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Old 08-27-2012, 03:44 PM   #301
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Billy retweeted this >>>

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Old 08-27-2012, 04:14 PM   #302
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i don't know what you kids are doing on twitter these days in my day we had ICQ and we were happy

 
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Old 08-27-2012, 06:04 PM   #303
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fer reals dude

you remember the icq song?

 
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Old 08-27-2012, 07:49 PM   #304
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remember aol

 
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Old 08-27-2012, 11:52 PM   #305
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A-O-Hell, as I called it. Maybe they had chat features people liked to use, but christ almighty if you tried to cancel their internet service after the 40 hours free trial period...

And then there were all those mid-90's ISPs (AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve) which charged PER HOUR, leading to a wave of daytime talk shows dedicated to discussing university kids who racked up thousands of dollars in debt.

 
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Old 08-28-2012, 09:36 AM   #306
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A-O-Hell, as I called it. Maybe they had chat features people liked to use, but christ almighty if you tried to cancel their internet service after the 40 hours free trial period...

And then there were all those mid-90's ISPs (AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve) which charged PER HOUR, leading to a wave of daytime talk shows dedicated to discussing university kids who racked up thousands of dollars in debt.
AOHell was some script kiddie hack program that let you use AOL while you were uploading in the background and shit like that. back in those days they locked the rest of the service if you were uploading. luckily, i was leet and understood how to use netscape to cheat the system

 
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Old 08-28-2012, 09:48 AM   #307
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AOHell was some script kiddie hack program that let you use AOL while you were uploading in the background and shit like that. back in those days they locked the rest of the service if you were uploading. luckily, i was leet and understood how to use netscape to cheat the system
I loved using AOHell to crash chat rooms with dummy text.

 
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Old 08-28-2012, 10:40 AM   #308
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leading to a wave of daytime talk shows dedicated to discussing university kids who racked up thousands of dollars in debt.
student loans?

 
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Old 08-28-2012, 12:03 PM   #309
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I loved using AOHell to crash chat rooms with dummy text.
Seriously - had this program (wish I could remember the name) that would shoot the IM Bomb at people to punt them offline. Man, that thing was great. Neighbor kid started some beef with me, then I got ahold of his entire family's S/N's and would punt any/all of them the MOMENT they showed online. It was great.

ICQ was pretty non-user friendly, wasn't it?

 
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Old 08-28-2012, 12:17 PM   #310
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it was like instant messaging by way of the telegram

 
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Old 08-28-2012, 12:24 PM   #311
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uh-oh

 
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Old 08-28-2012, 12:44 PM   #312
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Seriously - had this program (wish I could remember the name) that would shoot the IM Bomb at people to punt them offline. Man, that thing was great. Neighbor kid started some beef with me, then I got ahold of his entire family's S/N's and would punt any/all of them the MOMENT they showed online. It was great.
Pretty sure AOHell had that. It also had the slightly more malicious "Password Phishing" feature, for my less honest friends who needed more than their 10 hours / month to download warez.

 
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Old 08-29-2012, 02:27 AM   #313
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student loans?
No, that would have at least been more justifiable (relatively.) These were students who suddenly found themselves with internet access abilities and thousands of dollars in internet usage fees since they apparently couldn't contain themselves to just 20 minutes of internet usage per day. People forget just how exploitative that shit was back in the day...hell, ISPs are still running a scam compared to the rest of the world, but not like that.

 
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Old 08-29-2012, 02:41 AM   #314
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i'm sorry i consider student loans to be more exploitative of youth than pay by the minute internet

basically even the very smart get suckered into enormous loans because your future! but racking up a huge internet bill is just dumb and careless.

 
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Old 08-29-2012, 03:08 AM   #315
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Yeah, but there's a whole ingrained system to blame about how far out of control tuition has spun. The causes range from intentionally exploitative practices and unintended consequences of well-meaning programs alike. Whatever tuition is actually being extracted, institutions nevertheless still complain about the increased funding crunch in many departments and the need for more resources. (I'm not even touching the "for profit" institutions here which for the most part ought to be considered outright criminal.) The ISPs, however, were just being shitheads for no particularly good reason other than to make quick profit much like airlines who've found completely shameless ways to extract increased profit far beyond any need to compensate for increased fuel prices.

 
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Old 08-29-2012, 04:57 AM   #316
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Follow me on twitter at @Billy

 
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Old 08-29-2012, 07:48 AM   #317
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yeah "for profit" post grad universities are such shit

 
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Old 08-29-2012, 01:09 PM   #318
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You know saying you pay by the minute up front and then going over that allowance is not a company's fault it's yours. I'm usually very much about consumer rights but as long as they're above table with it, gouging the stupid is fine with me.

 
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Old 08-29-2012, 10:47 PM   #319
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You know saying you pay by the minute up front and then going over that allowance is not a company's fault it's yours. I'm usually very much about consumer rights but as long as they're above table with it, gouging the stupid is fine with me.
I guess it was easier to tell them to go fuck themselves back then, right? I mean, now the internet is basically a utility that you're pretty much screwed if you don't have reliable access to and still want to get on with life. I fucking hate all the ISP options I have but I have to choose one and I can't do a damned thing about it! I think the way internet access is dealt with in America is unethical in whole.

 
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Old 08-29-2012, 11:23 PM   #320
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i hate that i'm about to say this but

the market pretty much pushed pay-by-minute services out the window because the internet was no longer a novelty it was a necessity so companies started offering monthly rates which pretty much doomed the pay-by-minute plan

 
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Old 08-29-2012, 11:25 PM   #321
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also i had pay-by-minute "free" netzero back in the dial up days in college and when i hit my limit and it went from free to pay i just picked my ass up and went to the computer lab

 
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Old 08-29-2012, 11:25 PM   #322
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lol netzero

 
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Old 08-30-2012, 12:44 AM   #323
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i didn't have personal internet until 2000 and then used free aol monthly passes. i only paid for it a few times and had it shut off a few times for a period of time. but didn't really get heavy into it until 2006 i think is when i got high speed

 
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Old 08-30-2012, 09:54 PM   #324
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also i had pay-by-minute "free" netzero back in the dial up days in college and when i hit my limit and it went from free to pay i just picked my ass up and went to the computer lab
I was pushed into Netzero when it became a PAY company (LOL) because the Texas company I was with (EV-net out of Houston) was bought out.

And regarding market pressures, when in the hell is someone going to invent the fucking service model that pushes these assholes out of their current business practices? It seems like these days, rather than anyone hedging their bets with a no frills "budget basics" model that makes up for sales in volume (basically like what Walmart did to attract everyone to its stores initially) they all work in concert so that any new services merely copycats the preexisting models by touting either "special/premium" value added bullshit that's supposed to make them better (but not cheaper) so simply cornering a geographic region and buying everyone else out of the area where there are high barriers to entry so that, effectively, there's no real competition. Ultimately, all this shit going into our homes (whether it's from Verizon, ATT, etc.) is coming from the same damned phone line and/or set of communications towers.

Yeah, I totally know what you mean about playing the system to find clever ways to pay as little as possible - however, as with many technologies or services of this sort, in some respects it sort it seems a lot easier to play the system in its early years than when it becomes increasingly structured, codified, and merged into a mere handful of corporate players (from a relatively large field of regional and sometimes local competitors) as what happened with telecom or even the airlines for that matter. They're all on the same damned page.

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Old 08-30-2012, 11:21 PM   #325
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i can't read all that

 
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Old 09-10-2012, 04:58 AM   #326
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not a billy tweet, but amusing nonetheless.


 
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Old 09-10-2012, 04:59 AM   #327
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bahahahahaha

 
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Old 09-10-2012, 10:16 PM   #328
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@Billy in reply to Sabrina Deep
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Old 09-28-2012, 04:22 AM   #329
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Bad news SP fans. All our stage clothes (except those in the wash) were stolen out of our cases in from Mexico. Sad end to a great trip!

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HERE IS OUR STUFF!!! Really appreciate the agents who went and found where it had been hidden

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A31Aa4hCMAA_Bw9.jpg

 
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Bad news SP fans. All our stage clothes (except those in the wash) were stolen out of our cases in from Mexico. Sad end to a great trip!

Billy Corgan ‏@Billy
HERE IS OUR STUFF!!! Really appreciate the agents who went and found where it had been hidden

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A31Aa4hCMAA_Bw9.jpg
you are sure paying a lot of attention to band that you don't like

 
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