Same here @Cary1. Back in the GOOD old days !!!
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I remember when it was called Phoenix, i still have Mosiac installed for surfing the Gopher web.
These days i use Waterfox.
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@SessionDrummer Were you also in any IRC chat sites? I remember participating in one about the TV series “The Highlander” in the mid-90’s and one for “The X-Files”. My first Pentium was “really fast !!”. I used to work in the mini-computer field and my first PC (for home) was a monster fast 80286 at 10Mhz. I remember spending the extra money to get the HUGE 20MB drive rather than the 10MB.
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Did you know that we have an IRC channel? Im not sure if anyone still uses it since Lars made a channel on discord but its there.
I was around for the early days of IRC on efnet and then we to dalnet and ran some tv/cartoon download channels, i miss those days. I still used IRC until a few years ago.
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Oh yes @Cary1 I did IRC a bit in the way back. How far we’ve come. Beyond my 486 (and slower) setups, the one I remember the best was my first Pentium from Micron. Paid an arm and a leg for SCSI and all drives ran on the SCSI bus. Again, look how far we’ve come. Much later, I had some of the best times playing multiplayer Duke Nukem 3D over dial up connections.
Hard to find evidence that those old rigs existed. This is an IDE version, but you get the jist…
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irssi = best irc client.
REVIVE IRC, DISCORD, TELEGRAM, MATRIX, ALL FUNDED BY (you know who) SAVE YOUR DATA, TRUST A SERVER AND JOIN IT
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Pinging mr To0nman
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Heck I’ve been on the net before the web was invented. 
telnet and ftp from site to site. Back then it was alt. sites with a newsreader
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Was your name Big_Cigarette?
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Big_Dumaurier
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No, but I could smoke at my desk 
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Yeah, I remember those days too…
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I went to tech school and remember having to build my own PC as part of the final. The professor told us to get the 20mb hard drive, if we could afford it, because we would never fill it up. Two years later they came up with the f-19 simulator/combat game that was about 17GB in size.
So much for that.
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@SessionDrummer Thanks for the memories. My first 286 was about $2k and was a no-name clone, but built from good parts. SCSI drives were not yet available. When they came out, they were a game changer because of their interface speed. If I remember, my first pentium was an Acer, but don’t remember the processor speed. It may have been 75or 100mhz.
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Managed to take dude out for a walk again, only 6 scratches this time… Was out for 40 minutes total which is pretty long for me to be on my feet… Sore but he went as far as the dog park and realized it was best to avoid their gazes and we made our way back.
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If you win by 12 points say, you’ve had a comfortable win. If you win by 20 points or more you’ve given the opposition a smacking. My boys had an insane win today and I’m still “floating”, even 3 hours after the game. Go the Red, White and Blue! Begurk! Begurk! 
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@anon44012888, she’s an old Grandmother at this point, but she’s still my fluffy little bunny.
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