Yeah, confirmed I am also this old, the normal amount.
I’m old enough to remember there are two kinds of taking turns.
- we all wait our turn to put something in the search field together (ours was altavista).
- we all take turns going outside or watching TV until it was our turn not together.
Did you look at bobs?
After the image loaded line by line for about 15 minutes, indeed!
I had a 1.4MB floppy of gold, and I learned to silence the modem.
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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.
But then what would I do while out for a walk, be alone with my thoughts and observant of my surroundings??
Sent from my smartphone while out for a walk.
Used to be a plugin called StumbleUpon.
People who used it could submit websites to it, tag them. Then htting the button on the plugin would take you to a random website from your selected interests. Like/dislike/report as needed.
The internet used to be magnificent.
I used to love that so much
I found a site recently, called Cloudhiker that’s a Stumbleupon Replacement
Wasn’t there a button on Google that did that, too?
Not exactly, but there was an “I’m feeling lucky” button which was similar enough.
Web rings!
I’ve come across a still-living webcomics webring the other day, made me feel nostalgic :')
“I’m feeling lucky” or something like that?
Sure Ask Jeeves did this too.
I’ll Ask Jeeves before I ever ask ChatGPT
What about a Hot bot?
Edit: I went and checked and the old hotbot.com has been turned into an AI search. Eww
Lemmy is the same thing, but with scrolling, and comments.
Wasn’t that just yesterday? God I’m old.
.Damn good game. I can hear all the sound FX now.
someone reverse engineered it :) https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
you can play it here: https://pinball.alula.me/
We did competitive high scores, essentially we had pinball at home. Up to seven different people used the same computer. That poor device has seen more virus(es) than dottor house. I have tales worthy of it and tech support. Like that time a trojan duplicated itself up to 14 times in a few minutes. I solved that issue because I wouldn’t be able to play flash games otherwise, you see very important things. You might remember ‘this copy of windows is counterfeit’. Or whatever the message was. Nobody ever paid for the old office package. We had it.
I remember when my mum used to say “Don’t bother your dad, he’s on the internet” like it was this big important thing. Not “He’s checking his email”, or anything more specific, the simple act of being on the internet was actually of note.
That’s because he was looking at porn and jerking off.
Also, don’t pick up the phone because we only have one line
Back then people might say something like, “I work with computers,” because it actually narrowed things down.
I remember when I was 10 going to radio shack and watching a guy who worked there type in programs in basic on a ts-80 computer. Thought it was cool. There was no Internet then.
*TRS-80
That typo reminded me of the steam game TIS-100, where you write programs in assembly for a fictional multi core computer architecture
If you like programming and puzzles it’s hella fun. If you don’t I highly recommend you don’t buy it, you won’t have fun.
I already do that for money
Yes but this is fictional programming in assembly for no money.
I already do that for no money also
Fictional you say? Fuck it, I’m down.
Zachlikes are always wonderful.
one of the best games ive ever played. i also cannot recommend it
And that reminds me of an old DOS game called “Rocky’s Boots”. You were a raccoon who had to build logic gate circuits to get out of some sort of maze.
*Trash 80
There it is
Yes, woke up in the night and realized I forgot the r, thanks for correction.
You welcome
I miss the old internet so much.
It’s not the same but this reminds me of it:
Thanks for the link!
yeah, and that a significant portion of users had their own little websites and/or blogs. I spent ages browsing those tiny iframe sites built with fancy Photoshop brushes and incomprehensible navigation menus.
I actually got into web design by making a Pokemon fansite with animated gifs on every page xD
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.
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.
yes
I’m a medieval man 🎶
I threw house parties every other week for years when I was just post college. There ended up being three rooms almost every time: People watching weird movies in the living room, people cooking and drinking in the kitchen, and people group surfing the internet in the computer room. It was amazing.
I’m only 35 and we did this as kids.
Only 35 lol
Rude haha
You’ll be 35 before you know it. At a certain point in adulthood, years start to fly by so fast.
You’ll be 35 before you know it
I’m almost there. I accepted I was old when I joined a video game and heard “You sound like you’re 30”. I was infact, 30.
I’m under 30 and did this
We used to go to arcades even when we had no money just to watch other people play over their shoulders.
It was like Twitch, but sweaty and with more mullets.
I can smell this comment.
Watching the gods play Marvel vs Capcom 2 was peak mall rat experience
Hah. I’m old enough to watch the norms play Street Fighter II The World Warrior.
All my joints ache. Even the ones you didn’t know were joints.
ha except it was floppy disk computer games and not this highway thing.
Or datasette tapes because floppy readers were expensive.
or typing in the assembly from a magazine article! which never works lol
Aught I’m in Gen Z 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 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 saw a yt vid I can’t find right now of someone doing a comparison between sound blaster and this other high end speaker (also available at the time) that I didn’t even know existed, and now cant remember the name of. Apparently a lot of those dos games had really deep music scores that those of us with just sound blaster never got to hear.
Edit: I think this is what I saw https://youtu.be/wUtWbb8hAh8
I sank hundreds of late night hours and doubled my bladder size while being completely enthralled on that very setup. cd D:/, doom.exe
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I remember looking for porn for the first time at a buddies house and we couldn’t even figure it out. It never dawned on us to type “porn” into the search engine. Just two 13 year olds going “type in girls, damn, ok, try babes. Nothing? What about chicks?”
