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Well, here it is. My life story - chapter 1. It's writen in a first person perspective, and feel free to comment on it - is the grammar extremely poor, does it get by, or was it just too boring?
THE STORY OF DELTAJAVA - CHAPTER 1: THE NEWBIE AGE
INTRO
This is the first instalment telling of the character that is DeltaJava. Many days
ago, he signed up to the Discussion Forums created by Special Reserve, and now,
as DJ nears the end of his dark red newbie days, he has decided to write the first
chapter of the history of DeltaJava (i.e. himself). Note that this story may contain
references to real life characters that can be found in the SR Discussion Forums, but
as always, the names are altered to protect the innocent... that is, the innocent
stature that is DeltaJava. This story may also contain traces of nuts. Also note that
during the story, DeltaJava will be called DJ in an attempt to make the story a little
bit shorter. Here goes.
My brother, Eddie (real name), came back from University, not only for a
nice, relaxing, Summer break, but also with a brand spanking new PC to boot
(Windows). After much hassle, I managed to persuade my unreactive brother to
hand me his old PC, so that I could mess around with it. Eventually, he gave in,
finally realising that he was wasting time arguing with his little brother when he
could be playing Settlers 2. Soon I managed, with my bony arms, to toss the
newly owned second hand PC onto my bed, only just missing the TV in the way
that could have so easily ended my happiness. Setting it up was a doddle, and
soon, the joy of the Packard Bell P75 PC with 1.3 GB hard drive and 4x CD-ROM
drive was up and running, with the HD crackling as it loaded Windows 95. After 3
minutes (my brother had installed a ton of Uni stuff previously, and so when he
uninstalled all the programs to make room for me to play games on, he left a
serious stain on the Windows Registry), the desktop screen reared its ugly face, and
I was in business. What did I do first with his PC? Instead of reinstalling the entire
OS to speed up things before slowing it down my way, I looked for any remaining
"artefacts" that my brother had left behind, in an effort to salvage any important
documents and then use them to bribe my ageing brother. However, being the
cautious person that he is, he left absolutely no trace of any files that poor me
could find unless he called a professional in.
I then hastily rebooted into DOS, formatting the HD completely before rebooting
again and installing the CD Driver with a knackered floppy that my brother handed
over previously. Then, after choosing all the options required off Windows 95's
installation wizard, I waited... and waited... and waited... until eventually, after all
the propaganda pictures of Windows 95 and its "unique" features were given, I
rebooted one final time to watch my brand new PC boot up in a speed not
previously seen before ever since Eddie bought the PC six years ago.
I then attempted to install the copies of "The Sims", "Grim Fandango" and "The
Settlers 2" (not taken from my brother) onto what I thought was a super "quick" PC
- but was shocked to find that the 2 former games did not run at all ,despite taking
up a huge chunk of hard drive space, and the latter ran with a pathetic frame rate -
instead of measuring the speed with frames per second, it was in fact a matter of
seconds per frame. It was that slow. After uninstalling the 3 games that I waited
so long to install, I decided that a quick game of SOMETHING had to be played -
so I turned to Fuji Golf, an odd little game that came with the PC when it was first
bought. I was hooked for weeks, which was even more odd, but as the end of the
summer holidays neared, I realised - I needed something more. I decided that a
modem (that's the thing needed to get on the internet, beginners) was the one
item I wanted - so without further hesitation, I put my thinking cap on as to how I
could persuade my parents to buy one for me.
2 weeks into my final year at comprehensive school, I was working in my IT class
on my coursework (before promptly going on the internet when no-one was
looking), and then the idea came to me - I could use the excuse that I needed to
use the internet for "research" purposes for my various school coursework projects.
So when I got home, the persuading commenced.
5 weeks later, and I was beginning to falter over my parent's stubborn ways. It
was only a phone call to my brother that managed to get them to but that elusive
modem that I so dearly wanted.
Upon setting it up, I realised that I had to install yet more software. After all that,
I browsed a few web sites, and thought to myself,
"Hey, this is quite fast when compared to in school," before setting up my email
accounts with Freeola.
"Free Web Space", it offered. I signed up to the "cd2.com" domain, because it was
wonderfully short - and also signed up a hotmail.com email ad, just because
everyone else had one. I was then going to make a web site, but realised that
unless I had some software, I was going nowhere - HTML is hard to learn with
GCSE coursework and mock exams hassling you all the time. I then came across
this discussion forum thing, and promptly signed up before posting a few messages.
When SR changed the way user names in each domain were dealt with, I was pretty
annoyed, as my initials forms the first two letters of a popular sauce (hint: faster
than marmalade AND rocks), but was now a rather dull looking letter-number
combo. I decided to change this, but noticed at that time I had to do some urgent
homework. Maybe tomorrow, I thought to myself.
In fact, it wasn't until the NEW YEAR that I had the opportunity to even sign onto
the internet again, and when I eventually did this, my user account went out of
date (i.e. you have to sign in at least once every 90 days). I got this news via
email, and as you can imagine, my inbox was bulging with tons of new messages
(okay then, only 94). I promptly signed up for a new account, and as the text box
for the user name presented itself on-screen, a certain name came to my head.
DeltaJava. And so, this was used for my new email ad ([email protected] -
website : www.deltajava.cd2.com - when I manage to upload the pages onto
Freeola). Suddenly, I remembered - my previous user name was a right bore, so I
changed that into DJ, knowing that it sounded much better (in my opinion,
anyway).
Two weeks prior to my GCSEs, I had had enough with revision - I secretly went onto
the internet, signed up to UKDiscussions.com (now UKchatforums), and logged in.
After a slight delay, the list of discussion forums came up, and as expected, I
posted a few messages wherever I could. Over the next few days, I increasingly
found myself spending more and more time on the forums - and at a time where
the GCSEs were looming! During these weeks, I met many of the Regulars that are
still present in the forums today - in no particular order : -
Lingo, who scarily informed me of meeting up with Mr. Dark if I failed to post this
story in time... turbonutcracker, who I shared my GBA misfortunes with, Dan8ty,
who was a fellow Blackburn supporter... Brand Spanking New Jim, with his constant
Xbox updates and the like... Bono, who was the only person to reply to my first
topic (sniff), Grand Prices, with his little taglines that were updated according to
who won the latest GP race (no need to change it for a few races then... M
Schumacher all the way), Kazz, who I seem to have offended by cussing the PS2
when some fool posted news stating that Shigeru Miyamoto was involved in a car
crash, Warping Time, who I always thought was a Notable, probably due to his
time warping abilities, propelling my thoughts into the future where he probably
will become one; Ravenous Sonic, of whom I was lucky enough to see his comeback
(despite not knowing him before); BlitzBasic, who managed to make me look a fool
when I answered two of his Zelda based questions wrongly (only slightly, mind) in
the heat of a battle with ProfessionalZelda, an obvious Zelda maniac who Blitz
accuses of copying stuff from books. Blitz was also responsible for the discussion
that brought up Papa Roach, encouraging myself to search for the album that I had
recently bought. He also introduced Neopets to me...thanks. Then there was
Terminator, with his made up bible quotes geared towards the destruction of
T1000, his arch nemesis; and then of course there was BastaSillyRank, an avid
Nintendo fan who LOLs a lot; the transition from Newbie to Regular was seen by
myself of Christ; DaddyLongLegs, who happily gave me a virus, although not
intentionally (thank heavens for InnoculateIT). Methane Mask, a recent arrival, has
adapted well to his new surroundings (with the protection of his mask). Finally,
there was Stevie Wonder, a natural mental asylum seeker. Am I forgetting
something? Oh yes, and most importantly, with their regular flow of new stories
and decisive comments, the Notables Aunt, Mechanical Dragoon, Err..., Cotton
Wool, Paul Daniels, Camper and Mixing Graves.
And now, to this present day, I am seeing the end of my newbie generation, and
pretty soon, the title of Regular will be faced upon myself. It's been a great
innings - hopefully, with the Regular title bestowed upon me, centuries would be
more common from now on (you'll only understand this if you play cricket). This
is DeltaJava, signing out.
DeltaJava
THE STORY OF DELTAJAVA - CHAPTER 1: THE NEWBIE AGE
INTRO
This is the first instalment telling of the character that is DeltaJava. Many days
ago, he signed up to the Discussion Forums created by Special Reserve, and now,
as DJ nears the end of his dark red newbie days, he has decided to write the first
chapter of the history of DeltaJava (i.e. himself). Note that this story may contain
references to real life characters that can be found in the SR Discussion Forums, but
as always, the names are altered to protect the innocent... that is, the innocent
stature that is DeltaJava. This story may also contain traces of nuts. Also note that
during the story, DeltaJava will be called DJ in an attempt to make the story a little
bit shorter. Here goes.
My brother, Eddie (real name), came back from University, not only for a
nice, relaxing, Summer break, but also with a brand spanking new PC to boot
(Windows). After much hassle, I managed to persuade my unreactive brother to
hand me his old PC, so that I could mess around with it. Eventually, he gave in,
finally realising that he was wasting time arguing with his little brother when he
could be playing Settlers 2. Soon I managed, with my bony arms, to toss the
newly owned second hand PC onto my bed, only just missing the TV in the way
that could have so easily ended my happiness. Setting it up was a doddle, and
soon, the joy of the Packard Bell P75 PC with 1.3 GB hard drive and 4x CD-ROM
drive was up and running, with the HD crackling as it loaded Windows 95. After 3
minutes (my brother had installed a ton of Uni stuff previously, and so when he
uninstalled all the programs to make room for me to play games on, he left a
serious stain on the Windows Registry), the desktop screen reared its ugly face, and
I was in business. What did I do first with his PC? Instead of reinstalling the entire
OS to speed up things before slowing it down my way, I looked for any remaining
"artefacts" that my brother had left behind, in an effort to salvage any important
documents and then use them to bribe my ageing brother. However, being the
cautious person that he is, he left absolutely no trace of any files that poor me
could find unless he called a professional in.
I then hastily rebooted into DOS, formatting the HD completely before rebooting
again and installing the CD Driver with a knackered floppy that my brother handed
over previously. Then, after choosing all the options required off Windows 95's
installation wizard, I waited... and waited... and waited... until eventually, after all
the propaganda pictures of Windows 95 and its "unique" features were given, I
rebooted one final time to watch my brand new PC boot up in a speed not
previously seen before ever since Eddie bought the PC six years ago.
I then attempted to install the copies of "The Sims", "Grim Fandango" and "The
Settlers 2" (not taken from my brother) onto what I thought was a super "quick" PC
- but was shocked to find that the 2 former games did not run at all ,despite taking
up a huge chunk of hard drive space, and the latter ran with a pathetic frame rate -
instead of measuring the speed with frames per second, it was in fact a matter of
seconds per frame. It was that slow. After uninstalling the 3 games that I waited
so long to install, I decided that a quick game of SOMETHING had to be played -
so I turned to Fuji Golf, an odd little game that came with the PC when it was first
bought. I was hooked for weeks, which was even more odd, but as the end of the
summer holidays neared, I realised - I needed something more. I decided that a
modem (that's the thing needed to get on the internet, beginners) was the one
item I wanted - so without further hesitation, I put my thinking cap on as to how I
could persuade my parents to buy one for me.
2 weeks into my final year at comprehensive school, I was working in my IT class
on my coursework (before promptly going on the internet when no-one was
looking), and then the idea came to me - I could use the excuse that I needed to
use the internet for "research" purposes for my various school coursework projects.
So when I got home, the persuading commenced.
5 weeks later, and I was beginning to falter over my parent's stubborn ways. It
was only a phone call to my brother that managed to get them to but that elusive
modem that I so dearly wanted.
Upon setting it up, I realised that I had to install yet more software. After all that,
I browsed a few web sites, and thought to myself,
"Hey, this is quite fast when compared to in school," before setting up my email
accounts with Freeola.
"Free Web Space", it offered. I signed up to the "cd2.com" domain, because it was
wonderfully short - and also signed up a hotmail.com email ad, just because
everyone else had one. I was then going to make a web site, but realised that
unless I had some software, I was going nowhere - HTML is hard to learn with
GCSE coursework and mock exams hassling you all the time. I then came across
this discussion forum thing, and promptly signed up before posting a few messages.
When SR changed the way user names in each domain were dealt with, I was pretty
annoyed, as my initials forms the first two letters of a popular sauce (hint: faster
than marmalade AND rocks), but was now a rather dull looking letter-number
combo. I decided to change this, but noticed at that time I had to do some urgent
homework. Maybe tomorrow, I thought to myself.
In fact, it wasn't until the NEW YEAR that I had the opportunity to even sign onto
the internet again, and when I eventually did this, my user account went out of
date (i.e. you have to sign in at least once every 90 days). I got this news via
email, and as you can imagine, my inbox was bulging with tons of new messages
(okay then, only 94). I promptly signed up for a new account, and as the text box
for the user name presented itself on-screen, a certain name came to my head.
DeltaJava. And so, this was used for my new email ad ([email protected] -
website : www.deltajava.cd2.com - when I manage to upload the pages onto
Freeola). Suddenly, I remembered - my previous user name was a right bore, so I
changed that into DJ, knowing that it sounded much better (in my opinion,
anyway).
Two weeks prior to my GCSEs, I had had enough with revision - I secretly went onto
the internet, signed up to UKDiscussions.com (now UKchatforums), and logged in.
After a slight delay, the list of discussion forums came up, and as expected, I
posted a few messages wherever I could. Over the next few days, I increasingly
found myself spending more and more time on the forums - and at a time where
the GCSEs were looming! During these weeks, I met many of the Regulars that are
still present in the forums today - in no particular order : -
Lingo, who scarily informed me of meeting up with Mr. Dark if I failed to post this
story in time... turbonutcracker, who I shared my GBA misfortunes with, Dan8ty,
who was a fellow Blackburn supporter... Brand Spanking New Jim, with his constant
Xbox updates and the like... Bono, who was the only person to reply to my first
topic (sniff), Grand Prices, with his little taglines that were updated according to
who won the latest GP race (no need to change it for a few races then... M
Schumacher all the way), Kazz, who I seem to have offended by cussing the PS2
when some fool posted news stating that Shigeru Miyamoto was involved in a car
crash, Warping Time, who I always thought was a Notable, probably due to his
time warping abilities, propelling my thoughts into the future where he probably
will become one; Ravenous Sonic, of whom I was lucky enough to see his comeback
(despite not knowing him before); BlitzBasic, who managed to make me look a fool
when I answered two of his Zelda based questions wrongly (only slightly, mind) in
the heat of a battle with ProfessionalZelda, an obvious Zelda maniac who Blitz
accuses of copying stuff from books. Blitz was also responsible for the discussion
that brought up Papa Roach, encouraging myself to search for the album that I had
recently bought. He also introduced Neopets to me...thanks. Then there was
Terminator, with his made up bible quotes geared towards the destruction of
T1000, his arch nemesis; and then of course there was BastaSillyRank, an avid
Nintendo fan who LOLs a lot; the transition from Newbie to Regular was seen by
myself of Christ; DaddyLongLegs, who happily gave me a virus, although not
intentionally (thank heavens for InnoculateIT). Methane Mask, a recent arrival, has
adapted well to his new surroundings (with the protection of his mask). Finally,
there was Stevie Wonder, a natural mental asylum seeker. Am I forgetting
something? Oh yes, and most importantly, with their regular flow of new stories
and decisive comments, the Notables Aunt, Mechanical Dragoon, Err..., Cotton
Wool, Paul Daniels, Camper and Mixing Graves.
And now, to this present day, I am seeing the end of my newbie generation, and
pretty soon, the title of Regular will be faced upon myself. It's been a great
innings - hopefully, with the Regular title bestowed upon me, centuries would be
more common from now on (you'll only understand this if you play cricket). This
is DeltaJava, signing out.
DeltaJava
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Good one Delta, nicely done.
Thanks. It was my first as well - they can only get better, as one singer and his group may say. look out for more.
Hmm, this is strange. The last three topics I made had 7 replies each to all of them - until now, that is. 8 for this.
Just nice?
I read this. It was nice.
Yep, like a historical flashback.
Chr!stos wrote:
> WOW -
Eh?
> WOW -
Eh?
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