Noob Days...

[Kyrdua]

With the recent flood of noob threads it made me realize that only very few of the veterans and active posters made fail threads.
so this made me curious: Have you guys ever went through being a noob? i mean you know, getting justfuckinggoogleit responses or got told that you should readthefuckingmanual or getting yourself flamed for noobness?

It obviously doesn't have to be in BBT. personally, had my noob days on youtube. which is full of noobs to the brim up to this day. so my fails were rather common there and i could relate to everyone else back then.

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    this was supposed to be a poll, but i figured choices like
      • was a noob
      • never was noob
      • what's a noob

    are beyond redarded.

[Proin Drakenzol]

stupid thread is stupid. fail thread is fail.

[CELL]

actually, if you look at my join date my paltry 20 something post makes me a noob but i just never came back when they got rid of the gil system.  some of the original members had a blast on this site back when it started.  but things change and peoples lives move on.  i still like to come back here 2-3 times a year and just look around.

but to answer your question.  yes i have.  my first few posts on this site went no where lol.  everyone was like, who the hell is this guy.  once i was more accepted in the community my threads were taken more seriously.

im still messaging friends with vanilla girl, malus, vinson, etc etc etc.....we still keep in touch.  this was a very close group back in the old day.

glad to see the tradition is still going on.  hope you are all finding life long friends here.  I actually go on vacations with some of the former members here.

but, forums are a such.  sometimes you are popular and everyone wants to post in your thread no mater how stupid it is and sometimes you get booted to the bottom of the page cause no one knows who you are.

stay classy San Diego.

[TiYlER]

Me:

Noob. All day, everyday.

[Burkingam]

First, for the first month or so I only posted on the Guesse the anime thread and for the second month, the thread game section, therefor not spreading my noobiness.

Second, I actually read the rules.

Third, whenever I made something new, I copied the style of a sensei

Forth, I used my common sense.

Fifth, while I did make a few noobs mistakes, I was lucky enough so that nobody noticed.

Now, in exclusivity, Burkingam's stealth noobiness revealed (from the Impression thread).

^as sharp as a marble.

^^is at work
^ is sad

^likes to put salt in other peoples wounds.

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is back from work
is happy again 

In fact, I hadn't figured what the Impression thread was nor what "^" meant. I was actually talking about myself. I didn't bother to mention it.

[SeventyX7]

I don't think I made any noob mistakes when I started, but every once in a while I'll stay up really late and while sleepy I'll post something pretty noobish.

The next day I'll be reading the thread, then read my post and think, "Hah, what a noob."  Then I'll see I wrote it and be like, "Oh....."

[logos]

stupid thread is stupid. fail thread is fail.

^ having common sense means no noob mistakes

[pingryanime]

Been a proud active member of the forums for less than a year, and I'm already famous

afaik, I was never told anything like, "go fucking google it" or anything. But that might be because I've been foruming for a good 7 years now (almost half my life) so I learned the ropes at an early age. Not to mention, I've been administering/staffing on forums since 4 years ago.

[AceD]

no, i was born leet...

[kureshii]

1) Lrn2lurk.
2) Don't post when drunk.
3) Don't post when you're too tired to type coherently.
4) Don't post when your spelling ability is incapacitated in any way.
5) Don't post until you've read your post at least twice and checked for grammar, readability and spelling errors. Your memory is short, but Google's isn't.

5 rules that kept me out of noob trouble. Common sense doesn't need mentioning here; if you don't have it, you're doomed anyway.

[Meomix]

Well during my days on the wowcraft forums, most of my time was spent asking "WTF does this thing do?" cause nothing in the game made sense, same with the anarchy online forums.

My noob moment was back in runescape when trusting this retard with my rune sword 2 hander which costed over 50k in exchange for a santa hat later (100k) i decided to say fuck it and scam other people out of their possessions.

I guess back then the main bulk of my time was spent in yahoo gaming chat were any noobish incidents would get drowned in the noise.

[froody1911]

I don't think I had any nooby moments on BBT. If I did, they must be insignificant because I don't remember them.

My noob moments were in Ragnarok Online, when I spent my first week or so throwing away the items i picked up worth 1-2 zeny. Later I realized that if I had made a merchant and sold all of them I wouldn't be in poverty.
Then I got all 1337 and was soon one of the richest characters in the server.

[NaRu]

Im trying to remember the time when I was a noob here...I remember at one time I was the #1 spammer on the forums. Able to do 100+ post per day. I remember my very first thread I made though. It was called "Hit 1K post"....ah the memories and I get yelled at for that thread.

[datora]

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I spent most of the 1990s spooking .alt newsgroups & BBs, so my n00b 'stakes R burnt & buried in pixels of cHaOs before the Dawn of t3h Webz.  Generally speaking, they were few 'cuz I also learn fast & hard (usually).

Been called a troll many an occasion, nearly every single case by someone who didn't read carefully and place the context exactly.  One of my favorite hobbies is to hand someone with their own rope.  Nobody ever told me go RTFM! because I pretty much do before I start posting (I'm a trained and educated research scientist -- I cut my teeth in a university environment where your peen is measured by how often you Figure It Out before anyone else).  Usually I spook a forum for a month or three before my first post, and I've been mod a few times and was The Admin for a large commercial forum for three years.

I was pwning trollz before pwning was a word, web browsers had been invented, or teh google was even an idea.

Luke ... I am your father.   

[Kyrdua]

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actually, if you look at my join date my paltry 20 something post makes me a noob but i just never came back when they got rid of the gil system.  some of the original members had a blast on this site back when it started.  but things change and peoples lives move on.  i still like to come back here 2-3 times a year and just look around.

but to answer your question.  yes i have.  my first few posts on this site went no where lol.  everyone was like, who the hell is this guy.  once i was more accepted in the community my threads were taken more seriously.

wait, what is this "gil system" you speak of? and, yeah. true that. but it won't be a problem unless you live and breath internet.

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First, for the first month or so I only posted on the Guesse the anime thread and for the second month, the thread game section, therefor not spreading my noobiness.

Second, I actually read the rules.

Third, whenever I made something new, I copied the style of a sensei

hmm, so that just means some people are just too dumb to actually find the rules and FAQ. that's the first thing i do when i don't understand shit about something.

also, "copied the style of a sensei", what?

Fifth, while I did make a few noobs mistakes, I was lucky enough so that nobody noticed.

lol

1) Lrn2lurk. basic, but i didn't do this back then lol
2) Don't post when drunk. i drink but i never tried drinking enough to get drunk. might try it once for the kicks.
3) Don't post when you're too tired to type coherently. people actually do this? oh wait
4) Don't post when your spelling ability is incapacitated in any way. ouch, i am very susceptible to this
5) Don't post until you've read your post at least twice and checked for grammar, .... i'm sure my fails are archived but to hell with that
 readability and spelling errors. Your memory is short, but Google's isn't.

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I spent most of the 1990s spooking .alt newsgroups & BBs, so my n00b 'stakes R burnt & buried in pixels of cHaOs before the Dawn of t3h Webz.  Generally speaking, they were few 'cuz I also learn fast & hard (usually).

Been called a troll many an occasion, nearly every single case by someone who didn't read carefully and place the context exactly.  One of my favorite hobbies is to hand someone with their own rope.  Nobody ever told me go RTFM! because I pretty much do before I start posting (I'm a trained and educated research scientist -- I cut my teeth in a university environment where your peen is measured by how often you Figure It Out before anyone else).  Usually I spook a forum for a month or three before my first post, and I've been mod a few times and was The Admin for a large commercial forum for three years.

I was pwning trollz before pwning was a word, web browsers had been invented, or teh google was even an idea.

Luke ... I am your father.   

I knew your internet literacy* had to come from experience, but i didn't expect it to be from around the time shit was still in 16 bit! also, what's your equivalent of google back then?

* if that's the proper word for it

[datora]

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what's your equivalent of google back then?

To paraphrase the Matrix:  You must first understand that there is no google.  Used to be Something called "grep."  Still is if you live in a *nix bash.  But, that's once you were actually in a particular system ... try to imagine there is no browser.  Google up the "gopher:: protocol,"  back before there was http:// or even ftp:

I learned my first "PC" interface on a system that used a cassette tape as it's disk drive, I experienced orgasmic joy when my dad got a 12 MHz Intel 386 processor PC.  Had this monstrous 10 MB hard drive in it; we hardly knew what we would do with all that space.  I remember wiping it clean and installing DOS 4.something as an upgrade to the DOS 3.something it came with.  Later, when 486 systems running at 33 MHz (some were even clock-doubled to 66 MHz!) were available, I pirated a copy of DOS 6.2 from work and kept the system alive for another couple of years until the invention of the Pentium processor.

There was no Internet to connect to.  We used candles and mirrors to flash Morse Code at each other, until someone thought to invent electricity one day ....

 

[Meomix]

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what's your equivalent of google back then?

To paraphrase the Matrix:  You must first understand that there is no google.  Used to be Something called "grep."  Still is if you live in a *nix bash.  But, that's once you were actually in a particular system ... try to imagine there is no browser.  Google up the "gopher:: protocol,"  back before there was http:// or even ftp:

I learned my first "PC" interface on a system that used a cassette tape as it's disk drive, I experienced orgasmic joy when my dad got a 12 MHz Intel 386 processor PC.  Had this monstrous 10 MB hard drive in it; we hardly knew what we would do with all that space.  I remember wiping it clean and installing DOS 4.something as an upgrade to the DOS 3.something it came with.  Later, when 486 systems running at 33 MHz (some were even clock-doubled to 66 MHz!) were available, I pirated a copy of DOS 6.2 from work and kept the system alive for another couple of years until the invention of the Pentium processor.

There was no Internet to connect to.  We used candles and mirrors to flash Morse Code at each other, until someone thought to invent electricity one day ....

 

Holy shit, thats worse than 1985, were you using something like IBM 5100 back then?

[froody1911]

All hail datora, our omniscient patriarch.

In comparison to him, we are all noobish little bitches.

[datora]

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were you using something like IBM 5100 back then?

Honestly, I've forgotten.  It was the one computer available to the "Academically Talented" (the AT) students at my high school.  Out of 45 or so of us, only about ten of us were trusted enough to fight for time using it.  I joke not: we r*e*s*p*c*t*e*d those cassette tapes.  Very fragile and much wailing, gnashing of hair and pulling of teeth when they overheated and stretched.  There was no system to duplicate them for back-up copies.

My first programming experiences in University were cardboard, key-punch cards and a DEC writer (a dot-matrix printer with a keyboard on it).  No monitor; all programming was done type-written on paper.  Monitors were too luxurious to waste on freshmen; they were reserved for upper classmen and professors.  PASCAL, COBOL, Structured Basic ... how I remember you with great loathing and no small amount of fear.

[Burkingam]

Doing pascal on paper is fun, except for the part where your hand hurts. I had an exam like that this semester.