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[Dylan8]

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Skullkid
Stick RPG

 

[El_Scorcho]

I did Maths Studies and Specialist, Physics, Chem and English Studies.

I became a 2 time uni dropout but in my mid 20s got into a really rewarding and well paying career where nothing I did before matters.

If I could go back i'd have dropped English Studies, it was so much work and I got a 13 scaled to a 14 for my worst score, while all my mates did English Communications and got 18s scaled down to 16s doing maybe 1/4 of the work.

At school we were mainly playing pen and paper connect 4. I didn't even own a phone until mid year 12 and it was a Nokia 3310

 

[Gibbsy]

Oh man, I forgot Kid Pix existed

We played a hell of a lot of Icy Tower in late primary school. If anyone has the OS X version of it I'll pay them for a copy, have spent many an exam period searching for the file but it seems to have been wiped from the internet.

JFC I played a lot of Icy Tower in grade 6. Also Sik Trix BMX on one of those flash sites.

I used to have that disc 1000+ games for windows and it kept me going for a long time

 

[Fizzler]

Man, the IT Coordinators at my school sound really smart now. Last year everyone was passing around Portable Counter Strike so one kid decided to put it on his USB. Really good fun, although I was never any good at it. So anyway I asked him for the USB and I put the game on my account on one of the school computers. I noticed that as soon as I put it on my account it got deleted. So I asked the kid for the USB again and the same thing happened. We ended up figuring out that the IT Coordinators could make that game be deleted without any prompts. So everyone renamed the game but then it got deleted again. These coordinators could do a lot of things. They fitted every teacher computer in all the computer labs with a program that allowed the teachers to see every students computer all on the one screen. And the teachers could freeze them or turn them off.

 

[aCunningPlan]

Man, the IT Coordinators at my school sound really smart now. Last year everyone was passing around Portable Counter Strike so one kid decided to put it on his USB. Really good fun, although I was never any good at it. So anyway I asked him for the USB and I put the game on my account on one of the school computers. I noticed that as soon as I put it on my account it got deleted. So I asked the kid for the USB again and the same thing happened. We ended up figuring out that the IT Coordinators could make that game be deleted without any prompts. So everyone renamed the game but then it got deleted again. These coordinators could do a lot of things. They fitted every teacher computer in all the computer labs with a program that allowed the teachers to see every students computer all on the one screen. And the teachers could freeze them or turn them off.

The ones in IT now would have done the same things when they were in school so they know the typical high school kid tricks. My generation was lucky, our school IT department didn't think like we did. Plenty of LAN sessions in year nine.

 

[Cody_]

My I.T department couldn't give a f*** when I was year 7... Everything unblocked. Fast forward to Year 12 and everything was blocked including the AFL website ffs. Couldn't even connect up your phone anymore.

Best computer games that I played at school:
Primary School:
Age of War
Crazy Taxi
Run (cool maths games)

Secondary School:
Halo
Bogan Surf
Cubefield

There were so many more just can't think of them.

 

[Storm20]

Encarta mind maze ftw.

 

[Gibbsy]

I remember getting both Age of Empires and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on PC CD-ROMs that came in Nutri-Grain boxes when I was young. Played the hell out of those.

 

[Freight Train]

I remember getting both Age of Empires and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on PC CD-ROMs that came in Nutri-Grain boxes when I was young. Played the hell out of those.

That's how I ended up with THPS2 - loved breaking through the glass in the aeroplane hangar.

Anyone remember dicking around on those Channel V "DJ" GarageBand-esque programs you could get out of the Nutri Grain packets?

 

[Greater Gattsby]

Tanks, bubble trouble, freetetris, bigfooty - a guide to getting through a day of school

 

[Grandsun]

I'm in year 10, the AFL Website is blocked but categorised under International Rugby

 

[Fizzler]

BigFooty originally wasn’t blocked at my school but then I went on it one day and my teacher saw. They did a mass block the next week and they blocked BigFooty but unblocked YouTube at that time.

 

[akkaps]

BigFooty was blocked on the desktops at University of Canberra. I remember the message was something along of the line of this being a betting site.

 

[fancyscum]

My I.T department couldn't give a f*** when I was year 7... Everything unblocked. Fast forward to Year 12 and everything was blocked including the AFL website ffs. Couldn't even connect up your phone anymore.

Best computer games that I played at school:
Primary School:
Age of War
Crazy Taxi
Run (cool maths games)

Secondary School:
Halo
Bogan Surf
Cubefield

There were so many more just can't think of them.

Age of war! Haven't played that game in ~10 years and still remember the music.

 

[Jack Stevens]

BigFooty was blocked on the desktops at University of Canberra. I remember the message was something along of the line of this being a betting site.

That seems really backwards that a university, pretty much the home of three thought, would have internet bans.

How have you been, akkaps? Haven't seen you here or on GD in a while. Still having trouble with your parents?

 

[Jack Stevens]

We did this thing in high school where you clicked "random page" on Wikipedia, and then had to get to Hitler's entry in 5 clicks or less

 

[Bacon Warrior]

xvideos wasn't banned at my school.

 

[Gibbsy]

xvideos wasn't banned at my school.

Everyone knew that or xhamster were the least suspicious URLs to appear in a time when most parents still checked the accessed websites on a paper bill

 

[Fizzler]

xvideos wasn't banned at my school.

Haven’t checked at my recent school but I found out at my old school that PH wasn’t banned.

 

[Freight Train]

We did this thing in high school where you clicked "random page" on Wikipedia, and then had to get to Hitler's entry in 5 clicks or less

YES.

oh man, that's nostalgia right there.

 

[Dylan8]

Tanks, bubble trouble, freetetris, bigfooty - a guide to getting through a day of school

tanks lol

 

[Dylan8]

Newgrounds ****ing ruled man. The internet used to be so great.

 

[cannavo]

Newgrounds ******* ruled man. The internet used to be so great.

Oh those Michael Jackson flash movies take me back

 

[TheLoungeLizard]

Everyone knew that or xhamster were the least suspicious URLs to appear in a time when most parents still checked the accessed websites on a paper bill

They ahh, they could do that?

 

[Jack Stevens]

I think Chief has been reading this thread and got nostalgia for mid '00s internet speeds