This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.
In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.
Squatting on a party-line to play WoW is just a wild pairing of technological eras to me. If we go by the invention date of the former they’re more than a century apart (1878).
Back in the day my college had very strict filtering on the WiFi. I learned how to use SSH tunneling through PuTTY to bypass the firewall to connect to X-Fire. I was so 1337.
As an old: You kids and your TeamSpeak … back in my day Ventrilo, and we were happy to have it! (uphill both ways or something about my lawn).
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This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.
In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.
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Squatting on a party-line to play WoW is just a wild pairing of technological eras to me. If we go by the invention date of the former they’re more than a century apart (1878).
Also: rude!
That’s amazing. I’m gonna tell my mom that, she’ll love it.
The Kinks even wrote a song about it
mIRC
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My server wouldn’t let you on with mIRC unless you were at least cool enough to disguise it/use a bouncer. Kept the M$ riffraff out ;)
I’m that old too!
But that’s way before I started real online gaming, where Vent was during the peak of my online gaming days.
Uh oh!
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Still remember my number lol
Ahh “Vent.” My biggest memory there is people trolling with the sign-on TTS.
“My ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI…”
Anybody remember the brief flash in the pan that was “X-fire”? Haha
Back in the day my college had very strict filtering on the WiFi. I learned how to use SSH tunneling through PuTTY to bypass the firewall to connect to X-Fire. I was so 1337.
I can still hear the ripping jeans sound effect
Obligatory Moonbase Alpha TTS
YES!!
When I stall and forget what the heck I was saying, thanks to this video I’ll sometimes just go “…uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…AEIOU…”
Probably about how I’d react to having to fix a component on a moon base too. XD
“Snake? SNAKE? Saaaaaaake 🍶…”