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Aaargghh... you know very well who I meant, Bugs! All these capital letters in the middle of names, strange characters, it's driving me insane!!!

Oh, um, I almost forgot. I'm already insane. Carry on.

Like DL, I found handson through a search engine and then the asylum.

And like Michael, f1_error put my back in place after my stoopids comments.....

Found hands_on through an altavista search for Photoshop Tutorials. Read everything carefully, went though all the tutes in order. I came across this link in amongst all the others and thought to myself 'how do you make a fourm with photoshop?'. I followed it and ended up here. I joined almost immediatley (I was a bit of a joiner in those days). I only managed ot piss off one memeber, DL, but that was when I was already a Mad Scientist.

Koan 63, written on the wall of cell number 250:
Those who Believe
Can
Those who Try
Do
Those who Love
Live

Many years ago (3? 4?) ozones.com was mentioned in a computer magazine, and being new to the internet at that time I found it most impressive of course. Balls flying around the cursor, images changing when it hovered certain places - I didn't have a clue how the Doc did these things. When I checked back a few weeks (or months?) later there was a new front page, even cooler (I think that was the Tracker) and I started learning HTML and some bits of JavaScript. I might even have stumbled across the Asylum at time, but I believe that I didn't know enough English to understand what this place was all about ... some more time later found the Gurus' tutorials through ozones.com, learned more about webdesign, went to hands-on and eventually clicked the forum link, lurked, got excited, lurked some more and finally joined around christmas last year. And a bit later I noticed that the GN also has a forum and signed up there, too.

It took me some time but I'm here now and I'll stay

kuckus (cell #282)

<Voice="Old Man">
I remember back in the day there was no GN... You had to walk 15 miles to the archives... in the snow...

Ya know... that was back during tha' war...
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Shit it's been a while....

...I remember lurking here back when DL was nice...


Code - CGI - links - DHTML - Javascript - Perl - programming - Magic - http://www.twistedport.com
ICQ: 67751342

The person I'd like to hear from is the Doc - how did he find this place?

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...I remember lurking here back when DL was nice...

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*snicker*

Whoop! Sorry, this particular thread got corrupted for a few minutes, I had to rebuild the HTML from the data file.

I think I'm probably one of the first lurkers here. There's a few people here now that I knew from email, lo, these many many moons ago, but for the most part I didn't talk to anybody and nobody talked to me. That was cool, at the time, or so I thought. A few years back I started to get bored with the internet. I'd check in, read my couple of little news outlets, read Dilbert, clean out my spam, it was all just getting old. Also at about this time, Malin was getting *hugely* involved with her whole "LJ" community, she had friends all over the place, they'd chat and share pictures, I became jealous, *I* needed something to do online too!

The whole live journal thing, well, that's just not me, I don't feel right just rambling on and on to an empty room, I need *feedback*, even if it's just you, clearing your throat or something. <digression>Yah yah, I know. You're probably saying something like "But doic! That sounds like heaven for you, a big empty room where you could talk and talk, endlessly, ad nauseum, etc..." Well, it ain't.</digression> Where was I? Oh yeah! I was bored, and I needed something to do to occupy my time online, since Malin was all wrapped up with *her* virtual friends, I needed some too!

Enter "Casual Forums". Well, I just checked that link, they *use* to have forums there, honest! I seem to remember an email, must've gone dot.bankrupt it seems. Maybe it was somewhere else, I misremember. ANYway, it was a cheesy online "build your own forum" site, with banner ads all over the place, I don't even think it was an asylum back then, just another OZONE place. Heh, turns out, it was fun! But, I needed my own place, so I chose the UBB software and built one on my own site. This was cool up until it started takling so much space I had no more room for webpages, bummer. Somewhere in there we became an "asylum", and after some debate (or was it just me, being a dictator?) I registered this domain and ported things over to Dreamhost. (This place is actually *why* I got involved with Dreamhost, I needed the space!)

So, that's as much of the story as I remember for now, someone else can fill in all the details of all the shite that's happened since. Mainly, I was bored. I was lonely. 2500 people showed up. Neat, huh?

Glad you came!

PS: I'm digging around, and came up with a backup of the forum from May of 2000, which I think may be as far back as we go, at least in UBB form. I'll have to finally configure my home Apache 2.0 install with Perl, but I'll try and make that available for browsing soon.

Your pal, -doc-

and for those of you not "in the know" about ray liotta....

here he is in a lovable movie....



down here he's bein' tough as nails....



And here's Ray again.... this time in the not so well known role on the A-team



=D

ROFLMAO!

omg... lol......

Ahah..... Eheh..... BAH PFFT AHAHAH!!!!!!!!

I see why taxon changed his name now . Michael you hypocrite you just couldn't stand being picked on and now you go and make WS look like a Native American mobster! Shame on you...... BLEH!!!! Man I laughed some tears out on those pics mike, thank you so much for that tedious laugh.


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[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 09-16-2002).]

I found Ozone through another tuts site called Solar Dream Studios.

I can't remember the address though, I think it might be http://www.solardreamstudios.com

Too lazy to look for sure.

I got the link to doc's page from a collegue back in -97.

Used to check in every few weeks to gasp at all the cool stuff, and suddenly there was a link to the forum.Then I lurked. For a long time, since I didn't feel I had much to contribute with.

Then, in a sudden act of megalomania, I threw my humility out the window and joined.

Can't remember that I've been thrashed for stupidity yet though. But opinions; there's another cup of tea

The names I remember most from my early days is probably twitch^, DL, Weadah, F1 and Gonzo. Oh, and Sloloem.

Anyone but me miss the sigman series?


[This message has been edited by Nimraw (edited 09-16-2002).]

I was working at a company maintaining their tech support website. Just day to day adding flat HTML pages and a guy there sent me the link. At that point Doc was so far ahead of anyone else on the DHTML scene it blew my mind. I think blueprint was the door though I don't remember.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

actually, Insider.... as WS mentioned.... that all happened a long time ago.... heh...
with the exception of the A-team pic idea.... which of course... ray liotta wasn't on... but eh... i felt like being random tonight.

i think the slimie with the sign that's hitting me, was made by mahjqa if i'm not mistaken....?
and that was a bit of a retalliation slimie for all the "i'm with stupid" and "tool" slimies i was making at the time.

heh.

Yea, mahjqa made it... I think I will go to PS and make some for me now.... Excuse me....

the5k.org > ozones.com > ozoneasylum.com

When I find a javascript master with a website, I go there hoping he has a forum so that I may leech off of his smartness if ever I am in need of it.

And here i be!

Thanks for letting me leech!

Sloloem! There's a name I haven't heard in ages!

-Jestah
Cell 277

We really didnt LET you leech. You just sort of... Started sucking on us.

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We really didnt LET you leech. You just sort of... Started sucking on us.

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OK... not touching that one.

Michael: nice pics... heh

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When I find a javascript master with a website, I go there hoping he has a forum so that I may leech off of his smartness if ever I am in need of it.

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Somehow it simply doesn't seem that insider is the one genis hoped to leech off of.....maybe it's just me....


Oh, btw - Doc: yes, 2000 is as far back as teh ubb went.

<------ February of 2000 to be exact




[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 09-17-2002).]

I'm not sure, but I probably found it through the Hands-on tutorials or the Guru's Network.

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Somehow it simply doesn't seem that insider is the one genis hoped to leech off of.....maybe it's just me....

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Nope, but it's always good to have a catalyst for comedy to give your mind a break after all that leeching. . . leechery? wait.. no that's no good.

just looking around for tuts as always. I ran into this site I forget the url. The guys name is Andy Quiv.... something. (if you happen to know the url, It would be cool to find it again). Anyways, he had a tutorial on a interface that used docs javascript rollover script and it had doc's src in it. I went to bugtown.com and became a drooling idiot. A few weeks lator, I found the asylum and here I am....

not only an inmate but an addict.

it was 1995 my first year in college .. I was surfing the net and looking for graphically inclined websites .. as to help me create my first web page .. and I stumbled upon www.ozones.com(though it wasn't ozones.com at the time) .. five years have gone by .. I watched ozones.com as the Doc continued to put out new layout after layout .. and I was amazed and speechless .. I had not visited the site much between 1998 and 2000 .. when I strolled by the site I saw the Doc started a forum and within seconds I signed up and posted .. and then I left for about another year before I finally found my way back to this place and I now visit it daily! .. actually more then daily! .. I would say I spend about 2 hrs atleast here a day .. on and off during the days

Doc has provided a great resource and a great place for artistically inclined people to meet and discuss where everyone is honest about what they like and don't like

the Asylum ROCKS!


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The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

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The guys name is Andy Quiv.... something. (if you happen to know the url, It would be cool to find it again).

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Anders Qvicker (sp)?
http://www.stab.se/aq/ny/



[This message has been edited by Raptor (edited 09-17-2002).]

oohh. ohhh. oooooo! thats it! Thanks raptor!!

My borther showed me the handson site that yhe had found whhile searching for photoshop tutorials.
I did a few of those, noticed the forum link and went over looked around and was very impressed with the whole thing.

Came back a year later when I was working on a flash project for school and joined to ask how to make a dent in a piece of wood and have been a regular lurker/sporadic poster since then. Mostly just wonder around looking amazed at what the people here can do.

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