They'll never fit in and will become losers without any social skills, while everyone around them with unlimited social media make fun and beat them to a pulp.
>connected wifi cable >opened internet explorer >some site with black background started loading itself >computer become so slow I can't even move mouse pointer
It was the beginning of the 90s when my father got internet at home because he needed it for work, they paid for it fully but i was only allowed to se it for a single hour a week, which expanded to an hour a day when we got 56k modem in like what, 1997? And then as much as i wanted around 1999 with our first ADSL line and like 182kbps downstream. Internet back then heavily relied on text and animated gifs, everything was slow as frick, search engines were just beginning and knowing your favorite websites and getting new ones was a matter of "rings" and "affiliate partner"-lists. Navigating the internet back then felt more scientific but also you felt like a ninja because you could accidently land on a alien tentacle hentai-website that ate all your bandwith and of course you downloaded all those heavy pixalted 80p-potato quality tentacle cumfest pictures and needed waste all your money on floppies because back then a 1.5GB harddisk was the maximum i could afford
>and knowing your favorite websites and getting new ones was a matter of "rings" and "affiliate partner"-lists.
this is WAY too comfy. Way comfier than it has any right to be.
It blows my mind that there are now adults that got their first internet experience from an ipad
When I see children on ipads in public it comes off as child abuse to me. I feel physically disgusted going to a restaurant (not that I go to those anymore) and seeing a fat parent with a fat child being ignored on an ipad or a child on an ipad in a grocery cart seat. This is probably doing terrible things to children's brains. God forbid a child should be bored for a minute or be forced to interact with the world around them.
kindergarten early 90s i printed a picture of a crocodile and godzilla from the internet. it cost 25 cents each. all the kids on the school bus were jealous.
About 1992 and it was so slow for most things that you'd stick to async protocols like email and nntp.
There were some very good discussions about, and not so many idiots pretending to be buttholes.
i knew how to use PCs and the internet from school but the first time I got home internet I browsed for a couple of hours before installing AV and the first scan picked up over a thousand viruses
Early viruses were just annoying. There was no online payment systems, no bank accounts, nothing of value to steal, so they just fricked with you instead.
Simpler days when viruses would just load up mestspin in a rapidly moving window rather than ratting your computer for all your personal information, passwords, logins, bank account logins, phone numbers, crypto seed phrases...
AOL or Yahoo chatrooms were the first thing I saw. It felt like talking to bots, not that different from now with AI because there were no profile pictures and the names looked randomly generated.
i was 8 years old in 1998 in the computer lab at school
my friend and i opened internet explorer and typed in "sex" into the address bar, and it somehow autocompleted to sexinthecity.com and we started laughing at that and then the teacher came over and got us in trouble
I spent hours tying random combinations of words into the address bar hoping to stumble across a cool website because search engines had only indexed a tiny fraction of the net.
I remember discovering hentai because MSN search had it as one of the first results when searching for Pokemon.
It blew me away at an age I had no idea something like that existed, much less how to search for it.
>1996 >got first landline modem >try to download a game, copy it to floppy disk to install >try to install it and immediately virus destroys OS, have to reinstall OS
It took me two days to download the two 1.44 MB floppies for Doom. My mom was mad about the phone being tied up for so long. Kids today will never understand.
Downloading NES and GBA roms on Sundays because it was cheaper during night hours
Saving them on diskettes
One day I kept the shortcuts and deleted the ROMs thinking I discovered some crazy compression method then spent the entire week crying lol (I was a kid)
Something like that happened to me and Midis 🙁
I have never missed so much all those lost media midi files I never downloaded, and could never listen to again.
I also spent all those years posting messages in forums, more than 600000 messages in total.
All those forums and my messages are gone now, I guess the lesson was "nothing lasts forever", but I somehow believed what I posted would outlive me.
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They do last forever, everything is archived and hidden from the public
Including all those vbulletin forums
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Nope, the original PokeMasters forum were completely wiped, along with most of the the Aclmlm boards, when people don't make archives, the information just vanishes, because it costs to keep the archive up.
I had my own chess forum, it vanished when fp2 stopped being a hosting service, and I didn't have a local copy, I figure everyone else like me hosting there had it all vanish.
It was like this: >Oh >My >God >I can get in contact with people wanting to play chess on demand! Also, I'm mostly matched with people as strong as me! And there are chess tournament I can just play for free!
I guess the shock was so intense that 23 years later I'm still playing online chess.
My earliest internet memories are: >Starcraft, and coming up with my first username >Happy Tree Friends, especially reading the forums >finding random flash game websites that were just lists of games on a white background, 99% of the games were below trash
I was only like 5-6 years old, it was one of those huge CRT monitors at the public library. I'd played computer games a bit before, but this shit was like a digital book that only took a few seconds to load up. I instantly got on Yahoo and checked the Cartoon Network schedule, and it was f'n magical. I was hooked.
That's not a bad bit of deductive reasoning for (presumably) a child, given what phones were like back then.
especially during an era where most people had a single phone line into the house and that was their first internet connection. if someone picked up the phone while you were online, you were probably getting kicked off.
I can't even explain to a zom what it's like getting a PPP connection to a local freenet working on a 1200 baud modem. We're talking pre-"World Wide Web" here.
These threads always make me feel lonely-old-man-staring-at-the-sea bitterness because, not through any fault of your own, 99% of this site is younger than me, so you remember the generation that came after mine's pioneering entry into telecommunications but not what it was like before, and it was even better then but I can't easily communicate that to you in ways that would be relevant. I wish you could have experienced BBSes and gateways and actual large multiuser unix systems. A world without cellphones, a world without AOL, a world without Prodigy and CompuServe and the flood of accessibility served up to bring in the, for lack of any better term, drooling primate normalgays of the world. A world of only the most intellectually capable, the most creative, the most daring, the sorcerers and pirates and alchemists of our day.. A world where the people you met might become your fastest friends, where it wasn't just "some guy on the internet", but another soul, learning and growing and creating as you were..
Someone will probably call you a gay, but I understand what you're coming from (to an extent). I got into computing with "the normies" as you call them, but a similar phenomenon would be early adopters of smartphones. There was a period of time around 2008-2010 where smartphones/apps were truly innovative and cool. Now they're just boring as shit/sterile, much like the internet has been for the past 20+ years.
I don't exactly remember the first time. I just knew that I was in elementary school as internet started to hit the schools and libraries. I use to just depend on both of those until AOL gifted us with cds that gave one month subscriptions that I kept using new ones to keep having free internet. At the time, I was the only one in my house that knew how to set up a computer, no less the internet. And yes, it was a grand old time. I didn't discover hentai until like sixth grade, which hit right around when I was hitting puberty. Middle school was nothing but fapping.
I learned about pirating, taught myself game dev, played a lot of games I couldn't afford, and had fun with mmos. A good time of discovery and thankfully doing the golden age of the internet/ video game scene.
I was a poor kid and remember when my mom would bring me tech magazines that talked about computers and shit. IIRC at some point they added a section dedicated to the internet, and I thought the possibility of accessing that much information was fricking awesome. then one day they made us use computers with internet at my school (in like 5th grade) and I loved it. but back then computers were slow as shit so it kinda sucked, and I could only use computers a few times a week. so yeah, I was very enthusiastic back then.
I didn't get a PC until 17 though.
a few years ago i stumbled across a 3GB+ archive of random AOL punters/progs/stupid shit and saved it. i'm not sure why.
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I'm sure a few of mine are in there, but there's a lot that were never released to the public. I also knew just about everyone who wrote any of them. Those were the days.
very first time? I can't remember, but I do remember staying in meta-searchers a lot, before Google won that battle, I also remember doing just one thing per day, like let's say, opening this thread would be everything I did given how slow the images would load
ah yes I remember when porn came on sites where each image link was to /join-now.cgi
remember that old site, uhh "Gregpix" or something, it was just a daily list of scraped porn urls with really sarcastic insulting descriptions added for each one, kek
"some dumb c**t opens her stupid rotting pussy to please perverts like you [link]"
"another highschool dropout shows her idiot breasts so she doesn't need to get a waitress job [link]"
etc
I remember the guy that bought one and reported back that she acted like a worker and never seemed to enjoy the time with him or anything and seemed to do everything for obligation.
She was pretty and all but he considered her a bad purchase.
Remember the websites with p0rn lists? People could downvote and upvote them and then the ones with the best ratio were at the top.
This was years before video so I guess they were just lame p0rn galleries?
I know the thread isn't really about this but I miss being a teenager in the 00's. Made a bunch of friends in 2004-2008 in World of Warcraft, but it never occured to me to ask them for their email or anything outside of the game. As people stopped playing, they might as well have fallen off the face of the earth. I had no other way of reaching them.
Sometimes I think about them and the stupid shit we did. I hope they're doing ok. I haven't touched MMOs since, I think I played enough for a lifetime.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with the game, does "Nogg-aholic" ring a bell? There were these videos that people made showing themselves exploring out of bounds areas in the game, exploiting glitches, things like that. I wanted to see these sorts of places myself in-game, and sometimes when people saw me and asked me what I was up to I would tell them about it, and they would get curious and want to drop what they were doing and come with. I met many people like that. We'd just stop doing 'progression' and hang out trying to break into the places that appeared on the videos. It was really cool to be able to share that with others. Just curiosity and poking around in places we weren't supposed to be. A lot of my fond memories of the game come from moments like that. And also just helping random people out, others coming to my rescue, bonding over silly shit someone said in chat, fricking around in the enemy factions' capitals for fun.
Anyway, even if you don't care about early WoW or anything like that, check out the soundtrack for Noggaholic, it's a good mix
https://soundcloud.com/yodaman/nogg-aholic-mix?si=7ecfc20be7d34534b8048b72bd59a090&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing#t=2%3A26
I opened netscape navigator 4.0, went to altavista and typed in "pokemon." I proceeded to click every result in order, bookmarking anything interesting and printing out some pictures on the dot matrix printer. It took like a year before I hit anything degenerate, the internet was a very different place.
i was like 8 and aol was still a thing. me and my sisters would go into chat rooms. wild shit. one of my sisters somehow figured out my moms password so we could turn off parental controls. thats probably one of the reasons i eventually got into forums and places like IQfy
(I'm having to reformat because it keepd thinking my post is spam)
And I guess all those sites are now gone? Because even the links I saved from 2018 point to corn websites that are gone, so ones from 2006 would be even more gone.
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dot us was like a hub where you could basically see what other p0rn were other anons watching. or Youtube videos that were k i n k y. Sometimes I miss the old web.
>zoomer >born in y2k >comically neglectful single mom >left on the computer instead of having toys >quickly end up on forums >weeb shut-in for life by the age of 7
I literally never even had a fricking chance.
1998, it was slow as shit and expensive. Could only be on the internet 30 minutes a week. In 2000 I played soldier of fortune online, blowing up heads and body parts with a shotgun. Such games worked well since they don't send much data.
Can't remember the exact year, we had dial-up in the 90's, at least it was free on weekend nights and I think later it was free at nigh in general.
In 2001 we got ADSL, 128Kbps.
2007 on dad's laptop through Ethernet with 1.6 GB/month limit. I was allowed to create an account on local social media, but I didn't know what to do with it since I wasn't interested in talking to my classmates or posting my pictures
I was too young and moronic to understand shit. >who is internet ffs
Once I've read the second illustrated book for children on the computers, I understood. And, like every other kid, immediatly began to learn HTML. Because everything else was slow af, there were few sites to visit and every fake porn image took minutes to load. Later, Flash came along and lots of people jumped onto Macromedia. For the Dreamweaver and, well, Flash, to learn/create their bullshit.
Somehow, playing videogames like Doom, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, Settlers II, Heroes of Might and Magic II and III, and so on, was still much more fun, than learning and working with PCs as a kid. /s. A bit later than that, I/we have started learning more important shit like C.
search engine queries > nude girls
na nah > sexy nude girls
i got it > sexy nude girls with big boobs
what about > sexy nude girls having sex with big boobs
YEAH JACKPOT!!! > then wait for 5 minutes for image to load.
Then furiously jerk off to pixelated 600x400 jpg image > saves to Pictures and left click "hides" picture function in properties > picture just goes grey > wtf why wont it disappear
I don't remember the first time but I do remember searching for pictures of French medieval instruments for middle school homework and finding out that one of them was also used as a synonym for blowjobs.
I visited the equivalent of "breasts.com" in my native language and got to see a picture of a busty blonde with star shaped nipple patches.
In general I'd just type random words into the address bar and look if that lead to websites because I didn't know how to find sites back then.
anytime i'd see a URL while out and about i'd memorise it so that i have another website to try to visit. i didn't have a PC until later years, so sometimes it'd be months before i could actually use the Web (at a friend's house or something) and finally see the particularly uninteresting homepage of some random delivery company, which i thought was the coolest shit.
I remember downloading Daggerfall demo on my 56K modem. it's been downloading for like an hour, and then connection dropped. it costed me a small fortune, and I was heartbroken. didn't know about downloaders which could resume yet.
i was too young to understand that "confirm X" during account registration just meant that you were supposed to type that field in again.
after a childhood of unrestricted internet access, i'm going to make my kids earn the internet.
>after a childhood of unrestricted internet access, i'm going to make my kids earn the internet.
how will they earn their Internet access?
They'll never fit in and will become losers without any social skills, while everyone around them with unlimited social media make fun and beat them to a pulp.
might as well make them earn air and water
>data mining thread
Post maids!
fail
>connected wifi cable
>opened internet explorer
>some site with black background started loading itself
>computer become so slow I can't even move mouse pointer
It was the beginning of the 90s when my father got internet at home because he needed it for work, they paid for it fully but i was only allowed to se it for a single hour a week, which expanded to an hour a day when we got 56k modem in like what, 1997? And then as much as i wanted around 1999 with our first ADSL line and like 182kbps downstream. Internet back then heavily relied on text and animated gifs, everything was slow as frick, search engines were just beginning and knowing your favorite websites and getting new ones was a matter of "rings" and "affiliate partner"-lists. Navigating the internet back then felt more scientific but also you felt like a ninja because you could accidently land on a alien tentacle hentai-website that ate all your bandwith and of course you downloaded all those heavy pixalted 80p-potato quality tentacle cumfest pictures and needed waste all your money on floppies because back then a 1.5GB harddisk was the maximum i could afford
>and knowing your favorite websites and getting new ones was a matter of "rings" and "affiliate partner"-lists.
this is WAY too comfy. Way comfier than it has any right to be.
I immediately searched for porn
my mom gave me her ipad in a public restaurant
It blows my mind that there are now adults that got their first internet experience from an ipad
>adults
Anon the first ipad came out 14 years ago..
Yeah and maybe they were a kid or teenager then and then 14 years later now they're an adult
When I see children on ipads in public it comes off as child abuse to me. I feel physically disgusted going to a restaurant (not that I go to those anymore) and seeing a fat parent with a fat child being ignored on an ipad or a child on an ipad in a grocery cart seat. This is probably doing terrible things to children's brains. God forbid a child should be bored for a minute or be forced to interact with the world around them.
1994/95
is al gore wearing gardening gloves?
kindergarten early 90s i printed a picture of a crocodile and godzilla from the internet. it cost 25 cents each. all the kids on the school bus were jealous.
mfw
c64 300 baud local bbs cooking tips, c64 300 baud the well usenet, c64 300 baud another bbs usenet, 28.8 att dialup on a 486.
"Gerri hallywell boobs"
About 1992 and it was so slow for most things that you'd stick to async protocols like email and nntp.
There were some very good discussions about, and not so many idiots pretending to be buttholes.
i knew how to use PCs and the internet from school but the first time I got home internet I browsed for a couple of hours before installing AV and the first scan picked up over a thousand viruses
Early viruses were just annoying. There was no online payment systems, no bank accounts, nothing of value to steal, so they just fricked with you instead.
Simpler days when viruses would just load up mestspin in a rapidly moving window rather than ratting your computer for all your personal information, passwords, logins, bank account logins, phone numbers, crypto seed phrases...
Minecraft was the best thing ever, piracy was the best thing ever, youtube was the best thing ever.
AOL or Yahoo chatrooms were the first thing I saw. It felt like talking to bots, not that different from now with AI because there were no profile pictures and the names looked randomly generated.
i was 8 years old in 1998 in the computer lab at school
my friend and i opened internet explorer and typed in "sex" into the address bar, and it somehow autocompleted to sexinthecity.com and we started laughing at that and then the teacher came over and got us in trouble
I spent hours tying random combinations of words into the address bar hoping to stumble across a cool website because search engines had only indexed a tiny fraction of the net.
I remember discovering hentai because MSN search had it as one of the first results when searching for Pokemon.
It blew me away at an age I had no idea something like that existed, much less how to search for it.
>1996
>got first landline modem
>try to download a game, copy it to floppy disk to install
>try to install it and immediately virus destroys OS, have to reinstall OS
It took me two days to download the two 1.44 MB floppies for Doom. My mom was mad about the phone being tied up for so long. Kids today will never understand.
REEEEEEEEEEEE
OOOOOOOOOOOOO
KKKSSSSSSHHHHHH
Downloading NES and GBA roms on Sundays because it was cheaper during night hours
Saving them on diskettes
One day I kept the shortcuts and deleted the ROMs thinking I discovered some crazy compression method then spent the entire week crying lol (I was a kid)
Something like that happened to me and Midis 🙁
I have never missed so much all those lost media midi files I never downloaded, and could never listen to again.
Lesson learned
I never made that same mistake again
Shortly after I switched the psu voltage lol
Live and learn
I also spent all those years posting messages in forums, more than 600000 messages in total.
All those forums and my messages are gone now, I guess the lesson was "nothing lasts forever", but I somehow believed what I posted would outlive me.
They do last forever, everything is archived and hidden from the public
Including all those vbulletin forums
Nope, the original PokeMasters forum were completely wiped, along with most of the the Aclmlm boards, when people don't make archives, the information just vanishes, because it costs to keep the archive up.
I had my own chess forum, it vanished when fp2 stopped being a hosting service, and I didn't have a local copy, I figure everyone else like me hosting there had it all vanish.
It was like this:
>Oh
>My
>God
>I can get in contact with people wanting to play chess on demand! Also, I'm mostly matched with people as strong as me! And there are chess tournament I can just play for free!
I guess the shock was so intense that 23 years later I'm still playing online chess.
lichess username?
>wifi cable
stop lying, it was with an ipad when your homosexual ass wouldnt stop crying in public
experienced internet for the first time at a friend of the family. they had AOL 3.0 so that would've been circa 96 or 97.
a few years later got our own computer for the home and signed up for AOL 4.0
i had parental controls on my account so i could only get to a small portion of the web.
figured out pretty early on that geocities was *not* blocked via the parental controls and it was reasonably easy to find porn on there.
getting broadband internet (road runner) circa 2000 was legitimately life changing. so was napster.
My earliest internet memories are:
>Starcraft, and coming up with my first username
>Happy Tree Friends, especially reading the forums
>finding random flash game websites that were just lists of games on a white background, 99% of the games were below trash
I was only like 5-6 years old, it was one of those huge CRT monitors at the public library. I'd played computer games a bit before, but this shit was like a digital book that only took a few seconds to load up. I instantly got on Yahoo and checked the Cartoon Network schedule, and it was f'n magical. I was hooked.
>Verification not required.
I remember when we first got cable internet I asked my dad if the internet would stop working if someone turned on the TV
That's not a bad bit of deductive reasoning for (presumably) a child, given what phones were like back then.
especially during an era where most people had a single phone line into the house and that was their first internet connection. if someone picked up the phone while you were online, you were probably getting kicked off.
I can't even explain to a zom what it's like getting a PPP connection to a local freenet working on a 1200 baud modem. We're talking pre-"World Wide Web" here.
Milleniolds are so funny.
Realistically in a few years this site will shut down and their asses will have nowhere to go.
These threads always make me feel lonely-old-man-staring-at-the-sea bitterness because, not through any fault of your own, 99% of this site is younger than me, so you remember the generation that came after mine's pioneering entry into telecommunications but not what it was like before, and it was even better then but I can't easily communicate that to you in ways that would be relevant. I wish you could have experienced BBSes and gateways and actual large multiuser unix systems. A world without cellphones, a world without AOL, a world without Prodigy and CompuServe and the flood of accessibility served up to bring in the, for lack of any better term, drooling primate normalgays of the world. A world of only the most intellectually capable, the most creative, the most daring, the sorcerers and pirates and alchemists of our day.. A world where the people you met might become your fastest friends, where it wasn't just "some guy on the internet", but another soul, learning and growing and creating as you were..
Someone will probably call you a gay, but I understand what you're coming from (to an extent). I got into computing with "the normies" as you call them, but a similar phenomenon would be early adopters of smartphones. There was a period of time around 2008-2010 where smartphones/apps were truly innovative and cool. Now they're just boring as shit/sterile, much like the internet has been for the past 20+ years.
80% of internet users are indian or Chinese nowadays
Internet is dead
As a fellow oldtimer I relate. Calling BBS:es and public UNIX systems was something magical.
I don't exactly remember the first time. I just knew that I was in elementary school as internet started to hit the schools and libraries. I use to just depend on both of those until AOL gifted us with cds that gave one month subscriptions that I kept using new ones to keep having free internet. At the time, I was the only one in my house that knew how to set up a computer, no less the internet. And yes, it was a grand old time. I didn't discover hentai until like sixth grade, which hit right around when I was hitting puberty. Middle school was nothing but fapping.
I learned about pirating, taught myself game dev, played a lot of games I couldn't afford, and had fun with mmos. A good time of discovery and thankfully doing the golden age of the internet/ video game scene.
I was a poor kid and remember when my mom would bring me tech magazines that talked about computers and shit. IIRC at some point they added a section dedicated to the internet, and I thought the possibility of accessing that much information was fricking awesome. then one day they made us use computers with internet at my school (in like 5th grade) and I loved it. but back then computers were slow as shit so it kinda sucked, and I could only use computers a few times a week. so yeah, I was very enthusiastic back then.
I didn't get a PC until 17 though.
I was a l33t hax0r on AOL.
but did you use faders when chatting?
Everything from faders and OH scrollers, to things you've probably never heard about 😉
a few years ago i stumbled across a 3GB+ archive of random AOL punters/progs/stupid shit and saved it. i'm not sure why.
I'm sure a few of mine are in there, but there's a lot that were never released to the public. I also knew just about everyone who wrote any of them. Those were the days.
i could hold a phsyical "save" icon in my hand and the phone made funny sounds
very first time? I can't remember, but I do remember staying in meta-searchers a lot, before Google won that battle, I also remember doing just one thing per day, like let's say, opening this thread would be everything I did given how slow the images would load
beautiful
https://www.metart.com/model/aimee-rox/gallery/20240610/FRAMED_IN_YELLOW
ah yes I remember when porn came on sites where each image link was to /join-now.cgi
remember that old site, uhh "Gregpix" or something, it was just a daily list of scraped porn urls with really sarcastic insulting descriptions added for each one, kek
"some dumb c**t opens her stupid rotting pussy to please perverts like you [link]"
"another highschool dropout shows her idiot breasts so she doesn't need to get a waitress job [link]"
etc
i miss the Russian gf ads
I remember the guy that bought one and reported back that she acted like a worker and never seemed to enjoy the time with him or anything and seemed to do everything for obligation.
She was pretty and all but he considered her a bad purchase.
Remember the websites with p0rn lists? People could downvote and upvote them and then the ones with the best ratio were at the top.
This was years before video so I guess they were just lame p0rn galleries?
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I know the thread isn't really about this but I miss being a teenager in the 00's. Made a bunch of friends in 2004-2008 in World of Warcraft, but it never occured to me to ask them for their email or anything outside of the game. As people stopped playing, they might as well have fallen off the face of the earth. I had no other way of reaching them.
Sometimes I think about them and the stupid shit we did. I hope they're doing ok. I haven't touched MMOs since, I think I played enough for a lifetime.
For us it was Starcraft + Diablo 2. Ungodly amount of time spent. Although I was making bank on diablo through ebay at the time.
>Sometimes I think about them and the stupid shit we did.
Give me some good stories
I'm not sure how familiar you are with the game, does "Nogg-aholic" ring a bell? There were these videos that people made showing themselves exploring out of bounds areas in the game, exploiting glitches, things like that. I wanted to see these sorts of places myself in-game, and sometimes when people saw me and asked me what I was up to I would tell them about it, and they would get curious and want to drop what they were doing and come with. I met many people like that. We'd just stop doing 'progression' and hang out trying to break into the places that appeared on the videos. It was really cool to be able to share that with others. Just curiosity and poking around in places we weren't supposed to be. A lot of my fond memories of the game come from moments like that. And also just helping random people out, others coming to my rescue, bonding over silly shit someone said in chat, fricking around in the enemy factions' capitals for fun.
Anyway, even if you don't care about early WoW or anything like that, check out the soundtrack for Noggaholic, it's a good mix
https://soundcloud.com/yodaman/nogg-aholic-mix?si=7ecfc20be7d34534b8048b72bd59a090&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing#t=2%3A26
(skip to 2:30ish for the actual tracks)
i remember waiting overnight for a ~5MB update for AOL complete on dialup. good times
I opened netscape navigator 4.0, went to altavista and typed in "pokemon." I proceeded to click every result in order, bookmarking anything interesting and printing out some pictures on the dot matrix printer. It took like a year before I hit anything degenerate, the internet was a very different place.
i was like 8 and aol was still a thing. me and my sisters would go into chat rooms. wild shit. one of my sisters somehow figured out my moms password so we could turn off parental controls. thats probably one of the reasons i eventually got into forums and places like IQfy
(I'm having to reformat because it keepd thinking my post is spam)
And I guess all those sites are now gone? Because even the links I saved from 2018 point to corn websites that are gone, so ones from 2006 would be even more gone.
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post a link, I'll investigate them on the wayback
There used to be a lot more variety,
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dot us was like a hub where you could basically see what other p0rn were other anons watching. or Youtube videos that were k i n k y. Sometimes I miss the old web.
Whew, IQfy really made it hard to post all this.
4/4
>zoomer
>born in y2k
>comically neglectful single mom
>left on the computer instead of having toys
>quickly end up on forums
>weeb shut-in for life by the age of 7
I literally never even had a fricking chance.
*512k modem dialing sound intensifies*
1998, it was slow as shit and expensive. Could only be on the internet 30 minutes a week. In 2000 I played soldier of fortune online, blowing up heads and body parts with a shotgun. Such games worked well since they don't send much data.
Can't remember the exact year, we had dial-up in the 90's, at least it was free on weekend nights and I think later it was free at nigh in general.
In 2001 we got ADSL, 128Kbps.
Now I have 500Mbps.
2007 on dad's laptop through Ethernet with 1.6 GB/month limit. I was allowed to create an account on local social media, but I didn't know what to do with it since I wasn't interested in talking to my classmates or posting my pictures
Browse Star Trek website for 1 MB audio tracks that took an hour to download
Browse for game cheat codes
>What was it like the first time you got internet access?
My dick was so fricking sore at the end of the first day
1995 or so
We didn't have internet at home yet so I cut out URLs from the newspaper and took them to my local library
Playing Diablo 1 for 15-20 mins at a time
I was too young and moronic to understand shit.
>who is internet ffs
Once I've read the second illustrated book for children on the computers, I understood. And, like every other kid, immediatly began to learn HTML. Because everything else was slow af, there were few sites to visit and every fake porn image took minutes to load. Later, Flash came along and lots of people jumped onto Macromedia. For the Dreamweaver and, well, Flash, to learn/create their bullshit.
Somehow, playing videogames like Doom, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, Settlers II, Heroes of Might and Magic II and III, and so on, was still much more fun, than learning and working with PCs as a kid. /s. A bit later than that, I/we have started learning more important shit like C.
>more important shit like C
Stopped reading there
search engine queries
> nude girls
na nah
> sexy nude girls
i got it
> sexy nude girls with big boobs
what about
> sexy nude girls having sex with big boobs
YEAH JACKPOT!!!
> then wait for 5 minutes for image to load.
Then furiously jerk off to pixelated 600x400 jpg image
> saves to Pictures and left click "hides" picture function in properties
> picture just goes grey
> wtf why wont it disappear
When you do that now most of the results are AI slop
I don't remember the first time but I do remember searching for pictures of French medieval instruments for middle school homework and finding out that one of them was also used as a synonym for blowjobs.
slow and expensive. also fricking magical.
Bonzi Buddy
I visited the equivalent of "breasts.com" in my native language and got to see a picture of a busty blonde with star shaped nipple patches.
In general I'd just type random words into the address bar and look if that lead to websites because I didn't know how to find sites back then.
anytime i'd see a URL while out and about i'd memorise it so that i have another website to try to visit. i didn't have a PC until later years, so sometimes it'd be months before i could actually use the Web (at a friend's house or something) and finally see the particularly uninteresting homepage of some random delivery company, which i thought was the coolest shit.
>Remembers the old yahoo
>Tries to find a screenshot
This is the best pic I could find
the old Amazon looked similar.
>Text-Only Yahoo
>old Yahoo!
>still has ads
>http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
some internet satellite tv box in the mid 90s
was lookin at all the porn
I printed off a picture of a pokemon in color and my grandma yelled at me for wasting ink
Diablo
US Robotics was the name.
gay furry porn and video games
my brain is now soup
I remember downloading Daggerfall demo on my 56K modem. it's been downloading for like an hour, and then connection dropped. it costed me a small fortune, and I was heartbroken. didn't know about downloaders which could resume yet.