History (In the mood for some heavy reading?)
PostPosted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:16 am
I need a place to record my online history, and it'd be interesting to hear other people's (I've probably told a very similar story already, but I wanna make sure I know where it is this time)
As far back as I can remember, the most noticable online experience of mine was on TFC (Team Fortress Classic - an online 1st person shooter game. A branch of the game Half Life.). I don't think I had a solid username at that point.
The earliest username I remember was chompingrabbitofdoom... -.- XD I was so young! I'm not sure, but it might have had something to do with a conversation I had earlier.
This guy asked why the names sounded so dark and evil, and I said something along the lines of, "Would you rather people go around calling themselves fluffy bunny in a shooting game?" Anyway, I played around and had fun.
Then I stumbled across a server named Axls TFC. It sounded new and cool, so I went in and it took me to a map I'd never been before. It told me to knock down doors to vote for a map, but it didn't work. It was later that I figured out that I was at a point before you vote when you can choose which one you want, and the doors were blocked by glass...
Anyway, this was all very new and cool to me, so I decided to join the forum ( http://www.axlstfc.com/ ).
At that point, I was playing ANOTHER branch of Half Life called Counter Strike. It has different rules. Sometimes you're the Counter-Terrorists trying to diffuse the bomb, sometimes you try to kill all the terrorists that are playing.
I was playing in a small snow map and remembered a conversation I had with my friends.
We were talking about how many people were named Jack. I listed, Jack and the bean stock, Jack and Jill, Jack Bond... then we went into a conversation about Jack Bond.
So, as I was playing Counter Strike, I remembered that conversation and made my username Jack Bond. Lunis and I enjoyed that name.
Back at the Axls TFC forum, I joined as "Under 13" I didn't get the recognition e-mail, so Axl told me it was ok to sign in as older. Now there was (And is to this day) a member named Jack Bond, waiting to get the e-mail. So I signed in as over 13 and it said the username was already in use. So I had to call myself "Jack Bond.".
The people there weren't particularly clean. I got myself into major arguments, but I grew on them after a while.
There was on April fools a joke about an evil symbol that does evil things. And immature, gullible me, (Skeptically) lived in fear that whole day. 9.9 Laaaaaame. But there was the story it was based on.
THAT was one of the most eerie stories I've ever read. It took me a few months to read all of because I got to creeped out to read the rest for a while.
It was about a cave diver who went into a cave with his friend, and they heard a freaky noise while they were trying to widen the fist sized enterence of the cave. But at the end this guy got deep into the cave in a small tunnel with an EXTREMELY tight opening past a large boulder when his communication line to his friend was cut off and his light broke and he hit his head really hard to bleeding. And as he ran out of the tunnel, he noticed the boulder had moved. And as he was just getting up a steep cliff his rope got pulled tight as if by something very strong and he barely got out and his rope got pulled into the cave. Then he went home and was seeing and hearing things in a mentally scarred way, and it never got better, and he couldn't sleep or anything. So he wrote his story online. The last thing he said was that he would go back into the cave because he felt like he had to go cause otherwise he'd suffer the rest of his life etc. and he said he'd write more when he got back. The date of that was in 2002. So... yeah... creepy...
by this time Lunis joined CAA and wouldn't let me because she doesn't like me doing the same things she does.
Later on, I joined a game one of the Axls members made called Shino's Lottery. Basically, it was just a lottery where you have money and play a lottery for more money. He went through 2 major updates (Ruining the status of the members on the previous versions.) Then calling it Shino's Total War ( http://www.impulsetfc.com/totalwar/index.php?id=news ). So this is now version 3. Note that I'm on the special thanks list for quite a few improvement ideas and bug notings. I don't remember any, but I was the inspiration for an optional profanity filter. I'm not sure which came next, but I'll go with Axls first.
Axl got tired of hosting all that stuff and transferred his server/forum to a member named Cassius. I don't know why he chose Cass, but he did. The new server/forum was called Impulse TFC. Currently, Impulse hosts STW (Total War). Once the server was transferred, I left Impulse for a long while, because I feared their bad members were starting to influence me.
That's when I joined CAA finally!
This was when I realized I often became friends with admins and those most people find annoying. XD. I am and have been friends with at least 4 admins on different places. Particularly Mystery, Owner of an AdminOP server (AOP was an addon for the TFC game, giving the user powers only if they're added and logged in as an admin). Since I was such good friends with the owner, I was promoted to Co-owner with another person and people were not allowed to kick or ban me from the server. The ban rate tripled at that point. Particularly because of one member named Terminated. He was a sicko with a bad attitude who unbound my keys out of jealousy (Keyboard keys are bound to certain actions. Like arrow keys move you around etc. With AdminOP, you have to bind practically every key on your keyboard because there are so many functions that take too long to type out. So I had to re-bind my whole keyboard every time he got in. (He wasn't supposed to be able to get in at all.)) Also, being a high level admin, you can execute commands on another player's screen, thus an admin had the control to eject your CD, or quit your game on command. Most of us weren't that cruel... But luckily, I didn't run it on CD, so they weren't able to stop me from playing by that method.
Anyway, the operating system for TFC was called WON for a while. Now it's called Steam, which requires much more time and info. But we lived with it. Now I don't play TFC anymore, but I still go online.
I had TONS of websites to check, but after a while I got bored, and it narrowed down to 1 website which got really boring, so I visit one of the others and my spark re-ignights and I go to that website regularly again.
I lost my interest in GW-BASIC programming, but I still basically know how. I made quite a few things on that language including an etch-a-sketch program (Updated 8 times, but version 8 took up too much memory so I'd stick with V7), and a very simple game of moving an X onto a square rather than a diamond shape. Otherwise you'll blow up (I'd say it's about the quality of pong only less challenging)...
I asked HimuraKaoru of any MMORPG games she knew of and she gave me www.gaiaonline.com I played that for quite a while, but half of it's members are not what you'd want to be with and I got sucked into a group of people I shouldn't have. I don't go there anymore.
Sooner or later, I rejoined impulse, but only to play STW, and I still visit here at CAA for different reasons. I've recently tried to learn Dutch, but that proved very unsuccessful...
*GASP!* That's all I could think of. I'll add short things if I notice anything I forgot. ^^ Yours don't have to be that long, but... yeah good luck!
As far back as I can remember, the most noticable online experience of mine was on TFC (Team Fortress Classic - an online 1st person shooter game. A branch of the game Half Life.). I don't think I had a solid username at that point.
The earliest username I remember was chompingrabbitofdoom... -.- XD I was so young! I'm not sure, but it might have had something to do with a conversation I had earlier.
This guy asked why the names sounded so dark and evil, and I said something along the lines of, "Would you rather people go around calling themselves fluffy bunny in a shooting game?" Anyway, I played around and had fun.
Then I stumbled across a server named Axls TFC. It sounded new and cool, so I went in and it took me to a map I'd never been before. It told me to knock down doors to vote for a map, but it didn't work. It was later that I figured out that I was at a point before you vote when you can choose which one you want, and the doors were blocked by glass...
Anyway, this was all very new and cool to me, so I decided to join the forum ( http://www.axlstfc.com/ ).
At that point, I was playing ANOTHER branch of Half Life called Counter Strike. It has different rules. Sometimes you're the Counter-Terrorists trying to diffuse the bomb, sometimes you try to kill all the terrorists that are playing.
I was playing in a small snow map and remembered a conversation I had with my friends.
We were talking about how many people were named Jack. I listed, Jack and the bean stock, Jack and Jill, Jack Bond... then we went into a conversation about Jack Bond.
So, as I was playing Counter Strike, I remembered that conversation and made my username Jack Bond. Lunis and I enjoyed that name.
Back at the Axls TFC forum, I joined as "Under 13" I didn't get the recognition e-mail, so Axl told me it was ok to sign in as older. Now there was (And is to this day) a member named Jack Bond, waiting to get the e-mail. So I signed in as over 13 and it said the username was already in use. So I had to call myself "Jack Bond.".
The people there weren't particularly clean. I got myself into major arguments, but I grew on them after a while.
There was on April fools a joke about an evil symbol that does evil things. And immature, gullible me, (Skeptically) lived in fear that whole day. 9.9 Laaaaaame. But there was the story it was based on.
THAT was one of the most eerie stories I've ever read. It took me a few months to read all of because I got to creeped out to read the rest for a while.
It was about a cave diver who went into a cave with his friend, and they heard a freaky noise while they were trying to widen the fist sized enterence of the cave. But at the end this guy got deep into the cave in a small tunnel with an EXTREMELY tight opening past a large boulder when his communication line to his friend was cut off and his light broke and he hit his head really hard to bleeding. And as he ran out of the tunnel, he noticed the boulder had moved. And as he was just getting up a steep cliff his rope got pulled tight as if by something very strong and he barely got out and his rope got pulled into the cave. Then he went home and was seeing and hearing things in a mentally scarred way, and it never got better, and he couldn't sleep or anything. So he wrote his story online. The last thing he said was that he would go back into the cave because he felt like he had to go cause otherwise he'd suffer the rest of his life etc. and he said he'd write more when he got back. The date of that was in 2002. So... yeah... creepy...
by this time Lunis joined CAA and wouldn't let me because she doesn't like me doing the same things she does.
Later on, I joined a game one of the Axls members made called Shino's Lottery. Basically, it was just a lottery where you have money and play a lottery for more money. He went through 2 major updates (Ruining the status of the members on the previous versions.) Then calling it Shino's Total War ( http://www.impulsetfc.com/totalwar/index.php?id=news ). So this is now version 3. Note that I'm on the special thanks list for quite a few improvement ideas and bug notings. I don't remember any, but I was the inspiration for an optional profanity filter. I'm not sure which came next, but I'll go with Axls first.
Axl got tired of hosting all that stuff and transferred his server/forum to a member named Cassius. I don't know why he chose Cass, but he did. The new server/forum was called Impulse TFC. Currently, Impulse hosts STW (Total War). Once the server was transferred, I left Impulse for a long while, because I feared their bad members were starting to influence me.
That's when I joined CAA finally!
This was when I realized I often became friends with admins and those most people find annoying. XD. I am and have been friends with at least 4 admins on different places. Particularly Mystery, Owner of an AdminOP server (AOP was an addon for the TFC game, giving the user powers only if they're added and logged in as an admin). Since I was such good friends with the owner, I was promoted to Co-owner with another person and people were not allowed to kick or ban me from the server. The ban rate tripled at that point. Particularly because of one member named Terminated. He was a sicko with a bad attitude who unbound my keys out of jealousy (Keyboard keys are bound to certain actions. Like arrow keys move you around etc. With AdminOP, you have to bind practically every key on your keyboard because there are so many functions that take too long to type out. So I had to re-bind my whole keyboard every time he got in. (He wasn't supposed to be able to get in at all.)) Also, being a high level admin, you can execute commands on another player's screen, thus an admin had the control to eject your CD, or quit your game on command. Most of us weren't that cruel... But luckily, I didn't run it on CD, so they weren't able to stop me from playing by that method.
Anyway, the operating system for TFC was called WON for a while. Now it's called Steam, which requires much more time and info. But we lived with it. Now I don't play TFC anymore, but I still go online.
I had TONS of websites to check, but after a while I got bored, and it narrowed down to 1 website which got really boring, so I visit one of the others and my spark re-ignights and I go to that website regularly again.
I lost my interest in GW-BASIC programming, but I still basically know how. I made quite a few things on that language including an etch-a-sketch program (Updated 8 times, but version 8 took up too much memory so I'd stick with V7), and a very simple game of moving an X onto a square rather than a diamond shape. Otherwise you'll blow up (I'd say it's about the quality of pong only less challenging)...
I asked HimuraKaoru of any MMORPG games she knew of and she gave me www.gaiaonline.com I played that for quite a while, but half of it's members are not what you'd want to be with and I got sucked into a group of people I shouldn't have. I don't go there anymore.
Sooner or later, I rejoined impulse, but only to play STW, and I still visit here at CAA for different reasons. I've recently tried to learn Dutch, but that proved very unsuccessful...
*GASP!* That's all I could think of. I'll add short things if I notice anything I forgot. ^^ Yours don't have to be that long, but... yeah good luck!