I joined here on January 14, 2004, and now a year later, I have one thing to say: Holy crap, this place is cool! It's freakin gigantic, like an artistic and much more friendly Usenet*! Here's a little timeline out of sake of boredom: 3-5-1990 ~~ I am born. (Woohoo!) 12-something-1999 ~~ My dad get's Bryce 2 as a free company swag. I start using it. 4-16-2000 ~~ I adopt my cat, Kirby. 12-25-01 ~~ I get Bryce 4 as a Christmas present, my awesome Bryce skills begin to emerge. 1-something-01 ~~ I create my first Bryce cover-page for an essay. 6-something-03 ~~ I become a 'lurker' in the old Bryce Forum Gallery. 1-14-04 ~~ I join Renderosity, first image nets 202 views. 8-5-04 ~~ I post "Outpost" my most successful pic to date. 1-14-05 ~~ In addition to writing this, I get my braces removed (debraced?) Well that was entertaining! Now I'll make up some goals for the next year to come: Learn to do more than smooth in Wings. Start adding construction to my criticism. Get on drawbridgep's favorite artist list. Make a Bryce picture containing goats. Well there you have it, my first year review. I'll have to remember to check in next year. *It turns out Usenet was bought by Google and is now Google-Groups.

Hmmmmmmmm, when I was the age you were when you started using Bryce, all I'd got was coloured pencils or Spirograph (bet you don't know what that is LOL) Good luck with achieving your goals (the goat in Bryce sounds a bit wacky though) ;-)

You were born in 1990!!!!! You weren't even alive when Back to the Future came out!! Or Ghostbusters! You missed so much!! What kept you? Many happy returns.

Congrats on your one year anniversary. I passed 2 years here back in Nov.

Congrats on your one year anniversary. I passed 2 years here back in Nov.

Whoah... I feel old now. My first car was built the year before you were born. heh... I probably started computer graphics around the same age though (around nine years old.) RemBrandt on the Atari 130 XE. 64 colors at the most with a crappy Signature TV as the monitor. It was only 2D, and one had to anti-alias and dither manually pixel by pixel. But it did some cool things. I'd get an image up and then show my friends how trippy it'd get when color cycled. Also it could store multiple images in memory and do animation.

I started computer graphics A year after you were born. And I have been in Rosity since 12-16-99 :) I don't feel old I feel funny.

i started computergraphics before the mouse was invented tried a jostick but refered back to the cursorkeys lol was on a zx spectrum with only 2 colors, out of 8, per character square to safe memory??? I also bought my first videodigitizer for this comp ordered it in britain and had to wait 2 months only digitized in 2 colors but was fun

My first car was built the year before you were born. heh... rotfl, my current car was built THREE YEARS before you were born. How sad is that?

Yep, very sad, pog :P Get another, lol!!! Congrats MoonGoat !!!!!! :D

Poor fellow. You missed the good old 80s. Congrats!

I went to an 80's theme party and the sad thing... I didn't have to buy a costume. This has done the rounds before, but it's cool, mainly for the Brits. * You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armoured tank. * Dungeons & Dragons was your favourite cartoon. * Your lunch times were spent perfecting swan dives and backspins. * You fell out with friends during heated arguments about the relative merits of Matt & Luke. * You owned, or wanted a "Frankie says..." T-shirt. * You have ever danced (or even worse cried) to Kylie & Jason. * Cerise pink, electric blue and banana yellow have ever featured in your wardrobe or make-up collection. * You ever did the top toggle of your coat up around your neck without having your arms in the sleeves, and knew you looked like a super-hero. * You remember when the A-Ha video was the pinnacle of modern technology, and you can still sing all the words. * Parachuting Action man was your favourite toy. * Your best party dress was either a ra-ra or puff-ball skirt. * You ever owned a thin, black leather tie (and were proud of it), or worse it was patterned like a piano. * You wondered why a popular kids TV programme told you to "Turn off your TV set and go and do some less boring instead". * You cried at Zammo's funeral. * You wanted to be either Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys. * You ever said "It's my ball, and if I can't be Kevin Keegan I'm going home!" * You remember the aerobie scare. * You have ever po-goed or space-hopped. * You remember when Keith Chegwin & Maggie Philbin were the hottest romantic couple. * You wondered why your walkie-talkie didn't have the same range as those in the Red Hand Gang. * You were shocked by the controversial plot lines in Degrassi Junior High. * You tried to set up a "Famous Five" or "Secret Seven" gang with your school friends. * You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front of his Capri so it looked like KITT. * "Ca-vey Wa-vey!" means anything to you. * You ever had more than 10 sweets in a 10p mix-up. * Not only did you wear luminous clothing, but they were mismatched fingerless gloves and towelling socks. * You remember when Betamax was at the cutting edge of technology. * Conveyor belts regularly carried washing machines, deep-fat fryers and a cuddly toy. * You could have got away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids. * (Girls) You owned a pair of Pixie Boots, generally worn with leg warmers. * (Boys) You owned a pair of pale grey slip-ons, generally worn with white towelling socks. * Shiny grey flecked suits. * You rolled the sleeves of your suit jacket up * Ooh, you could crush a Grape! * You went to school with Pogo Patterson, Gripper Stebson, and Ro-land. * Fingermouse. * You were proud of your picture appearing in the Gallery. * You remember Look In magazine, and when it was only 20p * You wondered why you and your mates never encountered diamond thieves whilst out on your BMXs. * No 73? * You can remember what Quatro tasted like. * Your best mate had a soda stream at home and you were jealous

Guess you need to be a brit to get most of them, darn you guys are weird, lol. I recognised A-team, KITT, & Nancy Drew ;P

Many of those bring back memories (not necessarily good ones), but you did forget a big one. The constant bitchin about rock vs synth. (The PC vs MAC flamewars today) :)

ouch..I'd been married, divorced, single, and a technician for 4 years by the year you were born..;) kaff kaff..

When I was born
There were 48 stars on the Flag
Elvis Presley was controversial
Sputnik had gone up about a month prior
Computers were just starting to use transistors, and the hot new programming language was COBOL
Cars had fins..big ones..;)
The Quarrymen were thinking about changing the band name to the Silver Beatles
and so on..;) I been here 3 years, glad to see that folks of all ages can enjoy Bryce. I have a grandson about your age (well, coupla years younger)..but I'm hardly the oldest git around here..;)

Three years on the 25th. My first computer was a Sinclair Z80. I remember when my folks bought our first "digital" calculator (LED display, +-*/ were the only functions) I dillegently followed the Apollo Program. Dad talked about building a bomb shelter. I had been in my current job for six years when MoonGoat was born! (Goes back to Zhann's "Oh Gawd" thread for sympathy.)

Ooh. 1990. We were here in history. And I'll have three years here in two months. BTW: >*It turns out Usenet was bought by Google and is now >Google-Groups. I don't know whether you're joking, but that's certainly not the case. They just bought the archives from lotsa places. And when you were born, it was about two-three years before I had my first contact with the Internet. Which, surprisingly enough, was through the Usenet. -- erlik former Usenet addict

Attached Link: http://www.google.com/googlegroups/tour/index.html

COngratulations!!! Whoa. History. What's weird is this: All of us* have existed since you were born. In some place of the world. At every single point of your life, we were also having points of our lives, eating, drinking, dancing, spinning, working, more spinning, I supposed sleeping, more spinning. Isn't that weird? Anyway. It confuses me. Nevermind ;p Have a great 'nother year! *excluding those born after 1990

Yeah, they bought DejaNews and their archives. And a lot of other archives since then. But they cannot host the whole service, they are just giving Usenet a Web interface. The whole service is a series of independent servers around the world which propagate the posts. One server sends them to another. Not all the server host all the groups, though. IIRC, Usenet was the second Internet facet to came into being, after e-mail. Only it wasn't called Internet then. It used a different protocol then, too. Mrdodobird, do we exist if nobody hears us fall? :-)

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Ok, I get it now. Thanks! BTW, you're going to give mrdodobird a headache.

Some probably remember when there was no web as we know it. The closest thing to broadband was a shotgun modem (heard of it, but I've never seen one.) There was email, gopher (or Lynx - all text based) was the closest thing to the web, and forums were either dial-in BBS's or Newsnet. The internet as we know it started in the mid '90s during my first try at college. Heh... Probably also my reason for not making it through either. Anyone who was a kid in the 80's probably also remember when Pac-Man, Dig-dug, Galaga, Mario Bros., and Donkey Kong were cutting edge games. Arcade games were still better than any console games. Also Chuck E Cheese was probably the coolest thing to go to (It still had cool things to play on, and wasn't run down or anything.) Also if you've experienced the '80s, you'd know why the '90s made fun of that stuff. :p

Shotgun modem? What's that? Old fart mode: I remember when all of Croatia was connected with a 19200 modem to Austria. I'm so not making it up. BTW, Lynx was already Web. I remember when the place I was working at had a 19200 modem for about thirty of us. (Progress!) And me being pissed with people using Mosaic instead of Lynx, cause they were clogging the line downloading the pics from Web pages.

I'm too f**king old to do this.......I've forgotten more than I can remember.........

Shotgun modem? What's that? Basically it's a special modem that connected to multiple phone lines. So if you were willing to pay for additional phone service you could set one of these up. It would effectively multiply the connection speed by the # of lines used. Of course if you used one of these, you also had to find a service provider that would allow for these. Basically it's "broadband" before effective broadband service was invented.

Congrats on the one year anniversary,I passed 2 years over the weekend. Gosh I had already been working for 5 years when you were born :)