Does anyone remember the OLD America Online? Winsock? TSN?

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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Talen

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I played the hell out of Shadows of Yserbius on TSN (later INN). Those were some fun times, I haven't thought about this stuff in years. I wonder if anyone has a singleplayer/emulated version of it.

Wow, a quick google, and apparently people are running the network again with something called ImagiNation Revival Project. I gotta look in to this more.


-edit- http://www.sierrahelp.com/Misc/INNRevival.html

Pre-packaged and ready to go
 
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cdamm

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i remember the old aol. we had it when i was a kid for a while- then on to compuserve. aol used to constantly send us those floppy discs after we canceled it, so the 12 year old me got free discs for re-formatting to mac all the time. also that INN commercial has tht fat kid from the movie 'hook' in it. it's sad that i now that.
 

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I remember AOL from when it was called Quantum Link.
 
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jeffkun34

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I remember the days of Telnet, Winsock, running your own BBS, and PINE very well and I'm only 34. I remember the hell you had to go through just to download a high quality "dirty" pic in multiple parts. I remember running up some massive phone charges when I was super young and having to mow more lawns to pay my parents back.
 

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Why yes, I've heard of YouTube.

Seriously though, I loved some of the old vids people were digging up for that one Aussie dickhead's "All Your Base" thread (was his username hewitson?).
 

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i remember picking up these old ComputerEdge magazines which had a listing of local BBS' and would regularly try them out. I also used both Prodigy and CompuServ in the late 80's before deciding to switch over to AOL back in like 91.
oh and i remember at the Del Mar Fairgrounds they used to have this big PC event that went on for years. youd see table after table filled with floppies and even more BBS listings.
 

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I didn't get on the internet until the days of the 56k modem, and AOL was already in it's 3.5th incarnation.

I got my first Windows based PC at the age of 16, it cost me $2000 and it was a 200mhz Pentium with 32MB of ram.

Before that, all I had was a Commodore 64, and at school we had Mac Pluses and Classics. I never bothered with the internet on either one, even though we did have limited access at school. Damn I miss my C64. :crying:
 

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AOL was awesome back in the 90s. The early chat rooms and AIM were much more prevalent at my school than ICQ.
 

jeffkun34

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I didn't get on the internet until the days of the 56k modem, and AOL was already in it's 3.5th incarnation.

I got my first Windows based PC at the age of 16, it cost me $2000 and it was a 200mhz Pentium with 32MB of ram.

I feel super old. I remember my first PC upgrade was going from 2MB of RAM to 4MB and at the time it cost me $200 to do. Now they practically give away RAM. Damn that was a HUGE upgrade at the time and allowed me to play so many more games.
 

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All I remember these son of a bitches for were the free coasters I got every week in the mail.
 
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