Comments on: Perhaps the Greatest Andrew Zimmern Site Ever

By: nATHAN BEBERMAN

nATHAN BEBERMAN — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:15:05 +0000

aaahhhh, i saw andrew zimmern’s daddy he seems like he doesn’t like sports or girls.

By: Kate S

Kate S — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:23:31 +0000

Via almost every blog in the Twin Cities???

Not mine! I can’t stand Zimmern.

By: aeklund

aeklund — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:17:37 +0000

My first email address was airtrvlrr@aol.com in 1991. WTF was I thinking? Oh yea…I was 23 in 1991.

By: ebourne

ebourne — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:29:45 +0000

And Zimmern LOVES IT! http://www.andrewzimmern.com/node/1201

By: Kate Iverson

Kate Iverson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:29:38 +0000

Ones I remember: Submission Records, Wolfs Den, Fire Opal, Suicide Gorge, and the funniest one of all was TC Chat – it has 24 lines, fancy! There were a bunch more that I can’t remember. I used to hang out at Miller’s Amiga in St. Paul and admire the 2400 baud modems.

By: noodleman

noodleman — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:27:33 +0000

@LowBloodSugar: What Citadel boards did you frequent?

I’m so old I remember Wolfenstein 3D, the predecessor to Quake (with begat Doom). I still have those somewhere on 1.44mb floppies somewhere.

And shareware.

Remember when you could go to B. Dalton and try out new games and programs before buying them?

My first computer was a hand-me-down: an IBM XT with a 10mb hard-drive. It was the computer I took with me to Singapore … in a suitcase of its own. LOL (I did eventually buy a 60mb notebook while overseas that lasted me until I could afford some real computer “muscle” in 1996.)

By: Kate Iverson

Kate Iverson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:05:41 +0000

That was the dirty one, right? Back when “hot mail” was not an e-mail provider.

By: LowBloodSugar

LowBloodSugar — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:17:00 +0000

echo on Hunt the Wumpus. That game is still a legend of AI programming. I myself was a fan of Fantasy Land door game on some of the citadel BBSs.
echo off

By: Kate Iverson

Kate Iverson — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:04:17 +0000

oooooh Rich, I am totally misty-eyed over Prodigy! It’s like those first memories you have as a baby…fuzzy and warm. I heart IRC too.

My first computer that was actually mine and mine only was an Amiga 2000, though I lost my virginity to a TI-99 (Hunt the Wumpus, anyone?) The Amiga had some awesome games though..Does anyone remember Tass Times in Tone Town? Extreme nerd points if you do.

By: noodleman

noodleman — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:41:05 +0000

CompuServe was to AOL what Facebook now is to MySpace.

My first extra-net experience happened in 1992 when the CompuServe FlightSim forum hosted a fly-in. We filed flight plans (to somewhere in the Caribbean, IIRC) and dialed directly into the host number. He would take screenshots of each plane landing and email them to the participants but could only handle one or two planes at a time.