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December 20th, 2002, 12:02 AM
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What are all these IMO HTH RTFM and all other stuffs?
Hi...
Once and for all... I really want to know what all these means... and HOW they come about? 1. HTH 2. RTFM 3. IMHO And are there any more that you guys always use? Im pretty new to PHP and I'm subscribed to php general mailing list.. I just dun understand what they all mean. If there are more, please drop it in here as well.. so that I can learn... Thanks!!!
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December 20th, 2002, 08:35 AM
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IMHO------ In my humble opinion
RTFM-------- Read the F..... manual! Unix admins unse this a lot when users ask dumb questions. LOL------- Laugh out loud. There's a bunch of these out there. ben
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December 20th, 2002, 12:24 PM
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December 20th, 2002, 01:09 PM
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A few others and variations:
ROTFLMAO -- Rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off BRB -- Be right back GTG -- Got to go TTYL -- Talk [or Type] to you later IMNSHO -- In my not so humble opinion YMMV -- Your mileage may vary IOW - In other words... As for HOW these came about... it really goes back to the beginnings of the mass online world when people connected via dial-up BBSs (I used to run several). Because people either had daily time limits on how long they could be logged onto a system, or because of phone charges when connected, or just to avoid typing long phrases... people would use abbreviations in message posts and real-time chats to cut down their typing time. It soon developed into sort of a jargon for the online world, and has stuck through the demise of the BBS and into the 'Net days.
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December 20th, 2002, 06:30 PM
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Wow... kewl stuffs!
Thank you so much! I was so blur with all these acronyms they just bugged me. Now u guys have cleared the air for me  And thanks for that link lindset!  This forum rocks!
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December 21st, 2002, 09:49 PM
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Wow... I remember those days! I ran a few myself... What software did you use? Do you remember Renegade or PCBoard? I was even into ANSI and ASCII art, as well as MODDING (not cases, but music). I love reminiscing about the good 'ol days! Would you go back if you could? 
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December 22nd, 2002, 12:29 AM
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I started out with RBBS, and then moved to Wildcat! Yes, I remember Renegate and PCBoard (the only thing I really hated about PCB was that all of the boards running it looked exactly the same... nobody seemed to do any customization... and the screen was so damn crowded!). I also had lots of fun with ansi art and RIPaint, short-lived as it was... I really do miss those days, as most former sysops probably do. Not sure if I'd want to go back though... the toys today are just as fun (flash, PHP, etc). I miss the "community" though, before everything became so commercialized. You might want to check out http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ - a guy who's been working on a documentary about the bad 'ol days
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December 22nd, 2002, 12:34 AM
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Wow... this is really interesting guys. I think I was still drinking milk at that time...
 That's the reason why I didn't know what those acronyms stood for.
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#9
December 22nd, 2002, 09:09 PM
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wow, now where goin old skool! i remeber those days. Me and my friends would always try to get the passwords for restricted areas. It never worked.
Now im sounding really old.
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December 23rd, 2002, 11:59 AM
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Yeah... I remember Wildcat... Never ran it myself, I wasn't crazy about the customization options... As for PCBoard... I hated those "default" sites... I was into heavy customization (I think the artist in me controlled that ), so I changed EVERYTHING you can think of... I even created my own plug-ins... Renegade was another good system for customizing... I even went as far as customizing the internal sysop menus!! hehehe.. You're right though... Today's toys are so much nicer... but there will always be that feeling of nostalgia... I mean, it's where we started out!
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December 23rd, 2002, 12:00 PM
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Hehehe... It wasn't that long ago... mid-90's... hehehe...
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December 23rd, 2002, 01:12 PM
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Yeah... kinda scary when I think that I shut down my old BBS only 7 years ago! Most customization fun I had was setting up a SearchlightBBS for a friend - had a complete RIP interface (RIP was when the BBS discovered hypertext, of a sort). Also played with MajorBBS, TBBS, but never actually ran a board with them. Did you ever attend the BBSCONs that Boardwatch (Jack Rickard) ran (they were in Denver, Colorado Springs and Atlanta the first three years)?
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#13
December 23rd, 2002, 05:24 PM
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huh? what? phpbb? what? vbulletin?
 lol, i don know any of these BBS you guys are talking about
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#14
December 23rd, 2002, 05:33 PM
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Same here...
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December 23rd, 2002, 05:38 PM
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* 10 Years in the future *
"You remember the oldschool days with all those php forums like phpBB, vbulletin, ikonboard?" "Yeah, I can't believe they were that slow! They used PHP back then LOL! I even heard that if you wanted to customize it you had to make your OWN graphics and EDIT files!" "Yeah! I can't believe people would actually use them!"
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#16
December 23rd, 2002, 05:46 PM
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LOL!!!
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