There was only one folding client.
When WU's averaged less than two points each.
When your connection with Stanford could blaze along at 19.2Kb/second.
When FAH was small stuff, and United Devices was the large folding DC project.
I got ****ed off when another folder cussed at me (a new folder here at the time), in a post, and nobody said a thing. I left T32 and folded for MaxPC for a year and a million points. Took me months to figure out why this had happened - the cussing folder had re-edited his posts, so no one but me (who was on-line at the time he posted them), ever saw them. Sno sent me a PM later, which eventually brought me back.
"Patty melt" WU's were the bane of our folding lives, for many months. Talk about low ppd!
QMD WU's came out, with lots of points - but only for Intel cpu's. I had just bought two AMD cpu's and mobo's!
Nikhsub1 had a folding farm that was churning out WU's like crazy. Even today, he has completed more WU's that anyone else on T32 - almost 200,000.
Zim01 visited us (among other teams), to fold a million points. He was just about gone when the monkeys from MaxPC, egged him on with strong trash talk, just prior to the start of the Chimp Challenge between our two teams. So he joined us, and we crushed MaxPC, winning the CC - Zim01 being a large part of that. Zim remains one of the best teammates I"ve had the pleasure of folding with. His sig line:
"He whose ranks are united in purpose, will be victorious."
Zim showed us what that meant, at almost a spiritual level.
When the SMP WU first came out, we thought we were visiting folding heaven for ppd. You can easily tell who has been folding mostly SMP WU's:
For example, I'm #50 in points on the team - but only number #271 for the number of WU's folded. Only Eggbert and Surferseth have less WU's, and more points. Surferseth is the SMP WU King on the team, as far as I can tell, in the ratio of SMP WU's to other WU's.
Teammate Wizard James had a stroke, although just a teenager. Several teammates worked together to get him a computer he could keep and use, at his bed, as he recovered.
Nahmus had some custom team 32 T shirts made up, with a pirate theme. Aarrrgh matey!