Ratted on you. I got the daily subscription email and was like "What is this replying to!?!" hahaha
Those old 2004/2005 threads (the few that are there) I actually had to manually import from a wget dump I somehow still had floating around of the board from that time. I could get more from archive.org but it doesn't seem like archive.org got the message bodies of almost anything so I haven't bothered to add any of those (yet). I'm guessing because the actual message text all fall under the generic 'discussion.cgi' it didn't get archived for most things.
Out of boredom, I checked out that wget dump again and saw this in the footer text of the board at the time. Crazy looking back and reading how 6 years was a long time and now it's over 24 years. The thought of 8th grade only being 6 years ago is wild today. 6 years ago now I was working on the Kittens and yarn ball game and come Dec, Santa's Christmas Rescue! Feels like yesterday.
"Yeah I know, I was thinking about that the other day. I've had this web site since I was in 8th grade. I'm a freshman in college now. That's 6 years come Feb. *6 years!!!* That's pretty intense... well not intense, but if I was using the slang of the word, which I am, then it is. (That was confusing).
6 years??? Wow. What was life like without the NEMB? I can't remember, and I've probably only been here 4-5 years."
I was like "I wonder how far back this goes?" and kept searching until I found the end. I guess sort by activity made it so we could see this thread. You'd have never known to go dig back about 33 pages and reply to this.... (:8
Sort by activity and subscription email- Erik_,Sun Aug 13 2023 2:15am
I had. I had a 386 or early Pentium (I never did seem to have many 486's), installed Linux, then typed "startx" to start xwindows. I waited and waited and then went to dinner. I think by the time I got done, it had only a gray background and the X mouse cursor. It was kinda a weird trip to be back... more
We upgraded from the 486 in late 97 to it. By 8th grade, the 486 was handed down to me and my main computer in my room. Never tried installing Linux on it. It's always had DOS 5.0 and Win 3.x. The PII computer though was my first Linux box once that got replaced by the Celeron Dell with XP as the family... more
bad XWindows was. Here was Windows 3.1 running quite happily on a 386 and Xwindows couldn't even start. The Linux idiots were all yapping about how resource friendly Linux was, too. At least Raspbian Desktop does run ok, but Windows 3.1 would run better at the screen resolutions some devices use!... more
KDE and Gnome (to a lesser extent) were always very heavy. That's why back in the day I used PWM which was super bare bones and ran very nice on my 233MHz PII. But you're right, why do I have to be running the most basic Window Manager to get usable performance out of a PII when Windows 95 ran completely... more
I seem to remember playing with a few different distros back then, one called pygmy Linux, one was Slackware, then I gave up and stayed with Windows for a while. Debian or a Debian derivative seem to be my current favorite, but I honestly have no idea what derivative those Orange Pis are running. All... more