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Re: Farewell Guys said by banditws6:I used CompuServe for a number of years beginning back in 1993. Spent most of my time on the ACTION and APOGEE (later REALMS) forums talking about Doom, Wolfenstein and all those other action games of the day. Was up late at night there chatting with the 3D Realms crew as they were releasing Duke Nukem 3-D shareware in January of 1996. As one of those guys, here's a wave back! My job was representing 3D Realms online from the time I was hired in Dec 1992 through the time all of us were laid off in May of 2009. I remember well the release of Duke Nukem 3D.
»www.3drealms.com/gallery/main.ph···mId=5564
There's George Broussard of 3DR pointing to my computer at the time, which was uploading Duke3D shareware to Software Creations. Right after there I would have hit Compuserve.
But yeah, I remember Compuserve well. Although today I can't recall my old Compuserve account number. I do remember it starting with 74, but the most I can remember is 74???,???..
I remembered it. 71540,306 was my number - it was a 5x3 account, which became more rare as CS rolled along.
And to whoever posted it above, I do remember TapCIS.  |
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 JoeG4
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945941 | Aww how sad to hear this, I remember those days! What a time! lol.
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 banditws6Shrinking Time and DistancePremium
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Hey Joe! Had no idea you posted here. Yep, those were the days...when people on forums were mostly civil! 
The Duke3D shareware release night was nuts. George was on the forum as well as possibly Levelord (can't remember for sure -- it might have had a separate chat with him on another occasion). I remember George snarking about you cursing up a storm because of an issue with the upload, and it was late enough that nobody wanted to think about anything except getting the upload done and going to Whataburger.
I had a 5x4 ID that started with 7. The 5x3 ID numbers were getting rare by my time as well; you could usually gauge the seniority of a user by their number. When the 10xxxx users started showing up, we all knew who the newbs were.
I was really bummed to see you and the other 3DR guys let go last month when the crap hit the fan. Hope you all find new workplaces to call home, doing the stuff you love.
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 tapeloopNot bad at all, really.Premium
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A bit hard to make out, but is that the Zmodem protocol I see?
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