I must be misunderstanding you, but “multi-user realtime chat” sounds like text only. Is this what you mean or something else? I’m genuinely curious.
Oh, I know - that was a Sam Stone style cite. The headline looked promising but the actual content disproved the claim.
I, for one, am willing to grant that Sam is in fact a Canadian time traveler.
Yup, text only. Up to 64 people at a time. It had multiple configurable channels, private whispering between people, and a bunch of other stuff. We usually had 8-24 people online chatting at any given time. I paid a fortune for the modems and the phone lines. We charged by the hour.
Those old BBS systems were awesome. They were evolving into a distributed ISP network when the Internet killed them. We had fidonet and other protocols for sending Email from one system to,another, later, connectors to the internet… Online games, teleconferencing, file upload/download sections etc.
Meanwhile, back in reality, people can’t overhear, and you certainly can’t see someone perk up when it’s a text conversation, no matter what you call it. I’m going to be charitable and still call you a liar for trying a dodge this pathetic. To remind you of what you tried to claim you were misremembering as a teleconference:
Or was “in earshot” what the cool kids called “being in the same text only chat room” in 1989?
The next pretzel twist might be fatal…
Only because I just read this,
I’m sure they were. We sure as fuck did not call them “teleconferencing “ though.
Be better. This is just getting sad.
Yes, we did. Probably not everywhere, but we sure as hell did. I did the page layup for the ads myself. And paid the bills.
This IS getting sad. You’ve reduced yourselves to trying to ‘get’ me by telling me i’m lying about how I met my own wife and that my own business did not exist. We’re on the fast train to crazytown. How about you just stop?
I for one am telling you that you’ve lost the benefit of the doubt: after investigating many of your claims and having them not pan out, I don’t believe anything you say. You can start taking greater care with your claims that are verifiable, and if you do, maybe I’ll eventually grant grace for the unverifiable claims. But at this point, you don’t have much more trustworthiness than Trump.
I was living in the same province at the same time, conversant with the same systems and NOBODY called this “teleconferencing”. You are misremembering, or possibly just making shit up to defend a bunch of bullshit that is threatening to collapse under its own weight.
Your best bet at this point is to claim your account has been hacked.
Oh, not in Utica, no; it’s an Albany expression.
Or it’s the fault of another one of his kids…
For the sake of argument, I’ll grant that you and your small cool kid crowd called chat rooms “teleconferencing” because your liked pretending you were living in The Jetsons.
You still haven’t explained how your wife was in earshot or how you saw her perk up via text numbnuts. Or did she post a text emoji of a woman perking up for you on alt.binaries.canada.warren.zeffron.bbs.its.like.were.old.friends?
By the way @Sam, you’re still a lying sack of shit.
God, that felt good.
I’m starting to suspect Sam doesn’t have a wife or kids. Now that’s only a suspicion. A certainty is that bit that he related as happening at a baseball game did not happen. There’s no way that’s true.
I’ll give him credit for having a wife and/or kids.
What I actually suspect is that if they do exist, they don’t behave like the oddly convenient props they do in the fantasies he spouts here
Agreed, and that’s a good way to frame it—props for his storytelling. “I told those jokers to back off, and they knew I meant business. Naturally my soon-to-be wife fell in love. Ain’t no thang, just how I roll.”
Note for Sam: ^ That’s a parody of your post, not a direct quote. No need to parse the words for a rebuttal.
Just add a “Sir” and “tears in their eyes” and the stories are basically Trumpian folk tales
I heard everyone at the baseball game clapped. Or typed clapping emojis in their teleconference chat window.