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myrrh
joined 2 years ago
...it's hard to out-cute kiki...
AND I'M LIKE, WHATEVER!
Mar-a-Kwayné
...your foster parents are dead...
...not just faster; firewire devices self-hosted, so they could manage data transfers without your machine needing bus-master interrupts...
so smooth
...yeah, come back after you've pulse-dialed an acoustic coupler at 300 baud to network your terminal emulator with a shell account, kid...
...i won't say how i know, but i can personally vouch that a lotus elise is lower than the ground clearance beneath an HEB semi-trailer...
...in `94, i mailed a handwritten check to id software and received a slim box of 3.5" diskettes a couple weeks later; the world was a different place...
...for the original doom, the overarching narrative was that deimos disappeared after teleportation research inadvertently opened a portal to hell: episode 1 (knee-deep in the dead) was set on phobos; episode 2 (on the shores of hell) was set on deimos hovering in the skies of hell; and episode 3 (inferno) was set down on the surface of hell itself, not mars...
...episode 4 (thy flesh consumed) was set back on earth following the invasion of hell, but it was an add-on released a couple years after the original game; counterintuitively, back then the original game was downloadable shareware for episode 1 with episodes 2-3 available via mail-order directly from id, and episode 4 was finally distributed as a retail expansion only after the retail release of doom II (kind of an inter-quel?)...
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...google's old dejanews archives don't go back as far as my usenet activity, but i doubt i had any old web content which predates where they pick up unless we include legacy media archives like newspaper or television; for that matter, i think a lot of old yearbooks are online now, too...
...anyway, if we're only counting web-first content, i didn't make my first website until like `94 and all my hosts before like 2005 are decades gone by now...