Not me and the homies browsing deviantart together 😭
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.
“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.
I feel like “doom scrolling” has replaced web surfing.
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.
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!
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.
Stickdeath.com was wild, I loved it. I rewatched some recently and did not remember how racist they could be though.
So much racism. I think the rational was that it was ‘fine’ because they were making fun of ‘the bad ones’ and not regular minorities (Thanks Chris Rock)
Newgrounds was an amazing treasure trove of creativity and games.
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.
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.
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.
or typing in the assembly from a magazine article! which never works lol
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?
I do 😅 I guess we’re the same amount old
Old enough that game consoles don’t exist, but young enough to be protected by child labor laws.
I climbed a water tower at an abandoned warehouse and got attacked by wasps at the top. Good times!
Not a thing to do, but talk to you.
Ooow! Yeah!Exactly 👌
