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Originally Posted by gonzo
.....when Homegrown was only a magazine
....when a guy named Farrell posed nekkid for a series by Giffy Girls
....when the debate was gif or JPG / PCboard or Wildcat
....when status was owning a HST Dual Standard
...when Jim Maxey was king of the world
...when Lee Noga was busted for scanning nekkids from magazines and reselling them on CD for BBS.
....when the real show was called OneBBSCon
...when an elderly pirate couple called Rusty and Edie were busted by axe wielding Feds for piracy.
Welcome back my oldest online friend. Im pretty sure there are less than a dozen of us that understand the above ramblings but remember that we were there as this began.
Im pretty sure Dennis Hayes, Ward Christianson and Phil Katz never knew who Ron Levy or Serge were either. But then again they probably dont know them either.
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...Big dickin' was RLL'ing your drives to get 50% more storage.
...A couple of hundred megs and a couple of pioneer 6 CD changers full of Lee's stolen images and Giffy Gold was big time.
...traffic generation was putting obnoxious watermarks on your stolen jpegs. McHenry was the king of obnoxious.
...good parties and dinners weren't populated by kids who were scammers and dopers instead of businessmen, but instead were occupied by the likes of Dennis Hayes, Ward Christiansen, Phil Katz, George Peace, Fred Clark, Chuck Forsberg, Jim Harrer, Andy Keeves, Bob Mahoney...and yes even Jim Maxey....complete with his white linen suit. This would've been at the Broadmoor circa 1993-1994.
I could go on about that last one for a while because that was a dinner that took competitors and got them working together and ultimately led to some standardization, ongoing open communications between principles, and even the early foundations of an industry lobby (which still exists in form of USIIA, but is woefully underfunded).
Dont see it ever happening in adult, the true businessmen will always be undermined by the rogue elements.