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    @Mickey7 We are looking for an investor who can loan our holding company 237,000 US dollars.

    With this money, we will open a farm in Baku, Azerbaijan to produce animal-based food.

    We will also make our own animal feed, so our products will be healthier, better quality, and cheaper.

    Because we sell quality products for less and have strong advertising, we will sell more worldwide and make big profits.

    Why Azerbaijan? Because animal farming makes a lot of money there, but few people do it. That’s why we will earn more by starting in Azerbaijan.

    Additionally, by producing our own animal feed, we will be able to sell healthier, higher quality animal products at a lower price.

    Since we can sell quality products cheaply and thanks to our strong advertising network, we will be able to sell more internationally and make huge profits.

    The reason for establishing the business in Azerbaijan is that animal husbandry is a very profitable business in Azerbaijan, but since there are very few people doing animal husbandry, establishing the farm in Azerbaijan will provide us with more income.

    Your profit:

    You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.

    Your earnings will be great. When 22.03.2026 comes, you will get your money back as 953.00 US dollars.

    You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.

    When 22.03.2026 comes, I will give you back your money in the amount of 953,000 US dollars.

    That means you will earn 716,000 US dollars profit in just 6 months.

    If you like this project and want to loan us money, message me on WhatsApp or Telegram for more details.

    If our project is suitable for you and you would like to lend money to our holding, send a message to my WhatsApp number or Telegram username below and I will give you detailed information.

    For detailed information and to lend money to our holding, send a message to my whatsapp number or telegram username below and I will give you detailed information.

    My WhatsApp phone number:
    +44 7842 572711

    My telegram username:
    @adenholding

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    9 days ago

    It was so sad you could not watch a 30 seconds ad to revive back then. No cosmetics to buy, nothing. Just an ugly snake running around.

    /s

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      Excellent point about ads. Yes I still remember when every internet site DID NOT have advertising

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        Back then, websites didn’t need to show ads. They just distributed adware. Those days are long gone…

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          That shows a picture of a browser with a million search bars installed. This feels like it was more of a thing between 1998 and 2002. I’d say that wasn’t early Internet, it was when it started to become mainstream.

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        I started on the internet in 1995 (demon Internet in the UK TAM account using slip) and the Web then was actually a very small part of what I did online. Yep the websites that were around rarely had ads. If they did they were part of a garish geocities page most likely.

        But I was more often on usenet (yes kids before it was used for paid piracy we did actually use it for it’s original intent) and IRC (remembering the efnet/ircnet split). The Internet browser was just another app you used online.

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      Actually, Nokia’s first Java phone, 3410 (the one on the right except with a different key layout) featured a store with downloadable games, ringtones, screensavers, picture messages etc. Czech provider Eurotel distributed the first 3D Java game Munkiki’s Castles as a loss leader, and Space Impact came preinstalled but was very short unless you paid for downloadable missions.

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        I used to work for a J2ME mobile games developer. Fun times but it was wild west. They didn’t properly standardize the API so each mobile phone had its own glitches, incompatibilities and extra APIs and the emulatos were not very accurate either. That meant we basically had to have pretty much all phones there to test the games.

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    You were also able to type out a message and send it using a single hand, you only needed to recharge the phone once a week, and it didn’t shatter like an icicle if you so much as sneezed at it, it was cheap and it didn’t spy on you. Smart phones is the dumbest thing that happened to humanity.

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      Once a week? Those things could go pretty much forever on a single charge so long as you weren’t making calls, even with batteries that had a tiny fraction of modern capacity due to their simple hardware.

      Nowadays even a completely idle smartphone on extreme power saving mode is lucky to last a couple of days, especially if you don’t/can’t disable the vendor-mandated bloatware that periodically wakes it up to phone home. When used regularly, it’s not uncommon for a phone to drain within a single day.

      Sometimes I miss the simple, rugged designs - right up until I remember how much better smartphones are at literally everything else. Still wish companies would get the memo and focus on bigger batteries rather than smaller phones, though.

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    Same era, I used to playing games on my calculator. I suppose you still can, but I used to do it. I remember I had RISK on my TI-89, but the games on my TI-82 were on par with the version of snake shown in the post. We would even trade the games around with the kids that didn’t have a computer and/or Internet at home. We’d connect them with funky little cables that looked like audio jacks.

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    I used to code ringtones into peoples phones in exchange for cigarettes.

    Last Resort by Papa Roach was most popular followed by Better Off Alone by DJ Sammy, because they both sounded killer in twangy Nokia synth.

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    Still have a core memory of sitting in the toilet, a long time after having finished my business, still playing snake and beating my highest score by a lot!