One day a coworker announced he had bought a PC with the new 80286 processor running at 10 MHz (an unheard of blistering speed).
That afternoon the entire Engineering Department went to his house to look at it.
That was my first real computer. We had two games: where in the world is carmen Sandiego and kings quest 4 rosella’s peril. There was not enough disk space to have both games (size 2 5.25 floppies each IIRC) installed at the same time. Then we got quest for glory. That was special.
Oh wow! I had forgotten all about Carmen. :D
That’s crazy. I had no idea everyone said “look at the computer”. Also, I miss being a kid. Growing up in the 90s and 00s was magical time.
Ahhh the good old 90s for me… Get together, play games, share information and combos about games. I remember playing Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, and trying to see who can do all the combos or fatalities while playing on the same computer. I recently find a photo from those times. Feeling a bit nostalgic.
Trading floppies at the library
Dubbing tapes with my ghetto blaster.
We used go to Internet cafes and log onto anonymous chat rooms as a tween group of three. Thought it was HILARIOUS. then eventually got computers in our houses… Dial up… Rotten.com…etc etc… Funniest time of my life hands down. Big up maddox.xmission articles.👐 Would love to find all the random hilarious videos that made me crack up so much.
Biggest regret : not convincing my parents to let me but bitcoin at 50c… They thought it was bullshit and I didn’t know how to. Time machine message.
Biggest regret : not
convincing my parents to let me butmining bitcoin before silk road because “it’s probably some 4chan virus”I had a handful from the late 2000s that I deleted the wallet file to because I thought it was a dumb waste of time
There was a seedy building in Memphis with a pretty dingy vibe that looked like a bad strip club. You could go in as a sixteen year old, get a giant extra caffeinated oreo milkshake, and play Tribes all night on the LAN
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You think my buddy had internet? We would go over to his house to play DOS games.
Fuck yeah worms
I spent so much fucking time at my mates dad’s cafe caning the rope training mission that I got fucking a 45 minute time.
We got our first computer around 1980, there was no information superhighway then. I also remember before that, when pinball tables were pretty cool.
Pinball tables are still arguably very cool.
Typing in the original Goatse URL at somebody’s house on their computer
Changing their browser homepage.
Making it their desktop wallpaper, screenshotting the desktop, setting the desktop to that screenshot, then “hide icons.”
A classic prank that persisted long after into the workplace lol
Im 20 and I did this as well because cheap broadband internet didn’t arrive everywhere at the same time
What about dial up? OP is clearly talking about the dial up era.
People are still on dialup today
And ota tv baby!
“Normal amount” is a bit over 40, no?
I think this would describe people in their mid to late 30s, if they were 10 in the mid to late 90s. Any earlier than that and it would have been bulletin boards and not the web.
I think it depends on when you had access to the Internet. I’m older than that. I know people my age without this experience.
Sure, but the meme describes being ten years old while having this experience, and the experience is specifically the World Wide Web, not earlier ways of interacting with the internet. If you are older than 40, you were 10 in 1995 or earlier, a year or two after the first possible time that anyone could access the www. So the specific facts here apply to people aged in their late 30s.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=median+human+age
Median human age is 32 according to wolfram alpha.
I assume so, possibly because that’s how old I am, but it seems right.
Spamming duckjob in AOL chatrooms.
Personal computers came out when I was middle school age. Internet was for my kid’s generation? Millennials?
Superhighway what? On a Commodore PET? What?
putting scotch tape on their mouse so the ball wouldn’t roll 😁 and then when they would look they didn’t see the tape and think the mouse was broken 🤣
I had a habit of opening the mouse up to clean the crud off rollers so it would move smoothly again. Would have probably gotten better results from me by just removing the ball so that when I went to check it, it just wasn’t there at all.
Ooh yeah cleaning the mouse rollers. The ritual.
Nah I steal their balls
