• HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    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.

      • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        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.

  • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    22·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    Remember when nobody had any computers and we would just go over to each others houses and get kicked out by their parents because there was nothing to so we’d ride our bikes around on roads that were too busy and go places we shouldn’t be?

  • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.comEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    I remember being 10 and we’d head over to the one kid who had a computer’s house, ask their mom if it was okay to use the internet (her phone would be unavailable during this time), and somehow we’d manage to find Newgrounds. We’d spend hours watching videos of stickfigures killing each other to the LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR song.

    Or videos where Pokemon violently killed one another.

    • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      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.

    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zipEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      I’m old enough to remember there are two kinds of taking turns.

      1. we all wait our turn to put something in the search field together (ours was altavista).
      2. we all take turns going outside or watching TV until it was our turn not together.
  • tangonov@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    I took for granted that the internet only existed in libraries and wealthy friends’ houses

      • vandsjov@feddit.dkEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        CD-ROM with lots of shareware programs. First two levels of Doom, before I got it from somewhere else. Had a few original bought games but most was pirated. Before LAN parties, you came to a friends house with your computer, monitor, everything, and connected via serial cable and parallel cable - first mentioned to play games, second one to copy files.

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        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

      • tangonov@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I sank hundreds of late night hours and doubled my bladder size while being completely enthralled on that very setup. cd D:/, doom.exe

    • kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      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

  • Tabooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
    74·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • RedFrank24@piefed.socialEnglish
    36·
    2 days ago

    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.