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Frisco
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Where can I find a forum designed for flame wars? I tried finding some, but no luck...
All in good fun. I want the use of "Anything Goes!"
Any suggestions?
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No, I'm not here to start trouble... I understand
I just can't find a forum where anything goes...
I just find it humorous! lol
The site won't let me in... The only button working on my end is "Contact"...
Before the fall of usenet, one could go to alt.flame, where it was once considered an art form and the participants were actually intelligent friends able to ham it up. I have no idea where you could go today, sorry, as the usenet was destroyed by actual flame wars. You can still find it courtesy of google, but I don't know if you'll find it rising above lame.
What do you mean? Did the flame wars get that intense?
What you describe is kinda what I'm looking for.
I actually have a taste though for justice, meaning, I like to troll the trolls! (Falls off computer chair laughing nearly scratching the new Rezound smartphone) ha ha ha!
Frisco
=Luceat Lux Vestra=
Ah, the nostalgia. There was an "alt.flame.karl.malden-nose" usenet group I used to read in for laughs. Most of the time they were not joking in their flaming.. I think.
Yes, they got that intense.
The beginning of the end came the day that AOL opened a portal out of their network and on to the actual internet. The folks from AOL were quite new and while many were very nice, many were total jerks and the latter group did not suffer well at the hands of those who had been using the net for some time.
Remarks like, "I am going to report you to AOL, I have been a member here forever, we're talking 6 months, but, and I am telling you that if you hacked in to the Internet for free while I am paying, then you are doing it wrong!" did not fare particularly well at the hands of students and staff at Berkeley and MIT who were still writing basic utilities and who were collaborating to create the internet build out and complete the utilities that would seed the GNU project and make Linux what it is today.
That happened on Day Two of the AOL Incursion.
By Day Three, the first of the "No, I don't know what unix or C is and AOL says you can't tell me to leave this room, my friends and I can go anywhere we want!" posts hit, and it was game on.
By Day Four, the 9th graders from Flounder High (see what I did there?) were telling people from Cal Tech how to use computers while obvious pedophiles were on to this idea that somehow AOL had just opened a treasure trove of schools for them to hunt in, oblivious to the fact that among the so-called rooms they had entered (usenet had groups, not rooms) was one for law students at Harvard.
Hijinks ensued.
Today you can still explore groups.google.com, and look for the remnants of the alt hierarchy (people groups beginning with alt.) - I stuck my nose in several years back, and some of those flame wars were still going, albeit as shadows of their former creativity.
I know all this because I was there, as once upon a time people used to buy books that taught how to use the internet and where to go for information. Two decades ago, I was named in those as a helpful guide for all that (back when I used my real name (we mostly all did)), so I guess that's the best help that I can give to point you to the once-great stomping grounds.
Good luck!
The beginning of the end came the day that AOL opened a portal out of their network and on to the actual internet. The folks from AOL were quite new and while many were very nice, many were total jerks and the latter group did not suffer well at the hands of those who had been using the net for some time.
Remarks like, "I am going to report you to AOL, I have been a member here forever, we're talking 6 months, but, and I am telling you that if you hacked in to the Internet for free while I am paying, then you are doing it wrong!" did not fare particularly well at the hands of students and staff at Berkeley and MIT who were still writing basic utilities and who were collaborating to create the internet build out and complete the utilities that would seed the GNU project and make Linux what it is today.
That happened on Day Two of the AOL Incursion.
By Day Three, the first of the "No, I don't know what unix or C is and AOL says you can't tell me to leave this room, my friends and I can go anywhere we want!" posts hit, and it was game on.
By Day Four, the 9th graders from Flounder High (see what I did there?) were telling people from Cal Tech how to use computers while obvious pedophiles were on to this idea that somehow AOL had just opened a treasure trove of schools for them to hunt in, oblivious to the fact that among the so-called rooms they had entered (usenet had groups, not rooms) was one for law students at Harvard.
Hijinks ensued.
Today you can still explore groups.google.com, and look for the remnants of the alt hierarchy (people groups beginning with alt.) - I stuck my nose in several years back, and some of those flame wars were still going, albeit as shadows of their former creativity.
I know all this because I was there, as once upon a time people used to buy books that taught how to use the internet and where to go for information. Two decades ago, I was named in those as a helpful guide for all that (back when I used my real name (we mostly all did)), so I guess that's the best help that I can give to point you to the once-great stomping grounds.
Good luck!
Ah, the nostalgia. There was an "alt.flame.karl.malden-nose" usenet group I used to read in for laughs. Most of the time they were not joking in their flaming.. I think.
I remember that one!
And you had really arrived when you got your own alt.flame.(your name) group!
Friend of mine created the alt.flame hierarchy. Really nice guy in fact, great sense of humor.
xda-developers.com
sometimes it is pretty funny...
They are working on that, let's not throw rocks.
Frisco
=Luceat Lux Vestra=
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
Ahh the AOL memories. I hated the AOL crowd. They arrived, stunk up the place and had no clue about etiquette.
Back in the day, I used a program called AOLHell. It would scroll naughty ASCII pictures in AOL Groups; you could bust into a room at will, and do all sorts of things. Punting was cool as was the ever popular mail bomb.
Ahh to be a net new bee again.
Back in its heyday the FIDOnet bulletin board system could be a minefield too. As few users had the luxury of anything faster than 14.4kbps dial-up, and paid for their usage by the second, replies were composed offline, bundled into a compressed reply packet and uploaded during off-peak rate. Nothing was rushed.... people had time to really ensure their barbs were razor-sharp.