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rogueKlyntar
Mallcore Kid

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 1:55 pm 
 

How on earth did you guys keep this site up between 1969 and 2002???
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Subrick
Metal Strongman

Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:27 pm
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Location: United States
PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 4:53 pm 
 

Voodoo.
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Empyreal
The Final Frontier

Joined: Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:58 pm
Posts: 35140
Location: Where the dead rule the night
PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:12 pm 
 

It used to be maintained through manual paper entries in a giant notebook held in a secret location, passed around at shows.
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~Guest 118084
With a 120kbps bitrate!

Joined: Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:05 am
Posts: 986
PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:11 pm 
 

I'd consider my self a O.G. of MA personlly. Whereas cats like Empyreal could be considered as a triple ace O.G.

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Oxenkiller
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Joined: Sat Feb 09, 2008 3:42 am
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Location: United States
PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:29 pm 
 

Well, I remember the 1969 version of this site was hosted on a mainframe computer the size of a small warehouse. That mainframe had a .24 megahertz single processor and used punch cards and large reel-to-reel tapes for data storage. Output was text-only with block letters an inch high. Since home computers were so rare, only a handful of companies with mainframe computers could even access the site, and most of their IT departments blocked it anyway and said that MA was a "porn site." (my own company still does so.) The mainframe that hosted the original MA had 2 kilobytes of memory and nearly 100 kilobytes of data storage, which was more than enough to store the entire M-A database, such as it was, back then. Remember, in 1969, the M-A database consisted of exactly one band....

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Yuli Ban
Metal newbie

Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2018 11:07 am
Posts: 264
Location: United States
PostPosted: Wed May 08, 2019 11:44 am 
 

Someone at ARPAnet created heavy metal, so they decided to invent the internet to celebrate. However since there were only five computers connected to it and everyone else was listening to Motown and Yé-yé music, he decided to let the website rot for the next 30 years until some mallcore goffs rediscovered it for their middle school projects.
Oxenkiller wrote:
Remember, in 1969, the M-A database consisted of exactly one band....

And as we all know, that band was the Beatles.
"Look out, it's Helter Skelter, baby!!" ~actual original quote from the first MA page, now lost to time.
After all, heavy metal peaked with Revolver and by Led Zeppelin II and Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls, the scene was nothing but mall-dwelling poseurs.

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at the gaytes
Metalhead

Joined: Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:07 pm
Posts: 447
Location: Bangladesh
PostPosted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:15 pm 
 

Really? This place is almost 25 years old

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299796kms
Metalhead

Joined: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:28 pm
Posts: 477
PostPosted: Sat May 11, 2019 8:57 am 
 

rogueKlyntar wrote:
How on earth did you guys keep this site up between 1969 and 2002???

Frequent virgin sacrifices and copious consumption of goats blood.
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Osmiumthemetal
Metal newbie

Joined: Tue May 24, 2016 10:30 pm
Posts: 205
PostPosted: Sat May 11, 2019 11:57 am 
 

Ozzy Osbourne himself took a diarrhetic shit in a public toilet in Birmingham in 1969 and metalheads materialized out of the ground and flocked to the site of the shitting and they would write on the walls about heavy metal from that day on. When Al Gore focused his thought waves together and created the internet, all the writings over the past decades were copied and typed out here by an underground association.

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Yuli Ban
Metal newbie

Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2018 11:07 am
Posts: 264
Location: United States
PostPosted: Sat May 11, 2019 12:20 pm 
 

rogueKlyntar wrote:
How on earth did you guys keep this site up between 1969 and 2002???

Funnily enough, you posted five days too late to the 50th anniversary.

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Thexhumed
Metalhead

Joined: Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:26 pm
Posts: 1915
Location: Chile
PostPosted: Sat May 11, 2019 12:32 pm 
 

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LordStenhammar
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Joined: Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:46 am
Posts: 3060
Location: Not in Sweden
PostPosted: Sun May 12, 2019 11:13 am 
 

If you're older than Sabbath's first album, then you're really old.

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Nihil_ist
Mallcore Kid

Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2010 2:25 pm
Posts: 7
PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2019 1:48 pm 
 

What's amazing is there are no ads all funding comes from the dark arts.

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Dragunov
Metalhead

Joined: Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:34 pm
Posts: 2260
Location: United States of America
PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2019 2:51 pm 
 

Nihil_ist wrote:
What's amazing is there are no ads all funding comes from the dark arts.


Gang gang.

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Nihil_ist
Mallcore Kid

Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2010 2:25 pm
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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2019 4:50 pm 
 

Dragunov wrote:
Nihil_ist wrote:
What's amazing is there are no ads all funding comes from the dark arts.


Gang gang.


Gang gang, shout out to the Rat King.

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The Infamous Bastard
Metal newbie

Joined: Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:47 am
Posts: 310
PostPosted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:54 am 
 

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rexxz
Where's your band?

Joined: Sun Apr 18, 2004 8:45 pm
Posts: 9094
Location: United States of America
PostPosted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:14 am 
 

Nihil_ist wrote:
Dragunov wrote:
Nihil_ist wrote:
What's amazing is there are no ads all funding comes from the dark arts.


Gang gang.


Gang gang, shout out to the Rat King.



I'm going to go see him live at the end of the month lol. Love Theo.
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