How has the internet changed for you?

Whats with all the random questions Wonderboy?...Would you be wanting to get to 100 Posts for any reason?...FS section maybe? :rolleyes: :P

As for your question,The internet for me anyway has changed quite alot..since back when i had Dial up,Now everythings instant (usually),I dont think i could do with out my Daily Internet fix.
 
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Nevakonaza said:
Whats with all the random questions Wonderboy?...Would you be wanting to get to 100 Posts for any reason?...FS section maybe? :rolleyes: :P

As for your question,The internet for me anyway has changed quite alot..since back when i had Dial up,Now everythings instant (usually),I dont think i could do with out my aily Internet fix.
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The answer to your question was given by Stranglehold: "A minimum of 100 posts are required to send Private Messages, Visitor Messages..." The question I just posted isn't so random as it does pertain to this subforum (what purpose does this 100 posts rule serves escapes me).

I just happen to have a mind that thinks a lot and likes to communicate on this forum. Anything wrong with that?
 
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A couple of your threads have already been deleted to being random. You aren't a new member as you registered back in 2009 but just recently in the last month has started posting alot. And a lot of those are random threads which we take for trolling/spamming wanting to reach 100 posts.

The 100 posts allow you to PM members, leave visitor messages and also allow you access to the for sale section of our forum. We feel your massive amount of random/odd threads are only created to reach 100 posts.

I'm sure you can see how we feel when your posts don't go along with the rest of the forum. We would like to see more on-topic threads/posts made.
 
Short answer the dial up is something you would not have wanted to experience. There was no such thing as internet. Bulletin boards only that i recall. Used for years. Beginning to end. Dial up was in the early 70's or late 60's. (i think).
 
Your statement that there was no such thing as internet when using dial up isn't quite true. My first internet access was via dial up and I used a terminal program to log in to a Unix host, text only browser, Lynx? or something like that.
 
johnb35 said:
A couple of your threads have already been deleted to being random. You aren't a new member as you registered back in 2009 but just recently in the last month has started posting alot. And a lot of those are random threads which we take for trolling/spamming wanting to reach 100 posts.

The 100 posts allow you to PM members, leave visitor messages and also allow you access to the for sale section of our forum. We feel your massive amount of random/odd threads are only created to reach 100 posts.

I'm sure you can see how we feel when your posts don't go along with the rest of the forum. We would like to see more on-topic threads/posts made.
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"We feel your massive amount of random/odd threads are only created to reach 100 posts." That may be your impression, but that isn't true.

If you check the thread titled "How do you PM someone at this website?", you'll see that was where I had just learned about the 100 posts qualifier to get PM privileges (I was at 85 posts at that point) and when apj101 commented "well your nearly there great!!! congratulations
look forward the next 15 posts.", I took it mean that to keep posting away to get to the 100.

To add, Off-Topic Chat subforum is headed "The place for off topic chat about anything non computer related, like movies, music etc" which I take to mean literally you can talk about anything. So it appears to be designed for random questions (let me add that if I see a thread that doesn't interest me, I just pass it up and move on."

So to pinpoint, what is the problem? Too many posts in the Off-Topic Chat area or something else?
 
Apj101 was being sarcastic, you have to understand his sense of humor.

Obviously you didn't understand what I posted. We do allow off topic posts but when somoene such as yourself that is new makes a bunch of weird/random threads we automatically think that they are just created to reach the 100 post mark quicker than usual. This has happened so much in the past that its easy for us to detect it. A valid/contributing user doesn't make these type of threads in succession.
 
If you're making posts/threads with the sole purpose of boosting your post count, you're doing it wrong. Maybe you should contribute to some existing discussions rather than creating a dozen new ones with random subjects.
 
tremmor said:
Wrong......it was only dos. No such thing as windows.
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If you're replying to strollin what are you talking about? As for the old days of the internet and using dos, I remember having to use dial up when I was younger, it was very annoying. lol I remember I used to like go do other stuff when webpages were loading because I had time to (kind of like how you go to the bathroom whenever commercials come on t.v. :P). Because of how long dial up took back then, I also remember being much more picky when I surfed the web. If I went to a website it meant I really wanted to see something on that website. Currently I'm much less picky :D. And as for dos, man I'm glad I was too young to have used that. From what I heard it would crash constantly...some things never change. Lol jk micro$oft has been pretty good about not crashing for a while :)
 
* DOS-Based
o 1985 November 20 - Windows 1.0
o 1987 December 9 - Windows 2.0
o 1990 May 22 - Windows 3.0
o 1992 August - Windows 3.1
o 1992 October - Windows for Workgroups 3.1
o 1993 November - Windows for Workgroups 3.11
o 1995 August 24 - Windows 95 (Version number: 4.00.950)
o 1995 December 31 - Windows 95 SP1 (Version number: 4.00.950A)
o 1996 August 24 - Windows 95 OSR2 (Version number: 4.00.1111 (also listed as 4.0.950B))
o 1997 August 27 - Windows 95 OSR2.1 (Version number: 4.00.1212 (also listed as 4.0.950B))
o 1997 August 27 - Windows 95 OSR2.5 (Version number: 4.00.1214 (also listed as 4.0.950C))
o 1998 June 25 - Windows 98 (Version number: 4.10.1998 (Security Version 4.10.1998A))
o 1999 May 5 - Windows 98 Second Edition (Version number: 4.10.2222 or 4.10.2222A (Security Version 4.10.2222C))
o 2000 June 19 - Windows Me (Version number: 4.90.3000 (Security Version 4.90.3000A))
* NT Kernel-Based
o 1993 August - Windows NT 3.1
o 1994 September - Windows NT 3.5
o 1995 June - Windows NT 3.51 (Version number: NT 3.5.1057)
o 1996 July 29 - Windows NT 4.0 - the last version which ran on RISC architectures like DEC Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC. Later versions concentrated on x86-based hardware and - mainly as server OSs - the IA-64 line of CPUs. (Version number: NT 4.0.1381)
o 2000 February 17 - Windows 2000 (Version number: NT 5.0.2195)
o 2001 October 25 - Windows XP 64-bit Edition - A version of Windows XP roughly analogous to Windows XP Professional for Intel's IA-64 (Itanium) line of CPUs. It was discontinued in early 2005 after manufacturers stopped shipping Itanium systems marketed as 'workstations'.
* CE-based
o 1996 November - Windows CE 1.0
o 1997 November - Windows CE 2.0
o 1998 July - Windows CE 2.1
o 1998 October - Windows CE 2.11 for the Handheld PC
o 1999 August - Windows CE 2.12
o 2000 July - Windows CE 3.0
 
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Do you have a list?

johnb35 said:
A couple of your threads have already been deleted to being random. You aren't a new member as you registered back in 2009 but just recently in the last month has started posting alot. And a lot of those are random threads which we take for trolling/spamming wanting to reach 100 posts.

The 100 posts allow you to PM members, leave visitor messages and also allow you access to the for sale section of our forum. We feel your massive amount of random/odd threads are only created to reach 100 posts.

I'm sure you can see how we feel when your posts don't go along with the rest of the forum. We would like to see more on-topic threads/posts made.
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Are you talking about the "on-topic threads" or the off-topic chat subforum?
Most of my postings is concentrated in the off-topic chat subforum. So what kind of threads would you like to see in the off-topic chat subforum for them not to be considered "random/odd"? (keep in mind I have found threads in there odder than any I can produce and I think the real issue, if it's a real issue, is my rate of posting to reach the 100).
 
My purpose for making posts and threads?

PohTayToez said:
If you're making posts/threads with the sole purpose of boosting your post count, you're doing it wrong. Maybe you should contribute to some existing discussions rather than creating a dozen new ones with random subjects.
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I didn't come here to be in some sort of popularity contest which is what I think you're alluding to and as I explained, if Stranglehold hadn't alerted me to it, I wouldn't have tried to go for the 100 posts needed to get PM privileges.

Anyways this leaves open some questions. How many posts a day can a member post? Is it one per day for the entire forum or one per day for each subforum? Does it make a difference if I post onto someone else's thread instead of posting up my own? Are there further incentives beyond the 100 posts? (e.g. having your own avatar)
 
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I didn't come here to be in some sort of popularity contest which is what I think you're alluding to and as I explained, if Stranglehold hadn't alerted me to it, I wouldn't have tried to go for the 100 posts needed to get PM privileges.

Anyways this leaves open some questions. How many posts a day can a member post? Is it one per day for the entire forum or one per day for each subforum? Does it make a difference if I post onto someone else's thread instead of posting up my own? Are there further incentives beyond the 100 posts? (e.g. having your own avatar)
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well its a valid point, and i can see why you are confused. But we like out members to at least have the balance of contribution in favor of on topic stuff. We don't say you have to ALWAYS been on computer topics, but on balance you do. Its like baseball, we don't mind a few a few strike out, but on balance you have to be a good player :)

So you have posted about 100 posts, and a few small number were computer related. You must be able to see how that would annoy the members of a computer forum. If you don't change we will start issuing infraction. I'm sorry but we did ask you politely and firmly several times.
 
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if Stranglehold hadn't alerted me to it, I wouldn't have tried to go for the 100 posts needed to get PM privileges.
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I didnt alert you to anything. You wanted to know about PM, I just showed you needed 100 post. It wasnt lights and siren with a fire truck coming down the road.

You got to admit, its odd for someone to join a (computer forum) and just make threads about animals and closing bathroom doors just to be able to get 100 post to PM. I dont really get it.
 
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I didnt alert you to anything. You wanted to know about PM, I just showed you needed 100 post. It wasnt lights and siren with a fire truck coming down the road.

You got to admit, its odd for someone to join a (computer forum) and just make threads about animals and closing bathroom doors just to be able to get 100 post to PM. I dont really get it.
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I can't change history nor the facts. It is what it is and it was "lights and siren" for me, otherwise I wouldn't have posted that thread.

If you check my history (I hope that all my threads somewheres have been preserved), you'll see a big difference before I started on my 100 posts kick.

Now do you get it?

(I won't be responding to posts from fellow members anymore about what type of posting I've been doing as it's now my goal to reach the 100 posts in a far different way).
 
lol, this is comedy. youtube video, anyone? :)

as for my past experiences online, i remember going online to AOL using windows 3.1 on an Intel 386. I always kept my gameboy with either Zelda or Mario on me when I went online because I could literally finish a level before the page was done loading. then in the late 90s we were given a 486 with a WHOPPING 50MHz and 16MB ram... running windows 95. (oh my god i was so happy i didnt have to deal with 3.1 anymore). we were all scared about the Y2K thing, and we actually went so far as to turn the computer off so it wouldnt crash at midnight... LOL. shortly after we got a pavilion running windows 98, and 56k, then we moved, and we got cable internet. been on cable ever since. and since we havent upgraded the cable modem yet, the speed is about the same. hahahaha
 
How has the internet changed for you?

There's a lot more 'brain dead' posters on Forums than there used to be, don't you think!

To answer some of the comments though, all that was available to me in my area when running XP SP1 10 years ago was 'Dial up' so speed, information and communication has improved tremendously with broadband, a more pleasurable experience.
 
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web pages not responding

Hi i'm new to this so please help.
I have windows 7 & ie8, After a few minutes of going on the internet i get whichever site i'm on as not responding, The hard drive always looks busy then after about 5 minutes or so it settles down & the it will be ok for a while.
Hope you can help. Ken.
 
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