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Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:05 am
by Frater I*I
pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 9:24 am
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....
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:16 am
by 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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 7:41 pm
by Dr. Ken
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 7:43 pm
by Kendra
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 12:18 pm
by Kendra
David Nunes claims Truth Social is “opening the internet back up the way it was supposed to be.”
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 12:40 pm
by RTH10260
Kendra wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 12:18 pm
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?
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
And think the horror that of all a scientist created the first webpage and browser
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 12:59 pm
by neeneko
RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 12:40 pm
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?
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
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?'
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 1:39 pm
by 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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:23 pm
by 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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:29 pm
by neonzx
northland10 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:23 pm
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.
![Call On Me! :callonme:](./images/smilies/mememe.gif)
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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:48 pm
by 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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:04 pm
by Ben-Prime
neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:29 pm
northland10 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:23 pm
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.
![Call On Me! :callonme:](./images/smilies/mememe.gif)
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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:52 pm
by neonzx
Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:48 pm
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.
![Neutral :|](./images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif)
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 4:16 pm
by Phoenix520
I’d like to hear that story. I’m macabre that way. If you do, I will.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 4:22 pm
by 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).
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 4:44 pm
by neonzx
Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 4:16 pm
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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:33 pm
by 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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:37 pm
by raison de arizona
AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:33 pm
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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:41 pm
by 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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:52 pm
by northland10
Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:48 pm
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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:54 pm
by 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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:59 pm
by 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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:07 pm
by 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.
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:32 pm
by Frater I*I
northland10 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:59 pm
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...
Re: TRUTH SOCIAL & Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp NASDAQ: DWAC
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 9:18 pm
by W. Kevin Vicklund
northland10 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:59 pm
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.