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Back in 2000's SA was common fable on facepunch.
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Archer666 posted:I just wanted some SNES roms joined way late for that
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Feb 26, 2024 07:08
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Was reading the smartey man fps survivor series on the frontpage and discovered the forums.
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Feb 26, 2024 08:31
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Willeh posted:Was reading the smartey man fps survivor series on the frontpage and discovered the forums. not a joke, is there still a front page? I could probably figure that out myself, but I am very lazy
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Feb 26, 2024 08:34
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It's the goon way of life man, I respect that
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:can't fault you for that. Also thinking on it more, it might have actually been All Your Base Are Belong To Us that first keyed me in to SA. But like AYB and 9/11 basically happened back to back on a geological timescale so it could have been either one, I don't feel like travelling back in time to find out.
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nine-gear crow posted:Also thinking on it more, it might have actually been All Your Base Are Belong To Us that first keyed me in to SA. But like AYB and 9/11 basically happened back to back on a geological timescale so it could have been either one, I don't feel like travelling back in time to find out. I was in High School in 1999 and taking some come computer classes when I first came across Something Awful, where were you?
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Feb 26, 2024 08:55
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I liked the candy, toys and video game reviews on i-mockery.com so I googled for more and found the energy drink/bar & demo stuff on something awful. That was in 2002-2003 or so when the site basically looked like a grocery shopping list. Anyway 20 years of forums lurking later I bought an account, lol.
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Feb 26, 2024 09:10
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Grab Im Moor posted:I liked the candy, toys and video game reviews on i-mockery.com so I googled for more and found the energy drink/bar & demo stuff on something awful. That was in 2002-2003 or so when the site basically looked like a grocery shopping list. Anyway 20 years of forums lurking later I bought an account, lol. doing things right my dude. sorry you spent ten bucks
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Vivid memory of busting up laughing in my friend’s basement while we read the video game review where he calls the guy “Jake D. Fuckface”
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In 1998, when I was in 8th or 9th grade, a friend and I decided to gently caress with some random person on ICQ. ICQ had a function where you could just locate a random person online, and then chat with that person. My friend and I thought it would be funny to pretend we were this guy's old college friends. We found this person, and he listed in his profile the school he went to, so we just started chatting with him, being like Heeyyy man it's us! We used to party! He was really confused at first but eventually felt like maybe he knew me. He and I got to chatting, and he then told me that he knew this guy from Malaysia who would send him super cheap video games. Five dollars a disc -- didn't matter what it was, a game, porno, software, whatever. If it was one disc, it was five bucks. Two discs, ten bucks. So he gave me the Malaysian fellow's information, and I started chatting with that guy. The Malaysian fellow was part of a "release group," which were like software pirate groups who competed with each other to crack and release software first. The real goal was to get it online before the software officially actually was released. I only had a 56k modem (and was a kid and lived with my father) so there wasn't a lot I could do to help out with the effort, so mostly all I did was convince my father to give me five dollars so I could go down to the post office and mail off these cashiers checks or money orders or whatever to my Malaysian dude. The best part is, the CDs he sent me had the cracks on the discs, and I could copy them from my own CD-R, so I would send this guy five bucks, get a brand new game, sell it to other schoolkids for ten bucks, and then send Malaysian guy money to get more games. In late 1999, I think, a guy I knew online created a website where he (and some friends of his, and eventually I) would pretend to be a legitimate software review company. The entire website looked super legitimate, it was full of reviews for software that did things like monitor your CPU's heat or whatever. All of the reviews from the website were taken from legitimate sites. I was given an e-mail address for this website, and I would send out e-mails to various companies, saying I would like a review copy of their latest whatever software. Since my e-mail was legit, and the website looked legit, they would just send them right to my house. Then I would send them to Malaysian guy, he would crack it and upload it and get release group cred or whatever. Anyway, I was young and stupid and there's a lot things I did during that time I'm not real proud of. But how this connects to somethingawful is that this phony rear end website, they wanted to make it look more legitimate, or something. So they had me make these really awful comics for it. The comics were fuckin terrible. And those comics were featured on an Awful Link of the Day. When I found out, I talked to Lowtax about it for a while. He made fun of the comics, I said they were definitely awful and I really didn't want anything to do about it. Lowtax and I chatted off and on for about a year. During that time I joined the forums. So did my friends, everyone involved in the website. Not the Malaysian guy -- once I got broadband I didn't really have a use for him and I didn't want to go to prison for committing international software piracy or something. I don't think any of my old pals are part of the forums anymore, though. Our old fake website doesn't exist -- the domain is still there, but it's been replaced with what I presume to be a legitimate business of the same name. I almost never visited the front page. I was always just a forums lurker. I actually didn't post anything for the first like two years I was on the forums. Everyone here seemed so smart, and witty, and I didn't think I could keep up. credburn fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Feb 26, 2024 |
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cptInsane0 posted:Found a front page article in 2001 or so but didn't join the forums until way later. Just remembered, it was Lowtax plays the sims.
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My introduction was the P-P-P-POWERBOOK saga and Goonswarm's Eve Online shenanigans making the news circa-2007.
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BurntCornMuffin posted:My introduction was the P-P-P-POWERBOOK saga and Goonswarm's Eve Online shenanigans making the news circa-2007. PPP-PowerBook is when I first joined as well. Amazing time.
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