oh boy.
When I first found AW, I was one of the squeaky voices(thank god 2400baud meant no vox!) I was playing it on Delphi, with it's usual $3 or whatever it was an hour fee. Except I'd play it after school, and until 5pm they'd tack on something like an $8 an hour surcharge, plus ANOTHER for the game.
The first asswhooping from a $300 bill didn't work, it was followed by a $400 one where I finally got the point.
Not long afterwards, I got a real internet connection, and suddenly the massive hourly rates for playing AW dissapeared.... If you connected to delphi through the internet, the hourly rates were dropped, and suddenly AW became cheap!
Don't really remember why I stopped playing, got a bit too involved with OS's and programming I guess.
Then early 2002, I randomly found AH, and the memories of AW floode77d back, and i was hooked before I even finished the DL.
I'm one of the youngest products of the era where the only thing PCs did well was * sims.
A vet is anyone who's done _EVERYTHING_ in ah. When you've done furballs, land grabs, hour long bomber missions, score whoring, taken off in a 262 for the sole purpose of killing panzers and ostwinds, and you've landed kills in a D3A and a C47, you're a vet.
