Hoaxes and trolls used to be more fun in my day.
Listen up kids... before you was born there were a real mean trolls, with cooked screenshots and photos of modified hardware. False predictions used to be real specific.. e.g.:
"On Oct 15th, 1997, Power Computing will release a portable! It will come with a 200 mHz 604 CPU with 60 mHz bus. I work at a top secret lab at PCC."
Then the troll would slave all night cooking up a picture of a laptop with Photoshop 3.0 and post it. MOSR would report it, and we'd all have a good laugh.
Now you've got punk kids posting:
"Something is coming out at MacWorld and oh it is gonna be real cool. Apple is so cool. Sorry I have to be so vague. My life is in danger as I type this."
Add some text clipped from a news website and you've got idiots clamoring for more.
Oh I pine for the trolls of yesteryear. What were YOUR favorite hoaxes?
"On Oct 15th, 1997, Power Computing will release a portable! It will come with a 200 mHz 604 CPU with 60 mHz bus. I work at a top secret lab at PCC."
Then the troll would slave all night cooking up a picture of a laptop with Photoshop 3.0 and post it. MOSR would report it, and we'd all have a good laugh.
Now you've got punk kids posting:
"Something is coming out at MacWorld and oh it is gonna be real cool. Apple is so cool. Sorry I have to be so vague. My life is in danger as I type this."
Add some text clipped from a news website and you've got idiots clamoring for more.
Oh I pine for the trolls of yesteryear. What were YOUR favorite hoaxes?
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<strong>Indeed, we need graphical trolls to replace these ascii trolls.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes. Youngsters today they get it all sooo easy. When I was their age we had to travel to every board member showing a working model before we could fool them into believing us. I still remeber the dark nights where I made G3s with my bare hands and had to make my own plastics to make a fake iMac.
We cooked up a little screenie of Photoshop 6.5 running off OS X. Mailed out to several stupid news sites (Think Secret, MacOS X.org etc...)
They bit! And we won...
<a href="http://www.thinksecret.com/features/photoshopx2.html" target="_blank">See the TS article here.</a>
I have the PSD if ya'll don't beleive me.
Funny thing was, we were pretty accurate and only a week behind the ACTUAL 7.0 beta 43.
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
Mac Guru
<strong>What were YOUR favorite hoaxes?</strong><hr></blockquote>That one about the G5s coming out in Jan. 2001. Now THAT was a good one. Had us all going for a while.
<strong>My favorite hoax was one I pulled off with a little help from Michealm800.
We cooked up a little screenie of Photoshop 6.5 running off OS X. Mailed out to several stupid news sites (Think Secret, MacOS X.org etc...)
They bit! And we won...
<a href="http://www.thinksecret.com/features/photoshopx2.html" target="_blank">See the TS article here.</a>
I have the PSD if ya'll don't beleive me.
Funny thing was, we were pretty accurate and only a week behind the ACTUAL 7.0 beta 43.
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
Mac Guru</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ha.
Oh - and that time IP logging told us (too many usernames to list here) was really (more usernames here.) We had a good laugh over that one. And no, we'll never tell!
Cheers,
Mark.
<strong>Come to think of it, wasn't it Robo who was responsible for that 'mouse?' :eek: </strong><hr></blockquote>I believe robo was responsible for "a" mouse that was bluish. The foot mouse was by someone else I think.
Amorya
Heh.. the pic dates itself. We were still stuck with puck mice back then and this was my idea of what OS X was going to look like!
<a href="http://robo.cx/ai/OS-X-mouse-fake.png" target="_blank">http://robo.cx/ai/OS-X-mouse-fake.png</a>
-robo
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<strong>We should do an AI community hoax - get it out to as many other sites as we can. If we all work together as a community, we could invent something big and get the pics to prove it
Amorya</strong><hr></blockquote>
Then it should be undercover action and no more talk here. Time for the AI underground mailing list to go into action
Mac Guru