Curt
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Before the days when America Online was just a overpriced over saturated ISP for techno-stunted morons.
I'm talking when it was it's own custom application, with its own strange little pseudo internet/closed network.
Strange Chat Rooms, Games, Areas of interest for certain things, certain companies areas, a general DOWNLOADS area for stuff like Doom Demos and Shareware, strange little (G rated) picture galleries.
(This video actually has a good look at the app. COMPTON's Encyclopedia was for true Gangsters.)
That thing was a trip.
BONUS MODE: If you ever used a BBS dial in to get access to the WWW. I'm not talking about just DIAL-Up, I'm talking about right from your BBS.
(so many memories, Eeerrrrrrrrghhhhh Eeeaaaahhhh)
I remember my dad made a big deal one day when he got a floppy disk he ordered from Australia with this newfangled thing called "Trumpet Winsock" that would let us get on "THE INTERNET"
HardMode:
You played on "The Sierra Network (TSN)/The Imagination Network (INN)".
Red Barron, Twinion, Boogers, and Twinion FTW.
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