Believe it or not, I was posting on the Internet long before I came to the Pavilion. OK, maybe it wasn't THAT long, but I remember the first time I made a post on a discussion forum. That discussion forum was alt.games.final-fantasy(AGFF), and it is a newsgroup that is still around. I started posting there in early 1998 under the name "Funkidelic" and stayed there until 2001, and probably amassed AT LEAST 15,000 posts in that time. Since UseNet doesn't actually keep track of your posts in newsgroups (it would be virtually impossible since you don't use user accounts in newgroups) I will never know how many AGFF posts I made.
I was such a n00b, and I even found my first post as "Funkidelic":
Funk's first AGFF post
After that it was a struggle to fit in. That was hard: these people were far more elitist than you guys. In fact, by the time I reached AGFF they were pretty much just flamers, and every post made was picked apart and scrutinized. The biggest loser there was a guy named "Neo Atma Weapon 3:16". He lived in his parent's basement and when he finally got the guts to post his pic he looked like a 300lb preacher in a white suit. That was great. Here is a thread featuring an attack on him, and then they all just attack each other:
Neo Atma Attack
I pretty much became a troll like they all were. We just posted for attention, and then tried to verbally smash each other to pieces. When that got boring we invaded other newsgroups. I got my mom's account with our local ISP terminated for spamming the alt.games.grand-theft-auto newsgroup. I got in trouble for that, but we ended up getting a better ISP in the long run, so it was all good there. I toned down a bit after that and kept it mostly in AGFF.
Another strange aspect about AGFF was that everyone tried to make longer signatures than everyone else. Newsgroup are completely text, but there were some AGFFers that had signatures that were nearly a meg long. Here is my signature from AGFF:
Funk's AGFF sig (WARNING: vulgar language)
Ironically, we had a "Cook" at AGFF, too. His name was Gregory Cook, and he was attending Rice University while I posted there. So now I have a different Cook here, and I love him just as much.
After awhile more and more people left AGFF up until the time I stopped posting there around early 2001 when there was only around 10 regulars instead of 100-200. Then I came here and I've been here ever since. Who knows where I will go after this, but perhaps at that time I will make a post similar to this one at my new discussion forum. But I don't have any plans of leaving here any time soon.
You can find many of my posts at AGFF if you go to groups.google.com and search for "Funkidelic". My behavior there was disgraceful, but I was teenager, so it could have been worse.
I was such a n00b, and I even found my first post as "Funkidelic":
Funk's first AGFF post
After that it was a struggle to fit in. That was hard: these people were far more elitist than you guys. In fact, by the time I reached AGFF they were pretty much just flamers, and every post made was picked apart and scrutinized. The biggest loser there was a guy named "Neo Atma Weapon 3:16". He lived in his parent's basement and when he finally got the guts to post his pic he looked like a 300lb preacher in a white suit. That was great. Here is a thread featuring an attack on him, and then they all just attack each other:
Neo Atma Attack
I pretty much became a troll like they all were. We just posted for attention, and then tried to verbally smash each other to pieces. When that got boring we invaded other newsgroups. I got my mom's account with our local ISP terminated for spamming the alt.games.grand-theft-auto newsgroup. I got in trouble for that, but we ended up getting a better ISP in the long run, so it was all good there. I toned down a bit after that and kept it mostly in AGFF.
Another strange aspect about AGFF was that everyone tried to make longer signatures than everyone else. Newsgroup are completely text, but there were some AGFFers that had signatures that were nearly a meg long. Here is my signature from AGFF:
Funk's AGFF sig (WARNING: vulgar language)
Ironically, we had a "Cook" at AGFF, too. His name was Gregory Cook, and he was attending Rice University while I posted there. So now I have a different Cook here, and I love him just as much.
After awhile more and more people left AGFF up until the time I stopped posting there around early 2001 when there was only around 10 regulars instead of 100-200. Then I came here and I've been here ever since. Who knows where I will go after this, but perhaps at that time I will make a post similar to this one at my new discussion forum. But I don't have any plans of leaving here any time soon.
You can find many of my posts at AGFF if you go to groups.google.com and search for "Funkidelic". My behavior there was disgraceful, but I was teenager, so it could have been worse.
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