Usernames and Avatars
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My user name was born in about 1999 when I for the first time in my life joined a chat room. I had been computer literate for many years, starting with a Commodore64 and writing basic, but I had never in my life chatted anywhere on the webz. I wanted something that didn't have a number after it...and Elantis was born. In a chat room in a now defunct "free" chat space I met someone. I lived in Indiana and he in Nebraska, well a year later we married in 2001.
As far as my avatar, I chose the dragonfly for it's symbolism - "The dragonfly, in almost every part of the world symbolizes change and change in the perspective of self realization."
As far as my avatar, I chose the dragonfly for it's symbolism - "The dragonfly, in almost every part of the world symbolizes change and change in the perspective of self realization."
Well... my username is my name... W being the 1st initial of my last name. As for my avatar... that's my baby, Spanky, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. I chose that picture because that's the way he looks at me every time I get on the computer... like he is being totally neglected and ignored.
I still remember thinking I was Mr Cool haveing a 9600 baud modem....I could down load a short text joke in under an hour
What? I remember when I had an internal 2400 baud modem, and everyone was amazed that I could get on bulletin boards. They heard the modem, but could not see it! It probably cost about $100 at the time.
No usb ports... Had to manually configure the COM ports. Heck sound cards were a PITA. Remember "sound blaster compatible"?
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BBS's were cool...untill the phone bill came and you realized these were not local phone numbers. Dad was not happy.
My name, The band VNV Nation is my favorite and the VNV stands for Victory Not Vengeance.
My Avatar is from an illustration in Stephen King's Dark Tower book "Wolves of the Calla". It is an image of an evil robot getting its eyes and processors shot out by a gun. I'm disabled and into robots so I kind of feel like a broken robot.
My name, The band VNV Nation is my favorite and the VNV stands for Victory Not Vengeance.
My Avatar is from an illustration in Stephen King's Dark Tower book "Wolves of the Calla". It is an image of an evil robot getting its eyes and processors shot out by a gun. I'm disabled and into robots so I kind of feel like a broken robot.
I never thought about it that way, but I can relate. I love the avatar!
I remember thinking my 486 was really fast! I went through Microsoft MCSE course way back in the Windows 95 days. I've spent many hours trying to get stuff to work. I remember paying a small fortune for memory cards and Sound blaster cards, that brings back some memories!
ok.. who remembers a computer game - fortran language - called adventure, circa 1980? and if you remember it.. who remembers how to open the clam?
interesting thread. I use rideco because I love to ride snowboards in the winter and motorcycles in the summer and I live in Colorado. My avatar is a picture of my current motorcycle a triumph daytona 675.
I've never really been interested in computer games, but I do remember playing Pong on a Commador 64 in about 1975.
J.R.
This has turned into a trip down technology memory lane. I remember what a big upgrade it was going to a 1200 baud modem. Before that, my high tech was a single sided 5-1/4" drive on my Commodore 64 and that was a giant upgrade from the VIC-20. When I got a 286 with a meg of RAM and a 40 meg drive I thought I was in heaven. Now my dumb phone has more processing power than any of those, and it really is a dumb phone. Between the tablet, laptop and desktop I can't justify a smartphone.
Memory lane ... for one of my first jobs I had to go a couple blocks down to the bank to rent time on their big computer. Anybody remember keypunch cards?
oh yeah.. keypunch cards.. yep.. remember them for sure. How about whole floors in buildings dedicated to computers? oh oh.. and my first introduction to a computer program in 4th grade... spell check!!! best thing since captain crunch! circa 1965 or so..
Yep....I remember keypunch cards. Then they went to long strips of paper fed thru the phone....then cassette tape type things that recorded the data, you put it on a phone and transported the data that way....then floppy disks, the big ones. Then diskettes. CD's. Now there's little travel drives (not sure what the official name is, I have one tho).
Wow this thread is a trip down memory lane.
And DOS! I was lost in DOS! Glad when they came out with Windows.
And my name was the name I used for my first email address years ago. dws (my initials) iz (is) me. Like ToysRus.....get it? I didn't know who to be when I joined the forum so I decided to just use that.
Wow this thread is a trip down memory lane.
And DOS! I was lost in DOS! Glad when they came out with Windows.
And my name was the name I used for my first email address years ago. dws (my initials) iz (is) me. Like ToysRus.....get it? I didn't know who to be when I joined the forum so I decided to just use that.
Yep....I remember keypunch cards. Then they went to long strips of paper fed thru the phone....then cassette tape type things that recorded the data, you put it on a phone and transported the data that way....then floppy disks, the big ones. Then diskettes. CD's. Now there's little travel drives (not sure what the official name is, I have one tho).
Wow this thread is a trip down memory lane.
And DOS! I was lost in DOS! Glad when they came out with Windows.
And my name was the name I used for my first email address years ago. dws (my initials) iz (is) me. Like ToysRus.....get it? I didn't know who to be when I joined the forum so I decided to just use that.
Wow, I've been pronouncing it down size me (dw siz me).
J.R.
Name is kinda' long story. I am a junior and had an aunt who refused to call me Little Forrest, so she nick named me J.R. In high school, I had a history teacher who just called me Jar, and it stuck. In college, we played a lot of a game called Top Gun. I was a Russian Studies major at the time so I always played a Soviet pilot, named Jarski. The 44 was added back in the Compuserve days as a user name.
Wow, I've been pronouncing it down size me (dw siz me).
J.R.
Funny! That's what I've been trying to do in my life at this point! Too much junk.
Name, favorite MC.
Avatar, MEGADETH, F-T-W!
14th album coming out this year, saw them in Nov for the CTE 20th.Made life better.
Avatar, MEGADETH, F-T-W!
14th album coming out this year, saw them in Nov for the CTE 20th.Made life better.
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