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Anyone remember the Okla 30 and Up chatroom on AOL?
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Anyone remember the Okla 30 and Up chatroom on AOL? If you don't it was awesome. I started going there in the late 90s. Even though it was an Oklahoma room, most of the people in there were from the Tulsa area. Within a short time, we started having frequent get togethers at local bars. Everybody was fucking everybody. And the drama? Oh My God! People hooked up after meeting in person (whether from the chatroom, IMs, or at the get togethers), got into relationships, cheated on each other (usually with other people from the room), broke up, got back together .... it was NEVER boring! There was actually an honest-to-God murder for hire in that room! A woman whose husband worked oversees got involved with a man she'd met in the room. He decided he wanted to take her husband out of the picture (apparently with her enthusiastic agreement), so he asked a woman he knew only from the chatroom who worked at a chemical company to get him some poison so he could do it. She logged the IMs, where he went into great detail on his plan, and took them to the cops. They busted him when he came to her workplace to pick up the poison. Amazing. Even more amazing was the fact that I'd had an affair with her the year beforeI I'd been struggling with being involved with a married woman, so when she started talking about leaving her husband so we could be together, I took off! At that time in my life, I was asshole enough to get involved with a married woman, but I was relieved to learn I at least had enough characer left to not break up a family, no matter how good the sex was (and it was awesome!). I was active in that room for over three years, and had a blast. I moved to Atlanta in January of 2002, but there was nothing like the Okla 30 and Up room on AOL for Atlanta (at least that I could find). I moved back to Tulsa in 2005, but by that time, the room was nowhere near as active, and it had been taken over by people from OKC. For the past several years, it's been totally dead. I tried to revive it for a time, but I guess everyone had moved on by that time. I miss that room, and the friends I made (yes, you can definitely read that as "women I hooked up with!"). I've always wondered where all the active chatters went when AOL died out, but I've never been able to find out. I've tried the Lower Midwest room on here, but I guess the geographic region is too big, and of course, a guy in a chatroom on here with no pic on his profile is about as welcome as Michelle Bachman's in-the-closet husband at a heterosexual men's convention. That was a fun time.  |
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I remember that room fondly, it really was an ongoing soap opera. A lot of the old players from the Okla 30 room are still around. You can find many of them on the "book of faces" if you know their real names.. or try importing your buddy list since an AOL screen name is also their email address. "We are all worms, but i like to think of myself as a glow-worm" - Winston Churchill
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Did you go to the mixers at The Brink in Brookside, or the little hole in the wall club where the Wal-Mart at 45th and Peoria is now? Can't remember the name of it now. There was a Karoake bar in East Tulsa, too.
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Also, @ Scott In Tulsa: Rank the following: TOS TNG DS9 Voyager Enterprise (I have listed them in the order in which they debuted)
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i only attended a few of the mixers/parties, but just about every one of them "panned out" for me i grew up on TOS, TNG was cool , but after watching DS9, TNG always seemed too neat and clean. Voyager was Star Trek done badly. There's only a couple of episodes of Enterprise i'd even call Star Trek. And don't get me started onthe latest movie, which was Star Trek for Star Wars fans, although the USS Ipod was kind of neat even though it looked like the whole bridge was manufactured of recycled Apple computers "We are all worms, but i like to think of myself as a glow-worm" - Winston Churchill
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I grew up on TOS, too, and it is my all-time-fvorite. It looks really cheesey today, but back when it debuted, that was cutting edge sci-fi! Episodes of that show changed my life. For example, I grew up in a racist household, but when I saw that episode where the Riddler was black on one side, and white on the other, it made me realize how stupid racism was. I was like 10, I think. I liked TNG on the first run, but got tired of it in re-runs. If I ever meet that kid that played Alexander, I'll punch him right in the face. I also really got sick of the writers painting them into a corner, then resolving it in the last segment by reconfiguring something. Lazy writing. And clearly, the TEA Part succeeds in dismantling all government regulation in the future, cause there's no way OSHA would ever let the holodeck and the transporters keep being used when they create so many disasters! I thought the two-part finale of TNG, however, was better than ANY of the Star Trek movies. I never got into DS9. I found Avery Brooks annoying, Major Kira's rack unspectacular, and the whole space station thing boring. Plus, that dude who played Odo played about 30 different characters over the course of the series, and they all sucked. I got interested when they introduced the Defiant, but man, whoever designed that ship needed a court martial. It's the only pure warship the Federation ever designed, but every time they undocked it, it got the snot kicked out of it. Except for the time it got destroyed. Then it got replaced by another ship of the same class, which promptly got the crap kicked out of it in that movie about The Borg. Then Tom Ryker got one. Oh, it got smashed up. Then those red faction or whatever cadets got one and whoops, it got clobbered. You know, from certain angles that ship looks a lot like a flying pussy. I suspect that's no accident. I thought the concept of Federation officers forced to join The Maquis by their consciences and honor was an interesting concept that was never properly explored, and I thought the series ending was ludicrous. I was still sad, though. I thought the concept of Voyager was brilliant. Here's Captain Janeway, seriously channelling a young Katherine Hepburn, lost in space 70,000 light years from home with a crew of criminals, rejects and wackos. Here's Tom Paris. He's betrayed everyone. Will he betray her? In less than a season, he's a loyal crewmember whose only vice is too much time playing Captain Proton. Here's Chakotay, an able, competent starfleet officer who decided he could no longer be a part of starfleet, yet now he has no choice but to go back in. Will he remain loyal to Janeway, or will their differing philosophies force him to stand against her. Within less than a season, he's a Native American mystic whom Robert Bertran interestingly decided to interpret as a man in a walking coma. At least he bagged 7 of 9. Here's B'elanna Torres. Her human and Klingon halves constantly at war; a bubbling cauldron of rage, the two sides of her only agreeing on one thing: They both hate starfleet! Who will she punch in the face today? Within less than a season, she's a loyal mid-level manager with 28 days a month of PMS. Here's Neelix and Kess. They sucked at the beginning, and they sucked all the way through. At least they were consistent. And the Doctor, The Doctor! He's like McCoy on dilithium steriods! A program pushed light years beyond his capapbilites. An absolute asshole with no people skills whatsoever. Who will he insult today? You can't tell me you didn't cheer the first time he said 'I'm a Doctor, not a ____" in the first episode. Within less than a season, he was a narccissistic ninny (Although, Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy was my ATF. Ever read The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?) And then there was 7 of 9. My friend, there are three things a woman can never have too much of: Money, and tits. She is living proof of that! The problem with Voyager was they resolved the characters and their relationships too quickly. Voyager was about grief, drama, and internal strife. Same as marriage. Instead of coming together as loyal members of Captain Janeway's crew, they should have kept those flawed characters in conflict. And Enterprise? I could go on for hours about how totally, completely it sucked. Of all that was wrong with it, however, Jolene Blaylock's prosthetic rack has to be the biggest outrage of all. And iTrek? Syler/Spock making out with a B-cup Uhura, who was a student of his, while on duty. Nuff said. Yeah, I'm not really that into Star Trek, you know?
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LOL! (thats about all i can say to that!) "We are all worms, but i like to think of myself as a glow-worm" - Winston Churchill
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My time in the Okla 30 and Up chatroom on AOL was during the late 90's and into 2000/2001. I actually preferred AOL chatting to others from that timeframe. Yahoo came up with chatrooms later on, but never had a local one like the Okla 30 and Up. Of course, Yahoo did have the cam feature....ahem. Mr. Lucky's is the Karaoke Bar in East Tulsa for meetups. There were a few at Caravan. There was ALOT of drama going on there, but it was fun. I have kept in touch with a few people that I met on there, and remained friends off of the internet with some of them as well.
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My time in the Okla 30 and Up chatroom on AOL was during the late 90's and into 2000/2001. I actually preferred AOL chatting to others from that timeframe. Yahoo came up with chatrooms later on, but never had a local one like the Okla 30 and Up. Of course, Yahoo did have the cam feature....ahem. Mr. Lucky's is the Karaoke Bar in East Tulsa for meetups. There were a few at Caravan. There was ALOT of drama going on there, but it was fun. I have kept in touch with a few people that I met on there, and remained friends off of the internet with some of them as well.
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10/14/2011 11:48 am |
While browsing this blog, I was so surprised to see a reference about the old okla 30 and up chatroom on AOL. Those were so many years ago for me. I never went to any of the group meetups, I only attended the girls night outs. I always enjoyed those because the gals would have their tales of their hookups on their and compare notes about the different guys in the chatroom. I never hooked up with any of the guys, back then I was married and was a good little wifey (BLEH). When we finally got the internet, and of course it was AOL because that seemed to be the only show in town, I was learning about chatting and it kinda became a new novelty toy for me. I really am glad I never got caught up in all of the drama, but my brother did and he even married a gal from the group. I never did tell him what she told us in the girls night outs. What happened in the girls night outs, stayed in the girls night outs. Did you guys use the handles you have on here also on there? I remember a Scottintulsa and I also remember a smileygirl. If it is you guys, Hey!
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I had a different handle.
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Yes, my handle on AOL was smileygirl. Alot of times I just sat and read the chat as it was going on. It was better than a soap opera sometimes.....LOL!
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10/16/2011 1:34 am |
Yes, I remember chatting with you sometimes. Are you still down by OKC? I will PM you and hopefully catch up.
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