The real truth by troll2

Often we find ourselves paring up with someone we meet on the internet.  You go on a video chat program and seem to connect with someone as a friend.  Sometimes that seems like the greatest thing in the world.  Other times it can be your worst dreaded nightmare.

A lot of people get a web camera and download some software and meet people. They suddenly think after they have been on a few months that they  are a "regular" and that everyone new that comes on after them are the newbies.  They think that they were one of the first to webcam and all the others come after them.

Video conferencing has been around since the early 1990's.  Cuseeme- was a program developed by Cornell University.  "Reflector Software" was downloaded and installed on a server.  Any person could use a free version of Cuseeme and connect to any "reflector or ref" all around the world and chat with others.  There were reflectors in Paris, Norway, dozens and dozens in the USA, Italy and more.  Some refs you went to had a splash screen as you entered telling you it was G rated. There were quite a few growing adult reflectors.  I never considered sex a spectator sport and seeing anything in b/w video did nothing for me.   Later, color was added and the webcams were born and becoming increasingly popular.

At the height of all this, some people maintained reflector lists, telling the name, owner, rating, etc.  A lot of people liked to have refs "exclusive" and did not want the locations passed out to just anyone.  What snobs.  I started a list of refs and passed it out to anyone who asked. That way they'd have more than just one or two in their Cuseeme phonebook.  There were hundreds to choose from.  I had a mailing list of over 500 people at one time.

I met alki david on a ref.  I was a monitor on a reflector called "Fenris".  You were not allowed to swear on that site and he got kicked daily, night and day because he was swearing.  He went from site to site and got kicked.  One day he started his own ref and went from site to site SPAMMING his location so others would come to his site and chat.  No one came. Very few if any.   I left Fenris, under the nickname refbum and changed my name to refraider.  I went to alki's site to see what it was and check it out.

When I first got there alki was sitting at a table with about 3 or 4 computers in front of him.  To the side, behind him were two fancy cars.  He had his setup in his Beverly Hills garage.  I went in and decided to give him a taste of his own medicine and swear on his site.  While not "verbatim", the folllowing is a conversation to show an example of how we met.

I entered and said "Wow, it's true, people really are as god damn dumb as they look".
I got one small message on my screen that was blank.  I clicked it and it went away.
I said "Hey you dumb fucker, you just going to sit there and look fucking stupid?"
Again, I got one small blanklike message on my screen and clicked it and it went away.
I said "Hey you dumb mother fucker, are you trying to boot me off your ref?"
I got yet another screen and clicked it and it went away.

I said "Hey Doofus.  Dumb Fuckers can be taught. Look, you have to type my name out,

refraider  123.55.555.68 "you are denied access to this conference bitch"

You have to type the persons name, their ipset and then a message in quotation marks.
Suddenly I got 33 messages popping up on my screen. They all said I was one banned bitch !
I clicked them and was banned by ipset. I unplugged my modem, then a whopping 33.6 and
went back to his site.  I said "HEY YOU DID IT ASSHOLE !!", he banned me.

Alki said "how did you learn to do that?".  I said "I read the manual bitch".  He said "you are funny".
so, we became friends.

Another really funny story, to me, was when I went to alki's ref and he said that he was trying to get people to come into his room so he could test the server capacity and see how many people it could hold and how the bandwidth held up.  He tried going to a few rooms to get people there but no one came.  I told him "brb", which as we know is be right back !

I left.  About five minutes later I returned and alki said "REF, we had over 100 people here for a few minutes you missed it !!".   I said "really?"" He said "yes, they all just came in at once".

I said "haha, that was me !  I changed my nickname from refraider to SallyAnn and went to a few adult refs where they were packed.  Sometimes you had to try and try to get in. All those desperate lonely people waiting for a glimpse of a b/w boob.  I went from site to site and pasted into chat.  "What is this site rated?  I want to show my breasts to all of you ::giggle".  "
All they people typed "it's rated anything you want it to be rated baby !"  "show tits !".  I said "I don't know this site, but I was just on Deathref 155.55.55.55 and got a kick out of doing it. I'm going back there to show my breasts since my husband isn't home".

What morons.  They all immediately typed in alki's ref and address and went running to his site.  I went to about a half a dozen refs, got in, said what I said and got out.  By the time I got back to alki's there were a few dozen still waiting for the hopes of SallyAnn and her topless show.

"That was me dumbass, do I have to tell you how to attract traffic to your site?"  We both laughed our asses off.  He got the traffic in to take some measurements and those rubes came running.  

People were so gullible. They still are in 2012 !!   Just as gullible as ever. Back then it was a blast night after night.  There was none of this constant bannings you see go on today.  Only the perverts were kicked. There is nothing worse than having a blast on a ref and some guy pops on cam playing with himself , not knowing who is watching. The world is full of sick people.

Alki asked me "how many friends do you have on here?".  I said " i have over 500 people on my mailing list now !".  He said "no, how many friends?".  I said "I don't socialize with any of these people.  He said that if you can hold up your hand and count more than five people in the entire world you trust then you are kidding yourself.  I was going back to Fenris to chat and then popping in his site too.  He would come to Fenris and tell me to come to his site to chat when he got on.  He said "Would you rather sit there and chat with those losers or come chat with me?".  

It was then we became friends.  We chatted day after day.  Sometimes I would log on in the evenings and we would chat until I  would hear the birds chirp in the morning.  He would stay up and work on different projects and sites he had.   He had made a movie "Me and the Gods".  He was trying to build a site so that it could screen over the internet.  He was doing this long before anyone else even thought of it.   Back then, you had to do it all with html. There were no "drop and drag" options then.  Everything, including colors were html codes.  He'd build a site and then we'd critique it.  I'd build a site about stupid stuff about Cuseeme.   A traffic light on  a web page. Green meant they were good sites to chat on, yellow meant PG and R and red meant X or trashy lowlife sites.   I put up columns one day on a site and alki liked them and wanted them for his site.  Bam, take them !  That was fun.  Always changing it trying to make it the best site he could.  

Along the way we met millie, bung and a few others who became regulars and stopped in to chat and pass the time away.  It was indeed a blast.  It was a pleasure meeting a lot of those people. Hearing where they were from, how they lived, what they did or did not do for a living, etc.  The unemployment rate was not as bad as it is today.  So many people out of work now, but then it was not uncommon but rare.

Cuseeme lasted for quite a few years.  After it shut down we stayed in touch with emails and icq's. Years, later, he started FilmOn.com and told me about it. That story and others will come later. I'll try and type up a story each night to get it online and get my side told. 

How in 2012, I wish I could turn back the clock and would have stayed on Fenris and never met alki david.

More tomorrow night !