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242	1995	Me neither. Thank God my family and I don't have to put up with dial-up anymore.	Mr Magic	Dec 19, 2012
241	1995	In '95 I was beginning my first year of work in our family business (officially). I also remember that a girl from Washington state flew here to Ohio to meet me face to face for the first time. We had met on AOL in a chat room. Such things were not nearly as prevalent as they are now... (I met my wife on the internet too, LOL). At the time I met her online, AOL had not gone to the monthly fee model. This meant that your time online was charged per minute. I once had a phone bill of $600 because of this. OUCH!!! This reminds me... at that time, my brother and I had purchased a subscription to X-Band, which was the only way you could play console games over the internet against people from across the country. You had to get used to the ssssslllllooooowwwww reaction time of the controls to the game, since the connection was made over a 2600 baud line. I sure don't miss dial up. '95 was also the model year of the first, and last, NEW car I have owned. It was a '95 Subaru Impreza LX that I drove for many years. It had gained 215,000 miles before being totaled by some idiot trying to steal an ATV trailer from a neighbor down the street, who lost the trailer when it slammed into the corner of my car parked along the street.	Vaporman87	Dec 19, 2012
240	1995	Be glad you weren't sent to military school.	Mr Magic	Dec 19, 2012
239	1995	living in a near empty trailer park, i had to find my ways of having fun, even if i was left with spanking marks later	Benjanime	Dec 19, 2012
238	1995	Sounds like you were a bad dude back then.	Mr Magic	Dec 19, 2012
237	1995	my days at summer camp, having my first time visit to paramount king's dominion, and causing all sorts of trouble in the neighborhood	Benjanime	Dec 19, 2012
236	Defunct Restaurant Chains	I am pretty sure they were just regional. I can't find anything about Hot Sam locations, except that they were in malls. But I never heard about them anywhere but east coast. Ground Round still being in business, I looked at their website and they have 30 locations mostly along the northern US coast from North Dakota to Maine. What was cool about them was 'pay what you weigh' for kids (a penny a pound), they had a projection screen with Laurel & Hardy and cartoon shorts, free popcorn, and free peanuts and you were <i>supposed</i> to throw the shells on the floor. They stopped with the peanuts after one location had a fire and the shells caused a problem. Not sure why they stopped the other stuff except it just wasn't profitable any more?	shakin steak	Dec 18, 2012
235	Special Bonus Point Offers	i've got plenty of other ideas in store, i just need some time outside of work to get started on them	Benjanime	Dec 18, 2012
234	Under Construction	<blockquote rel="Benjanime"><b>Benjanime wrote:</b> http://www.nightbird.us/under_construction.gif</blockquote> Oh, man. I looked at the picture when you posted it. But just now I looked at the site itself. What a great embodiment of mid/late 90s websites. I love how it's like a directory of every website the author has ever visited. Just in case you forget where dell.com or google are. The tiled background image, the digital clock with seconds ticking, the calendar telling me it's Decem<b>e</b>ber 2012, visit counter...sometimes I wish the whole internet still looked like this. <blockquote> COMPUTERS DELL Hewlett Packard (HP) IBM Apple Mac ELECTRONICS RADIOSHACK FIRE COMMUNICATIONS - Radio Tech SEARCH & REFERENCE GOOGLE DEX Yellow Pages ABOUT.com Alta Vista Ask Jeeves Excite Northern Light Teoma Yahoo Business Ambassador Invisible Web List of Lists Big Yellow - Online Phone Book DOGPILE (Search multiple search sites at one time.) Online Reference Desk OLCG - OnLine City Guide Fotosearch (Photography search site) Back to Menu</blockquote>	shakin steak	Dec 18, 2012
233	Defunct Restaurant Chains	Were Hot Sam's or The Ground Round regional or national? I've not heard of either. I'm sure Rax was a regional chain.	Vaporman87	Dec 18, 2012