erik, we are frustrated

Its called Titled Tuesday and Untitled Tuesday 

ICS started in 1992 and was sold and redone as ICC in 1995. I don't know what there was in the 1980s but the telnet protocol has been around what seems like forever.   I started playing online in 1996 at ICC where you could play free as a guest. . So I never got to play on ICC.  When I started playing, Guis seemed to have just come into common use. I remember people at the time telling me I was lucky to start when I did.  I migrated to the newly created FICS. There were various FICS servers around the world. I played a lot on the Danish FICS. 

Batgirl is turning to be cleverer day by day.

I thought that was the first Tuesday of every month?

Shows how much I know.

Hey Ilama47, How do you get this much knowledge and wisdom?

You are indeed a wise man.

No it is every Tuesday 

I had internet for the first time in 2013

I used the public library in 1996, and soon after that had it through work when the department let me use an old computer. As adjunct faculty, I got less support than the tenure-track faculty. In 1998, I was able to use my university account on my home computer. At that time, there were not restrictions on using this internet for personal gratification like playing chess online.

Wait wait wait...

Both of them? Untitled and Titled are every week now?

Pretty sure it wasn't always like that, or I'm going crazy.

Yes every week for a while now 

It's still so high...

237695 players. 73897 games.

How many players participate, and how long do the tournament last?

Worth mentioning that Titled Tuesday (and presumably untitled Tuesday as well) did used to be a monthly event, but after the pandemic they made the change that It would happen every week

In 1983 when it was still ARPANet, you had to know how to route your own Email ...addresses looked like this:

hubhost!middlehost!edgehost!user@uucpgateway.somedomain.example.com

With "!" between each network jump.  All the punctuation had names:

! = bang

* = splat

etc.

My Email address at UC Santa Cruz was 2 full lines of text.

My first email address looked a little like user@uucpgateway.somedomain.example.com

But within a year had been reduced to user@wsu.edu

A committee I served on as the graduate student representative in the early 1990s was my first direct exposure to emails in the form of long printouts of short conversations where every remark except the very last one was repeated multiple times. A whole forest was lost to the work of that committee.

Heh, I am responsible for my own share of trees being chopped down...I could not afford a Unix C manual, but all the entries were on the network, so I just went to the /man directory and printed all the files in a batch job, which did not make the people at the print lab happy.

i'm getting that, also. as well as random '404' errors and the site suddenly changing the graphics/layout. i'll try to capture a screenshot next time that happens (hopefully it will not).

it was consecutive posts. really, that topic is not one where we discuss issues. it's just for fun (dare i say adult fun?)

the kiddos can spam as much as they want, as llama recently pointed out. posting consecutively can be governed by the op blocking or staff/mods, so this automation should be junked, in my opinion.

the green font was me pointing out the stupidity of a mod or staff member muting someone for using it-as if only they are allowed. 

before i run out of posts, i can appreciate how conversations turn and the history of sites/emails/internet some speak of. there is a natural ebb and flow as these things go. however, i'd prefer everyone stay on topic regarding site issues here. 

changing the conversation makes it easy for staff to ignore issues some of us write about here. hell, they might not even be aware of some bugs/issues.

Don't mock on the staff or moderators. Green must be used only by moderators or staff for various reasons. I agree with the staff and moderators regarding the green color. How come you mock on the staff and moderators? I totally object your way of talking.