IMPT Let's do the BIG MOVE (Again? No...)

[GoblinCampFollower]

I have updated the SSL certificate, so stuff link VirtualVerse One Forums should be working fine again now.

I've also noticed the slow down I experienced right after the migration seems to have gotten better. Initially, that is what tipped me off something happened despite looking so similar. I am just curious if you did anything in particular for that? A lot of little things such as pulling up the menu for reactions and actually making posts definitely sped up.

I also noticed the VVO icon in the corner of the chrome tab is back!

 

[Khamon]

I've also noticed the slow down I experienced right after the migration seems to have gotten better. Initially, that is what tipped me off something happened despite looking so similar. I am just curious if you did anything in particular for that? A lot of little things such as pulling up the menu for reactions and actually making posts definitely sped up.

I also noticed the VVO icon in the corner of the chrome tab is back!

Being quite ancient, the speed was not the issue, it was that momentary pause that threw my brain down a spiral of memories waiting for pages to load in the nineties, watching interlaced images resolve, downloading game files in the eighties, my cane just snapped.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Being quite ancient, the speed was not the issue, it was that momentary pause that threw my brain down a spiral of memories waiting for pages to load in the nineties, watching interlaced images resolve, downloading game files in the eighties, my cane just snapped.

LMAO, I'm not THAT young. I remember waiting for my first Internet browsers to load the pixels of an image while I got up to get a drink!

What I noticed was just the CHANGE in speed.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Kids. I remember downloading pictures at 300 baud as BASIC programs that printed the pictures on a line printer.

Also typing in program listings from BYTE.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Kids. I remember downloading pictures at 300 baud as BASIC programs that printed the pictures on a line printer.

Also typing in program listings from BYTE.

I remember writing the fan club and waiting 4-6 weeks to download pictures from the mailbox.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I remember writing the fan club and waiting 4-6 weeks to download pictures from the mailbox.

We need a reaction for old people shit! lol.

You did trigger a memory from when I was a little kid we were made to write fan letters to people we liked as a school assignment. We were even supposed to try to get something back. ...this made it a little awkward. I wrote my favorite Star Wars author but never heard back, lol.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I remember writing the fan club and waiting 4-6 weeks to download pictures from the mailbox.

The tough part was getting those clay tablets through the mail slot.

 

[Khamon]

Kids. I remember downloading pictures at 300 baud as BASIC programs that printed the pictures on a line printer.

Also typing in program listings from BYTE.

My first modem was 300baud as well. It had a cushioned cradle to hold the telephone receiver. Was sufficient for mainframe connection so I could enter Assembly assignments then go eat dinner while waiting for the output to flicker across the green screen. I would send a copy to one of the DECWriters in Engineering and pick it up the next day. They would say "oh you're suppose to send this to the system printer and pick it up in the mailroom" (all the way across campus in the basement) and I would say "oh silly me yes whatever keys did my fat fingers accidentally type last night?" Then we would laugh and laugh ha ha ha

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I wrote my favorite Star Wars author but never heard back, lol.

Alan Dean Foster?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Also typing in program listings from BYTE.

It was Run Magazine for me.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Alan Dean Foster?

Kevin J. Anderson. I was midway through reading the Jedi Academy trilogy at the time I think.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Oh, that's like at least ten years later than I was thinking of.

 

[Noodles]

Gawd all you old people, I think we had a 56k modem by the time I was getting on line.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Oh, that's like at least ten years later than I was thinking of.

I was thinking of "Splinter of the Minds Eye" too!

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well my first programming book was this. Since my computer was kind of exotic, a Sharp MZ731, I had also to rewrite BASIC sometimes while typing it on the fly.

Funny thing is the editor David H. Ahl is still alive being at age 87. He's also got his own home page, which looks dated but still is updated now and then.

https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Volume_II_1980_David_Ahl/mode/2up

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[Argent Stonecutter]

My introduction to programming was modifying the games in that book to cheat at them... back when they were just random files in a bunch of mainframes and he hadn't collected them into a book yet.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Gawd all you old people, I think we had a 56k modem by the time I was getting on line.

I think we previously determined I'm slightly younger than you (I'm 40), but I got partly online very young. I remember when 56K was an upgrade! lol.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

When I met my wife she was impressed by my 2400 baud modem.

 

[Myradyl Muse]

The tough part was getting those clay tablets through the mail slot.

Ahem, so I better not mention the smoke signals I'm still trying to jam into that slot and AOL online dialup with Commodore 64 'let's wait for 7 hours then get disconnected and never be able to use the phone again, why is your phone always a busy signal???!'