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Has anybody knowledge of, does anybody recall, Halfbakery
stuff on another site through the early years? Various people
have mentioned this but could not remember where or what
it was called. Not a general review of this site but... perhaps
a blog, or some other site?
Why?...
http://whynot.net/
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Mar 25 2021]
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I first joined the bakery on the day Microsoft had it as it's "Site
of the Day", referencing "Flocking Street Cones", and I think
maybe "Film Noir House". Not sure about those, but you get
the drift. |
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You mean Krelnik's Guide to the HB? |
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some years ago someone said one of my ideas (seed bullets) made it to the front page of Reddit. That's all I can recall. There has been noise about patent applications referencing the half bakery. What kind of thing are you looking for, Shirley? |
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There used to be an off-HB chat site, I think was called Overbaked and I wanna say it was a Yahoo group (back when those were a thing). Never checked it out though. Is that what you're thinking? |
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Actually thinking more about it, I believe it was on a site called Multiply. |
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Could it be inglybinglydingly? I think they have (had?) a Yahoo Group. |
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There was a Multiply group, and a Yahoo! group as
well |
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Multiply
Yahoo
CARK (not sure where it was held?)
FaceBook |
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CARK was a yahoo group as well. Then there was the
myspace ring also. |
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I miss multiply that was fun! |
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I miss Yahoo chat, some of their groups weren't bad either. |
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It's a shame there was never a Halfbakery Usenet
newsgroup |
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A slack might be fun - it's what all the cool kids are into
these days, or so I'm led to believe. And on the subject of
what the cool kids are into, does anyone know what a
"discord" is all about? That and twitch (and probably a
thousand other things) completely passed me by. I'm
guessing it's all just IRC or ICQ but for the cool dudes and
homestar
runners. |
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People here at work use Slack, but I've never got into it. My
kids use Discord but I don't know what it is... |
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//anyone know what a "discord" is// |
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Useful for gaming when you've a raid or similar, gives the
MC a
way into your brain that doesn't require the eyes you need
for
the job in hand, I don't rate it much beyond that & it
doesn't really do anything you couldn't have done with
yahoo
voice chat a decade or more b4 anyway .. can't help but
feel
Yahoo became the new Xerox somewhere along the way. |
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//completely passed me by// |
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[Reaches across to turn tape over] I've never got the hang
of these new fangled 8 tracks so
you're .. [pauses to consider next words] .. in company
there. |
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//completely passed me by// |
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Became a dad. Tada. Priorities in place, zen, as always. :>) |
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Thanks [Skewed] I've heard discord bandied about, but never looked it up. You want to get
one of those new fangled "auto-reverse" machines, saves you actually turning the tape over,
amazing what they come up with these days. Honestly though, I love a cassette, I just feel
slightly anxious that my 30 year-old player is likely to eat it each time I press play. |
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I do also remember going round a friend's house after school and watching them as they
chatted to people on their CB radio - which felt super-cool. |
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[bliss] after they arrived, I don't think there was much choice! |
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[hippo] one of my boys is having regular Animal Crossing dates with his schoolmates, It seems
to be a kind of design-em-up, where each player decorates their house, and then invites one
another over to talk about the interiors of their houses. I did design a crazy wallpaper once
under his instruction, but have to admit, I'm slightly bemused by the whole thing. |
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Probably 5 years ago while Googling some half-assed wannabe
invention of mine I saw a website where people were discussing
ideas from another website, that one being the halfbakery. The
reading portion was formatted similar to an outline where there was
a main thread and the replies were indented, with replies to replies
further indented, etc so you could see who was replying to what.
The tone was casual, coloring was limited to two or three (perhaps
just red here and there) and I wish I could remember more but I
was probably really tired. Or drunk. Or tired and drunk. Or, well |
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Anyway, a few days later I ended up here. |
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I'm not sure if it's still extant, but there was a webpage from somebody - presumably a member at the time - which had a few pics and bios/comments from (iirc) 5-6 auldsters, including our illustrious Borg, who looked as advertised... not much Wally that I could see, but military uniform, medium height, stocky (didn't look like he'd have trouble getting into or out of a tank, but I've never gotten into or out of a tank myself, so whatever), oh and he had hair at the time (balding is in the eye of the hat-holder, I guess. Personally, I'm getting karma from the number of bald jokes I've made over the years, as my mop quickly thins out of existence). |
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Anyone remember the "serious halfbakery" site that
was way too similar to this one? It had like lightbulbs
for voting or something. |
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That's Second Life for kids isn't it, more a happy space than a
game. |
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//Or drunk. Or tired and drunk.//
At least you didn't end up locked in a trunk. That would be
dire. |
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//Anyone remember the "serious halfbakery" site that was
way too similar to this one?// - some of these are in the
'links' section, in 'meta' over there on the left <<=== |
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