Internet Nostalgia

Dutch Leonard · 04-14-2013, 01:25 AM

I have an All Your Base T-Shirt!

I got on the internet in 1999 and the first thing I did was download Seti@Home. I wanted to help find ET. This lead to participating in many other distributed computing projects and also to building computers that were dedicated to these tasks.

My first computer was a 500 MHz Pentium III Gateway. It was so exciting when dual cores came out and then quad cores and then hyper-threaded quad cores. I learned about overclocking and started to learn to code. Francois Piednoel talked to me at Seti@Home. The electric bill started getting too high and the drama of the Seti@Home message boards became burdensome. I gave up distributed computing.

I am also nostalgic about newsgroups. I used to participate in several that were dedicated to television shows. I remember the Andromeda group in particular.

04-14-2013, 01:25 AM	#5
Dutch Leonard Member How Do You Identify?: Stone Butch Tournaments Won: 7 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: East of the Rockies Posts: 291 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,901 Thanked 389 Times in 120 Posts Rep Power: 4100778	I have an All Your Base T-Shirt! I got on the internet in 1999 and the first thing I did was download Seti@Home. I wanted to help find ET. This lead to participating in many other distributed computing projects and also to building computers that were dedicated to these tasks. My first computer was a 500 MHz Pentium III Gateway. It was so exciting when dual cores came out and then quad cores and then hyper-threaded quad cores. I learned about overclocking and started to learn to code. Francois Piednoel talked to me at Seti@Home. The electric bill started getting too high and the drama of the Seti@Home message boards became burdensome. I gave up distributed computing. I am also nostalgic about newsgroups. I used to participate in several that were dedicated to television shows. I remember the Andromeda group in particular.