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Year was 1993. Internet just launch or about to modem with 36Kbps....
I was surfing on school internet....during that time was using Unix...webby is restricted to text.....email is "pine".....Internet games are BBS.
Chit chat restrict to "TALK" etc....damn cool during that time. know alot of ladies all around the whole then....
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Later IRC,ICQ etc came over...but not really into IRC, as too many parties and very confusing...don't like GROUP CHIT CHAT....
Now lost contacts for more of the users after PC crashed for a few times and most information is lost.
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irc, icq, msn, forums and wat have u... yes i have tons of net friends... some remain as net friends who i greet online, some met up and bec acquaintances, some bec friends.... just like friends u noe elsewhere, there are diff category..... just upgrade or downgrade the respective ppl.....
but yes there are lotsa weirdos lurking online, just have to exercise more caution. i ever met a pervert.... i have to threaten to make a police report to get him off my back
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from a few forums, through friendster n multiply.
Friendster ones never meet b4.
there are too many ???.
I never believe in pics anyway
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Most of the online friends I still talk to now are the ones I make over here in Sgforums
Most are nice people, but some I have lost contact after chatting online for a few times...
For those I find nice to talk to, I guess they will see me when I come back Guess I will have an outing when I come back in a year and a half time ...
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I remember that! used to use it v often to email rhonda n a few other frensOriginally posted by kops21:Year was 1993. Internet just launch or about to modem with 36Kbps....
I was surfing on school internet....during that time was using Unix...webby is restricted to text.....email is "pine".....Internet games are BBS.
Chit chat restrict to "TALK" etc....damn cool during that time. know alot of ladies all around the whole then.... ....
Later IRC,ICQ etc came over...but not really into IRC, as too many parties and very confusing...don't like GROUP CHIT CHAT....
Now lost contacts for more of the users after PC crashed for a few times and most information is lost. 
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Forward to year 2003, Unix and PINE are still in vogue in NUS School of Computing... I guess they are still in use even today in SoC...Originally posted by kops21:Year was 1993. Internet just launch or about to modem with 36Kbps....
I was surfing on school internet....during that time was using Unix...webby is restricted to text.....email is "pine".....Internet games are BBS.
Chit chat restrict to "TALK" etc....damn cool during that time. know alot of ladies all around the whole then.... ....
Later IRC,ICQ etc came over...but not really into IRC, as too many parties and very confusing...don't like GROUP CHIT CHAT....
Now lost contacts for more of the users after PC crashed for a few times and most information is lost. -
i'm i the only dude who used a 14.4kbps modem when it was the newest thing around, upgraded from the 9.6kbps modem? to think, now i've got a connection which is 3500kbps
as for IRC, i never used it.. ICQ was after friends were made...
in the past, i was one of those who used Usenet.. soc.culture.singapore.. left it after it turned into scorched earth by a bunch of flamers, being totally unmoderated, they got away with it...
well, sgforums is pretty cool
although for a while, it was also scorched earth -
we are dinosaur....Originally posted by SydneyLibrarian:I remember that! used to use it v often to email rhonda n a few other frens 
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Choco, you have expressed very eloquently what I had in mind.Originally posted by choco B:I think that friendships established online in its various modes (forum, irc, etc) tend to progress at an accelerated rate. In some cases they have a shortened life span too - they spark off, peak and die off relatively quickly. It's easy to feel close and familiar to someone over a short period of time, much quicker than a friendship that develops in real life. That's perhaps due to the level and frequency of interaction online, compared to in real life when many external factors come into play.
Thus while I do feel close to people online, if the period of interaction has been quite short and mostly via online interaction only - in real life I will still tend to put up my guard. Because I know that what goes on online will never translate exactly into real life.
But I'm more of a reserved person by nature anyway, so that may influence the way I develop online friendships, offfline. It's kinda odd... I'm so guarded in real life and yet, over the net, I'm much less reserved. I have no idea why but it happens. And yes, you do feel close to someone much faster when you interact online. Good and bad, I guess. -
Wise dinosaur is how I'd prefer to be known asOriginally posted by kops21:we are dinosaur.... -
Never used IRC or any of those chat servers and programs.Originally posted by Rhonda:How long have you been using IRC or chat and gotten to know new friends through this route? Any thoughts / feelings / comments on this?
Got to know more friends through Sgforums. They'll stay as online friends till we meet up. Techonology and the internet has made it easier for all to make new friends, especially the introverted. Of course there are the dangers of making friends this way.You never know who's behind the screen on the other side. So until we meet up and get to know each other better, online friends will remain as online friends. And yeah, there has to be a difference between how you treat your online friends and the ones you know in reality. -
Wah.. ahem.. fire ice.. u are lao jiao..
I also started with teleview and an antique 2400 kb modem about 10 years ago
hopped on to irc when internet came by, at tt time, i believe I had a 7200kb modem liao...
was very active in irc, partied a lot, met up a lot,and yeah, all that irc entails. met the requisite number of screwed up people, and a few friends.
then slowly, drifted away... just dont have time to sit there and irc much anymore.
Then there is forums. Started foruming about 5 years ago. stopped about 3 years. it's funny but I made more 'lasting' friends from forums than from irc, perhaps cos older ba. Became busy with work, forum less then altogether stopped.
just started foruming again cos now bumming. -
Hey I started off too with Teleview chatting with a 14.4kb modem more than 10 years ago...
Wow, I'm really old le...
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wow. u so lucky. how come for 14400 modem.
cannot be over 10 years lah.. cos err when I started it was about 10 years ago
and... teleview JUST started with 2400 FREE modem leh...
i think tt time never even heard about 14400 modem leh....
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Ar issit? Cannot remember...Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:wow. u so lucky. how come for 14400 modem.
cannot be over 10 years lah.. cos err when I started it was about 10 years ago
and... teleview JUST started with 2400 FREE modem leh...
i think tt time never even heard about 14400 modem leh....
so cool. hahaha.. what's ur nick
My nick in teleview then was milk... keke
I can't really remember any other nicks except for one whom I always chatted with in teleview... -
hmm got...
afew online fren..
chat for years liao...havent meet -
milk? hehehehehehOriginally posted by EricDraven:Ar issit? Cannot remember...
My nick in teleview then was milk... keke
I can't really remember any other nicks except for one whom I always chatted with in teleview...
erm. i think mine was .. metoo
cos there were a lot of 'me's around...
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did u all go for the tview meetups ebery friday at the PT (public terminal) outside delifrance?
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Nope for me...Originally posted by FireIce:did u all go for the tview meetups ebery friday at the PT (public terminal) outside delifrance? -
HAHAHAHAH I remember the Taka Delifrance counter... and the other one... upstairs in Taka.. near the bookshop 7th floor one. how many hours wasted typing on tt useless keyboard pad.
BUT i dont remember the friday meetups...
think I forget liao also. so many years liao.... -
Missed the ICQ boat altogether, and only really started using MSN when I started working at a place where my sys admin had cerebral palsy and needed to use it to talk to the rest of the staff.
I started getting into forums in 1998 - it was a Formula 1 forum that turned into a real zoo, with some jerks spamming the whole site with porn, so a few of the guys from the forum set up a private forum. That was a good experience, and through the three main forums I'm on at the moment, I should know someone in any continent I visit. -
i tried icq, msn, yahoo and etc. now i use msn mostly. but all the ppl in my msn are known friends rather than net friends. i only meet new friends in this forum, not msn or other media...dunno why....i guess not really comfortable sometimes.
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Started going to IRC when I was just a mere pri 6 student. Fortunately, did not go all naive and get conned by lechers/rapists who want to arrange to meet up, cos' was aware of that. I still remember people going to the main channel of channels like #teens and typing what they want in a girlfriend/boyfriend. Lots of desperate people and lechers.
Nowadays, I don't go to IRC at all cos' I chat on MSN Messenger instead. Much better cos' you know it's your real friend on the other side, instead of an old man pretending to be a 'hot hunk'.