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As an old: You kids and your TeamSpeak .. back in my day Ventrilo, and we were happy to have it! (uphill both ways or something about my lawn).
Ahh "Vent." My biggest memory there is people trolling with the sign-on TTS.
"My ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI...."
Anybody remember the brief flash in the pan that was "X-fire"? Haha
Obligatory Moonbase Alpha TTS
Back in the day my college had very strict filtering on the WiFi. I learned how to use SSH tunneling through PuTTY to bypass the firewall to connect to X-Fire. I was so 1337.
I can still hear the ripping jeans sound effect
You think that's old? Let's talk ICQ.
This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.
In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.
The Kinks even wrote a song about it
Yeah back on the days of analogue telephone lines every phone number ultimately required 2 copper wires going all the way from the nearest local exchange to the telephone handset in the home or business, so many smaller towns and rural areas got party lines as a way to save on copper and switching costs. Instead of a dedicated pair of copper wires to every house with a phone, all of the houses on a given block were on one line (all on one electrical circuit), so you'd pick up the phone and be able to talk to (or listen to) your other neighbors without dialing.
I lived in a rural area and the nearest phone for emergencies belonged to one house that lived a quarter mile away.
The owner of the phone got hooked on WoW on dial-up at some point and basically ended the party line for everyone.
Squatting on a party-line to play WoW is just a wild pairing of technological eras to me. If we go by the invention date of the former they're more than a century apart (1878).
Also: rude!
That's amazing. I'm gonna tell my mom that, she'll love it.
mIRC
The hottest place to download AOL punters and warez!
My server wouldn't let you on with mIRC unless you were at least cool enough to disguise it/use a bouncer. Kept the M$ riffraff out ;)
Uh oh!
Took me a second, then I remembered the sound.
Still remember my number lol