Wow! This is longevity! Long live GNI!

CONGRATS TO GNI AND ESPECIALLY TO AMRAL AND SAFRAZ.

A see Cain was here all that time also. 

Congratulations to GNI on its 20th anniversary. Thanks for giving us the privilege to share our views, opinions and thoughts for 20 years. GNI is indeed a home away from home. 

 

Congratulations on the occasion.   

Kudos to the owners, custodians,  and fellow posters. Since the late nineties I've been informed, entertained and buzed down. Hehe

LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, YOU TOOK IT LIKE A MAN.

You was here that long too.

 I had a web site with a T1 connection on the internet in January '95 for business. The net came on line on sept 4 the previous year.

 

I was here since the BBS days. I actually was on the internet even before it became public.

And I get to write how I feel about things. Referred to Safraz as a fullahman once. Got banned for a week. Another time, I was banned for writing, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge." Instead of F.U.C.K. Got banned then too.

 

Changed handle to Moses in reverse and came back. Never been banned since. 

 

It has been a good twenty years keeping company. I wonder what ever happen to Poor People Governor. 

Congratulations GNI!

I've been here half of that time

dunno where PPG disappeared to, we were pals on FB but he's been MIA for a while

All them ole timers should come back for this occasion, I'm sick and tired of these spineless Eunuchs dominating de board dese days

There were good discussions back then. Eddie was pretty sharp with his comments. Tiger, BK, Chickerie, Nuff, etc,etc  

Congrats. Thanks Amral.

 

Special thanks to the old timers, we our gratitude to you.

 

Thanks to Admin.

Eddie should come back and manners Chief
Bonus too

If he rass had taken my advice and stayed he would be grandfathered in by OBAMA.  All he had to do was quit selling weed and  stay in school. Notice Bonus has a master now. Bet his kid is grown now also.

Thank you GNI to give us the opportunity to post here.  Darn I have been on here for 10 years.

Twenty years is impressive! I've been here on and off since 2006. Many thanks to Amral and all the contributors, including the GINA/PPP/OP peeps.

Happy 20th to GNI. Wishing it another 20 plus some. Cheers!!!!!!!

Congratulations to GNI!

 

I've been here 13 years,great site had some good

posters as GTstinga mentioned the old timers should

come back.

Yeah.

Time for a thread of famous quotes on GNI. I remember the following:

• Guyana under the current administration is no place for a young black male. - Nuff
• Guyana has the Government it deserves - RSVP

That's it for starters. Please add. I know Stormy has backed up the entire Internet since it started and pre-started and pre-conceived since the 1940s when he was a grown man (and since has grown younger, fit and youthful) who can provide some gems.

 

Let's vote for the most imaginative handle or GNI name.

 

most imaginative handle's gotta be Pandit Motilall's alter ego Hayri Peyratestes

This reminds me that I need a new avatar, the present one was a stock image of a guy with earphones when I had the moniker of GNI DJ.

I am a proud and long standing member of GNI.

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!

I am a newbie here, but learning. I have to graduate from dem blocks! Congrats to you oldies

Been here since 2001...dang!

My favorite quote..."Why don't you draw a big black hole and jump into it"

 

Was a fight between Reds and somebody else...was it JG?

20 years of me sayin Tarasssssss. I never posted on Political it was/is always men behavin bad, dem boys granin each other. Social had some wicked fights and parties and mo fights,hehehehehe

 

Congrats Amral and GNI peeps.

I possibly do have complete backups of the site in the nineties It was one perl script so it was easy to manipulate it.

 

my name and age is on the old site so you can check the old wayback machines to see if you find it.

 

the internet was not concieved as a packet switching network until the mid 80's.

 

If you were into computers back then you would know messaging and email was mainly on  usenet, fidonet BBS etc. I belonged to a BBS ran by Dr Gabor Laufer called Elite few at the time. It hosted mainly State department types and a senator and a few spooks. If you check you can possibly still find the posts from the era on BBs text files archive.

 

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS GNI...you served us well. 

 

Thank you Amral, Safraz and all who contributed to make this site what it is today. You also contributed to my education and knowledge of the world and a better understanding of us, as Guyanese.  

 

Cain seems to be an old fart.  But how life changed us, eh Bro.

 

Its emotional reading the Guest Book, because I know of some who are no longer around and  I worked with the grandfather of one poster at Albion office, who was the office manager.

Another poster is the Operations Manager at Atlanta airport and he is from Albion, a kaka rass bai riding an old bicycle to high school. You make us proud.   

 

When I reflect on what GNI gave us, I have to go back where many of us came from  and what our life was like before all this.

I studied vacuum tubes and Morse code decades ago, while I watched the first men on the moon.  

When I think where we are now with the internet and technology, it boggles my mind that we can send a spacecraft millions of miles and program it to land by itself in a another planet.

Storm you might be in better position to explain all this, because its too much for my mind.  

 

What will our world be like in another 100 years ?     

Probably fought with everyone here some time or the other. Reds fought with me for over 6 pages.   I argued with nuff all the time and the ice water argument spanned some 6 years, dozens of thread and hundreds of posts. The longest thread ever was the Hubble telescope thread followed by Chiefs Obama thread.

 

 Nastiest person on the site ever was Jamie Ramnarine. He lived to cussed me. Most racist was OwBob. Silliest was Cliff/ Most respectful will always be Erroll

I still have a couple of Vaccum tube amps. One need a new tube. Tubes can still be found.

 

I still remember my first radio, a yellow Onkyo. I was interested in them and started building radios from old parts by self study. I also remember my first calculator, a TI 28 with red display. They were banned from tests.

 

My son was actually required to use a special Casio for his calculus class plus Maple.

I first posted on GNI with a Pentium 75 which was later rebuilt to a whopping 133,hehe.

 

I have an amp Peavey Bandit 112 which has TransTube Technology,I really haven't had the chance to blow this up as yet.

I'm supposed to be doing a couple gigs a fem mins away from my place, it's a bar that's boring at the moment, so I'll hopefully have a chance to blast it there.

 

i was talking about home amps. I do have an old Marshall Haze 50 watt amp. It also needs a couple of tubes replaced

 

I remember the TI 28 and I still have my slide rule.

When I was junior tech zillions of years ago,  Saskatchewan Tel donated boxes of vacuum tubes to our company and I was asked to find doubles and throw out the rest, well I kept the rest and have a  box full.

Let me know the tube number you need, if its in the box I will mail it.

I should have kept the tube tester also, but I moved to another department and the unit was scrapped.

 

I also have a number of old radios from  the 40s/50s, where their cabinet is much bigger than the electronics..

 

When I repaired test eqpt for the phone company, I retired a Hammarlund SW receiver that has a bullet hole on the front face. A customer was upset with his service and shot into the building,  then entered and used a hammer on all the meter dials, including some British AVO and Triplet multi-meters  that we had to repair.  I kept the Hammarlund receiver and still use it occasionally.    

I still have my 286 computer and should crank it up to see its performance.

I started with  TI 99 [Texas Instrument], cant remember its memory or speed.

 

My first DSLR was a Nikon D100 6.1 mg, I paid $2300 for the body alone.  A 128MB [not GB] card was for $150. I also have some smaller MB cards and still uses the camera  to teach kids.  

 

What do you mean by TransTube Technology, does it have tubes also?  

No tubes involved...the circuitry used in these solid state amps is suppose to imitate the tone of a tube amp. Some say it's more a marketing ploy, guitarists like the tube sound and this gives Peavey the edge in some instances.

That was between Painter Chick and Kar.

 

I've been here since 1995. Time flies when you're having fun.

I will like to see that "Obama" thread republished for us to  read.

 

I remember when I stated that Obama will be the next President   so many people were saying that he  will never make it past the primaries. Nuff, Vishnu Mahadeo and a few other  GNIers others said no way will Obama make it.

 

I did not like him either. I read Shelby Steele's assessment of his chances in Harper's and the reason he felt white people will never get him and felt  it was indeed the case. I then  went to see him at American U and came back and posted that you could feel something in the air. People like him. Someone I know was an adviser to Richardson and she told me after a debates that Obama will likely win because he had an easy feel about him that connected. I did not become a believer until after he won.

I began to post about looking out for Obama being a future President of the US shortly after his speech at the John Kerry 2004 Democratic Convention.

 

I recall telling educated folks in Suriname before the 2008 Primaries and general elections that Obama would beat Hillary (especially after the South Carolina Bill and Hillary fiasco) and that Bush's disastrous Presidency coupled with the Democrat sweep in the 2006 mid0terms would pave the way for Obama to become the first elected Black US President. Okay he was half-Black and his Black parent was not of the Black slavery ancestry but an African. I even raised the question of whether being an African-American versus being a Black American would make a difference. I must have framed it differently then as this does not sound like I framed it then.

 

Storm is still in denial about the Obama's Presidency and still believe that he's like Al Gore and was the first user of the Internet (way before the 1960s Universities' use of email and ftp as well as Bulletin Board Service). We truly have a pioneer amongst us. Hail Storm!!!! The fittest baddest 20-yr -old-looking 50-something old man.

Did GNI start up as a PPP forum?

Terry you know better.

Back inj tne days was real fight , Cookup, LB , bONUS, nUFF AND so many others. Threads and fights used to last for days, especially on Fridays.

reincarnate Nemesis nuh

Nemesis' most memorable post "burn, Buxton, burn".