Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
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@neil throbbers were the best and I love seeing them in movies from the 90s
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Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
I honestly remember reading alt.aeffle.und.pferdle. It was a very niche selection of users.
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@Cadbury_Moose oops it was alien not fan! I've corrected the post. (And bummer to hear it was a group of trolls)
@th @Cadbury_Moose I knew a few regs of that group. Kind and normal people. Allergic to idiots.
One of them created a few fan newsgroups for me.
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@Cadbury_Moose oops it was alien not fan! I've corrected the post. (And bummer to hear it was a group of trolls)
@th Ah yes, the Empire of Meow, and various subgroups like alt.fan.karl.malden.nose IIRC (it was decades ago), and then the spammers automated the crap out of net abuse and a lot of people gave it up as a bad job.
3:O(>
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Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
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Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
@th alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove got taken over by a weirdo who, along with his sock puppets, is now the only person there. But the community lives on elsewhere.
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Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
@th I was very attentive to alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb but never had the nerve to adverbise the fact.
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@Cadbury_Moose oops it was alien not fan! I've corrected the post. (And bummer to hear it was a group of trolls)
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Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
It seems like putting your IBM 701C Thinkpad in a full size briefcase defeats the purpose of the amazing butterfly keyboard
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@GyrosGeier
i forgot how obsessesed the early internet was with barney
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It seems like putting your IBM 701C Thinkpad in a full size briefcase defeats the purpose of the amazing butterfly keyboard
@th No, it's right there! Now your briefcase can accommodate a external floppy disk too.
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Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
@th alt.sex.bears.pickanick.pickanick.basket
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Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
@th alt.sadistic.dentists.drill.drill.drill
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@th @Cadbury_Moose >alt.amazon-women.admirers
alt.sex.sheep.baa.baa.baa.moo
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It seems like putting your IBM 701C Thinkpad in a full size briefcase defeats the purpose of the amazing butterfly keyboard
Remember when personal electronics looked cool and slightly dangerous?
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Remember when personal electronics looked cool and slightly dangerous?
@th those were the days.
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Remember when personal electronics looked cool and slightly dangerous?
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Remember when personal electronics looked cool and slightly dangerous?
Very Patrick Nagel
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Remember when personal electronics looked cool and slightly dangerous?
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Oh, I hadn't seen that before. It's beautiful!@dymaxion I don't know if it's real or just a prop from Johnny mnemonic's retro future of 2021
