Riggswolfe
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Is it just a cool name or does it refer to something Schild likes? I'm just curious. I never thought about it until I typed f13 into google and some of the links were about airplanes and stuff.
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Ironwood
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As I remember it, it was some stupid shit that meant stuff only to Schild and Friends.
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Roac
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I assumed it was either a play on the function keys (F1, F12, etc) or short for "file 13". Or just whatever got pounded into the keyboard when looking for a free domain name.
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Gutboy Barrelhouse
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Ohhh............................... LORE!!!
We need the Lore behind F13
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CmdrSlack
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The "lore" is likely less interesting than what you could make up yourself. At least that's how I remember it.
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eldaec
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I assumed it was either a play on the function keys (F1, F12, etc) or short for "file 13". Or just whatever got pounded into the keyboard when looking for a free domain name.
If so, it should have been PF13 for greater levels of geekiness. But Ironwood and CmdrSlack have it right, all I remember about the explanation was that it was even less interesting than the function key thing. |
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I assumed it was either a play on the function keys (F1, F12, etc) or short for "file 13". Or just whatever got pounded into the keyboard when looking for a free domain name.
IIRC, it was the function key thing. |
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Llava
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Used to be the "System Restore" key.
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Bunk
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I asked a year or two ago - I was directed to the function keys.
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Righ
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If so, it should have been PF13 for greater levels of geekiness.
schild did not want users assigning functions to his site, so, no. Might make you feel all sexually excited about your minicomputer terminal, but it wouldn't serve the right purpose. You PC folks know the f13 key as Print Screen. |
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Engels
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I always thought it was just a clever joke since 'modern' machines do not have an f13 key. Way back when I used to tease ornery customers in my tech phone support job by asking them to find the f13 key, then clucking at them for having an outdated machine.
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stray
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Bah. My new machine has an F13 key.
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Llava
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Does it call things "pig fuckers" and hate MMOGs?
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WindupAtheist
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No, but whenever you press it your PC gives you a pop-up message telling you that whatever application you're running is for bourgeoisie pigs and suggests a more obscure japanese one.
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hal
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OOOOhhhh... thats worth 5 points...was close to the heart...should have mentioned the SONY brand for a field goal but still a very good effort.
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stray
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has an iMac.
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Hmm... I have no idea what you guys are talking about anymore.
Anyways, Mac keyboards go up to F16, and have for awhile.
PC's would too, but since there's a whole DOS legacy goin' on there, it has various/largely unused keys like Pause/Break and Scroll Lock.
Command+Shift+3 is Print Screen on Macs. It also works.
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Signe
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It's because all the other good f-number words were taken at the domain registry shoppe.
Really.
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Paelos
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My F13 key just brings up chat about HBO shows I can't watch, and games I don't own the console for. I think I need to reprogram it to give me money instead.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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MrHat
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The question is not "What does f13 mean?", but rather, "What does f13 mean to you ?"
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Ironwood
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An escape from a shitty job to a shittier bunch of people.  |
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stray
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has an iMac.
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F13 would have been a suitable Matrix Online guild name. If the game didn't suck.
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Morfiend
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Lets see if I remember this right from those first angst filled days of the site.
Schild went to a trade show and saw a keyboard that had a f13 key. He thought that was cool, and arriving home he registered the domain name. There the domain sat for a while. When Joe asked him to take over the community from waterthread.org he moved the forums from waterthread to f13.net. Then there was much gnashing of teeth and stuff.
There it is.
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schild
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Close enough.
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NiX
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He got some stickies on his F12 key and called it his F13 key just cause he was filled with shame. Poor Schildy.
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Tebonas
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That explanation frightens me. It makes Schild years younger in my head than I previously thought. Of course it all depends on the definition of "for a while" :-D
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Signe
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I'm surprised you can think at all with Schild in your head. Does he boss you around?
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Tebonas
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He wasn't in my head all that long. I was soon distracted by ...oh shiney!
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Morfiend
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I'm surprised you can think at all with Schild in your head. Does he boss you around?
No, he just tells you that you love JRPGs, Sony, and that movies are better from Japan. Shit, I just had a though, are you Japanese Schild? |
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Signe
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He IS Japanese, but only on the inside.
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sinij
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Nothing good surgery can't fix.
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Yegolev
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Tebonas, judging by your avatar and utilizing my memories of a map of Europe, it would seem that you live in the Holy Roman Empire, or perhaps Mozambique.
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Signe
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Is that what his avatar is? Where he lives? I thought he buried something there but I was too polite to ask.
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Lantyssa
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Please learn your geography. He is obviously German.
=D
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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tazelbain
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Or the first nuke lands there.
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Murgos
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Nothing good sulgely can't frix.
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