How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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way back whenThis one time at Uni, 1993/4
We had a house with 3 computers, wired (with co-ax) and we played network doom and things.
We bought a modem (9.6K) and somehow acquired a demon internet account.
It took only 3 weeks to figure out how to logon. (kermit i think).
We had heard that you could get porn from "the internet". We decided we would not stop until we proved this.
Our resident ubergeek wrote a program (visual basic 2.0) that allowed us all to share the modem. He even wrote a program that figured out how long we each spent on line for when the bill came.
There was no www at this time to speak of. Some how we managed to get hold of some tempting looking files: "girl.uue" and the like.
UU fucking what?
3 days later, we discover UUEncode and somehow, we now have a file called "girl.jpg".
J fucking what?
A week later, we have a program that if memory serves, was a very early Paint Shop Pro. (I may be very wrong). We managed to download it over a few hours, unzip it (Zip fucking what??) and install it on our Windows 3.1 PC's.
3 days of memory hacking about, including the purchase of some 4MB SIMMS to get the fucker to load, PSP opens up, ready, waiting and possibly gaping for our collective download.
We gathered round one PC and watched the image load pretty much line by line.
The image of a shrivelled up hairy cock and balls being licked by a dog.
I think Andy said it best, "its fuckin shit this internet shit".
I dont think its changed that much in the 16 years since. I mean, just browse this site for a bit really.
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I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 17:52,
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Reminds of my student days......one guy was showing off his Amiga 4000 at a computer club which I hate to admit I was a member of. This machine had had a prototype graphics card in it - I think it was called a Chameleon card. Anyway, I digress...
Now this was one of the very first 24 bit cards that could display 16.7 million colours at once and the mandatory images to demonstrate this fact were - to put it bluntly - filth.
And, trust me, a gaggle of geeks hastily gathered around this machine, all carefully inspecting and confirming* the realism of the reproduction of these "skin tones"...
* as if they really knew!!!
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Kermit!Wow, that takes me back. The good old days when all this were Bulletin Boards...
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