Anyone here experience the late 90s wild west Cowboys Internet?

[Boom]

Then you moved on to alt.hamster.ducttape.

I'm pretty sure navigation would become even worse.

 

[AbeBeta]

On a similar note -- does anyone recall an old listserv for fans? It was pretty active and I recall Rafael Vela was one of the major posters

 

[Reverend Conehead]

On a similar note -- does anyone recall an old listserv for fans? It was pretty active and I recall Rafael Vela was one of the major posters

I did post some on the usenet, something like alt.nfl.cowboys

 

[CoCo]

Re: Austin 360

WV Cowboy, VA Cowboy (Jerry-hater), LT Fan, Ravi, Ben-in-Austin, MT Fan, lurker, RP/RS12/RXP, ninja, Cal CBFan, Doomsday101, TheFamily, were the mainstays. Probably forgetting a couple.

Single thread format, limited to like 100 characters per post, zero features, etc. No active moderation.

Was nevertheless a great place for a long time until a couple posters decided to ruin it (Diego & JEM) for fun. Caused me to look for other places. I lurked at DMN for a bit and then found the older versions of this site - masevo? or similar, and encouraged folks to move here. Many were reluctant because A360 had been such a great site but eventually most of the above moved here or eventually to DCC when that split occurred.

One of my favorite A360 posters, in retrospect was NinerHater (I forget how he abbreviated it). I don't know that I have ever encountered another poster like him. He was eyore to the max about the teams prospects but never was critical of other posters - a very rare quality.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Re: Austin 360

WV Cowboy, VA Cowboy (Jerry-hater), LT Fan, Ravi, Ben-in-Austin, MT Fan, lurker, RP/RS12/RXP, ninja, Cal CBFan, Doomsday101, TheFamily, were the mainstays. Probably forgetting a couple.

Single thread format, limited to like 100 characters per post, zero features, etc. No active moderation.

Was nevertheless a great place for a long time until a couple posters decided to ruin it (Diego & JEM) for fun...

Diego and JEM That brings back some memories. Actually, JEM was a poster here several years ago. I haven't seen him post here lately, though.

 

[CoCo]

Diego and JEM That brings back some memories. Actually, JEM was a poster here several years ago. I haven't seen him post here lately, though.

Yeah, I remember him posting here. He had to clean up his childish act though since there were moderators on this site. I have zero respect for people who would ruin a good thing for others just because they can.

Yes, memories, but not good ones.

 

[ravidubey]

I remember Austin360 and the Star Boards. I used to lurk and post a little on them until Dale told me about this board (actually the old board). So he's too blame for me being here.

I got my start on boards/chatrooms in the mid 90's in the old NFL.com chatroom also know as "Hat Chat" because you could choose the helmet of your team as a sort of avatar when you logged in. It was a nice chatroom until people got stupid and it got shut down.

You ever post on Austin360's "You Make the Call" comment page? A bunch of zone posters did back then.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I don't understand what you mean? Downloading the anti-virus software on a system that already had a virus? I used to work for McAfee Anti-Virus around 1997. I remember the woes of viruses back then. They aren't the same as they are today. :laugh2: This whole thread is a wayback time machine for me! :laugh2:

Funny thing, I left Flash Net after they IPOed, I left McAfee after they merged with Network General. (both moves were horrible with horrible outcomes)

I will say this. Working for ISPs and Anti-Virus companies (and Microsoft for that matter), I learned a ton about not just how to protect a PC, but how to avoid getting viruses even without Anti-Virus installed. I think I've had one PC virus in my lifetime.

Sam, :laugh2: is no longer. Now, it's only :laugh2:


Sorry Buddy.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

the first computer I worked on was an IBM main frame that was Huge with 9" floppy's and giant 850 bit memory cards

The old 370 Series Stuff I'll bet.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

It was not a bad site.

 

[CowboyStar88]

I remember being in the AOL fan boards it was crazy and people were full attack mode all the time! Did anyone ever use the AOL ones?

 

[Signals]

lol I couldn't ever imagine participating in a place like that.

Me either. I even questioned my sanity for even caring about what went on in the CBZ political zone back in it's hay day. People are nuts.