Do you enjoy digging through the Webarchive?

[PsychoticThoughts]

Yeah, it was nice to explore, absolutely, I hope you get the chance to see Colorado and AZ one day, both beautiful states!

Agreed, we've lost so many of our abilities to just be open.

Sounds like the early days of what would become rom hacking almost!

Thanks. I'll let you know if I ever do, so we can compare experiences as foreigners figuring out the US (but I'm actually headed for Michigan because my best friend is from there).

Now that I think about it... you think doxxing became a thing because we used to just... hand out our info? Some of my profiles would be like: "Hey! I'm JoJo! I'm 14-years-old and I'm from *specific city*! *Insert a whole bunch of other identifying factors*". Some of my American friends took it even further by even saying what school they attended and what class they were (mostly freshmen). And if the site allowed them to upload pics of themselves for points and rating? OH, BOY! I think some people are just not cool with that "right to info" being gone nowadays. Certainly a thought.

Right? That's a nice way of putting it.

 

[PGen98]

Thanks. I'll let you know if I ever do, so we can compare experiences as foreigners figuring out the US (but I'm actually headed for Michigan because my best friend is from there).

Please do, and hopefully Michigan is nice, too! Not been there yet, I hear good things about Detroit style pizza, lol.

Now that I think about it... you think doxxing became a thing because we used to just... hand out our info? Some of my profiles would be like: "Hey! I'm JoJo! I'm 14-years-old and I'm from *specific city*! *Insert a whole bunch of other identifying factors*". Some of my American friends took it even further by even saying what school they attended and what class they were (mostly freshmen). And if the site allowed them to upload pics of themselves for points and rating? OH, BOY! I think some people are just not cool with that "right to info" being gone nowadays. Certainly a thought.

Oh we did didn't we?! Just offered up everything to everyone without a second thought! But that was innocent times, no one took that information and did horrible things with it, we were mostly just online for the sake of having fun back then. Different times, but it slowly morphed into...this.

Right? That's a nice way of putting it.

True, lol

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

Please do, and hopefully Michigan is nice, too! Not been there yet, I hear good things about Detroit style pizza, lol.

Oh we did didn't we?! Just offered up everything to everyone without a second thought! But that was innocent times, no one took that information and did horrible things with it, we were mostly just online for the sake of having fun back then. Different times, but it slowly morphed into...this.

True, lol

I'm fairly sure my friend is trolling, but he hasn't had a single nice thing to say about the place. Maybe he's trying to prevent me from taking him up on that offer XD But yeah, I'm sure I will like it. I'm a bit of a hopeless romantic for snowy landscapes and frozen lakes

Yeah! "Innocence" might be the key word there... we mostly all were (and, well, the mods weren't going to be messing around if you crossed some kind of line regarding others). That said, there are two early sites I only know about because they had opportunistic killers on them. It's a sad part of online life.

 

[PGen98]

I'm fairly sure my friend is trolling, but he hasn't had a single nice thing to say about the place. Maybe he's trying to prevent me from taking him up on that offer XD But yeah, I'm sure I will like it. I'm a bit of a hopeless romantic for snowy landscapes and frozen lakes

Yeah, I'm sure he's just playing it up, lol

Yeah! "Innocence" might be the key word there... we mostly all were (and, well, the mods weren't going to be messing around if you crossed some kind of line regarding others). That said, there are two early sites I only know about because they had opportunistic killers on them. It's a sad part of online life.

Yeah, there will always be the bad actors out there, sadly.

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

Yeah, I'm sure he's just playing it up, lol

Yeah, there will always be the bad actors out there, sadly.

I'm curious... since you are a Brit and knowledgeable of old sites, ever been to / heard of "Oink's Pink Palace"? It was THE music pirate site, and such a big deal that JK Rowling herself took them to court.

 

[PGen98]

I'm curious... since you are a Brit and knowledgeable of old sites, ever been to / heard of "Oink's Pink Palace"? It was THE music pirate site, and such a big deal that JK Rowling herself took them to court.

Familiar with, yeah, but I never used it personally, I did hear a lot about it, though

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

Familiar with, yeah, but I never used it personally, I did hear a lot about it, though

Gotcha.

That's one I really wish I could have used while it lasted... the rules were insane!

 

[passenger]

saying something completely irrelevant about a grapefruit

Sparks a scene from an older great FX tv series, "The Bridge": NOT a comedy;
This drunken Gringo was standing on top of a car waving his trousers around happily yelling, "Pantalones! Pantalones! Pantalones!"
Not that funny now, but at the time I thought it was quite amusing. Maybe you had to 'be there'; or maybe because a little comedy relief was welcome in the midst of the tension.

Rotten Tomatoes :
When an American judge known for anti-immigration views is found dead on the bridge connecting El Paso, Texas, with Juarez, Mexico, authorities from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border must work together to catch the perp, a serial killer who is operating in both countries. Detective Sonya Cross, of the El Paso Police Department, works with Chihuahua State Police Detective Marco Ruiz, who knows about the slippery politics of Mexican law enforcement. Ruiz's whatever-it-takes approach doesn't sit well with Cross, who has Asperger's syndrome and a by-the-book attitude when it comes to the job. But the two put their differences aside to solve a string of murders on the border, which is already infected with issues that include illegal immigration, drug trafficking, violence and prostitution.

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

That's actually really funny in its randomness XD

 

[PGen98]

lol, gotta' love the randomness

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

This one used to be peak internet.

Little did we know...

 

[PGen98]

Peak internet webdesign, too!

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

Peak internet webdesign, too!

Right?! I was so impressed by it that I even opened it on FrontPage Express to see what made it tick (it had right-clicking disabled, like many other sites of the time). I ended up lifting a ton of code that way lol

 

[PGen98]

Right?! I was so impressed by it that I even opened it on FrontPage Express to see what made it tick (it had right-clicking disabled, like many other sites of the time). I ended up lifting a ton of code that way lol

The best tool the reverse engineer designs

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

I was such a brat.

The right-click ninja XD

 

[PGen98]

I was such a brat.

The right-click ninja XD

I mean we all had to do it at least once or twice...or several times... lol

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

I mean we all had to do it at least once or twice...or several times... lol

I'm beyond glad you can't see my first site...

XD!

 

[PGen98]

I'm beyond glad you can't see my first site...

XD!

Oh don't worry, been there, done that!! My first several sites were so bad!

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

Oh don't worry, been there, done that!! My first several sites were so bad!

What were they about? Mine were Abandonware.

 

[PGen98]

What were they about? Mine were Abandonware.

My first sites were about gameshark code hacking for the game WWF Wrestlemania 2000, lol, then WWF No Mercy. Code hacking was so much fun!