Many years ago, the Chat Room was much livelier. We had fifteen active Ops. Like ten more active staff. Tons of regular users. Hell, there were times when we had like 30 active people at once. It was a fun time. I recall the names fondly… Dai, Varan, zombiegirl, Tenchimaru Draconis, Kagon, Flintedge… The list goes on and on. Nowadays, the chat is a shell. We have around nineteen people in the chat, most idlers. We don’t do the fun things we used to do.
We would call each other and play songs. I called SG once and played some Zorak song. I think he called back and played some Bad Religion song.
We had this fad of adding “POWER CONVERTERS” to every sound file. “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take - POWER CONVERTERS!” “Dude, you’re getting - POWER CONVERTERS!” Merlin started that one.
We played games like Scrabble, Hearts, Yahtzee!, and Monopoly. The old website had a honking noise. That’s where we got Honk if You Love The 984. Trill would always honk. As would Vicki.
Eden and SG would record their voices. We had so many files from them. SG had stuff like “juh-lap-in-ohs” or “YOU’RE A FAILURE!” Eden would record stuff like The Kagon Scream.
On PlanetZ, we had /umode +q. That was fucking fun to do to new people. We had #hmongchat. We had that other Thai chat with like 25 characters in its title, none of them English.
It was a fun time. We goofed off. We stayed up until 4 in the morning. Now, it’s a shell…
Recently though, Eden found a file that people would send him. See, part of the recording was Chatters would record themselves singing songs. And send them to Eden. Really, we were friends; the barriers of the internet went tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down. But the songs… Oh the songs. I never recorded one, but I didn’t have a mic.
You know who did record one? Epicgamer, later known as Epico Gameu, now known as Rinn. Eden lost most of his songs in a reformat. He somehow kept Epic’s. He could hear Epic sing. Now you can too.
Tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.