ABOUT GS

Why?

I was 16.
There were no girl in the school as always.
The teacher was terrifying & boring.
It was useless to listen to her
because she'd already decided about me.
My favourite team had won.
I had free sheets to use.
My deskfriend was whispering jokes.

So?

It would be nice to get porky.
And memorate our ideas.

I did it...

The first reader vomitted.
The second was laughing like crazy.
The third reader was the teacher.
We finished out of the class.

And then?

If we give up with the punishments
it was fun and it continued...

The GS Street Journal, authentically named 'Gencligin Sesi' has born in a french college in Istanbul. GS was chosen to remind GalataSaray, our favourite soccer team which took too high % in the content of the mag during the fisrt year. Despite the breakdown of the editors' school rating, it has been the most favorite handmade newspaper on the other side. 32 issues have been published during 2 years. Only one copy was edited at time.

Unfortunately most have suffered by the cruelity of the teachers and have been ripped out. In 1992 rumours were reporting similar paper findings in the garden of the college but no evidence has been discovered. A great jokebase shaped with care was gone to the skies but we have never cried out for that. Better might be done with those misfunctioning brains and there were years to make it true ("The potential you need is in your head, normally" said a friend)

A new carrier in the university was promising the coming of seriously powerful home computers like Amiga in late 80s. Those were still the times where the PC's still had Hercules Graphics card. Amiga was presenting many opportunities in the desktop publishing area. That's when a computerized GS magazine idea has come to infected brains.

The first GS issue designed on computer has been published in 1987. The original name 'Gencligin Sesi' (The Voice of the Youth) had potential risks to be used in the university because the youth was very heterogene this time. By the way it was only a printed jokebase and had nothing to do with ideological interests which this name was riminding. Finally, the name has changed to 'The GS Street Journal' to prevent misunderstandings.

The computerized version of The GS Street Journal survived 4 years and stopped in the end of the university years. About 200 people have been infected by the jokes. The last issue has been sold to 57 copies and has reached the Egean coast completely. The readers are somehow all alive today after vomiting so much and will have to support this Web based version also for some time.

Excuse me guys. It was a joke.

GS STREET MANIFESTO

WHY THIS SITE IS GREAT ???

GS STREET JOURNAL MUST SIMPLY BE GOOD BECAUSE...

We do not allow cheap commercial material such as Pamela Anderson's home video,
We do not allow fake attractions such as over 150000 free X images here,
We do not allow obligations to become a member,
We are not interested in your age, neither in your credit card number,
We are not interested in making money of incoming hit ratings. If the thing is juicy enough to taste, people will taste it. So no need to count and no counter in this site.
We are bravely dislike dozens of automatically opening navigator windows when you enter, especially because those aren't worth a dime mostly,
We do not allow 83 level site maps to make the visitor crazy between internal links
We prefer better content into modest look to modest content into perfect look (same preference is highly recommended to make on women also...)
We do not allow huge home pages to load in hours,
We do not allow links to external links which gives nothing,
We do not allow commercial banners (although Fortunecity places'em according to the agreement I accepted). The visitors come here for us,
And finally nobody did it good but US.

A BRIEF NOTE ABOUT WHAT WE CAN NOT BE SURE ABOUT: GS is not intented to use copyrighted media. We used many images and other types of media for which the origins are not always clear. This may have resulted in unwanted copyright violations that we could not be aware of. If you think there are similar cases in our site you are invited to let us know about it. We are ready to delete those immediately after the related restriction is proven.

IF ALL OF THESE AREN'T ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU BELIEVE US GO SURF TO BETTER SITES SUCH AS http://www.istillhaventfoundwhatimlookingfor.com

TOOLS USED TO BUILD GS ONLINE

You may be surprised to see that such a website building work is done on such a modest equipment. We even didn't upgrade the PC!! Long live the old, faithful, easy to overclock genuine Pentium processor. As we always said to our friends there's no need to change his PC without true reasons. Microprocessor and O/S developers will always invite the market to go towards the newest, fastest equipments. Let them do it but you don't have to buy the double priced hotcoming material. Why not wait as long as possible for reduced prices instead?

HARDWARE

Main unit :

Pentium 166 (why not? still works like stone)
64MB RAM (32 is chaos, 16 is bondage)
Creative Banshee 16MB PCI graphic adapter (for games, not for web)
8.4MB Maxtor hard drive (max limit for my BIOS)
1.7MB Quantum Fireball hard drive (old drive)
ZIP250 removable drive (a must to work everywhere)
14" Samsung monitor (enough with resistive eyes)
Apache Express 56K ISA modem

Graphic capturing devices:

Mustek Scan Express 12000P (300dpi but almost the cheapest one)
Canon Power Shot A5 (no more scanning printed photos)

SOFTWARE:

Macromedia Dreamweaver 2.0 (best for layout design)
Paint Shot Pro (to work with JPGs & GIFs)
ACDSee 2.4 (to manage image files)
Morpher 2.0 (to create animated GIFs)

You don't need anything else to create a good looking site unless you have dreams about getting the BEST SITE OF THE YEAR prizes. If nobody supports your investment, it's better to keep the amateur ambition.

The success and the satisfaction of your work besides in your creativity only, not in the equipment for which you must spend a fortune.

That was the evening news. See you again tomorrow at 21PM.

GS FREQUENTLY ASKED / RARELY ANSWERED QUESTIONS:

Questions and answers in reverse chronological order (from recent to older)

Q004'': So where are those Mounowoco Islands? (from Hamza Sapinakadarmilliyetci once again, 1999)
A004'': Dear Hamza. Sorry for the remark but it seems that you ignore so many things in this life. Why don't you put a Banu ALKAN video in your VCR and taste the nostalgy instead of bothering with us? These things overpass your level.

Q004': So what is this Kokowa knowledge? (from Hamza Sapinakadarmilliyetci again, 1999)
A004': Kokowa is a particular dialect spoken but not written in outer parts of Mounowoco Islands. There are about 20 people only in the world speaking this language but they are so far away from each other to speak and naturally they will soon forget about it. This language is not written. This barrier has been the main reason to choose English.

Q004: Why English while you are Turk? (from Hamza Sapinakadarmilliyetci, 1999)
A004: When I reply to job oppurtunities I always include somewhere in the letter that I speak and write fluent English. You know I am intelligent enough to know that one year would be enough to forget all this knowledge if I have no field to practice what I'm able to do. Do not be sad because it's a double effect exercise which will help you to keep your English at an acceptable level. By the way, just imagine what would you do if I wanted to practice my Kokowa knowledge instead.

Q003: What are the main goal of the site for the future? (from Aliveli Velially, 1998)
A003: There is no future. If this is true there will be naturally no goal, no improvement. The boring thing will come back frequently in different shapes but the content will be similar.

Q002: Why isn't there MP3 files to load directly instead of links? (from Nebahat Calkaladur, 2001)
A002: We have no enough free space on the server: only 20MB. We are poor people earning almost nothing and spending his time searching for left unattended portfolios on the streets of Istanbul. You know the life is very hard.

Q001: Why is this site so ugly? (from Muhittin Tartakover, 1990)
A001: In the very beginning we discovered in the market the presence such an internet based sensor chip which easily detects by the intermediate of the modem line the physical aspect of the internautes. It would be so stupid to omit this possibility in this great site. So as ugly as the visitor is, this information is immediately transmitted to the main server which applies a partial degradation in the lay-out of the pages, thus resulting in uglier look of the site. Otherwise if you are beatiful, you should probably get better lay-out and better quality graphics. It is without any doubt a revolutionary idea in Internet site management technologies. To finish we remind the fact that all supermodels have considerated this site A MARVEL. Thanks to the the USER ASPECT RECOGNIZATION CHIP from Useless Chips Co.