It just struck me as I was responding to another thread that I have my username linked to my AIM account. And then I realized I hadn't logged in to AIM since a few years back and a game of werewolf. Before that it had been...no joke..years and years.

Once upon a time though I was on there all the time. Funny how the internet works to make things obsolete so quickly.

I remember running web searches on Lycos and Atavista and Metasearch (was that it?) back in the day, logging in to Prodigy & Compuserve in the pre-AOL days, etc.

Crazyness.

Prodigy was awesome - I still remember playing some kind of online baseball league on that service. Gosh, it was so much fun!

Netscape 4 life!

Prodigy was awesome - I still remember playing some kind of online baseball league on that service. Gosh, it was so much fun!

My login ID was VKVW87C

ICQ back in '96 was the first IM program I remember using.

I still remember my ICQ #...and on a whim, tried a few old passwords. Sure enough, one of them worked.

Anybody ever MUSH?

I still remember my ICQ #...and on a whim, tried a few old passwords. Sure enough, one of them worked.

I logged into my old ICQ # a couple years ago, but somewhere along the line they stopped saving my buddy list in the cloud, because there was nothing there.

So I logged out again.

I MUMEd.

Anybody ever MUSH?

I still play (well, have taken a long break now) and, in my spare time, write code for MUDs.

My login ID was VKVW87C

mkrh38a, baby!

Anybody ever MUSH?

Hell yes!

I was totally in to the Star Trek MUSHes from like 1995-98.

I was totally in to the Star Trek MUSHes from like 1995-98.

Um me too.

Met some awesome people on TrekMUSH and we actually did a bunch of work building our own MUSH before we like...abandoned it.

In the BBS days, ProComm Plus was the must-have program to dial up the local boards.

Sometimes I miss the sound of a modem connecting to the internet. I think my favorite online pursuit in those days was TuCows and the other software megasites. Spent tons of time browsing the freeware for sports games.. In some ways, finding FOF back in 1999 signaled a change in the way I used the internet. After that it became sports research revolving around FOF, Tom Landry Strategy Football, Tony LaRussa, Microleague, Fast Break, Dynasty League Baseball, etc. I'd spend days inventing new features for games in my head, trying to design my own games. I've had dreams where I have played the perfect football sim, only to wake up unreasonably pissed off that it did not exist.

I remember the first time I designed a website on Geocities.

Oh and E-wrestling. I was a big E-wrestler in high school.

Oh and E-wrestling. I was a big E-wrestler in high school.

Yes - me too!!!

PoE Baby!!!!

Huuuuge e-wrestler back in the day (which wasn't all that long ago, honestly). I was more of a writer/showrunner as opposed to roleplayer, but I very much enjoyed those feds. Still good friends with a lot of folks I met there (much like the community here, heh).

With all the great writings I have seen around this place, I imagine there are more than a few former e-fedders in our midst.

Anybody ever MUSH?

I started playing MUDs back during my Freshman year in college 1992-93. I then moved to MUSHes, playing mainly World of Darkness ones throughout the remainder of college.

Huuuuge e-wrestler back in the day (which wasn't all that long ago, honestly). I was more of a writer/showrunner as opposed to roleplayer, but I very much enjoyed those feds. Still good friends with a lot of folks I met there (much like the community here, heh).

With all the great writings I have seen around this place, I imagine there are more than a few former e-fedders in our midst.

Yup. I did some card-writing too once upon a time. Wrote some sweet shit.

I remember trying to write a shitty e-wrestling program in Quick Pascal to try and help generate match results in my programming class (Who the hell teaches kids Quick Pascal as an intro to programming?).. Fortunately we had a guy who was really big into the stuff, he could put together a heck of a show. Shane Stone and the Tornado Moonsault finisher put more than a few guys to sleep, heh. Only held a belt once though, the good ol' Intercontinental Title. For a week.

I was an e-fedder myself. Played in an organization (with Grover) that had actual WWE ties, and had some of our stuff on WWE TV back in the day. Very surreal stuff. The gentleman who began it (and is the only person I know who owns a PS4) has been writing a reflective series on the fWo, which you can read here: Kayfabe | Ideas in motion remain in motion (http://www.kayfabe.com/?p=2374)

The e-fed universe is massive, but the fDub is one of the few that seemingly reached all corners of it. I still feel lucky to have been able to write stories with some rather amazing storytellers.

Some of us oldheads may be getting the band back together. Could be fun.

The gentleman who began it (and is the only person I know who owns a PS4)

wut

I've been reading that article off and on for about 2 hours now. Good stuff so far. Makes me get the itch to try writing a new character now that I am older and presumably wiser.. And hopefully a better writer.

Who the hell teaches kids Quick Pascal as an intro to programming?

Intro to Programming at Georgia Tech was taught using Turbo Pascal until 1995, when it moved to Java. I guess that technically kinda fits this thread for me a bit, I took it during the last quarter Pascal was used.

Um me too.

Met some awesome people on TrekMUSH and we actually did a bunch of work building our own MUSH before we like...abandoned it.

Hmm. Me too. What was the name? I honestly can't remember but it might ring a bell if I hear a name.

Intro to Programming at Georgia Tech was taught using Turbo Pascal until 1995, when it moved to Java. I guess that technically kinda fits this thread for me a bit, I took it during the last quarter Pascal was used.

Ok, so maybe my high school was relatively close to GA Tech in the computer programming department. Touche Mr. Heeren.

Tom Landry Strategy Football, Tony LaRussa

That's a significant part of my childhood right there.

Nothing better than doing a full league draft with a few friends in TLUB, then fighting over Lefty Grove and Walter Johnson.

wut

He's extremely high up in a software company, and goes to Japan a *lot*.

Yeah, I spent tons of time on Prodigy. I spent countless hours playing their chat room trivia games and also frequented the message boards.

I remember trying to write a shitty e-wrestling program in Quick Pascal to try and help generate match results in my programming class (Who the hell teaches kids Quick Pascal as an intro to programming?).. Fortunately we had a guy who was really big into the stuff, he could put together a heck of a show. Shane Stone and the Tornado Moonsault finisher put more than a few guys to sleep, heh. Only held a belt once though, the good ol' Intercontinental Title. For a week.

AP Comp Sci in the mid 90s was in Turbo Pascal so that's where I cut my teeth after QBasic

SI

AP Comp Sci in the mid 90s was in Turbo Pascal so that's where I cut my teeth after QBasic

SI


Same here

Bulletin boards, Prodigy, ICQ, definitely. IRC too. I used to frequent a trivia channel regularly at one point there, and also ran and played in some IRC Dungeons & Dragons games. It's funny, I've never even heard of e-wrestling. The extent to which there are gigantic realms of the Internet that none of us ever encounter, yet are deep experiences for those users, always blows me away.

pascal was my first foray into prorgamming back in 1991-3, followed by fortran and C

I worked at Software Etc. in high school and one of my managers was a huge e-wrestling guy, that's how I found out it exists.

For me, it was Prodigy and then AOL message boards doing online government sims. Played FPS Baseball and it wasn't until I'd left home that I found out about Mogul, then OOTP and FOF. Changed my world for sure. Would be up all night playing OOTP once I finally made the switch. Fun times.

Anybody ever MUSH?

Good times. When my kids complain about lag in a graphics-based game, I try to tell them about when there would be a lot more lag when just trying to play an entirely text-based game. They don't get it.

For what it's worth, I still prefer Infocom text adventures and MUD/MUSH type games to a lot of the high-graphics low-imagination stuff out there today.

I used to indulge in some play-by-email games as well. I played Ultra Cricket, an Australian Rules Football sim, some other hockey and baseball sims, some turn-based game called Atlantis, and a lot of Diplomacy.

Big e-wrestler as well, I joined the RSCPWF (which was the official e-fed of rec.sports.pro-wrestling.fantasy for all you usenet fans, haha haven't heard many usenet references on this thread yet!), although I sucked big time. Played in the IIWF as "Heatseeker" Derek Mota (hence the handle on this message board). Ran my own e-fed for a few years, the NLWP. Got divorced and got out of all of it. I think e-wrestling was more interesting than my marriage was, I definitely spent more time on it for sure!

When I was a teenager I used to log onto BBS's where you'd dial into it with your 1200 or 2400 baud modem, and play some simple text games or talk trash with a bunch of other losers. You know, kind of like twitter today.

Bulletin boards, Prodigy, ICQ, definitely. IRC too. I used to frequent a trivia channel regularly at one point there, and also ran and played in some IRC Dungeons & Dragons games. It's funny, I've never even heard of e-wrestling. The extent to which there are gigantic realms of the Internet that none of us ever encounter, yet are deep experiences for those users, always blows me away.
Same here on the e-wrestling things. Still don't know what it is.

I predated most of this stuff. We had Pine mail, Gopher and Zephyr instant messaging on campus in my day. We had computer labs in the dorms with about a half dozen computers, and on any given Friday night you'd find a nerdy guy trying to download naked gifs of Teri Hatcher at 2.4 kbps.

Same here on the e-wrestling things. Still don't know what it is.

I predated most of this stuff. We had Pine mail, Gopher and Zephyr instant messaging on campus in my day. We had computer labs in the dorms with about a half dozen computers, and on any given Friday night you'd find a nerdy guy trying to download naked gifs of Teri Hatcher at 2.4 kbps.

You and I could have been friends.

ANyone ever soend time on EW-Too style "talkers"? Basic CHat/conversation programs for multiple users. Kind of like a moo or mush but no game play involed. just conversation.

Foothills
Cat's Cradle
Dark Shadows
Forest
Many others. Even wrote my own at one point using the basic template and editing for days on end called "The Museum" never had more than a handful of people on it due to the plethora of talkers alive at that time.

Met Telle on Foothills back in the day. Bet she's rethinking THAT decision every now and then ;) *ducks*

Same here on the e-wrestling things. Still don't know what it is.

I predated most of this stuff. We had Pine mail, Gopher and Zephyr instant messaging on campus in my day. We had computer labs in the dorms with about a half dozen computers, and on any given Friday night you'd find a nerdy guy trying to download naked gifs of Teri Hatcher at 2.4 kbps.

Think of e-wrestling like the wrestling world today. You create your own character that will be your wrestler. The success of your character is directly a result of the storylines you're able to think up, and your skill on the "mic" (writing interviews). You can write these storylines on your own, or work with other writers to put together some really elaborate storylines.

The booker is essentially the head writer of the e-wrestling federation. He consolidates all the interviews and angles, and works with writers to put together matches. When I ran my own e-fed, I probably spent 2 hours a night talking to people, reading and writing. On the show night I'd often stay up until 2-3 am writing matches so that I could release the show (as a text file).

There's a whole "star power" thing that forms as people truly follow the characters. People want to play where the great characters are.

If you want to see an extreme example, go to iiwf.info: the home of the Mighty Double-Eye (www.iiwf.info) and check out some of the stuff the Double Eye put together. There were essentially two guys who wrote their brains out for a few years and for the greater part it was really amazing.

Same here on the e-wrestling things. Still don't know what it is.

I predated most of this stuff. We had Pine mail, Gopher and Zephyr instant messaging on campus in my day. We had computer labs in the dorms with about a half dozen computers, and on any given Friday night you'd find a nerdy guy trying to download naked gifs of Teri Hatcher at 2.4 kbps.

Someday they'll make a museum that consists of all the high-download gifs of that era. And I will visit it.