember my asian wife? i think she was the second or third one

# ? Feb 3, 2016 23:24

a hole-y ghost: May 10, 2010

genesplicer posted:

Long, long ago, in 1976, I was part of my high school's crack computer team. Our school didn't actually have a computer. We had a teletype machine and a 300 baud modem. With this, we connected to the MIT mainframe and assisted seniors in finding colleges that had the progams they were interested in taking. During downtime, I figured out something. We used numerical codes to navigate, so I decided to see what other codes would do. After finding very little of interest, I managed to stumble upon the complete list of codes.

With this I was able to enter into parts of the server I was not authorized to enter. I managed to figure out a few passwords (not nearly as secure as they are today) and accessed even more. About this time, we had to do a report on some topic in biology. I decided to wow my teacher, and do my report on genetic engineering. This was a new technology (the first experiments had been done in 1973), and MIT was at the forefront. Since I had access to their primitive email system, I sent a few messages to the grad students asking questions. Eventually they figured out I was not an MIT student and questioned me. I explained what I had done, and the students approached a professor. They gave me limited access to their mainframe, in exchange for me not trying to crack the system any further. Quite a coup for a freshman high school kid.

The professor set up my account, with the tounge-in-cheek name "Genesplicer" (actually, it was "gensplcr", because login names were all 8 characters)

So, in December of this year, I will haved used the name "genesplicer" on various websites, etc, on the ARPANET, BBSs and the Internet, for 40 years.

I hope you got at least a B for that.

# ? Feb 3, 2016 23:30

bring back old gbs: Feb 28, 2007; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Ratjaculation posted:

no, but remember my asian wife? i think she was the second or third one

someone made a good post about how u send alimony payments to mainland china, is it true? y/n

# ? Feb 3, 2016 23:33

VendaGoat: Nov 1, 2005

genesplicer posted:

Long, long ago, in 1976, I was part of my high school's crack computer team. Our school didn't actually have a computer. We had a teletype machine and a 300 baud modem. With this, we connected to the MIT mainframe and assisted seniors in finding colleges that had the progams they were interested in taking. During downtime, I figured out something. We used numerical codes to navigate, so I decided to see what other codes would do. After finding very little of interest, I managed to stumble upon the complete list of codes.

With this I was able to enter into parts of the server I was not authorized to enter. I managed to figure out a few passwords (not nearly as secure as they are today) and accessed even more. About this time, we had to do a report on some topic in biology. I decided to wow my teacher, and do my report on genetic engineering. This was a new technology (the first experiments had been done in 1973), and MIT was at the forefront. Since I had access to their primitive email system, I sent a few messages to the grad students asking questions. Eventually they figured out I was not an MIT student and questioned me. I explained what I had done, and the students approached a professor. They gave me limited access to their mainframe, in exchange for me not trying to crack the system any further. Quite a coup for a freshman high school kid.

The professor set up my account, with the tounge-in-cheek name "Genesplicer" (actually, it was "gensplcr", because login names were all 8 characters)

So, in December of this year, I will haved used the name "genesplicer" on various websites, etc, on the ARPANET, BBSs and the Internet, for 40 years.

Life is funny.

# ? Feb 3, 2016 23:33

Genesplicer: Oct 19, 2002; I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!; Total Clam

Hogge Wild posted:

hah, recalled it correctly

have you ever played d&d or other nerd games

Yes. I was even a dungeon master. Of course, when we started playing, there was just Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D was released during my sophomore year).

# ? Feb 4, 2016 00:31

Luvcow: Jul 1, 2007; One day nearer spring

no races just classes

# ? Feb 4, 2016 00:43

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

what's the coolest machine you have built

# ? Feb 4, 2016 00:44

social vegan: Nov 7, 2014

Can you dm me playing hot dog Sam the rogue please

# ? Feb 4, 2016 00:44

Genesplicer: Oct 19, 2002; I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!; Total Clam

Hogge Wild posted:

what's the coolest machine you have built

We used to have a yorkie who slept in our bed. Because he had such short legs, he had difficulty getting on the bed on his own. I built a ramp for him, so he could climb onto the bed himself. Yay for small dogs! Unfortunately, he'd always get down in the middle of the night, run to the dog door, go outside and pee. When he came back, he could not see the ramp clearly, so he would sit at the bottom of the ramp and whine until I picked him up and dropped him on the bed.

Finally I got tired of this, so I used an Arduino unit, ran a bunch of LEDs on the ramp, with a proximity detector. When the dog would come to the base of the ramp, the LEDs lit up, and the short-legged bastard could see where to run to get back on the bed. It worked great! For about 2 months, then he had a stroke and died. (Unrelated)

# ? Feb 4, 2016 01:03

bring back old gbs: Feb 28, 2007; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Hogge Wild posted:

what's the coolest machine you have built

probly a lil quadcopter that goes super fast but makes me look like a pedophile when i fly it in the park

# ? Feb 4, 2016 01:08

bring back old gbs: Feb 28, 2007; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

lmao j/k the coolest machine i ever built is my scale model evangelion unit 00, unit 01, and unit 02

# ? Feb 4, 2016 01:09

AbbadonOfHell: Jul 16, 2004; You know I would try to think of something funny to put here but ill just pass on that and threaten people with a + 2 board with a nail in it.

I bet Genesplicer knows how to hit armor class 0. One of the few from that nerd breed left.

# ? Feb 4, 2016 01:18

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

genesplicer posted:

We used to have a yorkie who slept in our bed. Because he had such short legs, he had difficulty getting on the bed on his own. I built a ramp for him, so he could climb onto the bed himself. Yay for small dogs! Unfortunately, he'd always get down in the middle of the night, run to the dog door, go outside and pee. When he came back, he could not see the ramp clearly, so he would sit at the bottom of the ramp and whine until I picked him up and dropped him on the bed.

Finally I got tired of this, so I used an Arduino unit, ran a bunch of LEDs on the ramp, with a proximity detector. When the dog would come to the base of the ramp, the LEDs lit up, and the short-legged bastard could see where to run to get back on the bed. It worked great! For about 2 months, then he had a stroke and died. (Unrelated)

That was a really sweet story until the end

# ? Feb 4, 2016 01:21

Howard Beale: Feb 22, 2001; It's like this, Peanut

if all town hall meetings had stories like this I'd probably go once or twice

# ? Feb 4, 2016 01:33

Luvcow: Jul 1, 2007; One day nearer spring

AbbadonOfHell posted:

I bet Genesplicer knows how to hit armor class 0. One of the few from that nerd breed left.

thac0

# ? Feb 4, 2016 01:35

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Why is Buttwizard so drat lazy? And why doesn't he post in GBS?

# ? Feb 4, 2016 01:37

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

Hogge Wild posted:

Why is Buttwizard so drat lazy? And why doesn't he post in GBS?

New Zealand

he's a really cool guy tho

# ? Feb 4, 2016 09:23

a star war betamax: Sep 17, 2011; by Lowtax; Gary’s Answer

genesplicer posted:

Long, long ago, in 1976, I was part of my high school's crack computer team. Our school didn't actually have a computer. We had a teletype machine and a 300 baud modem. With this, we connected to the MIT mainframe and assisted seniors in finding colleges that had the progams they were interested in taking. During downtime, I figured out something. We used numerical codes to navigate, so I decided to see what other codes would do. After finding very little of interest, I managed to stumble upon the complete list of codes.

With this I was able to enter into parts of the server I was not authorized to enter. I managed to figure out a few passwords (not nearly as secure as they are today) and accessed even more. About this time, we had to do a report on some topic in biology. I decided to wow my teacher, and do my report on genetic engineering. This was a new technology (the first experiments had been done in 1973), and MIT was at the forefront. Since I had access to their primitive email system, I sent a few messages to the grad students asking questions. Eventually they figured out I was not an MIT student and questioned me. I explained what I had done, and the students approached a professor. They gave me limited access to their mainframe, in exchange for me not trying to crack the system any further. Quite a coup for a freshman high school kid.

The professor set up my account, with the tounge-in-cheek name "Genesplicer" (actually, it was "gensplcr", because login names were all 8 characters)

So, in December of this year, I will haved used the name "genesplicer" on various websites, etc, on the ARPANET, BBSs and the Internet, for 40 years.

A modern classic.

# ? Feb 4, 2016 09:40

ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

AbbadonOfHell posted:

I bet Genesplicer knows how to hit armor class 0. One of the few from that nerd breed left.

oh THAC0 was in Baldur's Gate you drama queen

gnarlyhotep posted:

New Zealand

he's a really cool guy tho

that's hardly an excuse, BARON'S CYBER SKULL is a New Zealander too and I see him all the time :colbert:

# ? Feb 4, 2016 16:19

Isaac: Aug 3, 2006; Fun Shoe

I don't like the Mom jokes

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:14

Shaquin: May 12, 2007

All the template bad gbs post jokes are bad. The mom one especially tho

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:16

Isaac: Aug 3, 2006; Fun Shoe

Shaquin posted:

All the template bad gbs post jokes are bad. The mom one especially tho

The gamefaqs spinoff luelinks " ETI " is good. So is "planets dyin cloud"

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:19

Saint Isaias Boner: Jan 17, 2007; hi how are you ♥

AWSBM can you please do something about the Moridin920 thing

he's gone pissed off a FYAD mod but he's too darn proud to start up a new account and too stupid to just stop posting on these here forums

i know he's not much but he's one of ours

please talk some sense into FYAD

god bless

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:23

Isaac: Aug 3, 2006; Fun Shoe

Gilganixon posted:

AWSBM can you please do something about the Moridin920 thing

he's gone pissed off a FYAD mod but he's too darn proud to start up a new account and too stupid to just stop posting on these here forums

i know he's not much but he's one of ours

please talk some sense into FYAD

god bless

Hes a goober

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:27

mclast: Nov 12, 2008; catchphrase over

Isaac posted:

The gamefaqs spinoff luelinks " ETI " is good. So is "planets dyin cloud"

i never clicked on that thread is there a fast 'splain why it is funny

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:33

Isaac: Aug 3, 2006; Fun Shoe

mclast posted:

i never clicked on that thread is there a fast 'splain why it is funny

Yeah

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:34

mclast: Nov 12, 2008; catchphrase over

drat help me out isaac, three sentences what was that thread about

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:36

Saint Isaias Boner: Jan 17, 2007; hi how are you ♥

mclast posted:

drat help me out isaac, three sentences what was that thread about

the gamefaqs spinoff luelinks "ETI"

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:36

Shaquin: May 12, 2007

I think that works better without the context because it is a good mish mash of goofy words

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:38

Isaac: Aug 3, 2006; Fun Shoe

The honest truth is theres no story as far as o know. Its just the words.

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:40

mclast: Nov 12, 2008; catchphrase over

yahh i googled that and clicked the first link and then my brain started leaking thru my ears. i should have never come here

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:40

mclast: Nov 12, 2008; catchphrase over

that's cool. how's pecky becky

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Isaac: Aug 3, 2006; Fun Shoe

mclast posted:

that's cool. how's pecky becky

Ive feeding her calf pellets and shes getting bigger and more healthy looking than any bird around. Still retarded and not laying many eggs bit lookin good.

# ? Feb 5, 2016 11:44

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