feeling old

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

i realized today that I've been using the same aol instant messenger screen name for 9 years.

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:41 pm

I have lived an approximate of 583200000 moments.

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:07 pm

They've had AOL Instant Messenger for 9 years?! I'm too young to know that! The first thing I remember was ICQ, and I'm pretty sure that was 5 years ago!

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:43 am

ICQ was first released 9 years ago. AIM was first released 8 years ago.

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

really? hm. now my brain is confused, because i totally had aim in 7th grade, and that was totally 9 years ago.

i am filled with doubt.

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:07 am

Well, AIM as a standalone app was first released in 97. There was "instant messenging" of sorts built into AOL before that as part of the chatroom system I guess, but it was for AOL members only!

Kind of mean!

Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 1231 Location: Sweden

I've tried to get on AOL, but I haven't been able to track down one of those "Try AOL for free" CD:s yet.

Out-Talled Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 4580

I have a few. In my house we call them "coasters".

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:47 am

i've had mine since 1999. then again, i rarely use it any more. Like, twice a month at max.

that said, if anyone ever sees OrangeSwordfish, drop a line. That's me.

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

well that makes sense. So in any case I've had the same instant messenger screen name since circa 1997. and it's still my primary screen name, and the only messenger i ever really used. and that makes me feel like a big loser who spends too much time on the internet. I think i'm going to go read a book. sike i'll keep posting here.

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:06 pm

That's the way, the baber!

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:28 pm

I've had mine for probably like 4 years, but before that I was changing screennames all the time trying to find one I really liked.

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:54 pm

Man I only even started using IM seriously 3 years ago or so.

Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 5464 Location: dino zone

I only started using ICQ and AIM after I got Trillian, which was after I got broadband. So fi you're looking for someone to talk to I AM A TRIPLE THREAT.

Also, does anyone actually use YIM?

Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 568 Location: Canada (BC-Style!)

I've been using gaim ever since the switched to Linux, and I've never looked back.

I'm sure I got my ICQ account around 6 or 7 years ago. Hell, my 1st Hotmail account was pre-microsoft-hotmail.

ok, I feel old now too.

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:41 pm

I had rocketmail before it got taken over by hotmail. Now I'm a gmail man all the way though!

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

i used mailcity! and then they got taken over by lycos, and everyone was like "we don't even notice because we aren't familiar with lycos or mailcity"

Out-Talled Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 4580

boo_ninny wrote:

I only started using ICQ and AIM after I got Trillian, which was after I got broadband. So fi you're looking for someone to talk to I AM A TRIPLE THREAT.

Also, does anyone actually use YIM?

I used to, but Yahoo deleted my account, I think. One of my friends only used YIM because she liked the voice chat. Or something.

Anyway, I am on Trillian too! MSN, ICQ and AIM all at once.

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:13 pm

The Famous Mr. Klaw wrote:

I had rocketmail before it got taken over by hotmail. Now I'm a gmail man all the way though!

Rock on! That's me, although it's hard to lose superyates@hotmail since I've had it for 10 years. Gmail is sweet, sweet honey.

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:43 pm

gmail has the tightness. i had shadango... then it died.

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:04 pm

T-Bob, I use gaim too, but sometimes I switch to kopete!

This is because kopete integrates with the rest of my desktop in cools ways so that I can, for example, see in my email program if the person who emailed me is online and if so start a conversation with them. However, the latest version of kopete has been all crashy on me so I switched back to gaim.

KUNDOR'S IM SOAP OPERA: WHICH WILL HE CHOOSE

Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 568 Location: Canada (BC-Style!)

I ditched KDE for GNOME about 2 years back, and I try to avoid stuff dependent on the KDElibs and QT. The only thing that I find I miss out on really is K3B.

I take it you use KDE?

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:51 am

Tyrannosaurus Bob wrote:

I ditched KDE for GNOME about 2 years back, and I try to avoid stuff dependent on the KDElibs and QT. The only thing that I find I miss out on really is K3B.

I take it you use KDE?

He sure does! He's always going on about how he looooooves Konqueror, and I'm all like, "well then why don't you MARRY it!"

Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 568 Location: Canada (BC-Style!)

People who use linux are like that. Here, watch this...

"Slackware is the only decent disto out there. Period."

Watch the arguments fly now!

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:35 pm

Tyrannosaurus Bob wrote:

I ditched KDE for GNOME about 2 years back, and I try to avoid stuff dependent on the KDElibs and QT. The only thing that I find I miss out on really is K3B.

I take it you use KDE?

Oh man it's time for troll-geek kundor I think!

Gnome is an abomination on the face of Unix!

I mean: the Unix philosophy has always been "small programs that do one thing well," which has always been its great power. When people need to accomplish a task, they pipe a bunch of one-function programs together to accomplish whatever it is, which puts the power in the user's hands to do whatever they want rather than the things the designers thought they'd want to do. Plus, combining one-function program means that there's less code-duplication, and an improvement in a program that does one thing immediately shows up in all the applications that make use of that program.

KDE continues using that philosophy by having one-function programs that are tied together by KParts, which are like graphical pipes. Gnome on the other hand makes for giant monolithic programs, which can't be scripted or share functionality or benefit from eachothers improvements.

Plus: I could never give up my universal mouse gestures or DCOP or kioslaves or amaroK.
Especially the mouse gestures, they're an integral part of how I run my computer now, I feel maimed without them.

Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 568 Location: Canada (BC-Style!)

I generally agree with you regarding design philosophy, but every time I try to switch back to KDE, I end up hating it and going back to GNOME. I can't even pinpoint it to any particular thing in KDE, but I get as far as the control center and usually ditch at that point.

also, I like the fact that most of the programs I use are only dependent on GTK, and can run under fluxbox and other low-resource desktop environments.