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05-19-2009, 04:15 AM
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So if you are anything like me you sometimes wonder where a person gets the user name that they have in the forums. I have found that sometimes there is an interesting story behind those internet identities.
I will get things started with my story. When I was 12 my dad took his old ford truck off the road because the engine was tired and it needed a paint job. It was a 1970 Ford F-100 with a 390 cid and a 4 speed tranny. We started restoring it together and got it almost done before he died. Of course it had a lot of sentimental value to me, so I got a friend of my dads to help me finish it before I turned 16, and it became my first car.
It was so awesome to drive that thing and know that my dad and I built it together. It was 100 times cooler than any of the fancy cars the other kids in school had, and it was all mine.
Of course being a stupid teenager, I did the bonehead thing and wrecked it when I was racing an 86 Mustang Boss. I was doing pretty good until that corner, and then that tree. I guess it couldn't handle as well as the muscle car.
So that is my story, would anyone else care to share?
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05-19-2009, 04:21 AM
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Mine is a combo of my real name and my telephone area code. I'm also a fan of the famous surf shop also.
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05-19-2009, 04:23 AM
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Well, it all started way back in the early 90s, can't remember exactly what year, 92, or 93 give or take a year. I was about 9 or 10, and got my first modem, a 2400 baud! Installed that thing into my Tandy 1000, and got connected to a BBS, first question it asked me was for my username. Well I thought long and hard about it for about... 2 minutes... and concluded I would use a combination of my name Matt, and my favorite animal, Cats. So MatCat was born! I have used my handle ever since, it is as much a part of me as my real name is.
Man, I miss those days! Before most people even knew what the internet was. I loved the BBS scene so much. I realize that the majority of people on here will have no clue what I am talking about, and that is OK, just know that it was THE thing before the internet caught on.
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As I sit looking all around,
Confusion and uncertainty is all I found.
The answers are there,
But I do not know where.
Optimistic and hopeful dreams,
Are all I have so it seems.
The future I do not know,
So all I can do is take it slow.
But I do know it will work out,
So I wait and watch without a doubt.
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05-19-2009, 04:38 AM
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Originally Posted by matcat
Man, I miss those days! Before most people even knew what the internet was. I loved the BBS scene so much. I realize that the majority of people on here will have no clue what I am talking about, and that is OK, just know that it was THE thing before the internet caught on.
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So are you the inspiration for that 80's movie "War Games"? Man that is a blast from the past!
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05-19-2009, 04:44 AM
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So are you the inspiration for that 80's movie "War Games"? Man that is a blast from the past!
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That movie was so out of touch from reality it isn't even funny. One of my all time favorite computer movies Hackers, also very unrealistic in the graphics department, but a lot of the lingo they use is fairly real, to some degree anyway.
I honestly don't even know how I got interested in computers!
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My Trucking Blog: http://matcattruckin.blogspot.com/
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As I sit looking all around,
Confusion and uncertainty is all I found.
The answers are there,
But I do not know where.
Optimistic and hopeful dreams,
Are all I have so it seems.
The future I do not know,
So all I can do is take it slow.
But I do know it will work out,
So I wait and watch without a doubt.
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05-19-2009, 04:59 AM
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I used to work in a television station and discovered the movie Videodrome not long after seeing The Ring. It soon became a favorite of mine.
Also I posted a lot on a videogame forum so Videodrome seemed appropriate.
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05-19-2009, 05:18 AM
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The first computer I purchased for myself was a Tandy 1000. I remember that the 10 MEG drive cost something like $250. My first computer, however, was a Radio Shack Color Computer. It had a whole 4k (as in 4,096 bytes) of memory. You hooked it to the tv and it saved programs on an audio-cassette recorder. Diskettes didn't come out for about 3 or 4 years after that.
As for BBS's, I ran a 4-line BBS out of my home. It was absolutely amazing to be able to chat with 4 people in real-time back then.
As for my name, I'm a Stephen King fan. My name is a combination of the freaky, red-hed kid from Children of the Corn (Malaki) and the year I graduated high-school (1986). I had to add the '86' to my name after the name Malaki started being used more and more.
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05-19-2009, 05:58 AM
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I have been fighting it for years! I always hated it when people would call me Mr Bill, Even though I love the Saturday Night Live skits. In the end I decided if you can't beat em, join em!
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05-19-2009, 08:41 AM
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Hawk was the old man CB handle and all his friends use to call me Little Hawk or Hawk Jr..
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05-19-2009, 09:27 AM
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I think my mother came up with mine....
Yep, had to be or else I would be named "Knothead".
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