For some of you guys that were still in middle school when Airwarriors came about, here's a little blast to the past. circa 2000 (back when scrolling text across the top of the page was cool): http://web.archive.org/web/20000229034416/www.airwarriors.com/main.html circa 2002 (ahh yes, good 'ol Snitz. AW went from being a mainly static site to one that is incredibly dyamic): http://web.archive.org/web/20021125102745/http://www.airwarriors.com/ circa 2003 (a newer improved Snitz!): http://web.archive.org/web/20031130094230/http://www.airwarriors.com/ circa 2004 (vBulletin at last): http://web.archive.org/web/20070525014432rn_1/airwarriors.com/forum/ circa 2010 (new and "improved" vBulletin): http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/forum.php
+1 And a few weren't even out of grade school or whatever it's called these days! So we're looking at 10 years of AW! So where's the celebratory banner?
Good question, but from perspective of those of us already retired 10 years ago, we see you as being of age of maturity for 10 years, which is a good thing.
Ten years ago rec.aviation.military.naval was still ticking along on usenet, but beginning to wind down and with nowhere near the volume AW has today. It was a "non-binary" newsgroup (no pictures... oh the horror!) but it was still plenty good enough in the 1990s for any and all manner of participants from retired BTDTs, active duty, aspiring grasshoppers, and all-around fans of naval air. What a great age we live in!
I'm pretty much the mega nerd. I dialed into several BBS's with a 1200 Baud used modem that I picked up at a computer show. My friend had a 4800 Baud, and I was jealous.
Why yes I have... On a 1200 baud modem that was the fastest thing available at the time, using a CPM Televideo machine with a supersize 10MB hard drive and 5 1/4" floppies. State of the art stuff. Oh, and I had a Mansmann-Talley dot matrix printer thet weighed about 30 pounds. :icon_tong
I downloaded the original Wolf 3D shareware from a dial in BBS back in the day. 1200 Baud external modem I think. I had to be <10 at the time. Good times.
Little did Dad know what he was getting into when he bought the first computer I owned, a crappy Timex Sinclair 1000... I pretty much stopped doing anything that didn't involve computers in those days... My two buddies and I would hang out, write code, war dial, etc... Both of them work for Microsoft now. Me, I'm still just a dabbling geek. I'm looking forward to getting the Android based iPad knockoff that I just picked up from eBay for $100. Gotta love the gadget shops of Schenzen, China...
Ten years ago I was all ramped up about Y2K. I had my stash of food, and barrels of water and even had a gas tank put on the property. My, how things do change.
Perhaps those will all come in handy for the Mayan apocalypse of 2012. I was between HS graduation and boot camp at this time ten years ago. On Sunday after church I was probably slinging pasta and breadsticks at Fazoli's making $6.15/hour...as the highest paid person who wasn't a manager. Hey, the cream rises to the top.
Sure, but did you hack the WHOPPER to play some Global Thermonuclear War? I had no idea Airwarriors had achieved consciousness while I was in Primary. Probably good that I didn't know, as it probably would have kept me from studying even more than downtown Corpus, and that bartender I dated did. ...and yes, I read that book in college, too.
Are you old if you know that AW got its title from "that book?" I remember looking at the the older site as a mid, wanting to check it one day as a senior at PSU, and going "wow! It's a forum now!" I think my first post was asking about the wait down at API; I'd probably have gotten like 8 infractions for deceased equine pummelling these days. :icon_tong Edit: And of course, when the spiders came along in 2007, Master was in FlashChat. How appropriate . . .
Just for clarification's sake, AW is actually a little over 11 years old. The first static html page went up in March of 1999. The archives didn't go back that far though.
That's about all there was in the 80s. My first modem was a 300 baud deal as big as a toaster connected to my Atari 800. Good times. Brett
Nerd. (And yes, I'm jealous that I missed out on the EARLY early days, when 300 baud was the shit...)
Sheeeeeet. Oldest I remember was my super fast 14.4 Kbps modem. I was the coolest kid on the block; ASCII porn downloaded in mere MINUTES!
