Oh god. E-mail newsgroups…there’s a charm in it but my god is it tedious today…
You have to depend on many to quote or use the proper RE: tag to stay in conversation. I’m stunned e-mail newsgroups still exist, actually. Kinda like Radio Shack.
and ok, im from Jersey, anything that aint humbolt is so-cal. haha.
Then you may as well think it’s always sunny out here and that we all talk like surfers.
[reply]and ok, im from Jersey, anything that aint humbolt is so-cal. haha.
Then you may as well think it’s always sunny out here and that we all talk like surfers.[/reply]
may as well.
Oh god. E-mail newsgroups…there’s a charm in it but my god is it tedious today…
You have to depend on many to quote or use the proper RE: tag to stay in conversation. I’m stunned e-mail newsgroups still exist, actually. Kinda like Radio Shack.
No these weren’t email newsgroups. They were separate from email. They were just primative bulletin boards. They were fun. The groups of today don’t really have a whole lot more . . . Video, pictures, hotlinks maybe.
I’m sure a kid would die trying to use one nowadays, though. Kind of like expecting a 15 year old to appreciate ZORK.
Yeah I get what you mean, but I am only as old as catching the tail end of newsgroups so to speak so it’s what I recognize it as.
Also, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
[reply]Oh god. E-mail newsgroups…there’s a charm in it but my god is it tedious today…
You have to depend on many to quote or use the proper RE: tag to stay in conversation. I’m stunned e-mail newsgroups still exist, actually. Kinda like Radio Shack.
No these weren’t email newsgroups. They were separate from email. They were just primative bulletin boards. They were fun. The groups of today don’t really have a whole lot more . . . Video, pictures, hotlinks maybe.
I’m sure a kid would die trying to use one nowadays, though. Kind of like expecting a 15 year old to appreciate ZORK.[/reply]
True dat. I enjoyed rec.arts.industrial and rec.arts.drwho where I spent a lot of time in those early years. Being a nerd had never been so much fun as those early days.
Having grown up in small town Wisconsin I was blown away to find a whole list of people who would argue at length about the industrial legitimacy of Nine Inch Nails. It was like I’d found my people.
The only newsgroup I frequented with any regularity for discussion was the kevin smith group but I’ll be damned if I can remember the name of it like you guys can alt.movies.kevinsmith maybe?
Other than that me and my 56k modem would spend all of our time on the binary news groups downloading bootleg rem shows for my now ex whore of a girlfriend, roms for emulators and various songs from pop acts I would never buy. as well as the ocassional serious album here and there… I downloaded Darkside of the spoon from one of those binary groups!! pretty sure I still got the burn too, heh! Ah the days
Late,
grmpysmrf
Back on topic, I read that Billie Joe was drinking before the show.
Back on topic, I read that Billie Joe was drinking before the show.
Yeah, but that doesn’t mean anything. Unless someone saw him chug a 2-litre of Everclear or something who really cares? Everyone drinks before shows. It’s more newsworthy if someone doesn’t have a drink before a gig.
Or maybe booze is forbidden backstage at the iHeartRadio shows. We don’t want J.Biebs and Willow Smith coppin’ beers.
While I’m not a fan, I do respect them for surviving the 90s and still holding a strong following. I remember the 90s trying to being everything the 80s wasn’t. However, the 80s groups still held strong, and everything else was 1-hit wonder bad techno pop, rap, alternative knockoffs and whatever, sort of like how it is today.
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Decent enough point. I can’t really think of a better example of a band that came up in the 90’s and held their success . . . . Goo Goo Dolls? Sugar Ray? Candlebox? I mean, come on. Pretty much all of GD’s classmates from the era are playing bowling alleys and Indian casinos now.
Pretty much all of GD’s classmates from the era are playing bowling alleys and Indian casinos now.
For good reason…
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grmpysmrf
Yeah they are at least proud of selling out, Goo Goo Dolls on the other hand…I know for sure they aren’t happy making the bullshit they’ve been making since the mid-90s but they make a lot of money for it, so they have to pretend they like it.
You can’t make over three records and just go pop because you’ve been dying to. Bills are stacking.
what are you guys talking about? lots of bands made it out of the 90’s. one hit wonders will always be around, no matter what decade :P.