Not me and the homies browsing deviantart together 😭
Yeah, confirmed I am also this old, the normal amount.
.Internet was good when it was shackled to computers and wasn’t spread everywhere via smartphones.
Commenting this from smartphone.
Yeah, the ubiquity of it made it even more attractive to advertisers. Even more attractive when everything went from being individual forums to Facebook groups or subreddits.
I took for granted that the internet only existed in libraries and wealthy friends’ houses
Who had a CD ROM drive and a sound blaster? Doom was a whole new dimension with it. It was real and very scary!
I sank hundreds of late night hours and doubled my bladder size while being completely enthralled on that very setup. cd D:/, doom.exe
Old enough to remember a world that smelled like an ashtray. Old enough to have played sonic 1 on a Japanese cart on release. Old enough to remember the wild west days of the web, before it became a corporate wasteland.
Back when my friend got AOL for the first time, I came over and we sent an e-mail to the While House urging Bill Clinton to protect the environment.
I’m not insecure about my age, though. On the contrary, people younger than me should be insecure about theirs. No one born in the 21st century can ever really reach adulthood, IMO.
My taekwondo trainer is younger than my driver’s license. That kind of hurt.
I was new when the Internet was new (for consumers), but I remember introducing Warcraft II to a friend.
Zug zug.
Did you get the ones on the floppy or on the CD?
I think the first time I played it, I used my brother’s computer on which he had already installed it, probably through floppies.
I don’t remember how I installed it on subsequent computers … But I have written programs in BASIC and transported them on floppies, including for college courses.
I’m a medieval man 🎶
Aight im in my 20s and even I did this growing up, is that person just a fucking teenager or something?
I don’t know what end of 20’s you’re at, but I’m in my late 20’s. I have 3 younger siblings. The oldest of my siblings also did this, but the younger two did not. The third sibling would watch Youtube and stuff with friends on like a XBox, but not just browsing the web or playing flash games. By the time my youngest sibling was about that age, all of their friends had some form of internet connected device on their own. Whenever their friends would come over, they’d watch movies or play board games or other “in person activities”, but not browse the web together.
I was following it just fine until the “experience the information superhighway” part.
My mate’s ZX Spectrums had no “information superhighway” connection.
Information back alley trickle
Bruh, i still do it. Just get pizza and go to my friend and we eat while searching funny/interesting stuff.
Keep keepin’ it real
Old internet was the shit. Netscape navigator on a crappy 56k or DSL line, AIM, Runescape Classic. What a time to be alive.
Lineage was my intro to MMOs.
Remember when you were ten and went to a friend’s place who had a Commodore 64 and they just got a new game on a floppy from his uncle’s friend. And the game was just an animation of a pixelated naked cartoon lady who took a piss on to the ground. And you’d laugh your ass off for the rest of the day. Remember? No?
Yes, but it was a cassette. Loading programs took ages, but we watched TNG on broadcast tv in the meantime.
I remember being 10, and the closest thing to the Internet we had was when we got a VCR.
I’m from the UK and the closest thing to the Internet to me was teletext. I loved it. My parents were baffled as to what I was doing.
Yep, this exactly. You could even read news and weather on it. Some channels had the ability to send an SMS and it would show up in a teletext chat! I checked every channel if it had teletext and CartoonNetwork had amazing pixel art on it.
In the early '80s we used to hang out at my one friend’s house and play games on his TRS-80 which we affectionately called the “Trash 80”. We were all in high school except Monty who was 23 and enormously obese. Monty had a real job as a programmer somewhere and one afternoon he sat down at the Trash 80 and wrote a very plausible hi-res version of Space Invaders from scratch in about half an hour. At the time it meant nothing to me, but now after a 30 year career as a programmer myself I understand just how impressive that actually was.
Monty wired up his car’s alternator to the ignition switch and he would leave his keys in the switch, hoping that somebody would attempt to steal his car and die. Not knowing about this, one of our friends ran out to his car after a D&D session, started it up and drove around the parking lot. Monty was so disappointed that nothing happened. I kinda miss the '80s.
I remember typing in code from a gaming magazine because there was no storage. You turn off your computer and it’s gone.
Worst part was when your triple checked everything and it still wouldn’t run only to get the corrections in the magazine next month.
