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I always watch BoB and think “man, what if grandpa was Sobel or Lt Dike or Peacock and now everyone knows he sucked”
 
WRS said:
AIM was fire though. The amount of collective cringe that was contained in those away messages would break the modern Internet.
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Catching up on this thread....but I was actually going through old external hard drives to see if I had anything worthy of saving. I found a ton of old pictures from HS and early college years, but I also had a file that was a bunch of saved AIM conversations and away messages. Looking back on it, I just had to laugh at how much of a ladies man I thought I was in HS. IDK if anyone on here knows who I really am, but that's definitely not the case, then or now lol.

Mt. Olive said:
This probably does not help our relationship but yes. My personal email is not professional. My passwords are not professional. I enjoy it.
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IDK how other people do their passwords, but I've found great success in using passwords that are 3 or 4 words back to back, with letters changed to symbols or numbers (E's to 3's, O's to 0's, i's to !'s, C's to ('s, L's to 7's, A's to @'s, stuff like that) and then throw in symbols or numbers to separate them. Like when I need a new password I just look around my room and either find 3 things, or think of something I ate for lunch that day, or just a random word. Here, I'll do it right now:

p0$+3RrU8!k5B@t+eRy92

There, you can use that....I don't/won't, but there's a good one. It is "poster" + "rubiks" + "battery" and 92 at the end. So all I do is remember the 3 words, sometimes 4, and I'm good to go. Just a tip for those that want to create GREAT passwords but be able to remember them.

BarcaDeac said:
I just used my Wake email name for my Gmail. It was right after graduating so I thought it was fine at the time but kinda gets annoying to spell out but I’m also way too far in at this point.

In HS I had a Hotmail that was like wakeman2001 which was a reference to wakeboarding but then I met with someone with good Wake connections when I was applying and she was like “ah well your email is appropriate” and I was like yes, yes it is.
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Wakeforest22890 said:
I also just have my Wake email as my Gmail
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I too, use my Wake email as my Gmail email.

Also, I too had a hotmail address, like literally all the way up until college haha. My name was bigg_mac@hotmail.com It had to do with my name, but it's still pretty hilarious. That was back when internet just started being something used by the common folk. Back when dial-up was the only thing there was. God I hated clicking on CONNECT and hearing those noises and then it taking forever to load pages.

I also remember trying to look up information for a report on the government or something and going to www.whitehouse.com, and it ended up being a porn site, or had adult content on it. That was quite an....experience.

Last thing about all of this internet/email stuff, I was recently watching FRIENDS because of Matthew Perry's death, and in one episode Chandler get's a new laptop and he's all psyched up about the specs and he lists them as: "12MB of RAM, 500 MB Hard Drive, built-in Spreadsheet capabilities AND a modem that transmits at over 28,000 bps." Also, the laptop had about 2in of plastic bezel around the screen, so even though the laptop was about 11-13 inches, the screen was like 8.5-9 inches.

It's insane how old that is. My PC has almost 3000x as much RAM, and my Hard Drive is 16000x as large and internet speed is about 7500x as fast....that assuming I did all the math right in my head for 32GB of RAM, 8TB Hard Drive and 210 Mbps internet speed.


 
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OblongPickle said:
Catching up on this thread....but I was actually going through old external hard drives to see if I had anything worthy of saving. I found a ton of old pictures from HS and early college years, but I also had a file that was a bunch of saved AIM conversations and away messages. Looking back on it, I just had to laugh at how much of a ladies man I thought I was in HS. IDK if anyone on here knows who I really am, but that's definitely not the case, then or now lol.



IDK how other people do their passwords, but I've found great success in using passwords that are 3 or 4 words back to back, with letters changed to symbols or numbers (E's to 3's, O's to 0's, i's to !'s, C's to ('s, L's to 7's, A's to @'s, stuff like that) and then throw in symbols or numbers to separate them. Like when I need a new password I just look around my room and either find 3 things, or think of something I ate for lunch that day, or just a random word. Here, I'll do it right now:

p0$+3RrU8!k5B@t+eRy92

There, you can use that....I don't/won't, but there's a good one. It is "poster" + "rubiks" + "battery" and 92 at the end. So all I do is remember the 3 words, sometimes 4, and I'm good to go. Just a tip for those that want to create GREAT passwords but be able to remember them.




I too, use my Wake email as my Gmail email.

Also, I too had a hotmail address, like literally all the way up until college haha. My name was bigg_mac@hotmail.com It had to do with my name, but it's still pretty hilarious. That was back when internet just started being something used by the common folk. Back when dial-up was the only thing there was. God I hated clicking on CONNECT and hearing those noises and then it taking forever to load pages.

I also remember trying to look up information for a report on the government or something and going to www.whitehouse.com, and it ended up being a porn site, or had adult content on it. That was quite an....experience.

Last thing about all of this internet/email stuff, I was recently watching FRIENDS because of Matthew Perry's death, and in one episode Chandler get's a new laptop and he's all psyched up about the specs and he lists them as: "12MB of RAM, 500 MB Hard Drive, built-in Spreadsheet capabilities AND a modem that transmits at over 28,000 bps." Also, the laptop had about 2in of plastic bezel around the screen, so even though the laptop was about 11-13 inches, the screen was like 8.5-9 inches.

It's insane how old that is. My PC has almost 3000x as much RAM, and my Hard Drive is 16000x as large and internet speed is about 7500x as fast....that assuming I did all the math right in my head for 32GB of RAM, 8TB Hard Drive and 210 Mbps internet speed.


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I read this entire post. #noskim
 
OblongPickle said:
Catching up on this thread....but I was actually going through old external hard drives to see if I had anything worthy of saving. I found a ton of old pictures from HS and early college years, but I also had a file that was a bunch of saved AIM conversations and away messages. Looking back on it, I just had to laugh at how much of a ladies man I thought I was in HS. IDK if anyone on here knows who I really am, but that's definitely not the case, then or now lol.



IDK how other people do their passwords, but I've found great success in using passwords that are 3 or 4 words back to back, with letters changed to symbols or numbers (E's to 3's, O's to 0's, i's to !'s, C's to ('s, L's to 7's, A's to @'s, stuff like that) and then throw in symbols or numbers to separate them. Like when I need a new password I just look around my room and either find 3 things, or think of something I ate for lunch that day, or just a random word. Here, I'll do it right now:

p0$+3RrU8!k5B@t+eRy92

There, you can use that....I don't/won't, but there's a good one. It is "poster" + "rubiks" + "battery" and 92 at the end. So all I do is remember the 3 words, sometimes 4, and I'm good to go. Just a tip for those that want to create GREAT passwords but be able to remember them.




I too, use my Wake email as my Gmail email.

Also, I too had a hotmail address, like literally all the way up until college haha. My name was bigg_mac@hotmail.com It had to do with my name, but it's still pretty hilarious. That was back when internet just started being something used by the common folk. Back when dial-up was the only thing there was. God I hated clicking on CONNECT and hearing those noises and then it taking forever to load pages.

I also remember trying to look up information for a report on the government or something and going to www.whitehouse.com, and it ended up being a porn site, or had adult content on it. That was quite an....experience.

Last thing about all of this internet/email stuff, I was recently watching FRIENDS because of Matthew Perry's death, and in one episode Chandler get's a new laptop and he's all psyched up about the specs and he lists them as: "12MB of RAM, 500 MB Hard Drive, built-in Spreadsheet capabilities AND a modem that transmits at over 28,000 bps." Also, the laptop had about 2in of plastic bezel around the screen, so even though the laptop was about 11-13 inches, the screen was like 8.5-9 inches.

It's insane how old that is. My PC has almost 3000x as much RAM, and my Hard Drive is 16000x as large and internet speed is about 7500x as fast....that assuming I did all the math right in my head for 32GB of RAM, 8TB Hard Drive and 210 Mbps internet speed.


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It’s whitehouse.gov
 
Which BoB episode features Jimmy Fallon? That’s the best one!

Kidding, I like Basonge the best. I think showing war from the perspective of a medic is pretty chilling.
 
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