Your first online experience
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GrandMasterTerwynn
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Hmm, my first internet experience was dialing out to a local BBS back in 1992. Boy those were the days! I had a friend who ran a small BBS for about a year back in that time period too.
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Alferd Packer
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That does ring a bell, because I do recall that you had to go through many mazes, which were interrupted by riddles. I think a cyclops or some monster asks you at one point the correct use of "thou".Shrykull wrote:Was the game called Madmaze? I remember thatAlferd Packer wrote:Let's see. Early 93 with Prodigy. I remember playing a rather strange puzzle/riddle game, set in a LOTR-ish fantasy world. And we had a 2400 baud modem, which still sits in a drawer in my dad's house today.I never finished it though, or maybe I did, I remember it gave me this huge long poem/riddle I couldn't figure out.
Took me about 8 tries to figure it out. But hey, I was 10. I was savvy enough using the internet.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -Herbert Spencer
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, III vi.
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, III vi.
Compuserve back in 1993. After that, AOL for internet until I wised up and went with a true ISP.
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