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i remember those days.
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i was into things. i listened to Inf. Soc. and kmfdm. i sat in a dirty
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corner at my fathers house on my leading edge 286, with those awful 5.25"
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drives, one with dos, one with procomm plus, plotting ways to reconnect to
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the same line after my 60 minute freenet session was over.
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i remember those awful freenet picnics, where some of the peoples skin was
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paler than the plain white t-shirts i used to wear all the time. the
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cliques, the loners, the fact that we all knew ourselves as ap035 and
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sa131 and cl762.
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1200 baud. warez boards that let you in if you knew what InC and ACiD
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stood for. hacking irc. social engineering accounts from people you hated,
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or better yet, taking the other phone and calling them, because their
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mommy and daddy didn't want the call waiting turned off. wondering
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if my cpu would crash, because the buffer might overload while i was
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capturing uuencoded porn. the green trench coat that lasted me through
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high school.
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then there were the text files.
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everything i learned about making my own drugs, picking locks, exploiting
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unix and bestiality i learned on searchlight boards, wildcat hacks and
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usenet, when people actually had something useful to say.
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those days are gone. like most of the other kids that were around during
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that era, i got a real job in computers, and although i still sit in front
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of this damned box all night long when the girl's at school, it's not the
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same. freenet's gone in cleveland. the people i used to look forward to
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chatting with at 3 am have moved on, some for better, some for worse, some
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for AOL.
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don't get me wrong, everyone deserves an IPO, right? cheers for linux and
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rob malda and jon katz. props to search engines and al4a. palm pilots and
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G4's and transmeta are alright in my book. but they'll never replace the
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fondness i have for CGA graphics and copycon autoexec.bat.
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so here's to all of us that read CdC when it was new, to people who
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actually knew what a SysOp was and definitely to anyone that had a
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TI-994a.
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one of these days i'm going to pull that 286 out of the attic and write
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text files on it. maybe somebody will know what the hell i'm talking
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about.
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| CLEVELAND FREE-NET |
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| COMMUNITY COMPUTER SYSTEM |
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brought to you by
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Case Western Reserve University
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Community Telecomputing Laboratory
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.~. Daniel Nagy
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/V\ nothing@apk.net
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/ \ *nix admin / cold fusion development.
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^`~'^ Any opinions expressed are mine, and not those of MediaZen Inc.
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