Microblog Memes

Yeah, confirmed I am also this old, the normal amount.

Internet was good when it was shackled to computers and wasn't spread everywhere via smartphones.

Commenting this from smartphone.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

I miss the old internet so much.

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.

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’m only 35 and we did this as kids.

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?

Aight im in my 20s and even I did this growing up, is that person just a fucking teenager or something?

Old internet was the shit. Netscape navigator on a crappy 56k or DSL line, AIM, Runescape Classic. What a time to be alive.

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?"

I took for granted that the internet only existed in libraries and wealthy friends' houses

Old enough to remember a world that smelled like an ashtray. Old enough to have played sonic 1 on a Japanese cart on release. Old enough to remember the wild west days of the web, before it became a corporate wasteland.

I was following it just fine until the "experience the information superhighway" part.

My mate's ZX Spectrums had no "information superhighway" connection.

When I was ten I'd go over to my friend's place to watch The Banana Splits or go jump my BMX off dirt ramps, or steal slightly out of date chocolate milk from the back of the local milk factory. I was in my mid-twenties and second marriage before the internet came around. Now that's old.

I can remember when texting came out. Y'all remember how the phone companies charged per minute and per text back in the day ?

I remember being 10, and the closest thing to the Internet we had was when we got a VCR.

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?

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

In the early '80s we used to hang out at my one friend's house and play games on his TRS-80 which we affectionately called the "Trash 80". We were all in high school except Monty who was 23 and enormously obese. Monty had a real job as a programmer somewhere and one afternoon he sat down at the Trash 80 and wrote a very plausible hi-res version of Space Invaders from scratch in about half an hour. At the time it meant nothing to me, but now after a 30 year career as a programmer myself I understand just how impressive that actually was.

Monty wired up his car's alternator to the ignition switch and he would leave his keys in the switch, hoping that somebody would attempt to steal his car and die. Not knowing about this, one of our friends ran out to his car after a D&D session, started it up and drove around the parking lot. Monty was so disappointed that nothing happened. I kinda miss the '80s.

Silly story, my first gf would do this with her best friend all the time. Insisted I came with but between my parents and school it took a bit, which was fine by me because I had internet at home and a little laptop as opposes to a clunky desktop. Finally did join them, turns out they went over to her bestie's and watched porn together. Teen me kicked himself for not getting in on that sooner, adult me woners if that was a red flag.

I’m in my 30s myself. People in their 30s are not old God damnit.

Now, where the fuck are my gout pills.

Bruh, i still do it. Just get pizza and go to my friend and we eat while searching funny/interesting stuff.

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.