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[Frater I*I]

That’s why his people follow him. You can get through life being a bloviating failure. You’ve no idea how inspirational that is.

All while representing the basest negativity of the human race....

[raison de arizona]

I wonder why they aren’t even posting his stupid statements there. I suppose it may be because there isn’t a big enough audience. I’m only number 311k and I still gots bupkis.

[Dr. Ken]

[Kendra]

[Kendra]

David Nunes claims Truth Social is “opening the internet back up the way it was supposed to be.”

[RTH10260]

https:// twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1503157521711730688

David Nunes claims Truth Social is “opening the internet back up the way it was supposed to be.”

The way it was supposed to be??? Back in the days it essentially started as a mail service to keep researchers in touch. DARPA! So Nunes is now the new postmaster of the interwebs? And think the horror that of all a scientist created the first webpage and browser

[neeneko]

The way it was suposed to be??? Back in the days it essentially started as a mail service to keep researches in touch. DARPA! So Nunes is now the new postmaster of the interwebs? And think the horror that of all a scientist created the first webpage and browser

Heh. when I read that, my first thought was 'wait, the eternal september is finally ending and AOL will be taking its lost and befuddled masses back?'

[neonzx]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvwayd/ ... got-online

It wasn't DARPA, it was colleges and universities (which Rethuglicans love to hate on) who built this out to the masses -- above was my introduction.

[northland10]

Funny thing, in my early days of playing around the internet, there were people called mods or sysops on the various BBS to moderate discussions and boot those who played badly. Of course, they have already stated that they will limit discussion. What a f****** liar.

[neonzx]

Funny thing, in my early days of playing around the internet, there were people called mods or sysops on the various BBS to moderate discussions and boot those who played badly. Of course, they have already stated that they will limit discussion. What a f****** liar.

I'm right here. And, yes, I did step in when things ran astray. My BBS so I paid all the bills.(8 phone lines) and all the hardware. My board, my rules.

[Phoenix520]

I was a mod at FDL for a couple years. We would occasionally step in to cool tempers or toss trolls. Jane had only two verboten subjects: Israel and Israel. We tried to let discussions happen but within minutes they turned very nasty. We wanted discussion not war.

[Ben-Prime]

Funny thing, in my early days of playing around the internet, there were people called mods or sysops on the various BBS to moderate discussions and boot those who played badly. Of course, they have already stated that they will limit discussion. What a f****** liar.

I'm right here. And, yes, I did step in when things ran astray. My BBS so I paid all the bills.(8 phone lines) and all the hardware. My board, my rules.

Same. Only 4 lines, though. In Gainesville, Florida. In fact, some of my hijinx were immortalized in a (now mostly forgotten) series of BBS-based parody fiction known as 'The DEAD Docs'. My character was literally named 'SysOp' in the first couple of installments.

[neonzx]

I was a mod at FDL for a couple years. We would occasionally step in to cool tempers or toss trolls. Jane had only two verboten subjects: Israel and Israel. We tried to let discussions happen but within minutes they turned very nasty. We wanted discussion not war.

Im assuming FDL is FireDogLake -- which was really good. But that wasn't a BBS however it was early infancy of the WWW.

BBS's were different because everyone was local -- dial-up modems, no long distance charges. And on mine, no fake names (even I used my real name). I confirmed everyone. And it self-policed mostly.

Not that I didn't encounter a share of occasional drama, including a murder-suicide I was involved in -- but I'm not going to share that here. Maybe I will stop in at the Zoom meet-up.

[Phoenix520]

I’d like to hear that story. I’m macabre that way. If you do, I will.

[Phoenix520]

Was Compass Rose a BBS? That’s the one I have (limited) experience with.

During the pre-BBS time I was working at Western Union, who had just bought the Mail-o-gram company I worked at, Xonics, a tiny company where everyone essentially could do any job (except programming).

[neonzx]

I’d like to hear that story. I’m macabre that way. If you do, I will.

Ugh, you may not want to hear it because it also involved a child (8yo) who died.

[AndyinPA]

Off Topic

When I was in high school, I knew someone who was murdered. All these years later, it always shocks me that I did, but I guess it's not really super unusual.

[raison de arizona]

Off Topic

When I was in high school, I knew someone who was murdered. All these years later, it always shocks me that I did, but I guess it's not really super unusual.

Off Topic

In the summer between 3rd and 4th grade, a girl in my class was hiking with her family and fell to her death. I had experience with death, but it was all removed, my parents' friends, a distant grandparent, etc. It was my first real experience with the death of someone I personally knew as a peer. It affected me profoundly. It still does.

[Phoenix520]

Off Topic

My college roommate’s sister and her boyfriend were both part of our social circle. The boyfriend was killed in DC trying to fend off a guy trying to steal his girlfriend’s purse. Same year, a high school acquaintance was killed in the same way, but trying to help a stranger.

[northland10]

I was a mod at FDL for a couple years.

You've been a mod here for a lot longer. I don't think I could ever do that. My patience is lacking for things like that.

[Estiveo]

Off Topic

I used to babysit a kid when he was around 8 or 9; at 17 he stabbed a homeless man to death as part of some stupid revenge plot with a couple of his prep school buddies.

[northland10]

BTW, sorry to take this back to the topic but I need to know if anybody has better resources for finding an irony meter that won't cause as much damage when they explode? Mr. Sue Anybody Who Mocks Him's claim about returning to the way the internet intended to be caused all my meters that somehow managed to escape the birther years to suddenly go nuclear.

[raison de arizona]

I’m 311k in the waiting list and still can’t get in all these weeks later. I hear the place is just empty, not even tfg is posting there.

[Frater I*I]

BTW, sorry to take this back to the topic but I need to know if anybody has better resources for finding an irony meter that won't cause as much damage when they explode? Mr. Sue Anybody Who Mocks Him's claim about returning to the way the internet intended to be caused all my meters that somehow managed to escape the birther years to suddenly go nuclear.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fun:Irony_meter

Best I can do good sir...

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

BTW, sorry to take this back to the topic but I need to know if anybody has better resources for finding an irony meter that won't cause as much damage when they explode? Mr. Sue Anybody Who Mocks Him's claim about returning to the way the internet intended to be caused all my meters that somehow managed to escape the birther years to suddenly go nuclear.

You need to store them connected in parallel to withstand high grade irony impulses.