Relics of a day when "getting online" involved dialing in and typing commands at a keyboard, basically. CIS is also known as CompuServe and was eventually gobbled up by AOL. Delphi is still around (they're a hosted forum company like Proboards or, well, Vanilla), GEnie is dead and Prodigy (which had a vector-graphic interface long before Flash made it common) was killed by SBC/AT&T in the late 1990s after getting curb-stomped by AOL and ISPs.
I actually had a Prodigy account briefly in 1993. It was actually pretty cool for the time, though it was also something of a backwater compared to CompuServe or AOL.
Also, it used to be that CompuServe was where all the people were, where all the big software publishers had their official support forums, and where a bunch of people had email addresses. The problem was, you had to pay to play. I remember seeing the list of connect charges back in the 1980s, and, well, if your job wasn't paying for it, you'd have to borrow money if you used it for more than a few hours per month. Spending hours online day after day like most of us do now would have cost thousands of US dollars -- in late 1980s money. :P
The thing is that to be a stock phrase, something has to specifically exist as one.
That doesn't make a lot of sense. Specifically, I mean that things like "so, yeah" , "or is it", and so on are such common sayings they're not anything in particular. They're just common turns of phrase.
Much like how "Look out!" isn't a trope.
^Reason #1 Superglobe Doesn't Get Early Internet Nostalgia
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My mother used to work for CompuServe, though by then it was the mid-'90s and they were mostly about Web access.
At one point she got to work from home, which was the first time we had a computer in our house. I used to play on Nick.com once Mother was done with work.
I played on Cartoon Network's website a lot as a kid.
I also fucking loved Bonus.com, which I'm pretty sure is defunct now. It was sort of a precursor to all those "collection of random flash game" sites you have now, except it was AWESOME.
It deeply saddens me that I have never found another place to play Area Flat or its even better sequels
I was a kid in the 1980s, and we had no disposable income, so my computer usage was pretty much limited to the Apple IIs at school until, oh, 1990. (Not counting the NES we got in 1988, though.) I also read a lot; there wasn't much else to do where I lived that wouldn't get me yelled at for being weird.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Heh, dail-up, man...having to get off the internet when someone needed to make a call or having to get off the internet before they started to charge by the hour.
That's another thing. It's obviously just because of when I grew up, but I cannot fathom paying full video game price for an NES game or even most SNES games.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
AU: I thought it was certainly interesting at the time, though I kind of doubted how long it would last because the companies were so different. Bakc in the 1980s, mergermania at least tried to merge companies that were in similar businesses (Kraft and General Foods, RJ Reynolds and Nabisco, Beatrice/Norton Simon/Esmark, all either food companies or with large foodservice holdings; Time and Warner Communications, both media companies).
AOL and TW were kind of like merging a teensy-but-highly-popular artisan breadmaker with a company that specialized in selling, oh, gummi worms. :P About the only companies that are that highly diversified now are private equity firms, and they typically don't care about vertical integration or "rightsizing" as long as their holdings make money. They're closer to mutual funds than conglomerates.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also, if CA is around: Delhaize just killed Bloom and is cutting 5000 jobs. I hear the Bloom at Potomac Mills is closing and the one in Lake Ridge will be reverting back to Food Lion.
I kind of liked Bloom, and so did my parents, but we never went there, especially after leaving Dale City. We almost always shop at Walmart, Harris Teeter, Wegmans, and sometimes Safeway because it's close to the house.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
So apparently the pegasi realized they were behind on the snow schedule, because there's a nice winter storm going on here.
Dad and I went out to Meijer (which is only a couple minutes away) and I tried driving on snow for the first time. Gotta say, not looking forward to doing it all by myself.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
*sigh* ...I was putting off showering, but I guess I might as well go and do it now.
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I Am Not Making This Up was redefined and renamed, not cut.
And So Yeah isn't really a trope. It's a saying.
The thing is that to be a stock phrase, something has to specifically exist as one.
That doesn't make a lot of sense. Specifically, I mean that things like "so, yeah" , "or is it", and so on are such common sayings they're not anything in particular. They're just common turns of phrase.
Much like how "Look out!" isn't a trope.
^Reason #1 Superglobe Doesn't Get Early Internet Nostalgia
At one point she got to work from home, which was the first time we had a computer in our house. I used to play on Nick.com once Mother was done with work.
I played on Cartoon Network's website a lot as a kid.
I also fucking loved Bonus.com, which I'm pretty sure is defunct now. It was sort of a precursor to all those "collection of random flash game" sites you have now, except it was AWESOME.
It deeply saddens me that I have never found another place to play Area Flat or its even better sequels
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
so um
who's this Fourier guy.
That would explain several things.
In other news, I like dragons.
Bobby G doesn't have ban powers.
Or rather, he didn't when you were banned.
Also can we talk about something besides TVTropes please. I mean really.
There's like a million different subjects; black holes, dragons, water, BASED GOD, Johnny Appleseed, soda pop, Italy, pick something.
Everything you need to know about dragons: They are awesome, they breathe fire, Busta Rhymes is one.
Everything you need to know about heraldry: muthafuckin' SHIELDS, bitch.
His disguise is very convincing.
Also I associate him with the SGC2C episode "Flipmode" (which is one of my favorites even though next to no interviewing gets done).
What's "Flipmode" an episode of?
Either way it takes the name from Flipmode Squad, which is Busta's clique.
And yes, Busta Rhymes is a dragon. More specifically he is RARRH RARRH LIKE A DUNGEON DRAGON.
ah. Cool.
also, regarding Busta Rhymes being a dragon:
edit: fucken censored version
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Need to learn more about these things too...
Dad and I went out to Meijer (which is only a couple minutes away) and I tried driving on snow for the first time. Gotta say, not looking forward to doing it all by myself.
Also I'm wondering what causes a pegasus to leave Cloudsdale.