remember yahoo chat?

[wisebeardman]

Yeah i remember yahoo chat i used to hang around in the goth/emo/metal room, i think it was called "The Graveyard" at the time. I remember using booters too, sometimes when i was bored i would just wait for people to get on mic and boot them off or hit them with a spammer. It was trollish but it still was funny though because they'd stop talking but all you'd hear from them on mic is the sound of like hundreds of emoji sounds going off.

I also remember having and using Limewire and Kazaa at the same time... Man i had so many rootkits and keyloggers on my computer back then it wasn't even funny lol.

if you used booters, then you likely was on my site back in the day.

 

[Lanolin]

No but I recall something called ICQ
and also e-groups (that got changed to yahoo). I used msn messenger when it used to be on hotmail. Nowadays everyones on facebook messenger.
Or whatsapp.

Zoom is now a thing. Gmail hangouts never really took off.

 

[G00WZ]

if you used booters, then you likely was on my site back in the day.

Probably, i had a folder with like 80 different ones because some of them didn't work and i was always on the lookout for the best ones.

 

[wisebeardman]

Probably, i had a folder with like 80 different ones because some of them didn't work and i was always on the lookout for the best ones.

I was pretty much one of the top sites. only other was dark yahoo and booterworld before it bit the dust in 2002'ish

 

[HumbleOne]

remember yahoo chat? Funny I had not thought about yahoo chat in several years now until tonight talking with someone I have known for along time. And of course he brought up the old yahoo booter site I used to run back in the day.. well ok I ran it for years until Sept 2010 when I closed it. Of course now yahoo chat is dead officially (course it was dead some years ago before yahoo actually pulled the plug)

Yep I was one of them evil people that made the booter programs that would kick people out of chat. had a website full of yahoo programs, plus many many other things.

Thinking back to 98'ish when I 1st put the site up I never thought it would have gotten as big as it did nor did I ever thought id see the day yahoo would pretty much die. I also didn't think it would have made me quite a bit of money. (seriously at one point it was making me about 5k per month in ads) When I pulled the plug it had about 2 million registered members something like 600,000 downloads and who knows how many forum posts. Thinking about it now it feels like it was decades ago. I will have to see if I can find the CD stack that contained the last backup files. I do remember the site being something like 30 or 40GB in file size and the mysql db backup file was insanely massive.

funny how life changes over the years, and how you forget stuff and then someone will say something that sparks a memory and you remember it all. for about 5 years now I hadn't thought much about it, something that was part of my life for a bit over a decade, strange how our memories work eh? I remember many lulz I had with some of the members also remember in a rush server moves that would cause me to be up 48 hours strait. I guess in all I should have saved all that money instead of just giving pretty much all of it away. hindsight really is 20/20.

I miss the old chats and forums. I learned more from those than I do with social media.

 

[Lanolin]

I like forums much better than 'social media'

especially this one...no ads.

I was getting super annoyed with the gardening facebook groups I had joined, I thought they would be talking about growing things and gardening, but no, its just Boomers posting pictures of plants they want to get rid of, and the comments of everyone telling them how to kill it dead. UGH.

 

[DeanM]

Yup, I remember Yahoo chat rooms. Omigoodness, what a ZOO!!! I could never remain in any room for very long because I couldn't keep up with all the regulars and the bizarro conversations.

I also remember AOL chat rooms. Do they still exist or are they gone, too?

Yep AOL chat rooms used to be very busy. Didnt do much on Yahoo though.

 

[HumbleOne]

I don't like Facebook. Glad I found out about this site.

 

[Lanolin]

is there a platform that the boomers havent ruined and tried to make a buck of?

I mean, as soon as I find a good one, I would switch to one where they do not post porny ads, live massacres, chain messages. oh and whinging complaints about them getting old.

I am so over it.

 

[HumbleOne]

is there a platform that the boomers havent ruined and tried to make a buck of?

I mean, as soon as I find a good one, I would switch to one where they do not post porny ads, live massacres, chain messages. oh and whinging complaints about them getting old.

I am so over it.

I would have forwarded those chain mails. No wonder bad luck is following me. Lol

 

[Gojira]

Yay, old school Yahoo! Chat.

"A/S/L?"
(Shour's response: "Cretaceous/No/In between various planes of reality.")

"Any pretty girls in the room, press 123!"
(Shour's response: "No one can press that, because I've never seen a keyboard with a 123 key, moron.")

"Wanna cyber?"
("Dude, please don't ever type that into public chat again. Yuck.")

"Anyone got pics?"
("I'm sure many people have pics. No one here is desperate enough to show you, however.")

I was something of a trouble maker. A proto-troll, if you will. ^_^

(Also, LONGEST Wisebeardman post EVAR. Awesome.)

I used to frequent Yahoo and AOL's when they were functioning. Back then, I was there for sinful purposes, to be transparent. Fortunately, God removed from me that which motivated that.

I still visit chat sites. But, today, it's for different reasons.

 

[Gojira]

I would have forwarded those chain mails. No wonder bad luck is following me. Lol

Today, I go to chatiw.us. It's a cesspool of vile people, but there are enough good conversations to be had if you're patient. Also, it's amazing what a screen ID like "Christian Man" attracts. Sometimes it attracts Christian women. Sometimes it attracts people seeking. Sometimes it attracts pervs who think your Christian ID is intended for sinful / fantasy purposes -- until I straighten them out on that. And oh, I love messing with the scammers.

See? This is why I need a real-world social life. Not that I'm not trying, just no "doors" opening up yet.

 

[HumbleOne]

I would love to learn how to program a chat room!! That would blow my socks off!!! My problem is designing the Graphics user interface. The alignment issues are a pain!!! Then you have to learn about sockets and clients, which isn't hard. Then you have to have an updater for real time checking to see if a message is there. Then that message has to be sent back to the clients that are currently connected to that room. It is really neat how they do that. Then you can use a token type system to filter out the bad words and such.

 

[Gojira]

I would love to learn how to program a chat room!! That would blow my socks off!!! My problem is designing the Graphics user interface. The alignment issues are a pain!!! Then you have to learn about sockets and clients, which isn't hard. Then you have to have an updater for real time checking to see if a message is there. Then that message has to be sent back to the clients that are currently connected to that room. It is really neat how they do that. Then you can use a token type system to filter out the bad words and such.

Doowit.

 

[Lynx]

I would love to learn how to program a chat room!! That would blow my socks off!!! My problem is designing the Graphics user interface. The alignment issues are a pain!!! Then you have to learn about sockets and clients, which isn't hard. Then you have to have an updater for real time checking to see if a message is there. Then that message has to be sent back to the clients that are currently connected to that room. It is really neat how they do that. Then you can use a token type system to filter out the bad words and such.

It would probably be easiest to use an embedded IRC webchat interface.

 

[HumbleOne]

It would probably be easiest to use an embedded IRC webchat interface.

Total agree. Since building one from scratch would be doing AJAX programming for the login form, (hashing, check hashing, encrypting, etc.) Then java perhaps for GUI design and then javascript and one other thing for the background connections. Real time messaging and what not. It's all fun!!!

 

[HumbleOne]

Doowit.

I just curious about it. My curiosity is crazy sometimes lol.

 

[Lynx]

Total agree. Since building one from scratch would be doing AJAX programming for the login form, (hashing, check hashing, encrypting, etc.) Then java perhaps for GUI design and then javascript and one other thing for the background connections. Real time messaging and what not. It's all fun!!!

Java IS a popular front-end for web-chat clients.

 

[Gojira]

I just curious about it. My curiosity is crazy sometimes lol.

Like a cat?

 

[HumbleOne]

Yes, curiosity killed the cat lol!!!