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This is where everything ELSE fits in - all sorts of WTFery
I've collected over the years. Without Further Ado:
Assorted Internet WTFery
Pictographic evidence of the sheer what-the-hell-ness of several well-known
websites.
SmashFest #1 - The Demise
of Modaemon
The following log details events that actually happened around the
year 2002. Maybe even 2001. Back in these troubled times, high-speed internet
was but a fleeting dream, 56.6kbps modems were the fastest thing alive,
ISDN stood for 'It Still Does Nothing' and my primary roost online was
still the now-defunct Turquoise Tavern. Oh yes, and AIM.
Back in those simple days, I was running on Windows 95 and my computer's
old 33.6kbps modem was working as well as such a slow piece of slag possibly
could. Then I upgraded to Windows ME and the little electronic Daemon
decided to take it personally. Since then, the Modem would spontaneously
hang unceremoniously without letting me know it did, forcing me to reboot
in order to reconnect, vanish from whatever IM conversations I was engage
in... And swear a lot mostly. Then, eventually, I got my claws on a better,
stronger, faster modem that actually WORKED. Being the utterly un-vengeful
person that I am who never holds a grudge, I proceeded to dismember aformentioned
modem with extreme prejudice, and take pictures for the world (who was
just exhasperated by this beastie as I was. This was labeled #1 as
I was hoping to do sequels involving moar abuse of defunct electronics,
but I realized that you can only have SO much of a good thing.
Pain in the Arceus
The Background: In an MSN conversation between my good friend Irene
and myself which took place around midnight-something of the 18th of June,
2009, All Hell (or is it all Hall of Origin?) Has Broken Loose. The
Conversation Log follows. Warning, yes, the MSN doodles are INTENDED to
be that bad.
Moar to come soon.
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