# What else can you do with this internet thing?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 13, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795 "2001-01-13T02:05:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/1 "2001-01-13T02:05:28Z")
I’ve pretty much done this place to death. I have enough credit cards and cars. I can’t afford to keep buying broken crap on eBay. The lyrics on the Blue Oyster Cult fan club site don’t make any more sense than I thought they did listening to the records. The good porn requires me to pay for it. As do the webcam sites with naked women. (And as much as I adore my pal **Opalcat** , until she starts showing some skin…) 😉
What else is out there?
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### Author:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/2 "2001-01-13T02:22:15Z")
There’s nothing else out there. The edge of the SDMB is flat, and if you go out there, you’ll fall off and never be heard from again.
Really! 😃
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/3 "2001-01-13T02:50:26Z")
Have you been there? Are you sure it’s true?
I was afraid of that.
I suppose there are worse fates than hanging out with my imaginary friends.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/4 "2001-01-13T02:56:01Z")
Like this? [http://fathom.org/opalcat/cam/opalcamboobies.jpg](http://fathom.org/opalcat/cam/opalcamboobies.jpg)
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/5 "2001-01-13T02:58:56Z")
No.
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### Author:  [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/6 "2001-01-13T03:04:37Z")
Hi **dropzone** –I spent about a week of my life reading the archives at [the reference librarians’ “wombat” website](http://www.regiments.org/wombats). (Let me know if you like it–you may not remember me, but you answered my very first post here, so I will always be at your service–you post about what you need and I’ll try to help.) 😉
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### Author:  [@cheezit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheezit)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/7 "2001-01-13T03:11:34Z")
Don’t go to [http://www.mythologic.net/end](http://www.mythologic.net/end) or what Persephone said will happen.
Really, it will. 😃
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### Author:  [@andyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andyman)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/8 "2001-01-13T03:17:24Z")
Do you play video games? Since I’ve gotten a cable modem again, only 1/5 of my online time consists of surfing. I’m a big ol’ Team Fortress junkie (1st person shooter, capture the flag sorta thing). A lot of really good games are internet multiplay capable.
By the by, there is good free porn out there, but I wouldn’t know about that. No, really.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/9 "2001-01-13T04:38:00Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Humble Servant \*
> **…you may not remember me, but you answered my very first post here, so I will always be at your service**
Oh, yes. I remember you. The accounting question. Need I point out that, in all the time since then, you have only posted another 58 posts? We must get on the stick, mustn’t we? Although the lion’s share of those have been in the past few days, so you have apparently surrendered to the Void.
It is always good to have somebody who has passed the Illinois Bar Exam at my service. 😉
Your link has been bookmarked and is open in another window as I look into blue moons. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2001, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/10 "2001-01-14T05:54:13Z")
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> \*Originally posted by andyman \*
> **Do you play video games? Since I’ve gotten a cable modem again, only 1/5 of my online time consists of surfing.**
Slow modem, but I download images of Nintendo cartridges I’m glad I didn’t pay forty buck for. Mess32 will emulate just about anything with the right ROM images. I often have a virtual Tandy Color Computer in another window. It’s a lot faster than a real one.
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### Author:  [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/11 "2001-01-15T15:34:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by dropzone \*
> **Need I point out that, in all the time since then, you have only posted another 58 posts? We must get on the stick, mustn’t we?**
Hey, just to show that I’m working on it, this post is for you, **drop** :
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Aaack! Just remembered the Mods don’t like post-padding! What to do? What to do?
:: rummaging through a bunch of bizarre but somehow compelling favorites (wondering in passing why I would have bookmarked the [list of US embassy sites](http://travel.state.gov/links.html)) for something with any redeeming social value to justify this post::
and emerging with:
ta da! A link for the social voyeur in every suburban homeowner, [a site that will tell you what your neighbor’s house actually sold for](http://www.domania.com/index.jsp), a link to the [experimental asteroid impact site](http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact.html) and a link to the [Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church](http://www.prairienet.org/nrpcatholic/cicmenu.html).
(Seriously, the internet allows us to satisfy a bunch of idle and not so idle curiosities more efficiently than we ever could have before. The internet is an unruly and often inaccurate but really big and interesting library.)
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2001, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/12 "2001-01-15T18:39:43Z")
When you manage 61 posts in three months it’s called “participating,” not “padding.” 😉
Wife always checks the local paper for what houses sold for (in the legal notices) so I don’t have to make even the MINIMAL effort required to use that site. Although I bet she’d like to spend a lot of time there building a mental map of property prices.
As my pastor has to keep reminding me when I say “you Lutherans,” “Mike, you’re one of us now.” Therefore, I no longer need the canon law site, but it’s bound to be interesting, if only to remind me why I switched.
OOOOPS! I just punched a BIG hole in the Moon! Woo-hoo! There goes Jakarta! Rio blowed up REAL good! This is like the bugs in _Starship Troopers!_ Chucking big rocks at planets is a lot more fun than tossing pebbles into puddles!
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/13 "2001-01-15T19:01:15Z")
Half the internet is the newsgroups. If you don’t read them or don’t know how or have a crappy reader, well then you are missing half of the net.
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### Author:  [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2001, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-can-you-do-with-this-internet-thing/49795/14 "2001-01-15T21:20:04Z")
You could hire someone to hunt down Cecil Adams and finally get a picture of him. It would solve the mystery. For some reason I picture him as looking like Bruce Vilanch. :D:D:D