NationStates Jolt Archive

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I for one think that this is an amazing discovery, we should all know about the past and learning of the primitive people of 1995 will assist us greatly in our efforts to decode the past.

Ah, yes... so long ago, that was...

But I must be old, as I was around then. ;)

(Can't... remember... it... though :( )

Damn. In 1995, I hadn't yet started college, but I was screeching toward my divorce. And I was still a Jehovah's Witness. Ah, early days. How I don't miss them. :p

Meh I perfer the old article about Rumsfield being Sang-Tung and that he was hosting Mortal Combat.

I was 4 then... well, it depends how late in the year...

And I was still a Jehovah's Witness.
And I was still a Jehovah's Witness.
And I was still a Jehovah's Witness.

...my world just shattered.

...my world just shattered.

*crack* *crash* *smash* *crumble* :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p

I was 4 then... well, it depends how late in the year...

You were only 4?!

Dammit, 24 is far too young to feel old.

I was 10 and using my mom's AOL account, Rose6ud. The tragic birth of AIMspeak, that damnation which has corrupted this fair and wonderful language we all know as English. English could never be destroyed from the outside, but from the inside, the end will come, and it will be when AIMspeak becomes supreme. All I can say, is if I become a college professor and I see the corruption of English on a paper, the student will fail. Totally.

...my world just shattered.

I was on my way out--that was the year I left the church. You know, I said earlier that I wasn't in college yet, but I was. I started in February 1995. Damn that was a long time ago. You'd think I'd remember that clearer, considering all the changes I went through. Started school, left my wife and my church, joined a fraternity that fall, drank a lot, fucked a lot, smoked a lot. Big year for me.

I was 10 and using my mom's AOL account, Rose6ud. The tragic birth of AIMspeak, that damnation which has corrupted this fair and wonderful language we all know as English. English could never be destroyed from the outside, but from the inside, the end will come, and it will be when AIMspeak becomes supreme. All I can say, is if I become a college professor and I see the corruption of English on a paper, the student will fail. Totally.

One of my requirements for my students is that they use proper grammar and capitalization in their emails to me. I refuse to answer them otherwise. ;)

One of my requirements for my students is that they use proper grammar and capitalization in their emails to me. I refuse to answer them otherwise. ;)

*takes notes*

I was on my way out--that was the year I left the church. You know, I said earlier that I wasn't in college yet, but I was. I started in February 1995. Damn that was a long time ago. You'd think I'd remember that clearer, considering all the changes I went through. Started school, left my wife and my church, joined a fraternity that fall, drank a lot, fucked a lot, smoked a lot. Big year for me.

It just doesn't seem like you, Nazz. You're the college professor that epitomizes the Nationstates debator to me. I would not have pictured you as a Jehovah's Witness.

...

Or a frat boy, for that matter.

1995 er what happen in that year i can't think back that far
dam iam 23 now going on 24 next year dam i feel old

It just doesn't seem like you, Nazz. You're the college professor that epitomizes the Nationstates debator to me. I would not have pictured you as a Jehovah's Witness.

...

Or a frat boy, for that matter.

I like to think I've lived a full life. ;)

I'm a big believer in the idea that experience is the best teacher, and besides, I have plenty of stuff to write poetry about now.

I like to think I've lived a full life. ;)

I'm a big believer in the idea that experience is the best teacher, and besides, I have plenty of stuff to write poetry about now.

A good point. A good point indeed.

...just out of curiosity, what ARE fraternities like, exactly? I'm going to college at some point soon, and would like to be educated on what to expect. (Plus, new knowledge is always fun, no matter what it is.)

A good point. A good point indeed.

...just out of curiosity, what ARE fraternities like, exactly? I'm going to college at some point soon, and would like to be educated on what to expect. (Plus, new knowledge is always fun, no matter what it is.)

I don't recommend them. I was an odd case, because I was a 26 year old freshman (divorced with a child) who rushed a fraternity that had lost 90% of its membership two years before because of a series of hazing incidents, so I walked into a perfect situation, I guess. They were looking for pretty much anyone, and so I felt comfortable being in a fraternity with a friend who was a conservative Southern Baptist and another who had a three-inch long purple goatee and five earrings in each ear. This was not the cookie-cutter fraternity.

But unfortunately, too many of the fraternity stereotypes are accurate, especially at the bigger schools where the Greek organizations have a lot of campus power.

I don't recommend them. I was an odd case, because I was a 26 year old freshman (divorced with a child) who rushed a fraternity that had lost 90% of its membership two years before because of a series of hazing incidents, so I walked into a perfect situation, I guess. They were looking for pretty much anyone, and so I felt comfortable being in a fraternity with a friend who was a conservative Southern Baptist and another who had a three-inch long purple goatee and five earrings in each ear. This was not the cookie-cutter fraternity.

But unfortunately, too many of the fraternity stereotypes are accurate, especially at the bigger schools where the Greek organizations have a lot of campus power.

Oh, lovely. :(

Ah well. Nice to know what to watch out for, anyway.

I remember 1995! I didn't have the internets, though. That came the year after.

1995 was the year I started to rock. I got R.E.M.'s Monster the previous Christmas, and my appreciation of music rocketed upwards towards sweetness.

Oh, lovely. :(

Ah well. Nice to know what to watch out for, anyway.

But you know, before I joined, I never pictured myself as the type either. If you're interested, check it out and see if there's a place where you fit. Just remember two things--no matter what they say, they need you more than you need them, and never let them abuse you. Hazing is still very much an issue on campuses, and it's very illegal for good reason.

1995 was the year I started to rock. I got R.E.M.'s Monster the previous Christmas, and my appreciation of music rocketed upwards towards sweetness.

I like that album, but most people say it's one of their worst. Poo to them.

But you know, before I joined, I never pictured myself as the type either. If you're interested, check it out and see if there's a place where you fit. Just remember two things--no matter what they say, they need you more than you need them, and never let them abuse you. Hazing is still very much an issue on campuses, and it's very illegal for good reason.

Well, I was really more curious than anything else. If I were to join anything at college, it would be a debate club, or a Trekkie club, or something like that, as opposed to a fraternity.

no ps2 ,xbox, dvds,broad band, lcd tvs or plasma tvs
what in hell did we do for fun back then

no ps2 ,xbox, dvds,broad band, lcd tvs or plasma tvs
what in hell did we do for fun back then

SNES. Duh.

I still play mine...

SNES. Duh.

I still play mine...

never had one:headbang:

I like that album, but most people say it's one of their worst. Poo to them.

There's a lot of feeling built up behind the scenes of that album. They were pissed off at a lot of things, upset at the death of Kurt Cobain (with whom they were apparantly going to be collaborating), and it always felt to me like a warning of what was to come for the world in its angrier moments, as well as a plea to cherish what good was out there in the quieter parts.

never had one:headbang:

I pity you. Download an emulator and some roms, and delight in the awesomeness of it.

There's a lot of feeling built up behind the scenes of that album. They were pissed off at a lot of things, upset at the death of Kurt Cobain (with whom they were apparantly going to be collaborating), and it always felt to me like a warning of what was to come for the world in its angrier moments, as well as a plea to cherish what good was out there in the quieter parts.

Yeah...I wonder what that collaboration would have been like? I'm thinking something to the softer side of both bands.

Yeah...I wonder what that collaboration would have been like? I'm thinking something to the softer side of both bands.

Sadly we'll never know.

I pity you. Download an emulator and some roms, and delight in the awesomeness of it.

i never had one but i play one what was the war plane game called

Sadly we'll never know.Maybe some enterprising DJ will do a mashup...

SNES. Duh.

I still play mine...

in my college dorm, we had nes, snes, and n64 hanging from our duct tape entertainment center. life was good.

i never had one but i play one what was the war plane game called

Starwing/Starfox?

Maybe some enterprising DJ will do a mashup...

Courtney Love'd never allow it. :p

in my college dorm, we had nes, snes, and n64 hanging from our duct tape entertainment center. life was good.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4527/droolsl0.jpg

Hehe, the first year I remember was 1994, so I have even more memories of 1995 :D :p

I remember 1995!
Me too. That would be the ... twenty-fifth anniversary ... of when I started using computers.


Kids. No sense of history.

Courtney Love'd never allow it. :p
If the DJ doesn't sell it, Courtney can't stop it. Falls under fair use, I believe.

in my college dorm, we had nes, snes, and n64 hanging from our duct tape entertainment center. life was good.

ha the good n64 had same fun on that at a mates place

Meh I perfer the old article about Rumsfield being Sang-Tung and that he was hosting Mortal Combat.

LINK ME!

Starwing/Starfox?

it may have been them so long ago

Me too. That would be the ... twenty-fifth anniversary ... of when I started using computers.


Kids. No sense of history.

*thinks*

It was about the fifth or sixth for me...

If the DJ doesn't sell it, Courtney can't stop it. Falls under fair use, I believe.

I'm not so sure on that. I know for certain that it's illegal in the USA to distribute music tablature (an alternative to sheet music), even without profit, as well as lending out CDs, and i'm fairly sure that even playing records at a party is a breach of copyright (comes under public performance...or possibly broadcasting). I'd figure sampling the actual music falls along those lines.

Hehe, the first year I remember was 1994, so I have even more memories of 1995 :D :p

Really? I can remember back to when I was about 2...

Really? I can remember back to when I was about 2...

Same here.

My earliest memory:

My friend and I each had a Batman head filled with candy. He did something that pissed me off, I flushed it down the toilet, he cried, I got a hell of a spanking, and then I cried. I believe the toilet was clogged up pretty badly.


Ah, the good old days... :p

Same here.

My earliest memory:

My friend and I each had a Batman head filled with candy. He did something that pissed me off, I flushed it down the toilet, he cried, I got a hell of a spanking, and then I cried. I believe the toilet was clogged up pretty badly.

Hahahah :p

My earliest is slipping over on something at the beach and going under in about half a metre of water, thinking I was drowning, being "rescued", crying, being bought an icecream, stopping crying, and then being taken to see some cartoon movie thingy. :D

Hahahah :p

My earliest is slipping over on something at the beach and going under in about half a metre of water, thinking I was drowning, being "rescued", crying, being bought an icecream, stopping crying, and then being taken to see some cartoon movie thingy. :D

lol

And regarding your earlier post, I, too, still play my SNES. :D

You were only 4?!

Dammit, 24 is far too young to feel old.

Dammit, in 95 I was 24!

Dammit, in 95 I was 24!

I was 26, and would turn 27 in November. Ugh.

I was 26, and would turn 27 in November. Ugh.

Hey! Remember when Star Wars came out and then Battlestar Galactica? Those were great movies.

Hey! Remember when Star Wars came out and then Battlestar Galactica? Those were great movies.

Or when the gas pumps had to be changed over because none of them were made to deal with prices over a dollar a gallon?

Or when the gas pumps had to be changed over because none of them were made to deal with prices over a dollar a gallon?

Maan, those were the days. Then came these kids and ruined everything!

Maan, those were the days. Then came these kids and ruined everything!

i know same one thats happening to them now

Im just old enough myself to remember '[LEADED [.80]' on gas station signs.
Ah, the good 'ol days of my parents non-air conditioned 1977 black Toyota pickup. That thing was awsome and I loved it and I cried when they sold it.

I also remember when I first heard of the internet. I was like, "HOLYCRAPCHEATCODES!", and that was pretty much all I used it for until '98 or so when I found out about porn.
Anybody else remember low-quality no-sound porn samplers? Ah, the silent days ;)

what! can you speak up i can't hear you as iam getting dam old

Ahhh, 1995. I was graduating high school then.

I was just starting kindegarten in 1995.

I was 4 in 1995. Way back when the computers filled rooms and worked with thermionic valves.

a lot of good music, well, a lot of really bad music too came out of 1995

I remember it well, I went to see "The bloodhound gang" in concert, got backstage, got high with Jimmy Pop, found out his real name (which I don't remember now)

nice time, wish I could remember more of it, it was a good year (I think)

11 years old and knew absolutely zero about e-mails, internet, etc. School didn't have access.

11 years old and knew absolutely zero about e-mails, internet, etc. School didn't have access.

I got internet (of sorts....email and BBS) in 92, by 95 I was way too addicted.

I got internet (of sorts....email and BBS) in 92, by 95 I was way too addicted.

I'm sure I could have really gotten into it but my school didn't have the service and my parents couldn't afford a computer back then. Didn't really give me a chance to learn about it. Luckily when I got to high school and got the chance to use the Web it was pretty simple to learn.

I was on;y 7 in 1995 and now in 2 weeks I'm going to be 18. Wow time flies but I can't say it hasn't been good.

I was 21 and had been in the Navy for over 3 years.

Ah, 1995.....

I don't remeber it. I was only 3. :(

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I for one think that this is an amazing discovery, we should all know about the past and learning of the primitive people of 1995 will assist us greatly in our efforts to decode the past.

laugh-out-loud, as i believe the ancients used to say ;) (:p)


in 1995 my family got our first Pentium computer... a P(one) 90Mhz iirc. before then i'd been pretty used to 486's (the staff at the company down the hall from my parents' all came and gawped at the first 486 we got :p)

wow ... those people were ahead of their time. I didn't even get e-mail until 1996.

Dammit, 24 is far too young to feel old.

Unfotunately, 14 is still young enough to feel like a little kid.

Ah, 1995.....

I don't remeber it. I was only 3. :(

I concur with the other poster........24 is way too young to feel so old.

Pah, you should try being 25; I'm planning on buying a pipe and cap and moving to Brighton next month.

Ah, 1995, when the Megadrive was my primary entertainment (until we got a P90 at the end of the year. SIXTEEN MEGS OF RAM! Wow!) and the world was so new, shiny and fresh, with all those possibilities...

Quite funny, really.

Pah, you should try being 25; I'm planning on buying a pipe and cap and moving to Brighton next month.

Ah, 1995, when the Megadrive was my primary entertainment (until we got a P90 at the end of the year. SIXTEEN MEGS OF RAM! Wow!) and the world was so new, shiny and fresh, with all those possibilities...

Quite funny, really.

yeah, I remember being excited about getting my 8MB Ram computer.

and you know my 1 gig hard drive. :p

and yeah, I will be a quarter of a century old soon.....way too soon.

Well, if life begins at 40 you still have 16 years to while away in the meantime.

*Fondly remembers the Quantum Fireball 1080A* - even if my mobile 'phone has almost that much storage now.

yeah, I remember being excited about getting my 8MB Ram computer.

and you know my 1 gig hard drive. :p

and yeah, I will be a quarter of a century old soon.....way too soon.
My first computer was a Sinclair with 1 KB of RAM.

1981 or so.

My first computer was a Sinclair with 1 KB of RAM.

1981 or so.

oh, my first computer was a TRS-80, I can't beat you though, I was born in 81. :p

I got internet (of sorts....email and BBS) in 92, by 95 I was way too addicted.

Do you remember the name of the BBS, or by chance, are still active? Just curious, as my father still runs his on an Atari8Bit Emulator....

Anywho, as for what I remember: We(meaning my family and I) were just starting to get used to a PC(as opposed to an Atari, though both computers may have been hooked up at the time), and one of my favorite games was Stunts. Anyone else remember it? There was also Duke Nuke'Em, Minesweeper, and a few others that I can't remember right now. I remember thinking that the other kids in my school were weird because the majority of the ones I knew either didn't have computers or simply the internet. As I recall, something like 50-60% of all Americans either didn't own a computer or had yet to get on the internet at the time(don't remember which). There'd been a computer in my home since a few yrs. before I was even born('87), and each one of them had had a BBS, or for the 'new' PCs, the internet. So, ya, watching the other kids marvel over stuff on the school's computers that I'd always thought of as simply "normal" was weird. And no, I wasn't rich(and am not now, though I wish I was)-my father was/is simply a huge frellin' ubergeek.

Also, the Oklahoma City Bombing happened on my birthday... that kinda sucked(I believe I was in either 2nd or 3rd grade-can't remember which). I think the Lion King came out about this time, too. Unless it came out in '96... or '97. Then it wouldn't have come out in '95.

I appologize for any gramatical mistakes in this post... I didn't get much sleep last night, my sprained ankle is bothering me, and I have a pair of Cinabon cinnamon&cream cheese turnovers waiting for me, so I don't feel like looking it over for mistakes like I usually try to do. 'Night

Do you remember the name of the BBS, or by chance, are still active? Just curious, as my father still runs his on an Atari8Bit Emulator....

Anywho, as for what I remember: We(meaning my family and I) were just starting to get used to a PC(as opposed to an Atari, though both computers may have been hooked up at the time), and one of my favorite games was Stunts. Anyone else remember it? *snip*

Stunts, was that the car game where you could build your own tracks, with banked turns, bridges, loop-the-loops, etc?