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That's more than seventeen years ago.
At least we have a few months before someone can start one of those useless "line by line" threads.
I was wondering about that. How does that work?
It'pretty much what it sounds like. A whole episode is "acted out" line by line by posters. Check out this recent post for more detailed info.
But where do they get these lines from?
I see. It seemed uncanny.
Agreed. But you can't go by the join dates listed now. Eddies in the spacetime continuum.
I was here before TNG. They built the board around where I happened to be standing. (More seriously, I don't really know exactly when I joined anymore. All I know is that I was here on dial-up - and we got broadband in late 1999.)
Agreed. But you can't go by the join dates listed now. Eddies in the spacetime continuum.
I was here before TNG. They built the board around where I happened to be standing. (More seriously, I don't really know exactly when I joined anymore. All I know is that I was here on dial-up - and we got broadband in late 1999.)
Life was a lot simpler back then...
In some respects, that's very true. But I also remember 15-30 minute waits to download a single song at passable quality, IF the dial-up didn't disconnect in the middle, so... eh.
In some respects, that's very true. But I also remember 15-30 minute waits to download a single song at passable quality, IF the dial-up didn't disconnect in the middle, so... eh.
I am guessing it couldn't even handle partial downloads.
There were tools to do things like that, but they had their own problems. So effectively, no, not really. Definitely not natively in any of the browsers at the time.
And they already sold songs on the internet back then?
Psh, we barely had fire and the wheel at that time. Back then people were sharing songs on BBSs, P2P programs like Kazaa and Napster, and the early bulletin board forums.
"OH MY GOD I CAN DOWNLOAD A 240 pixel resolution video clip off a Star Trek website! AND IT ONLY TOOK THREE HOURS!"
I still remember getting the NEMESIS teaser off the official website back in 2001/2002 and watching it over and over and being so hyped. What a revolutionary time it was to be able to download multimedia like that right to your computer. Looking back on it now that things like Google,Youtube, and Social Media have become well establish, it all seems very quaint... But at the time it was really exciting back in the day.
AHEM. Songs were available. Let's just leave it at that, shall we?
(In particular, there was a place called Premiere Radio that did topical song parodies for use on radio shows, and they let people download them for free for non-broadcast use. And no place else existed. If you've heard of something called Napster, it's all nonsense revisionist history, of course, because nothing like that would be allowed to exist by copyright holders for long enough to use, surely.
)Hey, when you look at this teaser, that looks great!
I still remember the first music video I ever saw streamed. It was "Stupid Girl" by Garbage, probably at 240 pixels, too. Blew my mind to know that was going to be a thing.
Yep. And promotional videos and other such media were still being added to the free CDs that contained the installers for Internet Service Providers, because the bandwidth was still so, so slow. I think I still have my AOL / "Batman Forever" CD with all of the wallpapers and audio samples and video clips and such.
Space must have seemed a lot bigger back then...
This thread is making me feel really old. 
I also remember the Nemesis teaser when it came out. I was really excited for the movie. It's a shame the movie itself couldn't match that excitement.
I also remember the Nemesis teaser when it came out. I was really excited for the movie. It's a shame the movie itself couldn't match that excitement.
Back in November 1999 there was no Enterprise or Series V forum, just "Future of Trek"
http://web.archive.org/web/19991129041336/http://trekbbs.com/
In April 2000 there was still discussion about a George Takai led Sulu series in the forum.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000408...ture+of+Trek&number=7&DaysPrune=10&LastLogin=
It was the time of ICQ, when men were men, women were men, and little girls were fbi agents. I think Q1 1999 fits the timeline well, it was before BotF was released, trekbbs.com wasn't registered until May 29th, but trektoday.com had existed since January 31st.
In the time before trekbbs all the cool kids were on uk.tv.media,sf.startrek
http://web.archive.org/web/19991129041336/http://trekbbs.com/
In April 2000 there was still discussion about a George Takai led Sulu series in the forum.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000408...ture+of+Trek&number=7&DaysPrune=10&LastLogin=
Agreed. But you can't go by the join dates listed now. Eddies in the spacetime continuum.
I was here before TNG. They built the board around where I happened to be standing. (More seriously, I don't really know exactly when I joined anymore. All I know is that I was here on dial-up - and we got broadband in late 1999.)
It was the time of ICQ, when men were men, women were men, and little girls were fbi agents. I think Q1 1999 fits the timeline well, it was before BotF was released, trekbbs.com wasn't registered until May 29th, but trektoday.com had existed since January 31st.
In the time before trekbbs all the cool kids were on uk.tv.media,sf.startrek
...and sheep were nervous.
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