Journal Chacham's Journal: Verbiage.: Memories: /., ICQ, Windows 95. 8
When did you start reading
Must be around ICQ time. I remmeber finding a mention of this new thingy called ICQ from the Duke Nuk'em 3D developers site. I installed it, got my sub-200k id, and fought for it against my AIM buddies, until i just started to like AIM more. Of course, that was when i used Pow-Wow, and who knows how many other chat utilities.
Then there was that time i downloaded this new thing called Windows 94^H5 from USENET. I still think NT 3.51 was Microsoft's best OS.
DOS 6.22 (Score:1)
You are pretty far ahead of me in the ICQ/SLASHDOT game...although I read
How about your first Linux distro? Mine was Slackware 2.1 I believe...not positive though. A friend of mine brought over a Linux book that had 2 cds...1 with Slackware and the other with a distro I didn't care for.
Re:DOS 6.22 (Score:2)
Chips -n- Dips (Score:2)
ICQ was introuduced to me via a friend from IRC. I have a 'relatively' low UID there as well (2402187), but not quite as low as Chacham's. Since then, I've primarily using YIM and AIM.
Through an act of god, I managed to squeeze 95 onto my first computer (first as in actually mine) a 486/33 SX with 4 MB ram and a 120 MB Drive. Sh
Re:Chips -n- Dips (Score:1)
Bah (Score:2)
I think I first started reading
Oh, and my first Linux distro was RH 6.0
[Although I think I might get out a book from the college library w/ RH 4 on its CD, just for novelty value...]
1999... (Score:1)
Hmmm.... (Score:1)
I can't stand "+1" for high karma, usually its just a represenation of "+1, I think like everyother slashbot." There are a couple other things, that I modify to, like foes and freaks don't get a "-1", they get a "+0", and friends and fans get a "+1".
ICQ (Score:1)
I started reading slashdot right around the time of this article [slashdot.org]. Didn't bother to actually create an account for some time after that. Looking at all the juicy low I