Do you ever wonder how many zillions of hours you've wasted glued to the screen? I'm not talking about that tv piece of garbage. I'm talking computer & nintendo. The gods of entertainment.
For me, it all began 12 years ago in the middle of nowherezeville Manitoba. At 40 degrees below with no driver's license, the internet was the closest thing I had to a neighbourhood.
Remember this one? 'Twas created in 1995,
and supposedly d/l'd over 20 million times. At least 2x by yours truly. Last year, when I moved home from Australia, I was SUPER bored, and decided to check and see if this magical app still existed. It did! Apparently all of my NIN groups had dissolved (surprised?) and all of the public rooms were filled with a/s/l motherfuckers trolling for cyber-tail. Yuck. Delete.
What about ICQ? If you don't know what i'm talking about, you're just not nerdy enough. MSN's predecessor,with that little "uhoh!" soundbyte. Wikipedia tells me there are over 50 million users registered. Does this include my 12 year old self?
By far the best way to get carpal-thumb syndrome from a rectangular controller. This epic 1987 "choose your own adventure" nintendo game included aliens, kidnapping, a dungeon and a talking house plant. Right up my alley. I not one moment ago learned that there was a 3 season YTV sitcom based on my beloved game. I'm glad we had farmer-vision because I would assume the show was terrible.
Now I could get into the 7 CD game "Phantasmagoria" but my attention span is shot. I'm sure yours is too. Log off now and get some fresh air for crying out loud!
Is it really sad that I remember ALL of those things? Oh those were the days... simpler times :)
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I shed a single tear for the downfall of icq. Such a beautiful program. I wish my friends still used it.
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