Wolfenstein 3D for me.

Haha yes this! My Internet car Forum addiction started in about 1991 with dialup BBS's.

I used to drink, chase women and ride my motorcycles so fast my friends predicted I've never live past 30.......

what ate up most of you time, Sid? I hope it was school, chasing cheerleaders and not this place full of a bunch of old farts:D

CompuServe SmileWavy

And Homebrewing. lotsa homebrewing...

Mostly, I was out in the garage or barn parting out old Datsun Zs on ebay and ZCar.com. I got into Porsches, because non-rust bucket Datsuns don't exist anymore.

I was an journeyman slacker until I found these forums. Then I upped my game and became a Certified Master Slacker.

Back before the internet, people used to stand around and talk a lot. And smoking. Lots of "smoke breaks". I remember when people were allowed to smoke in their offices. One place I worked, the coffee machine was right near where I sat and people literally hung around the coffee machine and talked.

Then, we started getting computers (this was the mid- '80s). And found this thing called turbogopher. And then there was email. And this guy named Stan Hanks (remember him?) created a mailing list called porschefiles. Oh, the epic Pete Albrecht and Harry Pellow email exchanges! Then Stan came back from some conference talking about this crazy new thing called a "browser"!!!

People didn't hang out by the coffee machine near as much anymore...

My productivity at work was greater then than now. :cool:

I also spent a lot more time doing real things, like working, and sailing, and working on my sailboat, and reading books and magazines about sailing, oh, and working.

But once I started looking for my first 911, and I discovered the Pelican and Rennlist forums, it all went to hell in a handbasket.

I traveled a lot and used dial up to go to AOL's Autos forum when I was stuck in some hotel. Like here, it was nice to communicate with people I was familiar with after a day of talking to strangers.
AOL had a 1-800 number that your modem called. On most hotel systems you had to dial 9 for an outside line. More than once I was met sirens in the parking lot and frantic pounding on my door after trying multiple times to make a connection. Somehow my computer was dialing 9-1-1 instead of 9-1-800. I thought I was going to get arrested once. Multiple 9-1-1 calls tend to get people upset.

I was on Compuserve back in the late 1980s with my Commodore 64. I even ordered a pair of Jeans on-line back then. I also searched the bulletin boards and finally set up my own using Wildcat software.

As far as sucking up time I was on the El Camino Central forum a lot going back a long time.

Oh, HELL no. The motion in Wolfenstein made me sick to my stomach. I guess the frame rate was too high or something on my kickass 25MHz 386 - after about 2 minutes I wanted to barf.

Ummmm... yeah... I was on dial-up and posted a lot to a Las Vegas form, back in the day I worked construction and did a lot of weekend roadtrips to LV with friends. That was so long ago casinos have literally been built and torn down since.

After a decade break from LV we did a visit recently and it was strange to see how much the strip and everything around it has changed.

About five years ago I found a religious BBS that I enjoyed posting to but the admins radically changed the format (moved it to facebook) and most of us left the BBS.