Not me and the homies browsing deviantart together 😭
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.
This was a time before youtube.
I was watching an old episode of Columbo and realized how old it was when a lady used a teletype to retrieve information on a employee. I was born in the 80ies and always had old computers in the 90ies so I learned to use BASIC and DOS, but anything that doesn’t have a screen seems like it’s from centuries ago to me.
80ies and 90ies lol tf
I spend the first 8 years of my life in China, we just had TV (it’s like cable with a box thingy I think) that we had to pay for, and like we didn’t have any other entertainment other than like childrens books or boardgames/cardgames that I’d only have my older brother to play with. Didn’t even have friends I don’t remember having any friends.
Then once we immigrated to the US. We didn’t get internet at first, but we got library cards in the NYC Brooklyn public library, and like I got access to the library computers with internet and that’s the first time I’ve really had access to the internet (around 2010), ans I had zero clue how to use it lol. I just want to play games at that time, not clue how to go on those websites…
And omg my cousins who went to the library with us (so I think my aunt, aka: those cousin’s mother, was trying to show us around of “how stuff works” in the country) just refused to help me. They see me and like: “eww this peasant kid fresh off the boat doesn’t even know how to use a computer”, I felt so sad… I mean you had to wait in line using your library card to register at the kiosk thing, and you only get 30 minutes once its your turn, so I kinda just spend like… 15 minutes not know how to find games to play… then finally my aunt sort of forced my cousin to help me…
Fucking Tiffiany, what a bitch…
I feel like American-born kids just have this weird arrogance, and doesn’t even treat people of their own ethnicity nicely, not even a relative.
But anyways… I basically jumped from zero internet to 2010s internet, no clue wtf is “golden age of internet” y’all talk about.
Then we got like a very cheap laptop that’s shared between my older brother and me, but he took the admin account and only gave me a standard account, so I couldn’t even install anything… :(
I remember we used to go to a nearby McDonalds for free wifi lmfao
Then we finally got internet… it was a company called “Optimum” and its like $50 a month, but we got the promotional first 2 years at $30 a month or something, and idk what the speed even was, probably very slow.
But my patents really only let me use the computer for like… 30 minutes a day… 😭
Its like DRUGS, why did you do that to me mama?
Okay she didn’t want me to get addicted to this “drug” known as the internet. Didn’t want us to “走火入魔” or whatever that means.
Sometimes she just take the modem when its the weekends and she left home for something so we can’t play all day… :(
Sometimes take the laptop charging cable too :(
I was so sad… :(
And like then as we got older, mom would unplug the modem when we go to sleep so we can’t use the internet at night… I mean yea I get it from a parentinv PoV lol, but like when i was that kid, I felt so sad :(
Edit: Also didn’t get a smartphone (or any phone at all) till like 2015/2016…
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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.
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.
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?
I haven’t uses google in so long, I thought that was still there. Oh well, all the fun stuff is gone
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.
Back then people might say something like, “I work with computers,” because it actually narrowed things down.
“Surfing the web” is one of my favourite phrases in that it’s completely meaningless now despite there being far more of it happening than when the phrase was created
I feel like “doom scrolling” has replaced web surfing.
“Are you surfing the web, son?”
No, just Lemmy.
That’s because he was looking at porn and jerking off.
Also, don’t pick up the phone because we only have one line
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
Yes, woke up in the night and realized I forgot the r, thanks for correction.
You welcome
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.
one of the best games ive ever played. i also cannot recommend it
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.
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
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.
yes
I’m a medieval man 🎶
Lol are you one of those kids from The Kid’s Guide to the Internet?
I miss the old internet so much.
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
It’s not the same but this reminds me of it:
Thanks for the link!
