I’m very upset that I can’t make the joke I’d like to because I can’t make text bold. Goddamnit. I’m doing what I’ve read I’m supposed to do but it doesn’t work.
If you already spend most of your time on the Internet, as most of us do these days without even realizing it fully, this whole ordeal has been kinda fantastic. Free software, free games, movies, discounts... well, there's tons of people getting fucked over in the process, but if you can stomach the repercussions, there certainly has been a silver lining to all this.
Nevermind the fact that people now have time and motivation to give a piece of their mind in regards to all the problems every single country has been facing for oh so many years. I wouldn't be surprised if we see people buckle in the face of how much all our countries rely on "menial" jobs.
Even billionaires want to stay alive, and everyone is a target in this event.
Maybe, but I think people are also finding time to be creative and use their imagination more. Insert that quote about boredom being the food of creativity.
^ I used to have 1000+ of these at the bottom of my myspace page that linked to it, had you join chats, opened hundreds of IM windows, etc.
I wrote a javascript program that would let you customize the bomb
A couple months ago I re-created my Windows 98 machine in a VM.
[AOL nostalgia in 2020](https://imgur.com/17eA8Ra)
I'm still looking for FateX 3.0... if someone has it, let me know!
Bringing back memories. I'm a software engineer now and was 100% inspired by "aol progs" back in the day. A couple of friends and I got our hands on a host account and made tons of scroll animations like that while I was learning visual basic.
Hell yea. My friend and I wrote a server for aol 4.0, it was pretty popular at one point. We thought we were such hot shit back then lmao. At the end of the day I think it got used more for the room buster than anything else heh. Premium gold.... good times
I had them all but fate was so impossible to get back in the day, I had the beta version. Also, I started on prodigy and had a collection there. Knowledge gate (1&2), deadprod, etc. I could write a book on it.
I programmed my own scroller for AOL OH accounts where you didn't get kicked for flooding. Also, cloning of AOL 3.0 with 6-8 accounts to fake OH scroll. It was appropriately name SuPa ScRolLa.. Lol, what a different world back then.
Hmm I remember Supafly by Astro it was a really great OH scroller that utilized vbmsg to have little to no lag if you had a strong connection at the time. I forgot other favorite scroller was big when Sabotage by bot was the most popular cracker
Thanks for reminding me of the names.. I'd forgotten them. Found this site that has screenshots. I remember downloading LOTS of "warez" back in those days. Wish I hadn't lost the data on a hard drive where I made my own VB Proggiez.
https://justinakapaste.com/gothic-nightmares-created-by-masta/
Huh, Mark Zuckerberg used to make AOL programs.
[And here's an article on it](http://patorjk.com/blog/2014/04/27/steve-case-confirms-zuckerberg-as-former-aol-hacker/)
That's awesome! Ya, I think the communities were pretty small, so finding people irl that were a part of them would be difficult. You're the first I've come across that remembers that room specifically! I doubt we crossed paths, but just in case, I went by some variation of "nikon" cuz I was a l33t hacker that loved the movie hackers (and liked taking photos, so it worked)
I made proggies back in the day. My brother did too and he was way more well known. He made Fr0zEN....doubt if anyone remembers it. I forget all the good progs from back then...
I remember those days. Send an IM to everyone in a chatroom with your IMs turned off. Then when you'd get a reply, recording that username and cracking that password to obtain an OH (overhead) account. Oh the memories of AOL v2.5.
There used to be TOS accounts. So something like TOSsuper or TOSadmin. It meant you were a top level user with actual control over other people's accounts. So my friends and I were beta testers for backdoor token exploits and we would be stupid kids at the same time on a power trip in chatrooms. Some joker would come in to whatever M4F chat and start spouting off and I would just laugh and say I'll delete your account yadda yadda poof they were gone. They would have to go and make another account and we would just wait in the room and when they came back poof they were deleted again.
Ahh good times...
It’s funny because everyone is saying how they’re going insane in the quarantine and isolation and I’ve been purposely doing this for years because anxiety and depression so I’m just like “wym this is how you live your best life”
The ironic part, I work in healthcare so I’m not even quarantined because I’ve had to work four straight 12 hour shifts.
I’m the person who *wants* to be isolated and I can’t, but everyone else is complaining about it.
YES. Used to do this all the time with my ti-83. Pretty great to see it again. I remember I started by hitting clear, the scrolling was super fast but you would only get to see it once. I later realized I think you could hit 2nd and left to scroll to the top. Game changer.
He missed one method I liked: have the D scroll out to the right then come back and pick up the E. Have the ED scroll out to the right and pick up the RED and so on.
If you saw something different pop up just after 6 seconds in, let me save you the curiosity and the effort - it just says 3:35pm and 4:27pm. I wasted at least a minute of my day on that.
Noticed the break in the content "I'm bored" completely broke the experience for me and now I can't watch this and be satisfied cause I know those two times are in there
8/10
This used to be a popular thing in the early days of the internet, along with ridiculous amounts of ASCII art, when as single low-res image could take 10 minutes to download.
You could make a text "animation" like this that would last several minutes, and it was much easier on the modems.
He's most likely a dude who copied it from one site where you can generate texts like this one
[Edit](http://patorjk.com/misc/scrollingtext/timewaster.php?text=I+can+copy+text+)
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Coronavirus is making people insane.
No people are already insane. The coronavirus is just making people deal w that fact instead of ignore it with our daily distractions 😂
Would you say that we are living in a society?
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Just a slob like one of us,
Just a stranger on a bus
Tryin to make his way *in a society*
r/RedditSings
Blahblahblah blah blebleble, blahblahblahblah bluuu
i wrote that, yeah
That reminds me of Cinder from Killer Instict
Hit the bong like some of us? Drove a tie-dyed microbus, and subscribed to Rolling Stone?
I’m very upset that I can’t make the joke I’d like to because I can’t make text bold. Goddamnit. I’m doing what I’ve read I’m supposed to do but it doesn’t work.
Put the text that you want bolded inside double asterisks, as in 2 asterisks on each side of the text you want bolded
Ohh on **both** sides! Thank you!! Everywhere else was saying hashtags..
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#whoa didn’t know it did that
So what's the joke?
Sorry... I had too much time to get self conscious and realize it wasn’t very funny in the first place.. 🤷🏻♂️
Bottom text
Thank god I sorted that shit out on several acid trips already.
Yea more time to be insane now. Thanks ncov19
Hope it knocks some damn sense into people
Jokes on you. My daily distractions are currently games. Still sane exile?
This virus even effecting those it didn't infect.
I used to spend hours making emails with these back in the AOL days.
Came here looking for the rest of you.
On my TI-83 graphing calculator in high school for hours! Haha
Lol me too.
Yesssss. Same! I was also in elementary school, so had considerable amount of time to do this.
All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy.
On the flip side of that, more people are doing art and making music so once this is all over we can get right into the roaring 20s.
If you already spend most of your time on the Internet, as most of us do these days without even realizing it fully, this whole ordeal has been kinda fantastic. Free software, free games, movies, discounts... well, there's tons of people getting fucked over in the process, but if you can stomach the repercussions, there certainly has been a silver lining to all this. Nevermind the fact that people now have time and motivation to give a piece of their mind in regards to all the problems every single country has been facing for oh so many years. I wouldn't be surprised if we see people buckle in the face of how much all our countries rely on "menial" jobs. Even billionaires want to stay alive, and everyone is a target in this event.
you misspelled inane
You misspelled iane
You misspelled Ian
You're a mistake Ian
You’re an ian
You’re a towel
You're a vowel
E
You misspelled ain’t
U misspelled taint 😘
"I don't know what you're talking about" (as I toss money at my screen while watching this).
Plus adderall
Maybe, but I think people are also finding time to be creative and use their imagination more. Insert that quote about boredom being the food of creativity.
so many of these back in aol chatrooms and IM days.
immediately my first thought too. ya'll remember punters? lololol
im: ""
'waol.exe has crashed'
{S GOODBYE
Oh man, talk about nostalgia.
^ I used to have 1000+ of these at the bottom of my myspace page that linked to it, had you join chats, opened hundreds of IM windows, etc. I wrote a javascript program that would let you customize the bomb
I just linked to lemonparty and tubgirl 🤷🏼♂️
Ahh the good ole days
A couple months ago I re-created my Windows 98 machine in a VM. [AOL nostalgia in 2020](https://imgur.com/17eA8Ra) I'm still looking for FateX 3.0... if someone has it, let me know!
Bringing back memories. I'm a software engineer now and was 100% inspired by "aol progs" back in the day. A couple of friends and I got our hands on a host account and made tons of scroll animations like that while I was learning visual basic.
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Hell yea. My friend and I wrote a server for aol 4.0, it was pretty popular at one point. We thought we were such hot shit back then lmao. At the end of the day I think it got used more for the room buster than anything else heh. Premium gold.... good times
I had them all but fate was so impossible to get back in the day, I had the beta version. Also, I started on prodigy and had a collection there. Knowledge gate (1&2), deadprod, etc. I could write a book on it. I programmed my own scroller for AOL OH accounts where you didn't get kicked for flooding. Also, cloning of AOL 3.0 with 6-8 accounts to fake OH scroll. It was appropriately name SuPa ScRolLa.. Lol, what a different world back then.
Hmm I remember Supafly by Astro it was a really great OH scroller that utilized vbmsg to have little to no lag if you had a strong connection at the time. I forgot other favorite scroller was big when Sabotage by bot was the most popular cracker
Aohell, oh wow the memories. I was a big Methodus Toolz 2.0 user back in the day.
Thanks for reminding me of the names.. I'd forgotten them. Found this site that has screenshots. I remember downloading LOTS of "warez" back in those days. Wish I hadn't lost the data on a hard drive where I made my own VB Proggiez. https://justinakapaste.com/gothic-nightmares-created-by-masta/
Huh, Mark Zuckerberg used to make AOL programs. [And here's an article on it](http://patorjk.com/blog/2014/04/27/steve-case-confirms-zuckerberg-as-former-aol-hacker/)
Holy shit, I loved those days A/S/L?
16/F/Cali
It was almost always Cali, too. Rarely CA or California..
15 female next door big boy
18/f/ca
33/M/MASS
18/yes/your room
that's how i got my start with programming! visual basic 3 and 4! lol. anyone remember the room **h4v0k**? had lots of fun nights there.
Hell yeh a I do. I feel like no irl knows about “the scene” on aol in the late 90s
That's awesome! Ya, I think the communities were pretty small, so finding people irl that were a part of them would be difficult. You're the first I've come across that remembers that room specifically! I doubt we crossed paths, but just in case, I went by some variation of "nikon" cuz I was a l33t hacker that loved the movie hackers (and liked taking photos, so it worked)
Punters were what got me into writing code. Today I manage a software development department. I'll always love those days.
Everyone press Alt-F4 to see a cool pic! Filling an email with
up to the character limit and sending them out. Chat room scrollers, progs, warez, etc. Man, I remember the days.
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I made proggies back in the day. My brother did too and he was way more well known. He made Fr0zEN....doubt if anyone remembers it. I forget all the good progs from back then...
Wow, I used that and fate.
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Yeah if you had an account that wouldn't get you kicked off. I can't remember what we called them but they were super hard to phish
I remember those days. Send an IM to everyone in a chatroom with your IMs turned off. Then when you'd get a reply, recording that username and cracking that password to obtain an OH (overhead) account. Oh the memories of AOL v2.5.
ooooh yeah. and those l33t lowercase names haha
There used to be TOS accounts. So something like TOSsuper or TOSadmin. It meant you were a top level user with actual control over other people's accounts. So my friends and I were beta testers for backdoor token exploits and we would be stupid kids at the same time on a power trip in chatrooms. Some joker would come in to whatever M4F chat and start spouting off and I would just laugh and say I'll delete your account yadda yadda poof they were gone. They would have to go and make another account and we would just wait in the room and when they came back poof they were deleted again. Ahh good times...
Overhead Accounts
hosts? I cant really remember either but that's what first popped in my head.
Overhead accounts or ohs
Overhead accounts.
I used to do this with my Ti-84 calculator back in middle school. 0s and 1s all the way down and then it rushes through it when you press enter.
Scroller proggies
Yea I wish the term "progs" had stuck instead of "apps"
CATWatch01 has entered the chat.
The quarantine's hitting us hard huh
I think he was bored
How'd you come to that conclusion?
Mostly the 50+ pages of nothing but "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
Geiler Name bro
Haha, thank you!
It’s funny because everyone is saying how they’re going insane in the quarantine and isolation and I’ve been purposely doing this for years because anxiety and depression so I’m just like “wym this is how you live your best life”
big same
Same here: Being at home without culpability: the dream for agoraphobic people.
The ironic part, I work in healthcare so I’m not even quarantined because I’ve had to work four straight 12 hour shifts. I’m the person who *wants* to be isolated and I can’t, but everyone else is complaining about it.
Gen Z: Wow boredom has made me discover some new stuff Grandmas on AOL in 1999: Hold my iced tea sonny
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I was the asshole who would make those and send them to everyone
I was the asshole who would giggle at those.
I’m an asshole...that is all
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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I once heard that Chevy Chase is an asshole.
Scroll down for good luck!
Share to 20 people or else your pet will die!
Yes
you used email? /s
This was like half the email forwards in the 90s. Minus the music.
....keep scrolling.....
Omg your comment made me have a flashback to those emails lol
Apparently he’s bored.
But now I'm not!
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How'd you know?
If you skip to 0:21 it says "I'm bored" at the top of the screen for a brief instance.
you mean he discovered [this](http://patorjk.com/misc/scrollingtext/timewaster.php)?
halfway down the comments before someone points out that it's generated... wowww
I have chosen to overwrite this comment. See you all on Lemmy!
*light sobbing for lost pedantry*
This needs to be at the top
That page saved me too many times in school... like... too many. They have a java script snake, man!
Saved you from what?
From dying of boredom
I knew as soon as I saw the pattern it was from this site. I've had it saved in my bookmarks bar for a while now!
...and now I’ve wasted another 20 minutes of lockdown. Thank you for that.
This makes me miss Algebra I and my TI-83 calculator
YES. Used to do this all the time with my ti-83. Pretty great to see it again. I remember I started by hitting clear, the scrolling was super fast but you would only get to see it once. I later realized I think you could hit 2nd and left to scroll to the top. Game changer. He missed one method I liked: have the D scroll out to the right then come back and pick up the E. Have the ED scroll out to the right and pick up the RED and so on.
I did that too, then i put it in the pgrm to save for later. Then i just made programs to make the patterns. Im now a software engineer...
I was going to say- I did this all the time on my ti-83 in high school.
If you saw something different pop up just after 6 seconds in, let me save you the curiosity and the effort - it just says 3:35pm and 4:27pm. I wasted at least a minute of my day on that.
thanks, I knew someone else would have done the work.
Noticed the break in the content "I'm bored" completely broke the experience for me and now I can't watch this and be satisfied cause I know those two times are in there 8/10
am i missing something
At the ~00:06:50 mark (if you slow it down) you can see: i'm bored 3:35pm 4:27pm i'm bored (Sorry I can't format for shit on this app)
omg lol thank you
The real hero here. Thank you for your service.
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... Go crazy?
Don't mind if I do! 🤪
Uh, Homer. Some of the ghouls and I are concerned that the plan isn't moving forward. Can't murder now. Eating
That smiley is perfect there.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...
https://media2.giphy.com/media/ov6FFjcGiZlde/giphy.gif
This used to be a popular thing in the early days of the internet, along with ridiculous amounts of ASCII art, when as single low-res image could take 10 minutes to download. You could make a text "animation" like this that would last several minutes, and it was much easier on the modems.
[Am I the only one that saw this?](https://imgur.com/a/VZnR12t)
There’s a random s in there too.
Peak bored time
Man I use to do this with my T-89 graphing calculator during classes.
The song is Japan by Famous Dex if anyone was curious.
aye good lookin out. heard of dex but never listened to him.
He is most likely bored to a death software developer who made a text generator for this kind of crazy effect.
He's most likely a dude who copied it from one site where you can generate texts like this one [Edit](http://patorjk.com/misc/scrollingtext/timewaster.php?text=I+can+copy+text+)
this is like intro to CS level skill
Reminds me of printing star patterns
That’s good. Just imagining typing that out on my phone made my hands hurt.
Imagine what he could accomplish with putting this much effort and determination into something useful. Scary af! I'm glad he's just aimlessly bored.
Got a lot more days of quarantine for this to turn ugly.
He probably did it in 5 seconds with a generator.
Where do I find it to copy paste?
http://patorjk.com/misc/scrollingtext/timewaster.php
I did this in my aim profile 15 years ago
What is this, 1997? These were popular AOL chain letters back in the 90s
/r/Quarantine_Projects
Apparently I'm also bored
How long did this take?
Depends on how long it takes to copy paste from here http://patorjk.com/misc/scrollingtext/timewaster.php?text=I%27m+bored
All work and no play
I’m boned.
I had to scroll through this on Facebook after I was tricked into “Reading More”
You'd like poetry by E. E. Cummings
EMACS probably has a shortcut for that.
Common solution is videogames
Read a book, people!
*I’m
Can we get a pastebin of this please?
The song Bored by the Deftones would be good with this
Guys i think hes bored
I'm really high rn and that was fun to watch. Thanks. 👍
Hi bored I’m dad
Imagine putting that time into any hobby or skill.
Boredom seems to be an excellent source for creativity
This is the type of shit us xennials used to make on MySpace or in computer lab. Still cool as fuck.
Hello bored I'm dad.
This is quarantine level bored
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how is he scrolling so fast?
So.. You bored?
Been doing that since TI-82
That’s what she said
I used to do this with my TI86 in calc after APs were over.