INGO? Never heard of it.

[jagee]

You've been left out of all the fun recently.

For real.

 

[chezuki]

I can't even post an intro thread or reply

I didn't wanna play over there anyway. Humpf!

Did you complete the registration and follow the verification email?




Awe ****!! I'm already providing forum support for the new board!!

 

[jagee]

Did you complete the registration?




Awe ****!! I'm already providing forum support for the new board!!

I thought I did...maybe I missed the secret handshake or something

 

[nakinate]

I thought I did...maybe I missed the secret handshake or something

 

[chezuki]

Chezuki, how are you using INGO smilies? It won't let me just copy and paste. Are you using them as pics?

Type this:

[noparse]

[/noparse]

Using the image location url of the smiley you want to use.

 

[jagee]

Apparently you're required to have an Avatar to post something over there...at least I am...

 

[shibumiseeker]

I was simply questioning your time frame. It was a bit of a joke. I doubt there was much internet action 25 years ago.

And there you would be wrong. While the web was born 25 years ago, and the internet itself wasn't a household word, there was a LOT of action on the internet. Us nerds, academics, researchers, and a whole host of people doing real work and having fun were using it.

I got my start on the internet with email and bbs in 1983, and before that direct dial-in bbs in 1980. By 1989 there were tens of millions of people using the internet around the world and some of the early gun fora, while they may have been smaller than InGO is now, felt like they were an entire world unto themselves, and as those transitioned to USENET (which was transported via the internet), they got bigger and bigger, many to the point of unusability because of the sheer volume of spam and trolls.

I know to the youngsters here the internet may only seem like the web, but in 1990 after I had been working as a networks technician for a year, I made the comment to my uncle at a family reunion that within ten years pretty much everything was going to be done or available via the internet and the web.

 

[churchmouse]

We'll have to send the Lurkers in to do some intelligence! , , , , intelligence! Brrhahahaha!

That is an Oxymoron.........

 

[Snapdragon]

How long does it take to get the confirmation email?

 

[nakinate]

Apparently you're required to have an Avatar to post something over there...at least I am...

Just don't use a monkey!

 

[jagee]

Just don't use a monkey!

Don't worry, I would never want to be confused for jetgirl!

 

[nakinate]

Type this:

[noparse]

[/noparse]

Using the image location url of the smiley you want to use.

Got it. Thanks!

 

[nakinate]

How long does it take to get the confirmation email?

Check your spam. That's where mine was.

 

[Fishersjohn48]

Someone please start making dupe threads about things already discussed.

 

[nakinate]

I'm going to report you for bad advice jagee!

 

[JetGirl]

Don't worry, I would never want to be confused for jetgirl!

Sorry about your name choice there, jayyygeeeeee....

 

[jagee]

I'm going to report you for bad advice jagee!

What?!?! That advise was SOLID!

 

[jagee]

Sorry about your name choice there, jayyygeeeeee....

Blame my grandparents...

 

[nakinate]

MAN! Bunnykid started the Lifetime permit is going away thread. People are buying it!!

 

[nakinate]

What?!?! That advise was SOLID!

Just kidding. I acted like I was gonna take you up on that advice.