Was it like this when Magic and Larry were in the league?

[J Shuttlesworth]

No it's only on here where people have idiotic agendas.

It's honestly everywhere. I see some people on my facebook who are religious stans It's crazy

[pauk]

Yes it was, but at the same time not exactly... i mean there was no computers to hind behind while you expressed your opinions so you had to be careful, be rational in your approach & so anybody who dared to troll didnt get banned, but KO'ed which made you think twice about doing it again (alt-account).

It isnt the same situation though, there is no 2 best players in the league winning championships back n forth having an epic rivalry.... there is just 1 guy doing that...

[Shade8780]

Anyone remember MikanGOAT or MinLaker back in the original ISH days? So many Minneapolis Lakers bandwagoners back then.

[Pointguard]

I'm not saying he posted there, but the boards did exist back then. Someone posted a link a couple years ago with posts dating back to the early-mid 80s.

Looks like the link isn't working anymore, but here is the thread...

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=227563

I was on the internet before there were .com sites and there were almost all .edu and library sites that I could recall and that was 1989/90. I could imagine that it was possible to do a message group but it would be more like a chat room. People loved to chat in the beginning.

During the 80's when Magic and Bird were active I travelled across the US and the bars were hyped with the argument. You would here that fights broke out in bars more often then and the code words were "over basketball" The nation was still a bit racist as Kareem wrote about it in "Giant Steps" as if he didn't crush Walton then he knew who they would say was better. The intensity of Bird/Magic had more explosive ingredients than Kobe/Bron.

[Pointguard]

And all the sites were just text with mostly just black background.

[La Frescobaldi]

And all the sites were just text with mostly just black background.

black, or green which drove me nuts. maybe that's when I started bricking nerf balls, I used to make em from anywhere on the floor

[Micku]

I'm not saying he posted there, but the boards did exist back then. Someone posted a link a couple years ago with posts dating back to the early-mid 80s.

Looks like the link isn't working anymore, but here is the thread...

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=227563

Yeah. You can find posts that would give their reasoning why Bird is better over Magic or vice versa. They were trolls back then too, but much less.

This was in the thread:

Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
From: michaelf@ism780
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 13:30:00 EST

I know all of you out there were waiting for further
accolades on Larry Bird so here they are. The man is simply
a genius when it comes to the game. He is the Mozart of hoops.
Pure basketball can be desribed as physical chess. Moving your
pieces in a way which best utilizes their strengths and attacking
with the right one at the right time is what it's all about.
Last night against Golden State, Bird had 36 points
12 rebounds and 11 assists. Now THAT, is a triple double. Not
like Magic's triple doubles which usually have 15 or so assists
but also only about 15 points. Last week Larry had a triple
double and scored 48 points. That includes the buzzer-beater
that won the game.
After talking up Alvin Robertson last week, he gets
a quadruple double. He had something like 22 points, 11 rebounds
10 assists and 10 steals. Last year Larry had a chance at a QuadDub
but he pulled himself in the third quarter after the Celts
had the game in the bag. At that point he had a TripDub with
9 steals. Ouch.
You will always read about the Alex English and Adrian
Dantley types scoring like madmen but they never have the
boards and assists. ...


When McHale comes back, will K.C. put Parish, McHale
and Walton in the forecourt and move Bird to guard alongside DJ?
DJ will stay play point and Bird will be a 6' 10 shooting guard.
I say it would be unstoppable. Comments?

[Marchesk]

From the wikipedia entry, the internet goes back to about 1982, based on prior networking which goes back to the 60s. In 1968, there was the Mother of All Demos in San Fran where the mouse, hypertext, word processing, document collaboration (think google docs) and video conferencing were all demonstrated decades ahead of their time (this is akin to Wilt being a time traveler from the modern era).

[LAZERUSS]

From the wikipedia entry, the internet goes back to about 1982, based on prior networking which goes back to the 60s. In 1968, there was the Mother of All Demos in San Fran where the mouse, hypertext, word processing, document collaboration (think google docs) and video conferencing were all demonstrated decades ahead of their time (this is akin to Wilt being a time traveler from the modern era).

Welcome back. Where have you been?