If you're goin *all* the way back....

FidoNet, RIME, countless long dead BBS's & listservers, Hotmail pre-MS, Juno, NetZero, Netscape, usenet, yahoo...Multiples on *all* of them because I would forget or lose login info or whatever I wrote it on. (the tequila had nothing to do with...yeah right)

Then the message boards one the web got really going?

Not a clue, but I can remember the phrase "Howard Karten's Kim Chee recipe"

Insufficient memory to continue, operation halted.

Nothing like trying to rescue a polar bear cub in a snowstorm

Welcome to Verizon.

Foistware/crapware & crippled phones have been standard practice there for years.

Remember, these are the same things that even New Jersey finally woke up and declared a bad idea.

Even the (in)famous Airport circle outside of Atlantic City is going away. The diminutive Rt40/Pole Tavern circle is still...around, as is the ever entertaining Red Lion circle. Watching the Somers Point circle "fade" away along with the 30's era bridge into Ocean City has been an amazing example of gov't waste in action.
(only .5 billion$)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_traffic_circles_in_New_Jersey

Yep, let's not forget building up a "defining" game/userbase w/EQ and then trying to divide it (or whatever that was) with EQ2.

Then again, it did fit in with the attitude of "the user/customer is the enemy" which they seemed to have finely honed over the years.

Regrettably correct.

The June 7th 1960 BOMARC incident was initially reported to have release "minimal" contamination. This was later found out to be wrong to the extent where everyone involved denied any intentional "misdeeds".

Just wait till they find out that "Have a Nice Day" is inscribed around the muzzles of some .50 caliber rifles. (another not joking, sorry)

The FCC has effectiveness? (not joking)

They're more like one of the examples of "lack of".

The timelines they use for decisions & the resources they use are & have been for years generally the models of "How Not To Do Things".

Sony...Bug Free...I'm speechless. Utterly, even sarcasm fails me.

On the other notes, SOE has always struck me as a perfect example of how NOT to run online gaming. It took quite a bit of effort to eliminate the lead Everquest had, but by splitting the market & alienating players, they managed to do it. They seem to have followed this pattern more than once as well.

I'll prob dl the game just to use Smed's/SOE's names as obscenities again.

(edit after 1st preview)
Ok, I just actually looked at the game...I can't even stomach the intro movie, I don't want to see gameplay. World of Goo is suddenly a compelling deep game with an interesting plotline.

A continuation of the clear pattern of English aggression.

They along with their Canadian minions are a clear and present danger to National Security. We should immediately respond by liberating Canada from the Yoke of Socialism under which they have struggled for so many years. They will welcome our just and correct rule of their impoverished nation.

We shall then through a series of landing from our bases in France & Norway, liberate England and ultimately place it in a protectorate administered by the Irish & French.

One of the home machines picked up the bug. I wondered why FF was crashing so much & not SeaMonkey.

(in house standing unwritten rules)

If running ADP application, don't update Java.

If archive manager won't load open task manager & kill xxx and xxx launched by archive manager.

When logging in to the application it will prompt you to update the install. Click NO and call tech support.

Welcome our radioactive plant overlords....