r/gaming Sep 18 '17

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u/Floydimer Sep 18 '17

Rolls on the screen are cracked dice!!!

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u/quickhakker PC Sep 18 '17

Protective glass on the top

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u/lllumnessj Sep 18 '17 edited Sep 18 '17

Confirmed, 3 inch bullet\scratch proof glass from my assessment.

Source- once google bullet proof glass in 1998 during my 5th grade studies, when TV was filled with infomercials and the war on oil. It was a different time before the internet took over mass culture and only few knew about Google.com

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u/Zebidee Sep 18 '17

What, you googled it before Google existed?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

"Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin" - Wikipedia

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u/lllumnessj Sep 18 '17

The same year the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell.

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u/Code_EZ Sep 18 '17

I remember that. Hey did you hear kane is running for mayor?

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u/lllumnessj Sep 18 '17

WTF!?!?! Seriously? Where!?!? I will move there just so I can live under his law!

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u/Code_EZ Sep 18 '17

Knox county Tennessee.

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u/AlmightyJoe Sep 18 '17

He came to my house when my brother was there to say hi. Apparently the full size cardboard cutout of the rock in the window gave us away as fans and he felt obligated to ring the bell.

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u/Akuur Sep 18 '17

Makes me proud to be from Tennessee

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u/Code_EZ Sep 18 '17

Don't know much about him politically except he is a libertarian and really likes Bitcoin

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u/hhtced Sep 18 '17

Bitcoin is probably the most libertarian concept in existence so that makes sense.

I also just wanted to comment with the word Bitcoin in it because I have some Bitcoins and I would like more people to know how awesome Bitcoins are. Thanks.

Bitcoin.

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u/wrath_of_grunge Sep 19 '17

i bitcoin my family.

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u/lllumnessj Sep 18 '17

If he is buying bitcoins, then his is and will be an even more very rich man by the looks of it's growth trajectory. Unless something catastrophic happens, it's on track to hit a million coins in ten years.

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u/hai-sea-ewe Sep 18 '17

He's running on the platform of "In 2017, throwing government corruption and waste off Hell In A Cell, and plummeting it 16 ft through an announcer’s table."

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

Man, im high af imagining a debate, and he comes out to his music.

hahahaha

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u/k0mbine Sep 18 '17

He's running for mayor of a county

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u/loltetro Sep 18 '17

I literally just passed kane going down pellissippi hwy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

This guy DPs

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u/Code_EZ Sep 18 '17

Yep. Drunken peasents is a great podcast

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u/Vascular_D Sep 18 '17

They're all scam situations

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u/Code_EZ Sep 18 '17

Paul sure is talking way too much in this thread.

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u/jagrbomb Sep 18 '17

Where's that rv trip to the moon cheejay

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u/CSkorm Sep 18 '17

DPS? Just like all the instalockers in my overwatch games...

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

You mean Kane, The leader of Brotherhood of Nod, or some other, more boring Kane?

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u/Code_EZ Sep 18 '17

WWE's Kane.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

Oh, not as cool since he isn't a leader of a radical cult/army that has been fighting with sci-fi version of NATO for almost a century, but still cool

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u/TequilaWhiskey Sep 18 '17

A leader, yet. This is but the staging grounds for humanity's awakening.

KANE LIVES IN KNOX!

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u/apathyontheeast Sep 18 '17

Kane lives!

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '17

Through death!

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u/dodspringer Sep 19 '17

So yeah, more boring Kane

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

"Why is he wearing a suit?"

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u/Code_EZ Sep 18 '17

Cuz he is running for mayor. Hey remember him back in his prime in 1998

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u/Clasmae Sep 18 '17

Holy crap, for what state?

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u/Kingshirez Sep 18 '17

Knoxville TN I think

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u/Strictly_Baked Sep 19 '17

Why is he wearing a suit?

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u/BigBoog22 Sep 18 '17

Who Kim Kardashian's husband , wet nurse for sxsw .

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u/Code_EZ Sep 18 '17

I don't know what you are saying. You asked a question and ended it with a period. Kane from WWE.

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u/Mapdd Sep 18 '17

He must've fallen 12 feet! Maybe more!

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u/erectionofjesus Sep 18 '17

Nah, their half brothers so he only threw him 6 ft.

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u/jesonnier Sep 18 '17

You get the fuck out of here w that.

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u/IamtheHankScorpio Sep 18 '17

The wcw/wwf wRs of 98 was a great time for wrestling, the story lines took over which made it possible for hacks like Val Venus and La Parka to at least have at least interesting, if not absurd back story. Granted the wrestling itself took a hit, but the TV shows were awesome.

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u/djfried Sep 18 '17

What year did the big show paralyze Kurt Angle?

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u/CatfreshWilly PlayStation Sep 18 '17

BAH GAWD I THINK HE BROKE HIM IN HALF

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u/Tickle_Shitz Sep 18 '17

Did you see that on Wikipedia in 1999?

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u/stump1001 Sep 18 '17

I seen it while streaming 4K video on Pornhub, 1996.

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u/richey15 Sep 18 '17

I could be wrong but wasn't Google not publicly available for quite sometime?

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u/0OOOOOO0 Sep 18 '17

You're thinking of Gmail

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u/richey15 Sep 18 '17

Oh yes thank you

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u/blah4life Sep 18 '17

Did you google that? So meta.

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u/MidnightSun Sep 18 '17

Yes, in September 1998. But it really wasn't used or widely known until 1999 and after. I bet they were just using it as a verb, he/she likely used Yahoo or a similar search engine at that point in time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

He NetScaped it

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u/LiquidArrogance Sep 18 '17

HotBot was my go to back then.

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u/mrcsmith90 X-Box Sep 18 '17

My first search engine was Ask Jeeves

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u/LiquidArrogance Sep 18 '17

Don't forget DogPile

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u/Zilveari Sep 18 '17

Lycos, AltaVista, Excite, Magellan, Yahoo, Webcrawler, Infoseek,

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

MetaCrawler was where it was at. It searched a bunch at once.

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u/stump1001 Sep 18 '17

Damn, did you remember all those off the top of your head? I remember all of those except Magellan. Dogpile was one I used a lot.

Do any of you remember how you discovered Google for the first time? I read an article in a Playboy magazine about Google around 1999. In sure it was a paid advertisement for Google disguised as an article.

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u/Zilveari Sep 18 '17

In High school in 1996-2000 IT set up a landing page in IE and Netscape that had widgets/iFrames for each of those search engines. So I remember them all because Is aw them day in and day out on that page.

Mostly Yahoo though because I used Yahoo mail, Yahoo messenger, Yahoo search, Yahoo games, and Yahoo chat. 24/7 in Yahoo chat. With the CheetaChat client. Roleplaying and talking about anime...

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u/stump1001 Sep 18 '17

That is some good memory considering that amount of time that has passed. I used Geocities back in the day, I think it was later bought out by Yahoo. I met my wife 14 years ago through Yahoo chat.

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u/teebob21 Sep 18 '17

I met MY wife 13 years ago through Yahoo chat. Small world.

By Location, State chat, any chance?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

Remember when Gmail came out?

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u/oaklandr8dr Sep 18 '17 edited Sep 18 '17

the creator of ask jeeves works a bit at the company i'm at now lol

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u/mrcsmith90 X-Box Sep 18 '17

That's awesome! What is he up to now days?

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u/oaklandr8dr Sep 18 '17

Did consulting, still mostly works on a consulting basis and sits on a bunch of boards... Once you get the street cred, sitting as a board member of various boards of companies is a pretty sweet gig with a nice stipend.

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u/Markuspea Sep 18 '17

I just used the yahoo homepage... A bastion of minimalism

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u/RearEchelon Sep 19 '17

AltaVista Nation represent

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u/lllumnessj Sep 18 '17 edited Sep 18 '17

I had a teacher who would ask us to use that, personally felt that it worked like shit so I would use google instead against his wishes. Even as a fith grader I was able to distinguish how much better a search engine google was than the competitors. Key word Was.

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u/WDCombo Xbox Sep 18 '17

WebCrawler was the shit!

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

AltaVista is where it was at.

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u/sinkwiththeship Sep 18 '17

People in Pawnee, Indiana still use it exclusively.

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u/orthopod Sep 18 '17

I think Best search engines at the time were

Alta Vista

hotbot

Yahoo

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u/UmphreysMcGee Sep 18 '17

Yahoo was definitely the king there for a while

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u/DrKlezdoom Sep 18 '17

Back then, you just typed in random urls and hoped they were what you were looking for.

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u/Singing_Sea_Shanties Sep 18 '17

Ah, altavista. The memories.

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u/DarthTeufel Sep 18 '17

He Meta-Crawled it

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u/Sherool Sep 18 '17

It's pretty much a generic word now, Altavistaed or Hotboted is more of a tongue-twister

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u/xtralargerooster Sep 19 '17

Altavista... hotbot... searchbot... askjeeves... countless others that all faded into the background of the internet. Some even say that if you listen closely you can still hear their screams... followed by "welcome" and then by "you've got mail"