There was also DOS SLIP. One of those should be able to connect to a dial-up account.

Or if all they can actually do is email. DOS.
Until 1998 I ran DOS 6.2, DOSPPP (for dialup) and I don't remember what program I had for email. Along with NCSA Telnet. I think I used a TSR ("terminate and stay resident") - may of been required to launch DOSPPP.

Those "windows.exe viruses" wont get very far in a 16 bit environment.

*snicker*

I can understand when ppl bitch about obscure acronyms or Biology/Physics/etc concepts being bandied about as common knowledge... but really, SystemD --- LINUX ... it's quite possibly one of the most common topics on ./ this year.

Most of the players are across the pacific, European-continent countries, Russian. The asshole ratio is fairly small. The worst I've seen, less than a dozen times or so in a year (as I Blacklist them) are the people that make a snide/dickish comment when you lose, as opposed to "gg". Although most people don't say (type) anything at all.

All of the other online CCG/TCG's that I've come across force you to continually spend money, or at the very least invest far, far too much time to earn "virtual-coins".

The only thing you can "earn" in Spectromancer is renown. The card-list is self-contained; and only changes when new "Caster-types" are added, which has only occurred twice over the last 5-6 years with the two expansions.

Spectromancer is a bit more math-oriented than MTG, and you can't make your own decks in multi-player --- aside from some Tournament/Arena match-types. It's definitely not for everyone.

I introduced it to my 10yo nephew 4 or 5 months ago now, and we play almost every week for about an hour. One of the best investments I ever made.

Check out Degen or Sangean on Amazon. Some are shortwave radios, some world-bands, graphic-equalizers, portable, many take SD cards for MP3 playback.

That might be a bit harsh, but none of the companies on the page are exactly well known for cooperating with the projects they use, with Google being one of the worst offenders by forking both Linux and WebKit.

How does forking something make google the worst offender. Isn't that one of the key benefits to OSS that something can be forked?

I know right. RTS, and FPS and moar guns and death, Civ-likes and RPG's that take months to finish, they are much more valuable to modern computing.

ALl this talk of multiplayer sounds awfully FPS-centric. Try a card game (Spectromancer) based on Magic-the-Gathering, designed with Richard Garfield, and MTG art assets. No micro-transactions, no further purchases beyond the $20 up-front cost. And if $20 is too much, play single-player-only for free on Kongregate.

A game can last anywheres from 2 mins to 30, with the average of about 5-8mins.

I take it you find it interesting .

They used BIG Government for the subsidies and pay-outs. Then used little Government to lock out the competition. Just like Verizon has claimed to be a telecom when it suits their needs, and then claims "internet" isn't telecom when that suits their needs.

Oh, and FYI. I come from 15 years of Opera. I know what customizable is. As soon as they make it easier to incorporate a custom-button, they'll have smoked Opera 12 as far as that's concerned.

When multi-threading gets more stable, they'll have smoked Opera in every way imaginable.

And for the people that wont give up their legacy-shit-extensions, you can add back the Status-bar/Addon-bar and live in the past to ones hearts content.

It's actually more customizable, and easier to do so.
I'm pretty sure the primary reason for getting rid of the "Addon Bar" and such is to break legacy usage of shit extensions that aren't secure, haven't maintained development, and in many cases are no longer necessary. There are so many garbage extensions in the online addons repository, it's not even funny. Hundreds of addons that do one stupid thing, that USERSTYLES can do or that FF already does natively. Yet people still download and install them. Hilarious.

Then I guess she wont mind using a browser thats 10 years old either.

Chrome is quite possibly the least customizable browser available. Whereas FF is far and away the MOST customizable, perhaps even better than Opera 12 in that respect.

Even IE allows for some pretty major GUI surgery with BrowserHelpers, and extensions. I use Quero for IE, and hide the "native address-bar".

I'm helping. I use FF Nightly nearly exclusively plus IE11 when I can't tell if a problem is a site or FF. Nightly has made major progress since 32/33, which would freeze for nearly 10 mins on relaunch with hundreds/thousand+ tabs (even with don't load tabs until selected).
Now there's very little time at all before the interface becomes useable, even without enabling "Electrolysis". Although I keep trying to test multi-threaded, but it breaks LastPass, RequestPolicyContinued and probably some other things.

Mozilla should just make it easier to report bug reports. They already collect my telemetry data, I shouldn't have to go through yet another registration and run over to bugzilla.

The FF-whiners spread more disinformation than truth. Although at times it contains a grain of truth. Granted they sound similiar to some of us when Opera dropped Presto. At least FF held their ground and pushed through.