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stuff kids/people today won't get that were actually born during internet's boom
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The difference between the permanence of the Internet vs the rest of life. The Internet got big when I was around 7 or 8 and I've been a user ever since (I'm soon 28) but kids these days don't understand how permanent it is like my gen did.
When this generation is our leaders in business and politics they'll find 20 year old facebook/twitter posts creating much drama. Should be fun.
When this generation is our leaders in business and politics they'll find 20 year old facebook/twitter posts creating much drama. Should be fun.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
What happened to netscape anyway?
Netscape got bought by AOL and released their source code which started Mozilla which everyone now knows as Firefox.
Google Video came after YouTube. It was actually Google competing with them until they said fuck it and bought YouTube.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
terrisus
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SoundsOfScience
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MindMaze was my shit! I loved playing that, someone should remake them.
I stand corrected. I misread something and thought that Google Video started in October 2005.
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Measles immunity.
CreepingFear
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Not only won't youngsters know what a floppy disk is, but they won't know the joy of installing an OS with a few dozens of them...
... Please insert disk 14... Please insert disk 15...
See, I don't even get this. My first computer that my family got in '96 came with a Windows 95 cd-rom for installation. Back when Dell and OEM's actually gave you a disc for re installations.
I'll take your blink tags, and raise you html marquees
Oh man, I remember putting marquees on the homepage of every site I made on Angelfire, Geocities, Freewebs, and Tripod.
InfiniteBento
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Floppy disks and a bunch of other stuff was already posted so this is all I could think of currently. Probably more internet age than not tho.
terrisus
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No worries.
YouTube never really registered with me, since I started on Google Video, and so never had a need to check into YouTube.
Then, when Google bought YouTube, I just didn't bother to make the transition.
Hmmm... third-party download manager software for one. I remember downloading game demos way back in the day and praying that my 56k internet didn't have a hiccup, since even the smallest disruption in internet service would interrupt the download causing you to have to restart the entire download from the beginning. You had to get non-standard programs to actually be able to resume your five-hour download from where you left off.
Also, MUDs. Text-based multiplayer games you connected to via Telenet or other applications. There used to be thousands of them on the internet. Then they evolved into MMOs and were replaced by online RPGs with graphics. I think most people have completely forgotten that the MMO genre is actually one of the oldest genres in videogaming.
Also, MUDs. Text-based multiplayer games you connected to via Telenet or other applications. There used to be thousands of them on the internet. Then they evolved into MMOs and were replaced by online RPGs with graphics. I think most people have completely forgotten that the MMO genre is actually one of the oldest genres in videogaming.
terrisus
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Yay, another MUD fan! <3
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ahhh yes, Yahooligans was so much fun.
jamesinclair
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Napster was for the uninformed masses
Anyone in the know used WinMX
Anyone in the know used WinMX
Princess Viola
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i miss yahooligans
QuickSilverD
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terrisus
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Cassettes existed before the "internet's boom."
KittenMaster
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At the time CD-Rom drives were still a relatively new thing and not every computer had a CD ROM drive, so sometimes an optional floppy distribution was a thing.
Even before that almost everything that installed from a floppy exclusively (like DOS operating systems) often required more than one floppy to completely install due to their pitiful storage size (just a little over a meg).
Megalosaro
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1994. Chatting was never this cool, god I loved pointworld.
That's some Snowcrash shit.
Blargonaut
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Floppy disks and a bunch of other stuff was already posted so this is all I could think of currently. Probably more internet age than not tho.
ye boi
Humongous Entertainment is the real shit
Putt Putt was my original ghost ride
LegendofJoe
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I actually did a presentation back in late 2005 saying that Google should look into either buying or partnering with YouTube. I loled pretty hard when it actually happened soon after.
In the early years, Netscape was top dog. It wasn't until IE 4 that Microsoft took the throne. IE being free and packaged with Windows is pretty much what killed Netscape. Although, that also lead to the anti-trust law suits against MS.
terrisus
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Ah, the missed investing possibilities...
Speaking of which, I made like a 50% gain in a month in an E-Trade virtual stock market back in like 1998.
If only it had been real money...
maquiladora
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Edit : Dammit, old...very old.
NekoFever
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FFFFUUUUUU....
terrisus
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Edit : Dammit, old...very old.
My father owned a radio station back around 1997, and did internet broadcasting of the station through RealPlayer.
Back then, it was a pretty nifty thing.
Fudgepuppy
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Screensavers in general are dead today.
I LOVED that game.
Went through and replayed it just a few years ago. Still fun.
Marky Mark
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0day hip hop channels on IRC.
Also:
Also:
terrisus
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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Edit : Dammit, old...very old.
I'm more surprised they still exist to this day
maquiladora
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BrokenEchelon
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Oh, to be 15 again.
Thing on a Spring
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The Fight rooms were quite a source of entertainment.
witchedwiz
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Playing soccer with dad in the Yard when you are young?
It still happens, but it's getting rarer and rarer..
It still happens, but it's getting rarer and rarer..
AzureSkies
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The Fight rooms were quite a source of entertainment.
"Punk 'n Ska 'n Thrash"
man imagine the arguments that took place in that room based off the name alone.
This experience - maybe NSFW.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Makes you wonder why that vanished, I guess people don't need to be told anymore.
The sound of modems doing a handshake over the phone line, or being able to immediately tell from the sound if you were getting a good connection. Also, having a phone line reserved for data. Or having a phone line, for that matter (falls outside of the scope of the OP, I know).
1000 Hours Free!
For 45 days
45 days = 1080 hours
To be fair, 1000 is a bigger number than 45.
this and everything related to it
1000 Hours Free!
For 45 days
45 days = 1080 hours
To be fair, 1000 is a bigger number than 45.
DontBeThatGuy
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I was in a hospital waiting room yesterday and I swear to fuck that I heard that noise, clear as day. It's 2015 though, so is such a thing even possible?
...But then again, I wouldn't be all that shocked to learn that place was still using a dial-up connection
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Since I'm from a country that doesn't use AOL, how does it work there? Over here we got what we call "prepaid ISPs". We buy a card, input its pin and user, connect to the internet via modem with provided numbers using Windows's generic modem connection, and surf. AOL seems to be a program on its own.
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