Perhaps, but I am happy to have lived in this age of technological "miracles" and been young enough to have taken full benefit from most of it. (Never did figure out how to program the VHS player to record properly)
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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People were playing MUDS in the 80s also , i was playing them thru Quantum -Link on my C-64 , that was in 83 i believe .. just an fyi
But really admire Raph work being a hardcore UO fan for one and still playing (Occaisionally)for 20 years now , i will be picking up this read ..
That is crazy you were online in 83. The internet changed the world and you were a solid 15 years ahead of the curve. The picture I have in my head for modems and online in the 80s and early 90s is from movies and books where it was only used for secret government stuff. How big was the online scene back then?
I recall buying my first modem (1200b) around 1987 and subscribing to the GEnie service.
Not sure if I ever had one of those "phone cradle" set-ups or if that's just something I am remembering from the movie "Wargames."
I also recall being amazed when a friend and I played our first modem to modem "online" game from our homes over the phone.
By 1990 I was online enough to warrant installing a 2nd phone line for the modem and fax machine (which oddly are still in use today at my office)
Mostly used the modem for surfing BBS sites and early internet surfing, online games were too expensive with GEnie costing $6 to $15 per hour to connect.
I didn't get into online gaming until around 2001 after I got my first cable connection to the internet.
I knew about the early games in the late 90s, but reading people's experience playing them via modems wasn't appealing.
Besides, I thought the idea of playing games online with strangers was weird back then.
I still do think its weird by the way.
For our Millennials I should point out he really is talking about 1987 not 1887, that was not a typo
I recall buying my first modem (1200b) around 1987 and subscribing to the GEnie service.
Noob! You're not really an old timer unless you started out with acoustic 300 baud.
This was my 1st:
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People were playing MUDS in the 80s also , i was playing them thru Quantum -Link on my C-64 , that was in 83 i believe .. just an fyi
But really admire Raph work being a hardcore UO fan for one and still playing (Occaisionally)for 20 years now , i will be picking up this read ..
That is crazy you were online in 83. The internet changed the world and you were a solid 15 years ahead of the curve. The picture I have in my head for modems and online in the 80s and early 90s is from movies and books where it was only used for secret government stuff. How big was the online scene back then?
Was great , so much fun , was always lots of people to play i can recall waiting to get a spot in MUDs , was one very popular MUD played in MiddleEarth , guy that ran it did a really nice job DMing it ...
Ive made a habit of being ahead of the curve...I began investing in the Industry in the 80s as well ..
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
This was my 1st:
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED