Have some of the usual members left Racketboy forums ?

[Luke]

Prodigy was really fun and 100x more user-friendly than AOL ever was

/pours out a 40 oz

My Pops was a director of MIS and I clearly remember him having a family discussion of "DO NOT TOUCH THE PHONE FOR THE NEXT FIVE HOURS. DON'T ANSWER IT, DON'T TOUCH IT, AND DO NOT THINK OF CALLING ANYONE!". A rule I'd break because I was young and wanted to make good and make out with Holly Cook (did both).

[the7k]

I too was a Prodigy guy. Then SegaNet, which eventually turned into Earthlink.

I left this site once. For a year or two. I came back eventually, obviously. Don't know why I left and, honestly, don't know why I came back either.

[TEKTORO]

If I was to leave Racketboy it would be because I left the Internet period, otherwise I'm most likely to be on and off, here and there.

[corn619]

I took a break for a while, sold a vast majority of my collection and now I'm back. I started a few new hobbies like mountain biking, weights and car racing. I play games, though just not as much anymore. Work, family and my new hobbies just consume most of my time now. I still have I still have my Wii-U, Dreamcast, PSP and PS2. I also recently bought a Xbone, New 3DS and a gaming laptop that I use to play both old and new games.

[SpaceBooger]

My Pops taught me how to purchase airplane tickets on Prodigy, I think, in 1990.

Prodigy was really fun and 100x more user-friendly than AOL ever was

/pours out a 40 oz

In college, we would get the Compuserve, Prodigy and USAnet (I think) each with a one month free trial. My buddy found out that you could use the same credit card for a free trial after six months. So we both got two credit cards (easy to do in 1993 - campuses were loaded with banks handing them out like candy) and put the trial discs in a rotation to keep the free month trials going. We never paid for the internet... until broadband came to our town. That was a game-changer.

[Tanooki]

I avoided prodigy, compuserve and aol like the plague. My earliest internet I can't quite recall but I'm fairly certain it was flash.net, if not it was the 2nd. I remember all the old stories in the day how those 3, mostly AOL was nothing but a virus mill and how their shitty software would hose up windows and cancerously mess up your computer to serve their needs. I stuck with flash.net for a long time on dial up mostly through the last half of the 90s until I got a broadband setup with cable after that. Ugh I've spent like SNESdrunk a lot of my free time online as well since 95 when I got online in college. Less so then, mostly just evenings as it was dialup, but when it just was on whenever, it was left up far more often.

[Luke]

I think Trey and Matt nailed the answer:

Reality.

[the7k]

There's a place I go to when I want a little bit of the wild west of old internet without resorting to the cancer that is 4chan.

The War Room. El Hyphen. Come on down to Neo Geo Land.

[chupon]

I go there for a good laugh myself now and then. Best to stay silent there though.

[Kidpanda]

There's a place I go to when I want a little bit of the wild west of old internet without resorting to the cancer that is 4chan.

The War Room. El Hyphen. Come on down to Neo Geo Land.

As long as you stay out of the War Room it's not that bad. Instead of locking down threads and banning people, threads gone awry end up in the War Room. Actually a pretty fresh place to chill.