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The Prototype 
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Carrying on from the thread about the girl committing suicide, I thought I'd start a new topic instead of taking that one completely off topic. I just wanted to post a tale or two of my experience on the internet since I got the net back in 1999, when I was only 14.
I'd hang out in the old Shout Out rooms, and Pro Wrestling rooms on Yahoo chat, because I was a huge wrestling fan, to my dismay there was no wrestling being chatted in fact when I start discussion on a WCW PPV that had occurred (WCW Starrcade '99) I was told to shut up and piss off one person decided to answer me and chat about it with me...of course it was only my second internet experience the first coming in 1997 and 1998 when I would check out WCWrestling.com (soon to become WCW.com) and other sites.
I got an insight into how some people would act on the internet in fact in the Shout Outs room I saw a guy admit he was 40 years old wanting to pick up a 14 year old...also there were a lot of porn bots...and they had the advisory that you needed to be 18+ to click the link...well uh...wtf?
I also saw people hooking up and also acting as if the room was like a normal hang out, this one time some woman who was old enough to probably have been my mother started to gesture towards me, she had a boyfriend and me not knowing any better and I started chatting to her and then I was warned about the boyfriend he came in and things were fine.
The ugliness of the room came when people would start to fight each other, people who were not even invovled in proceedings would take the side usually of the most popular one and drive a person out of the room.
One such occasion was then Allisa(the person hitting on me) got drunk and started to flirt and carried on with someone and then cybered with them (at the time I had nfi what that meant..) and then her boyfriend came in and started a fight and everyone else joined in and it was like a pack of rabid dogs attacking everyone knew everyone's business.
Soon after that when I turned 15 I got told that someone who was about 40 or so (she claims 34 but with the age of her kids there is no way...anyways..) wanted me to get with her, and she told me that a younger person being with someone older was all legal in the United States, I was no fool I didn't believe that stuff and didn't get involved I soon left that and then went to College and that was it.
For then at least...I am going to post a random story about things that went on in there, and there was a story that should be told that I won't post right now, about some guy faking his age and going to met someone off the net and getting a bit...physical with them. Nothing bad happened, it's just an odd tale.
Other people can post their stories of things on the net, i have a bunch of them...that might seem interesting to some...maybe. There's bits and pieces missing some this current one...
Which can be left out for the moment.
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Dave The Man 
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I got that net in Late 1995, and I just searched for Things I liked and Downloaded Roms as well
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The Prototype
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| Dave The Man wrote: | | I got that net in 1997, and I just searched for Things I liked and Downloaded Roms as well |
I used to download roms when I was about 16 of course I had dial up at the time so that was a pain in the ass to do. I wanted to try and get PSOne games (At the time that was still popular;))
I didn't bother trying to get PS2 emulators though could never find them... 
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Dave The Man
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| The Prototype wrote: | | Dave The Man wrote: | | I got that net in 1997, and I just searched for Things I liked and Downloaded Roms as well |
I used to download roms when I was about 16 of course I had dial up at the time so that was a pain in the ass to do. I wanted to try and get PSOne games (At the time that was still popular;))
I didn't bother trying to get PS2 emulators though could never find them... |
I meant Late 1995 not 1997, Bloody Dial Up Can't Imagen I use tho thing that was fast
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The Prototype
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| Tess wrote: | Search Tess on LSD ..... not me on LSD(the drug) I mean the Lullie St Dash BB. One of the guys jumped into Nicks chat for a game and lets just say the people in the room must have been shocked to witness his attack on me, then relieved with his eventual booting.
On good old Big Footy atm I have a stalker. |
Can't find it Tess. Can you put up a link please? |
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The Prototype
Paint my face with a good-for-nothin smile.
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I started my internet experience like many others. I trusted that the people I "talked" to had the same intentions as myself.
I was wrong. There are many who cannot be trusted and will turn on you in an instant.
Thankfully, I now know not to trust anyone. And I would recommend that you never give out personal details about yourself or your life.
Also, in regards to the new wave of sites, facebook, myspace etc, be extremely careful;
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/consumer_affairs/article2889702.ece
| Quote: | | BANKS have warned they may stop reimbursing identity fraud victims who post personal information on websites such as MySpace and Facebook. It follows growing concerns that fraudsters are targeting social-networking sites for information to help them steal identities |
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpool-news/Facing-up-to-the-threat.3418426.jp.
| Quote: | Investigators from the BBC consumer show Watchdog created a fictional user on Facebook and conducted an experiment in which they contacted 100 random people and asked to become their “Facebook friend”.
Although none of the people contacted knew anything at all about the user, 35 responded immediately giving access to any personal details they had posted on their site.
One Facebook user who became a friend of the fictional character left his date of birth and home town on his profile. The Watchdog team used these details to find out more information about him from other publicly available sites and then set up both an online bank account and successfully applied for a credit card in his name.
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Dave The Man
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Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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| member34258 wrote: | I started my internet experience like many others. I trusted that the people I "talked" to had the same intentions as myself.
I was wrong. There are many who cannot be trusted and will turn on you in an instant.
Thankfully, I now know not to trust anyone. And I would recommend that you never give out personal details about yourself or your life.
Also, in regards to the new wave of sites, facebook, myspace etc, be extremely careful;
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/consumer_affairs/article2889702.ece
| Quote: | | BANKS have warned they may stop reimbursing identity fraud victims who post personal information on websites such as MySpace and Facebook. It follows growing concerns that fraudsters are targeting social-networking sites for information to help them steal identities |
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpool-news/Facing-up-to-the-threat.3418426.jp.
| Quote: | Investigators from the BBC consumer show Watchdog created a fictional user on Facebook and conducted an experiment in which they contacted 100 random people and asked to become their “Facebook friend”.
Although none of the people contacted knew anything at all about the user, 35 responded immediately giving access to any personal details they had posted on their site.
One Facebook user who became a friend of the fictional character left his date of birth and home town on his profile. The Watchdog team used these details to find out more information about him from other publicly available sites and then set up both an online bank account and successfully applied for a credit card in his name.
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ANNODAM 
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We got the internet in 2001, when a friend told me about some chat site thingy & how now we can chat to eachother over the computer....I told him if I wanted to chat to him, I'd pick up the bloody phone & dial his number like a normal person.
Besides, I got better things to do with my life than sit in a chat room all day talking to strangers, how do I know they are who they claim to be?
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The Prototype
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Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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| ANNODAM wrote: | We got the internet in 2001, when a friend told me about some chat site thingy & how now we can chat to eachother over the computer....I told him if I wanted to chat to him, I'd pick up the bloody phone & dial his number like a normal person.
Besides, I got better things to do with my life than sit in a chat room all day talking to strangers, how do I know they are who they claim to be? |
For me it was to cure some boredom, plus I hadn't discovered the whole forum thing until 2003.
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The Prototype
Paint my face with a good-for-nothin smile.
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Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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