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.
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.
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
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’m feeling lucky” or something like that?
Sure Ask Jeeves did this too.
I’ll Ask Jeeves before I ever ask ChatGPT
I haven’t uses google in so long, I thought that was still there. Oh well, all the fun stuff is gone
Wasn’t that just yesterday? God I’m old.
I found a site recently, called Cloudhiker that’s a Stumbleupon Replacement
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.
“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
“Are you surfing the web, son?”
No, just Lemmy.
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
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
Zachlikes are always wonderful.
*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.
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?
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.
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.
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
ha except it was floppy disk computer games and not this highway thing.
Back in my day, they were called floppy disks for a reason.
5.25 or 8 inch?
You call that 8 inches?
SCNR
I’m a modest man
There was no hard disk.
Mine was hard though
Or datasette tapes because floppy readers were expensive.
Old internet was the shit. Netscape navigator on a crappy 56k or DSL line, AIM, Runescape Classic. What a time to be alive.
I got sucked into BBS games for a bit, like LORD and Usurper.
Lineage was my intro to MMOs.
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?”
Ughhhh my friends would come over to watch me play club penguin. Then we would walk to their house and watch them play club penguin. When we older we called each other while playing together. Also Halo CE was awesome in 4v4 multiplayer spit on a 1080 TV, 4 IRL people playing against 4 randos. One time I was hasty and picked “Hang em High” when it was my friends choice, I then asked “wanna play Hang em High?” It felt the natural pick lol
I miss the old internet so much.
I was following it just fine until the “experience the information superhighway” part.
My mate’s ZX Spectrums had no “information superhighway” connection.
My mate’s ZX Spectrums had no “information superhighway” connection.
Used a 086 Amstrad to connect to BBS’s
That was the proto-internet that I miss even now.
Best we could manage was failing to get anywhere in a Dizzy game.
Information back alley trickle
