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AND - It's still live!!
http://home.freeuk.com/hieroglyph/index.htm
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
It was massive at the time - probably 1500 users campus wide - live chat, message forums, and a whole heap of time typing crap into emacs or vim.
And there were fights, trollings, bannings, controversies, nastiness and all the usual shenanigans you get today.
It's easy to look back with rose tinted spectacles, but as an early user of forums and messaging boards I totally refute the claim that it was all nice and cuddly back "in the day" - nope, it was exactly the same as it is now. There's no descent into nastiness, no loss of manners or any of that stuff - it's no different.
No children were conceived as far as I'm aware, but an AOL chatroom did once result in a lady who called herself Mad Maz driving up from Luton for a beer and a shag, much to my surprise.
Now it's all Google and we all get the same thing. Not sure if that's good or bad.
I remember the first song I downloaded. Ash's 'Warmer Than Fire' from the Radio 1 website, and the excitement of watching the progress bar gently fill across the screen... It took over an hour to get a 3 minute song but oh my it was incredible!