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For some reason, I'm having some crazy dreams lately. I'm going to write them down, to practice my writing. It's an excellent creative activity.

Here's one from earlier this week:

The Batmen
I’m with random people I seemed familiar with in the dream but do not know. We are some expo-center, at a conference. Lots of...

 

I've been thinking about this for a while. I like to look at ancient Internet stuff. I'm going to share my finds here.

Here's a pretty good one to start with. The very first video uploaded to YouTube. Can you believe it?

"Me at the zoo" by Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
YouTube archived version in 2006...

 

Hey everyone! It feels like I haven’t posted a blog entry here in years!

This time, I’ll take you with me on a journey to find the actual birthdate of our community, some 20 years ago. Let’s do some Internet archeology together, shall we?

I’ve always considered that our community came to life in 2004. On June 9th, 2004, to be exact. It’s the...

 

Its interesting to see after leaving in 2020 a 37 page thread devoted to one individual that has gone off the radar. It shows how meaningful and important this member is to this community. But the flip side is it shows that I am quite the opposite. I left for three years, returned to not a peep about me. No "Where's Khaos?" I searched my...

 

I was browsing old snapshots of sites I used to visit while discussing with Cosmo about the Chronovisor. It made me think of Time Chatter, which then made me think of HDRKID's forum. I figured I'd go ahead and write something about these 2 sites that are now gone.

Let's go back to the past! Enjoy a little nostalgia to finish the year strong...

 

A pretty cool article I found this morning, thought I'd share it here. I played SimCity 2000 so much as a kid. Loved it. Can't believe it released in 1994.

Apparently, it's now possible to visit your SC2K cities in Minecraft, thanks to a mod! Welcome to the future!

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The year is 1994. You’re playing SimCity...

 

Hey fella’s,

Been a busy year! The first I had to setup and purchase a few crypto coins. This is important to us, I want to get BIO-WELL along with the Spooky2 Scalar generator and receiver. These are two separate control boxes…. I have to get the ”LIFE“ meter. So, I can check if my tuned ”wordings” to it. I had the older one for free...​

 

Hi,

So, I decided to go ahead and open a Medium account. Medium is one of the world's biggest and most credible blogging platforms right now. It is said that it's possible to make money off of it when you're articles get noticed.

I didn't upgrade my account to a paid one, yet. I probably will if I ever get a tiny, little bit of traction...

 

The year was 2000 - or was it 1999? It was in the good old days of the Internet. When it was still somewhat new and special. Special, in the sense that not everyone had access to it. Unlike today, you had to be clever to find the good stuff.

Being the teenager I was, I'd spend most of my time downloading game demos from various sites that do...

 

My name is not important. But my life from the very beginning I'm talking conception beginning. My mom was 21 when she had me in March of 82. Not to big of a deal kids are born every few minutes. Well my mom was diagnosed with a auto immune disease that attacks everything it deemed a threat. As well before she turned 20 she became I'll with a...

 

This is my 11,000th forum post.

11K posts is an average of 2 posts per day, for 17 years. That's pretty long-term, right there. How much time I've spent here, and how many years it's been, absolutely baffles me. So many things have changed over the past 17 years. Yet, Paranormalis has been a constant in my life.

I'm still 2,000...

 

I think I might have posted about this several years ago.

Diablo 1 is a pretty old game that redefined the RPG genre for decades to come. Released in late 1996, most of its systems and features still hold up today. But it does feel dated.

By default, nowadays, the game's resolution is pretty low and it's in 4:3, so it's stretched...

 

Thought I'd share this, in case you have a Prime Membership on Amazon.

Probably for a short time, maybe a month, you can get a free copy of Starcraft: Remastered (the original Starcraft + Brood War) on Twitch, using your Amazon Prime account.

Just log on to Twitch with your Amazon account that has Prime, to claim it.

Click...

 

I thought about this game last weekend for no reason. It’s like it called to me.

Like a couple of weeks ago when I turned to vBulletin and looked at how they’re doing right now, I figured I’d write a post about it. Welcome to another small trip down memory lane, looking at old shit that used to be cool.

This is an attempt at making...

 

Paranormalis gets scraped by a lot of Russian bots and it slows it down sometimes. Also, lots of bot/fake accounts, despite all the anti-spam measures in place. I finally decided to go ahead and block the entirety of Russia from accessing the forum.

This has nothing to do with the "blocking Russia" or "no more business with Russia" thing we've...

 

Since a long time, the Univers have give birth to his own Son. It was in 2000, i was 20 years old. In france, a big tempest have occured in 1999. It was the first Satanic test of the Devil. The result if a new erea of cathastrophic events.

They was lot of light and ufo in the sky. The sky was on fire. Why ? . Somethink have started...

 

Nearly 2 decades ago, vBulletin used to be the best forum software around. Until they were bought by Internet Brands in 2007, whose only interest is money.

In the following 3 to 4 years, Internet Brands drove vBulletin to the ground. They lost their employees, and their new releases were all absolute shit. Even today, vBulletin 5 is one hell...

 

Restoring long-lost content on Paranormalis using the Chronovisor technique really brings me back to those days I’d spend, fooling around on the Internet, so many years ago. Basically, wasting my time, you know...

Here’s one of those threads: Chronovisor - Manhattan Island Abduction

It feels like we’re back in 2005 all over again...

 

I like writing. I often find myself fooling around in Evernote, Dropbox Paper, or Google Docs, trying to figure out which one of these editors offers the best environment for a writer. That doesn’t make me a writer, though. But apparently, it sort of makes me feel like one day, I could be one.

When attempting to write something, I always get...

 

Talk about starting the year strong! Mapping for a 1993 game!

Doom is a game I've been playing on and off for almost 25 years. I used to play the shareware version on an old AMD K6-2 350 mhz as a kid. At some point, a friend gave me a copy of Doom95.exe and I got my hands on Final Doom. What an update! It was now possible to select levels...