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>>536759799
Finger my asshole
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>>536759799
punch the nearest migger
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Please let this happen it would heal so much
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>>536759799
the internet was invented in the 70's
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Beer store then skate park
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>>536759988
You wouldn't even know what to do with picrel.
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>>536759799
But my family did have a computer in 1995
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>>536759799
Burn Hollywood
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>>536759799
Someone should start taking out cameras.
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>>536759799
no computer and aol in 1995? what are you poor?
gotta download some proggies from aol chat rooms so i can kick people and type in different colors
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>>536760644
This, I miss windows 95 like you wouldn't believe
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>>536760655
Checked, but don't you mean BIRB Hollywood?
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I had a computer as early as 1990, what kind of zoom-zoom wrote this?
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>>536759799
Bet on the results of the afl grand final for the next five years early on to get massive odds. The use those winnings to invest early heavily into Google 2000, short airline stocks in 2001, invest in Facebook 2004/5, invest in Burrys fund to short the housing market. After the crash of 2010 invest those gains in things like tesla. Sell everything at the peak of dec 2025, live off the billions for the rest of my life doing whatever the fuck I want
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>>536759988
>>536760644
>>536760655
>>536760722
>>536760744
>>536760777
What did Kek mean by all of this?
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>>536759799
Book a trip to New York to go see the twin towers.
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>>536760777
Oh fuck totally witnessed
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First thing i do i get some brekfast, eat while watching cartoons, then hop on my brand spankin new PS1 to play Battle arena Toshinden and then some Ridge Racer.
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>>536759799
BUT I DID HAVE A COMPUTER IN 1995 YOU FUCKING ZOOMER RETARD!
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>>536759799
I had a computer in 95. I had the internet too you stupid bong faggot. Go lick an africans asshole while you hand over your country
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>>536759799
>>536759988
>>536760644
>>536760655
>>536760707
>>536760722
>>536760744
>>536760777
blessed thread
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>>536760842
The power of kek compels you
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>>536759799
I had a computer and internet in '95...fuck I hate zoomers
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>>536760722
I was still using DOS 3.0 until 1998. The jump to WIN 98, internet, and clear picture porn was absolutely biblical.
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>>536760935
kek
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>>536759799
If it's like opiate withdrawal I guess I'll throw up and have diarrhea for the next six hours
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i unironically built tree houses with friends.
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>>536759799
Go to japan, buy a windows 95 system, buy kichikuou rance, and indulge
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>>536759799
Eat breakfast, read the newspaper, then go out and buy a fucking computer.
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I enjoy CDAN.
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>>536759799
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XsX8gJGWUQ
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Buy Apple stock. You could still always buy through it through a broker.
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>>536760912
I spent so many hours playing Toshinden 2. Duke was the man
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No internet?
Video Game collection and backlog of King Of The Hill, X-Files, and Who's Line Is it Anyways?

No electricity?
I'm dead from suicide in a week
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Am i 3 again or 33
Either way say "goo goo gaga buy buttcoin in the year 2010 or some shit" to my parents who immediately have me institutionalized
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>>536759857
Wait your turn
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>>536759799
Well I had a computer in 95, but I'll roll with it--
Make my morning coffee
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>>536759799
The average zoomer would probably kill himself thinking he's AI waifu is dead.

First thing I would do is call the boys, get a couple of brews, some ho's and be fruitful and multiply as God intended.
The pre Internet era was the fucking Best, people could keep a conversation for hours and talk about actual personal experiences instead of some fucking retard the saw on YouTube.
Girls were horny and didn't have a hyper inflated ego, you could actually have human relations.
Everything is transactional now
Everything is synthetic
Everything is geared towards feeding the (((algos)))
Humanity is dead
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>>536759799
but i did have a computer in 1995. i dont get it
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>>536759799
Fuck ya mudda
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>>536759799
Start telling everyone the Jews are going to take down the WTC towers, warn law enforcement about it, call up radio programs, cspan, interrupt live broadcasts, hold up large signs outside the WH and at the WTC, become nationally known as the kook who thinks the Jews are going to attack the WTC to blame on Muslims in order to compel the US to fight their middle eastern wars.
Send me back niggers I’m ready for my assignment
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buy a 1995 honda cbr900rr and just ride
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>>536759799
This was my computer in 1995. We ran CAT3 through the AC/heat ducts. By 1998 we had Belkin 11Mb/s wireless B and a Linksys router w/extender stacked on top.
It’s the Packard Bell Legend on the far left, after I resurrected it in my teen years
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Am I my age then or what I am now? If then I'm 5 and hugging my mom extra tight because she's dead now.
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>>536759799
Resist the urge to do literal violence against my asshole classmates with my granddad's knives. Fucking have to deal with my spoiled asshole cousin's bullshit where he gets everything and gets away with everything in my three generation household while I sleep on a couch I'm not allowed to fold out into a bed in the living room while not having a room of my own and having to share a TV with my ice queen mom and my belongings scattered throughout the house with zero privacy or respect because my asshole cousin actively goes out of his way to make everyone care only about him while I get treated like shit for the slightest thing.

Basically five minutes after the novelty of having my asshole grandparents alive again and going to school, where I am miserable as fuck, I'll either an hero or become a criminal when I steal my mom's car and get caught trying to flee the county with only the close off my back and maybe a bookbag full of toys/comics/baseball cards
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>>536761079
Me too, seems underrated on /pol. Saw a post where he called out Nick F as a homo.
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>>536759799
When I was 8 years old in 1992 I had dial-up access to a dozen chat rooms which were each 13 node STS-13 software, newsgroups, FTP, text WWW but only through expensive dialup which I also h5xxed and we had giant party lines all free where 30 people would call the payphones in various worldwide cities to talk to other h4xxers like when I talked to Phiber Optik once.

These chat boards and weekend meet ups and you'd meet the weirdest bunch of freaks ever like the 40 something Japanese guy who drove limos and carried a meat cleaver, yes a giant meat cleaver in his suit jacket. Met my second gf there when I was 15.
Even talked to that legendary troll Xah Lee a few times
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>>536759857
Finger this guy's asshole.
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Probably playing Jetpack Santa or Commander Keen on my 486
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>>536761457
Upgraded from this to 95 via like 48 3.5” floppy disks
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>>536759857
SELF PLEASURE DOES NOT MAKE YOU GAY
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>>536761505
Glorious FidoNet, CompuServe, among others
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>>536760563
My dad did and taught me how to do complex computer stuff by 7
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>>536761591
It does if you’re not imagining a chick pegging you

Last time I checked these modems still return time sync signals and there are still a number of real POTS BBS’s as well as Telnet ones. Get a terminal program and a modem, oldest hardware you can find and enjoy. I still remember the switch from 300bd to 1200.
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In 1995 I was so bored I read every article of Encarta encyclopedia on my Windows 95 Packard Bell. Shit sucked back then. 2026 is much better.
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>>536761126
Buy some GURPS and RIFTS books, anon. Worldbuilding without electricity.

>>536761034
I grew up playing Commander Keen and Jetpac on DOS and it wasn't even the newest version of DOS but it was fun and I learned computer file structure.
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>>536759799
Get some Taco Bell and try to find out who stole my computer.
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>>536759799
DESCENT 1 MULTIPLAYER OVER 28K MODEM
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>wake up
>it's '95
>pump up the tires on my bmx
>ride down to the corner store
>get a slushie and some skittles
>ride home
>turn on the tv
>channels change instantly
>watch dragon ball z
>it's over 9000
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>>536759799
This dude was interesting like 10 years ago, but has he said anything relevant recently?
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>>536760563
Trash it and buy a real modem like a Hayes, AT&T, or IBM.
Don’t forget the difference between patch and null-modem crossover cables
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>>536759799
now is our time meshsisters
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>>536761841
It's not wave it's wav.
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>>536759799
Start shitposting on UHF radio like I did before my family got dial-up internet.
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>>536761820
I remember Hayes. A buddy had the first 14.4k and I thought he was a 1337 haxor.
He also was the first person I knew that used the internet, looking at news groups.
Weird times.
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I remember when I could use the internet I liked some site called thekeep where people would roleplay being knights and wizards and DND shit kek
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>>536759799
But I had a cell phone, Internet, and social media in 1995. I mean, social media was WBS Chat and trolling Geocities pages, but my point stands.
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Play Doom
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>>536761943
I now know how women feel when I'm explaining how an automatic transmission works.
I didnt understand any of that. The main gist of it was tapping into internet traffic to record it on a vcr no?
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>>536761905
Indeed, I’m sure the geeks had a heyday with that one. Here’s navigator 3.6 if you’d like to check it out
https://archive.org/details/PBNav3.6
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>>536761460
Goddamn that hit hard. I'm sorry, anon.
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>>536762294
Yeah, although any recording device of the time would’ve worked, such as a cassette player/recorder, one can fit a hell of a lot more data on a VCR. ALOT of important traffic still is unencrypted, using standard protocols.

The thing is, for actual communication to be established, both modems need to be set to the same baud rate, back then you had to know the proper baud and terminal emulation settings(8bits, parity y/n, baud rate and command syntax) whereas auto negotiation eliminated that need. So, the guy is saying that most of the modem traffic he picked up was beyond the baud rate his can handle, but he still has the data which can be hooked up to a more capable modem(or a sound card and s/w program, back then a lot of people didn’t add the separate ISA card for sound+DB15 joystick) for decoding clear text logins and passwords
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>>536759799
Watch the first poster finger his asshole
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>>536762294
Same concepts still work today for satellite communications, it’s just modems hooked up to regular transceivers, and a sync box for connecting the dish itself. Actually you can do it with just a good directional antenna.
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>>536762744
For more information read about the adventures of….. Captain Midnight? I think.
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>>536759799
Wonder how this society is going to function when a lot of it is dependent on the internet one way or another. Anyway, I would just go out and see what's happening and if anything functions normally.
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>>536762594
>>536762744
thank you for the spoonfeeding
so long story short, potentially critical data can be recorded by manually tapping into internet infrastructure (which is comically easy to do) and thus bypass much, if not all, of all processes most people think keep their internet connection safe and private, i.e. VPNs, proxies etc. Is that a decently accurate summation?
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>>536759799
My family had 3 computers in 1995
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>>536761077
so you'd enslave yourself AGAIN?!
what a nigger.
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>>536759799
Go play golf.
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>>536762914
>Phrack

Wow. Someone has culture in this place.
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>>536762914
Check this shit out
https://archive.org/details/pocorgtfo07
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>>536760851
that is a nice knife.
as a knife connoisseur, i can tell you, that design looks comfy
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>>536759941
this is a perfect response. an entire generation built their personality on 'orange man bad'. if you woke up and nobody knew what the fuck that was, you would be put in an insane asylum but instead in our timeline it's a prosperous cult LMAO
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>>536762940
Spot on, yes. The same concepts still work with fiber optic as well as the copper coax “MoCA” that Xfinity and others use. However it’s a matter of collecting a wider band of information, but all the protocols and specifications for each telecom provider is public information, readily available. There are still the same (and more, but same conceptual ideals) trunks and breakout boxes for traditional single pair phone wires and dual pair broadband connections. Network analyzer software is free and highly sophisticated, “pen testing”
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>>536763145
Ever heard of TOTSE?
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>>536759799
Go to school after watching fucking captain planet because it was the only thing on
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>>536763196
Amazing recommendation, ty.
>what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?
Death thought about it and answered:
>cats, he said finally. CATS ARE NICE.
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>>536759799
Goon.
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>>536761901
FUUUUUCK
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>>536763427
again, thank you for the spoon feeding.
Tech/internet stuff is not my strong suit at all.
please accept this rare meme as a token of my thanks.
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>>536763427
An early example of delete system 32 type trolling of those who don’t belong
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>>536763856
No problem. I’m autistic as shit and know everything I have stumbled across and found interesting or otherwise needed to fix. I share my information and try to teach those who are willing to learn, adapting my style and language as to help them understand the concepts rather than parrot back information.

I’m also an RF/signals enthusiast
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>>536759799
I still have my US Robotics Courier 28.8k modem (external) and my 486/dx. Thinking of playing some Commander Keen.
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Go on a nigger killing spree. The entire military industrial complex and police state is built on the back of the internet. Radios, phones, ticketing, cams, all of it. Without those things the machine stops.

Can you imagine police trying to solve crimes the way they did 100 years ago?
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>>536763856
“the Art of electronics” is available in pdf online, V3 even. But even v1 is highly relevant, semiconductor technology has seriously barely changed since then, outside of doped LEDs for amplifiers and GaN.
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>>536764111
Oh and we can make bigger wafers after mastering the CZ method
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>>536759799
Ask Alexa what the temperature is going to be today and if its going to rain so I can get dressed and possibly go outside.
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>>536763427
Hell, 802.11b/g/n/Ac is well defined enough to just do it with an SDR, you don’t even need a spectrum analyzer anymore
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>>536764106
Darpanet and its evolution the internet was never intended for normie arts and crafts and communication it's true. Their architects said so themselves.
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>>536764035
>adapting my style and language as to help them understand the concepts rather than parrot back information.
I wish nothing but good things for you and yours.
>I’m also an RF/signals enthusiast
any resources you would recommend for building/maintaining a medium range communication network were modern infrastructure to collapse? I'm already familiar and practiced with the use of baofeng radios, but thats about it.
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>>536759962
It would be an incredible experiment to just shut down social media for like a week. It won’t happen, but I could imagine it would be like a loud nagging buzz everyone has gotten used to suddenly stopping.
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>>536759799
i would play secret of mana on the super nintendo
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>>536761537
Finger this guy's asshole while he fingers the other guy’s asshole
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>>536760935
This, play echo the dolphin on my windows 95 PC.
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>>536761537
>>536759857
>>536761223
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>>536759799
Praise the Lord
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>>536761820
Couldn't go wrong with a Courier from USR, either
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>>536759799
in 95, i probably turned on sportscenter and had a bowl of crispix
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>>536759799
>1995
>no wi-fi
I had that in 1995 though
>you don't have a cell phone
I had that in 1995 though
>you don't have a computer
I had that in 1995 though
>there's no facebook/instagram/tiktok/x
I had the equivalent of that in 1995 though

what a fucking stupid thread
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>>536764514
Oh yeah I could go all day
Baofengs are good to learn with. They are not to be relied on.

If you want “simple” and ability to use it now w/o a general tech license(which is extremely easy to get), GMRS requires only a fee to acquire a license, and it’s within the requirements for a medium range comms network, if you have places to install repeaters or if you’re staying within 20mi. If you want ALOT more distance w/o license, CB and a decent amplifier. HF is obviously best for long distance, but VHF much more affordable and you can still get quite a bit of coverage, especially if you’re only establishing comms between sites, rather than general broadcast. You can use directional antennas.

In fact you can do this same stuff and send WiFi or any other data over it, if you stick within the bandplans(encrypted vs non, voice vs data etc). I use Icom radios because they are mil-std, reliable, and I find them easy to program. The programming software is available for free and programming cables are cheap(you can build your own as well). An Icom VHF radio 75W output 150-220mhz or so xmit capability will be about $150 or less. You can also go for UHF, 450-512mhz if you want to go the GMRS route. You don’t need P25 at this time.
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>>536764666
Yeah, that's private tracker general in a nutshell (kek)
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>>536764847
t. wasn't alive in '95

The first equivalent to social media was myspace in the 00s. Nothing like it existed in the 90s.
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>>536764852
There’s a lot of resources available online and the community really is welcoming to newcomers who are willing to learn, ask questions, and respect “the culture”. There are old men everywhere desperate to see their radio equipment in appreciative hands rather than being left for their kids to scrap.
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>>536764947
This is a good dual band Icom
I have an IC-5021, 6021, 5011 and 6011(same, but no LCD’s)
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>>536764932
had BBS, superior to social media

try not to be too jealous, kiddo
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>>536761457
Get on my level.
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>>536764852
gimme the usaf frequencies i wanna hear the bombing runs
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>>536764666
Checked
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>>536765106
See my Osborne?
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>>536764847
almost nobody had a fucking cell phone in 95 you lying nigger. and there was no equivalent to social media in 95 either. a bbs or chatrooms was again what an average internet user had back then. that isnt social media, it was very odd to assign your real name to anything back then. and you sure as fuck didnt have wifi.
I've noticed a lot of what I assume is cope from a lot of people making these claims recently.
>it's always been like this though!!
it's a coping mechanism so they think it's normal for the world to be upside down compared to just 20 years ago. Basically nobody had any of that shit. explain how you had wifi back then you fat retard.
>erm well I had a radio and it was
just shut up. you didnt do that, and if you explained how you could technically use a wireless signal with a radio and a modem, you would get laughed at for being a nerd. NOBODY did any of this shit.
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>>536765146
Here you go
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>>536760722
Get some punters...go into your friends IP and execute hardware commands like open the cd drive.

Watching the other nerds declare war on each other by punter was funny.

Until they starred fucking around with CP. Then the FBI showed up and v&nd one of em.

Crazy ass place in the 90s...rancho...
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>>536764852
you are an asset anon
quality effort posting is heartbreakingly rare around this shithole nowadays.
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>>536759799


It was a better time anon.
I've still got a vhs player and a few tapes, mostly of the anime and wrestling of the era.

In our country porn was even actually broadcast legally on free-to-air on a government channel called SBS. It's just that they were always speaking in European or Asian languages with English subtitles. But the locations were more exotic and who ever watched it for the story anyway.
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>>536764555
Ah, the '70s.
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>>536759799
buy a computer
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>>536764847
Barely anyone had a cell phone in 95, you lying fuck. None of this shit existed back then. No social media, no Wi-Fi, nothing but prehistoric online chat rooms and those were still rare.
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>>536765206
Actually handles vs names was hotly debated in the Usenet era.
“ It is important to remember that some people are reading hundreds and hundreds of messages each day - they are most likely the most qualified to help you out, so you want to make it easy for them to read your posts. Many people just read through the Subject-lines and determine from there on, if they are going to bother to read the entire article, so try to keep the subject line short, but significant. "HELP!!!!!!!" is bad, bad example. Remember that writing in all caps is considered to be screaming; furthermore, ``multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a sick mind.''12.

As mentioned above, nobody knows who you are, and sometimes you may not even want to reveal your identity. However, many people prefer answering questions when asked politely by somebody with a real name. Your name is like your outer appearance in cyberspace - if you post under the name "K3wl d00d", your postings might not be taken seriously. Likewise, if you choose a rather offensive name, people might killfile you right away, without even looking at your posts. Just use your real name and your real e-mail address.

When you reply to another message, quote only the relevant portions of the message you are replying to. Don't quote the whole message if not necessary, especially deleting previous signatures. Be careful to not misattribute something. Leave in the attribution line that most newsreaders provide. Observe the attribution lines and read posts carefully. Replied text goes below the quoted text! For a more detailed discussion on the ``Art of Quoting'', please see [11]”
https://www.netmeister.org/news/usenet/
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>>536765558
Sept 1993: the month the internet died
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>>536760563
95, not 85
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>>536765603
The history of Usenet is so closely linked to the history of the Internet itself and the history of Unix (and thus Linux!), that it is worth to spend some time finding out how things started. Let us take a trip back into the year 1976 (a good year, I might add4) - the place, how could it be any different, AT&T Bell Laboratories, where a new utility called ``Unix To Unix Copy Program'' (or short: UUCP) had just been developed. UUCP was designed as a simple and efficient way of copying files between computers via phone-lines, and while nowadays UUCP has been superseded by TCP/IP based protocols, it still lay the foundation for what became known as ``the poor man's ARPANet''.
The poor man's ARPANet

The ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), created by the US Department of Defense in 1969, was originally limited to computer scientists with Department of Defense contracts - not everybody could just go ``willy-nilly over the ARPANet''. Aside from these connections, in order to join ARPANet, one needed quite some cash - assumed numbers ranged up to $100,000.

In 1979, two Duke University grad students started using UUCP to enable people to exchange information by uploading (``posting'') a message to a designated subject-area called a ``newsgroup''. Following a simple bulletin-board approach, subsequent messages would appear in the same ``newsgroup'', messages regarding other topics would appear in a different ``newsgroup''. This message-system became known as Usenet News (Unix Users Network) - using UUCP, everybody, even poor students were able to use this system, without being connected to the ARPANet.

The shell-scripts used by these two students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, were later re-written in C for public distribution and named the ``A'' release of news. If you consider how much traffic goes through an average full-feed news-server nowadays5, it is amusing to know that this ``A'' release was designed for
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>>536765558

The first time I ever used the internet was to look up video game cheats
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>>536759799
Post racist memes on alt.political.incorrect Usenet newsgroup on my 486.
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>>536765668
not more than a few articles per group per day.

This small number of messages posted each day evolved into what became its own culture of sharing information and support as more and more groups of core sites were linked together. In the year 1981, UUCP and ARPANet, up until then still independent, were linked together by Berknet (at the University of California at Berkeley). Other universities and colleges developed their own networks, such as BITnet (Because It's Time net - we see, a geek's affirmation for witty acronyms has a long tradition), which was based on the IBM protocol and developed by Yale and the City University of New York[4].

As these various different networks were linked together, Usenet had the form of a graph - and ``Network maps'' were drawn.

Figure 1: An early map of Usenet, ca 1980
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The news software was re-written and became the ``B'' release, networks were developed and linked, in brief, things were changing quickly. More and more forums were established, and it became clear that more structure was needed - it was time for ``The Great Renaming''[3].


Anon interested in radio: remember, this is VERY important- it’s not HAM as it’s not an acronym, it’s just ham radio. The old timers will be very appreciative of you understanding the gravity of how important that is to them.
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>>536765729
Cheatcc.com
911cheats.com
Neopets.com
Realplayer.com(they used to host music)
My top three back then
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>>536761037
>>536760935
wait a second
WAIT A SECEND

I thought OP image was "hypothetical" in 95, in fact
it thinks 95 is right like that!

LMAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ZZZZOOOOOOOMIES! ZOOMIES! COME COME! ZOOMIES! COME PECK YOUR FOOD!
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>>536765797
I enjoy reading about these early times. I wish I had experienced usenet in the early days before binary releases
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>>536760563
Wii U was the best Nintendo system
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>>536765297
Btw, UHF is basically good for only within city comms. But microwave comms are easy to establish, and you don’t need a microwave rated radio to do it, as you are modulating an external microwave device.
You tune your transmitter to 1.5GHz for example. On the end you want to receive on, you tune to say 1.160ghz. The difference between the two is your actual radio transmitting and receiving signal, allowing you to use a VHF radio(or any band) for microwave comms. Lots of online info available on this too.

Look up SRF gun, gunnplexer.
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>>536765834
Flash Flash Revolution
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>>536765125
Thing weighed like 30 lbs.
One of my grad student colleagues who had one bet everybody who'd play that he could throw it down the middle of the three-storey staircase in our building, and it'd be fine.
He did. It was. He made some money. Including from me.
We all worked in the department on a PR1ME mini mainframe. SPSS runs on giant quant data sets.
I don't miss that at all. :^D

>>536765176
Is that a 1?
I still miss WordStar so much.
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>>536765176
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>>536765834
Although I remember a few sources the only one I now remember was GameFAQs

I've taken a quick look and the site is still there as are some of the guides i used back then.

I would have these printed, initially at a university library but later at home when we got that capability.

I wonder if the future will know how critical these documents were to existence at the turn of the millennium. They were like the enigma codes.
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>>536766065
You might get a kick out of my bedroom. 2008, I was 16 in central WV
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swipe my pussy to the edge of the table
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>>536759988
Thanks, Al gore
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>>536766065
Btw very jelly you had the opportunity to work with a Pr1me, I only discovered my love for vintage computers when I came across an Apple IIc for $15 or so at age 13, it helped me understand modern coding conventions by learning with more intuitive systems that all current systems are based on anyhow.

I still have it
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>>536760563
~~~+++ATH0
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>>536766293
That's a sweet unit.
Friend had the one--if I'm remembering correctly--that had the built in flip up screen. I couldn't begin to read it (dark grey on grey), but the thing had a kind of external battery pack for working off grid. Very hot at the time.
Friend was an aggie who spent a lot of time collecting data from/with really innovative farmers, out on field. He swore by it.

>>536765500
I really should rename that image file.
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>>536759799
I'd be freaked out and probably go around asking my neighbors what's up before hunkering down for a few days. I think the first few months after would suck massive ass and I'd be absolutely steamed at having a bunch of cash in fidelity I'm too stupid to get access to, but I still have more than enough cash to survive off of for a few months. Unless anyone can send me a bill in the mail I wouldn't give a fuck about anything but rent, and I live in subsidized housing so there's a 50/50 chance I'd get straight up forgotten in the chaos if I stopped paying rent.
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>>536767248
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But I did have a computer in 95
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>>536767248
>>536767299
When the earth was young and I was too, I used to take a lot of calls at the research center where I worked (ag), from farmers asking whether power lines, transformers, etc., could affect animal (livestock) health and behavior.
Well, yes. Very much yes.
https://microwavenews.com/news-center

But we only talked about all that over beer and karaoke out in pubs in the sticks.
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>>536767267
Oh what I would give for an LCD unit for mine. I have the monochrome monitor with stand(as presented in much marketing), but the color monitor has beautifully crisp imagery, I’ve used it as well as a commodore RGB unit as gaming monitors for even Xbox 360, I was amazed at the crisp quality. Ofc now it’s dedicated to this purpose.

I actually have a lot of experience with scientific analytical instrumentation, sensors, many of which were used in PLC automation, I can easily imagine the data your innovative friend might have been collecting and am somewhat intrigued as to what data he collected(good lord some of it could be incredibly useful for comparing soil qualities now vs then, as well as being interesting in the general “story” of modern farming’s technological advancement”), how influential it was if at all, what the sentiments were at the time. Thanks for sharing.
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>>536767502
Related and very aware, it’s extremely alarming some of the things we’re doing, from my perspective. I can think of a lot of ways to use the fleet of phased array comms satellites we now have thousands of to look forward to.
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>>536767510
Sensor validation against the original model after having reverse engineered our competitors product
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>>536759799
Go to work in the office instead of homeoffice
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>>536759799
Have a wank
Play Tekken
Sit in the garden with a book
Go and see my mates because they still socialise instead of being glued to the wives and girlfriends they don't have yet
Watch Friends
Maybe have another wank
Play Yoshi's Island
Watch Frasier
go to bed
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>>536767502
Ofc you know that the weakening of our magnetic field especially the Atlantic anomaly has implications, correlations could easily be made by behavioral/crime stats but we’ve already tested the effects of ionized particles and free radicals in such weakly protected areas via extensive studies on mice/rats
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>>536761901
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
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>>536761901
Meant to return this. I have the full game pack on my 98SE SP3+ IBM 600E
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>>536759799
wake up content
shower/shave while listening to 90's music
drive to work at 7:30am
home by 5;30pm
workout; play basketball at indoor YMCA courts (white man can dunk)
call parents/family; talk on flip phone to catch up
internet is "new", read some news; aol dating site; Intel 486 PC with 16MB RAM with Windows 95 seems like super-computer
watch tv (either ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX if no cable tv)
go to bed; sleep good bc psy-ops on population don't ramp up heavy levels of confusion until 2000's
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>>536767510
A lot of the work his group and my center had in common was more about how to manage farm systems without, say, spending an f-ton of money on things that didn't make the work easier for the farmer/family, and while improving animal, plant, and soil health. Calculating the tradeoffs at every level.
It was a highly integrative model and a big part of my role was pulling all the diverse and rarely connected pieces together and getting them coordinated. So that the--in your example--soil data guys could talk to the hydro guys could talk to the weather trends guys could talk to the ag engineers, and all of them knew when to STFU and listen to the farmers, etc.
We did a LOT of work with restoring/reviving pasture-based livestock methods/systems. For most of the years I worked at that center we had a grants program that meshed with state and national ones, to build farmer/academic research teams. The Land Grant academics didn't do the kind of real-world research the farmers need; the academics focused on chasing the big money, and putting their research on the experiment stations, e.g.
Big Ag--so tightly connected to Pharma--was always chasing its own set of lucrative kitty-laser-pointers. We were trying to work with some of the smartest people I ever met--those innovative, usually but not always smaller--farmers, and make sure their incredible, inquisitive, observant minds could develop inquiry.
We really needed a sort of Bell Labs for non-heavy-metal farming/food systems. But instead that all fell in the realm of Monsanto, etc. It never occurs to most people that human food systems are as artificially engineered as say electron based ones...and every bit as responsive to the inputs of genuine geniuses.
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>>536759799
>1995
>no computer
You just know a retarded boomer wrote it.
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>>536766041
I meant 10Ghz vs 10.150 btw
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>>536768007
I miss the innocence (ignorance is bliss). It's always been evil, always; from now straight thru to Old Testament. they just kept it hidden/down down-low for a few hundred years or longer.
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>>536768088
Ah, you’re much like me, the one who is called in to absorb a fuckload of seemingly unrelated data, identify correlations and bring it all into “meta-data” context. Alot of people have trouble, say, taking a set of documents designed to be “read”(referenced) together, rather than parse all the data and take in context of eachother, they treat each page as its own individual entity.

I’ve reached asst production mgr/QA manager status and beyond w/o a degree or college experience at all, but I haven’t found so many intelligent people in one place at one time. Needless to say that’s subjective to the individual, when I was an unchallenged middle schooler I would cause a bit of a ruckus as the class clown, resulting in my having to take an IQ test as an assessment as to what they were going to do with me. After scoring absurdly high, I had to retake the test to confirm it, they simply couldn’t believe it due to the number of 9’s involved. That was age 13. So it’s difficult finding “peers” here on this planet.
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>>536759799
A lot people had internet in 1995. I even had upgraded from dial up to DSL by ‘97 or so. You need to go back to 1985 to get to a time when most non poors didn’t have internet.
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>>536759857
I think I'm gonna finger this guy's asshole.
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>>536767818
The whole issue of how solar, galactic, and beyond EM interplays with the earth's fields is one of my pet obsessions.
There is PLENTY of research on how robust EM bursts like solar activity correlate with extreme behavior in humans. For example, violent outbursts correlating with CMEs whomping the earth. Or rapid upturns in cardiac problems.
So much is going on all the time with the planet's Birkeland currents. I suspect that what is called the "anomaly" there is a flow of EM in, around, and through the charged spherical capacitor upon which we reside.
That flow has shape and movement and features with structured elements that can be observed, Hannes Alfven thought, over 39 orders of magnitude.
I was thinking the other night about the work done on mapping long-term climate patterns (heat/cool cycles) onto our solar system's movement through the electrical fields of our galaxy's spiral arms. The pond-ripples of that swirling out...and our little corner of existence surfing those waves.
I was thinking about the research measuring electrical flows/shape at the edges of tectonic plates/fault lines. And about the work being done on measuring geoelectricity as part of a predictive model for earthquakes/volcanic activity.
Overlaying on all that the increasingly dense human-created electrical flows and jitters is a reminder to think bigger about it all. But then we have the interests you note. Unquestionably there has been a lot more research and tinkering and live-time experimentation than we would be comfy to know.
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>>536768088
This all reminds me of the TVA efforts to introduce contour farming to Appalachia(WV/TN/VA), which would have massively made the local farmers lives easier as well as safer, less risk to community, etc, yet the locals there ran them off, despite a few model farms working out beautifully. At least the dams went in.
I used to live in WV, Eleanor Roosevelt knows well that Appalachians don’t want nor need help from outsiders- except rich businessmen to buy up the whole town and bring employment to the area, and further corruption.

Except in your case the farmers seem to have been leagues more progressive.
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>>536768685
My brother, I have found you
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>for decades, the U.S. EMP Commission warned about the dangers of nuclear electromagnetic pulse attacks. In 2017, it deemed North Korea's "nuclear EMP attack" an "existential threat" to American civilization. Despite these warnings, nothing was done to prepare. Therefore, the U.S. Space Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama can only watch as a North Korean Super-EMP satellite maneuvers into position 300 miles above the United States and detonates.
>the electromagnetic pulse creates three cascading shockwaves that surge through SCADA systems controlling America's entire electrical infrastructure. Cars, airplanes, dams, valves, and countless other electronic systems simultaneously fail. The United States, the world's most technologically advanced nation,[citation needed] is brought to its knees by this single space-based explosion/For decades, the U.S. EMP Commission warned about the dangers of nuclear electromagnetic pulse attacks. In 2017, it deemed North Korea's "nuclear EMP attack" an "existential threat" to American civilization. Despite these warnings, nothing was done to prepare. Therefore, the U.S. Space Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama can only watch as a North Korean Super-EMP satellite maneuvers into position 300 miles above the United States[2]:254-259 and detonates. The electromagnetic pulse creates three cascading shockwaves that surge through SCADA systems controlling America's entire electrical infrastructure. Cars, airplanes, dams, valves, and countless other electronic systems simultaneously fail. The United States, the world's most technologically advanced nation,[citation needed] is brought to its knees by this single space-based explosion.
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I buy a computer and modem and get back online because I am not a retard and knew the internet like the back of my hand in 1995. Also I buy Apple stock for peanuts and make a fortune.
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>>536768410
>So it’s difficult finding “peers” here on this planet.
One suspects another origin. :^>
I worked for some years in education policy for the state agency of one of the two most highly regarded public schooling systems (WI and IA). I was...devastated isn't too strong a word...to see how absolutely abandoned extremely intelligent students were, systematically, at every level of this agency. "Oh, they're smart, they'll do OK."
My teacher was a professor at a military college for over 35 years. He saved my life when I was in my teens. He told me once that really smart kids have to do two things in life: live by their wits, and find ways not to be devoured by their own minds/capacities. I didn't know what he meant by that latter point till my late 20s into 30s. As I really began to understand how fat the left 90% of the bell curve was. The pre-commercial internet came along just in time. I don't know what I would have done without the people I found that way. /pol/ used to be a much more reliable nexus, so this thread is very comfy indeed, and I thank you and OP.
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>>536761769
>DESCENT 1
Man of excellent taste, right there.
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>>536759799
that site is still going?
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>>536768864
hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html

https://uspas.fnal.gov/materials/18MSU/TM-1834-Revision-16.pdf

https://spp.fas.org/military/program/asat/emp2004.pdf
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>>536761079
>>536761485
I saw one where the reveal was Shadman
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>>536759799
>wake up in 1995
FUCK YEAH!
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>>536768753
I've been pulling out older stuff in my library on America's dam-building obsession of the 20th century, as complement to discussions of that most hopeless of Utopias, California.
The building of dams was not planned in a meta way...and there was a lot of howling pseudoscience in it. Like, e.g., the assertion that "the rain will follow the plow." (By cultivating dryland, it'll bring moisture to it.)
The Appalachian thing--I did a lot of backpacking there in my younger years, and loved every mile and foot. I was especially interested in the scars left by the rich businessmen you note. In Pennsylvania there are entire ridgetops that still cannot grow vegetation, the land was so burned by coal-mining activity.
And now we hear that there's lithium in them thar hills.
The farmers I worked with were indeed progressive, in the original sense of the term. More than that, they were the kind of men (and a few women) who could have an open discussion, explore ideas, bash them around...argue...disagree...and still keep an eye on the stars, and navigate, and tack as needed. They were incredible people. And watching some of them get targeted by Monsanto, for instance, for offering public discussion of the likely meta effects of rBGH, or "terminator" seeds, or whatever...that was really hard.

>>536768864
Ah yes. That is a very nice graphic. Did you create it?

>>536769116
Oh yeah. I ran across HyperPhysics as a hit on Wiby a couple years ago and got completely lost in there. CLASSIC site. Was thrilled it was still up.

I need to peel off. It was a tiring day of dealing with humans with more tomorrow, so rest is called for. Thanks to OP for the thread, and you, Abot, for the comfy.
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>>536761769
>>536768893
The biggest problem I’m having is with being morally OK contributing to basically anything that one might consider “making good use of my abilities”. I can’t really think of a damn thing I can agree with or be “OK” with that this country or our military industrial complex has done in the last 100+yrs, and god knows exactly what they did to JFK(we all do).
>another origin
My guy don’t even get me started on that, I’ve literally seen actual aliens and my older half-brother to this day still remembers it as well, and both of my half bros remember us seeing a UFO over the local fishing lake we hung out at, in woods near STL
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>>536769299
The lithium I believe is upstate NY and western mass. Which is just great because I live east of there near Prov/Bos. At any rate, I still remember watching them blast away my beautiful mountains to put in I-79 when I was 3 years old, and now there’s so damn many mountaintops blown clean off. Obama fucked the coal industry up there, which was the one well paying job opportunity, and you didn’t even have to go in the mines to make great cash, you could drive surface trucks right out of HS. My friends were making over $100,000 in 2009, 2010 when the bottom fell out. I think you have some perspective as to how significant that amount of money is there, everyone was buying their mom or parents new houses, new cars, then buying the same for themselves, CASH. That’s how shit got so fucked in WV, that and the opioid crisis that such labor produced, the docs were giving it away then just quit overnight. Then the meth came…

I did not create the image. The site is amazingly still updated, btw. I need to kick off too man, it’s been good. Great even.
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>>536769595
>>536769299
Btw you may like this too, some other anon recommended it to me the other day
https://www.meyl.eu/go/indexbe14.html
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>>536759799
>Total Internet Blackout Incoming
This is why I archive.

Anyone have any experience with these offline wikipedia servers? I know they're usually DIY but that was back when a Raspberry Pi and a 512GB card was $50.

https://www.prepperdisk.com/products/prepper-disk-premium-over-512gb-of-survival-content
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This is my calling card btw
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>>536769915
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>>536769937
PC 6300
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>>536759799
Make breakfast.
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>>536769978
This one is just for fun but is mine
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>>536759799
thank god for the death of datacenters
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>>536759799
Rape, probably
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>>536759799
Go rent some porn and go to swinger parties and star in porn since the internet hasn’t ruined porn yet. Bang some of those 90s brunettes
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>>536759799
Nothing ever happens
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>>536761079
based fellow columbo enjoyer
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>>536759799
>1995
>You don't have a computer
Get fucked, PC's existed in 1995 and Doom was available as freeware lmao
>What's the first thing you do?
I make a tea, like I do every morning.
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>>536760644
yes i don't understand.
my family did have msdos for breakfast
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This board has a remarkable number of brainlets of every category. This thread is full of nostalgia brainlets. I mean, /g/ is thataway:
>>>/g/
OP thought experiment literally says things like
>You don't have a computer.
But the joggerbrains talk about their 1995 computers and how people had internet and how they were macgyvering their dicks to grow an inch with DIY erectronic tecmology hooked up to a 486 toaster with a math processor. What is wrong with your brain that you are so completely incapable of entertaining a simple thought experiment without going full "akshually" about your best 1990s computing life? Are you suffering from cognitive decline? Why do you have a zoomer or alfie grade attention span?
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>>536771617
OP is a 1pbtid slide thread bot and it's thought experiment is dumb. "Hurr durr what if you went back in time but with all the knowledge you have from today" oh wow what riveting conversations we will have about novel concept.
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>>536759799
take a fat shit and go for a walk
then eat some fridge food, fuck my hand, then tke a nap, then idk, go to the park
then i'd probably get my life together and be useful to society after that

but this thread is niggers so who cares
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>>536759799
Masturbate as usual.
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>You don't have a computer
I most definitely would.
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>>536759799
But I had a PC in 95
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>>536765206
>almost nobody had a fucking cell phone in 95 you lying nigger
Lots of people had a cell phone in 95 you stupid zoomer. I had one, most of my acquaintances had one. Since you are a dumb tech illiterate zoomer you probably think that the first cell phone was an iPhone.



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