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I remember typing in code from a gaming magazine because there was no storage. You turn off your computer and it's gone.
Worst part was when your triple checked everything and it still wouldn't run only to get the corrections in the magazine next month.
I remember installing programs with several consecutive floppy disks on my dad's computer
Im that in between generation that grew up in the 80s and early 90s so I feel like captain America after being defrosted sometimes
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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 took for granted that the internet only existed in libraries and wealthy friends' houses
Who had a CD ROM drive and a sound blaster? Doom was a whole new dimension with it. It was real and very scary!
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 climbed a water tower at an abandoned warehouse and got attacked by wasps at the top. Good times!
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 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.
This is just the Millennial version of reaction video Tiktoks.
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.
Bruh, i still do it. Just get pizza and go to my friend and we eat while searching funny/interesting stuff.
Keep keepin' it real
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
I remember being 10, and the closest thing to the Internet we had was when we got a VCR.
I'm from the UK and the closest thing to the Internet to me was teletext. I loved it. My parents were baffled as to what I was doing.
Remember when you were ten and went to a friend’s place who had a Commodore 64 and they just got a new game on a floppy from his uncle’s friend. And the game was just an animation of a pixelated naked cartoon lady who took a piss on to the ground. And you’d laugh your ass off for the rest of the day. Remember? No?
Yes, but it was a cassette. Loading programs took ages, but we watched TNG on broadcast tv in the meantime.
How young are you people?
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.
BBS were cute. However the costs and connection speeds were pretty brutal.
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.
That's because he was looking at porn and jerking off.
"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.
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.