I remember connecting to the internet back in the America Online days, as well as that awful, awful noise it made.
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Oh man, you just shot me with a nostalgia arrow. I remember those early Angelfire and Geocities websites--they all had those flashing banners in eye-searing colors, and if you didn't have fire somewhere on your logo you were uncool.
The days before Google's search engine were truly dark ages. Trying to find anything on the internet was like mumbling a question into a speech-to-text program, Google-translating it about four times, and then sending it to the person you're trying to ask. And then doing the same in reverse to their answer. Jeeves was a very, very stupid man and Asking him anything was an exercise in futility. :P
I remember DOS well: it was one of my first languages (no joke; I remember being 2-3 years old and expertly navigating an old IBM that didn't even have Windows, much less a mouse--for those too young to remember, imagine doing literally everything through the command line). And even once we got a computer with Windows, sometimes it was necessary or just plain easier to exit back to DOS (oh yeah, exiting Windows used to be a thing you could do).
And the sound dial-up modems made. Each one was a little bit different, and I got really, really good at telling from the sound if it was going to be a successful connection or not; I always hated when we had to get a new one because I would have to memorize a new pattern and until I did, every connection sounded wrong. I actually kind of miss the sound, though I definitely don't miss the slowness or the tied up phone lines. XD
Thanks for the nostalgia trip and the giveaways! <3
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Or when you couldn't use the phone and internet at the same time :O
Bumpo
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And i was on BBS chating with some chick and then my mother pick up the phone and KKKSHHHHHSHHHHSSS Mom says: are you on phone again? And I got disconected and lost my date.....ah the drama <3
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Well, it could be that soon things will start going backwards again...
The US could drag us all down with it....hooray.
BZZZZZT BOOOOOP DZING DZING DZING BZZZZZT
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Well I always say I was born in the best moment. I was born in 1986 and I have two older brothers (one from 1976) so I grew sharing lots of their fashions, not only I played Atari, Commodore and Amiga games, as well as having DOS and Windows 95, but I have the influence of all the single player classics and the experience of first online games, when everything was fresh and new. I also enjoyed real music, peak moments for bands like guns and roses, queen, red hot chili peppers, etc. Going back to gaming, I also lived times when consoles had something to offer apart from exclusive titles, sega genesis, psx and ps2 had excellent quality for easily movable devices
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Don't forget driving to Blockbuster to rent your movies on VHS tapes that you had to rewind before you took them back. I'm pretty sure my childhood is going to seem ridiculous to my kids. "Cellphones were how big? And you couldn't get the internet on them? What do you mean there wasn't even an internet?"
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A friend and I were just recently reminiscing over things like this when I found in her parents' house an old landline telephone like this and how when we were little, if someone else in the house was on the phone, well, no internet for you. And then compare to my niece who, by the time she came along, had a smartphone when she entered middle school. It's crazy how fast technology has advanced in just the past couple of decades.
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DOS 6.22 was easy for me because I used Norton Commander and I remember playing outlaws and combat flight simulator on the MSN Gaming Zone for hours and nobody could call us because internet and phone were over the same landlines. And did anyone already talk about floppy disks? :-)
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I hope this doesn't seem too strange to anyone reading this, but it is from the heart. I was born right at the end of the 80s. The 90s and 00s were a time between when a lot of the online structures people defined themselves by such of social media, gaming,connectivity were formed. We had things like DOS, early internet, lycos and askjeeves(early search engines), early fan sites via things like geocities, google, myspace(never my jam), limewire and kazaa to share p2p files runescape(still going on today, the way its evolved is interesting), rise of the robots and demo disks, not knowing what to do when we actually got the internet working. It feels so strange being able to remember these weird inbetween times when we were gaining the ability to easily communicate with each other, learn who we shared these weird interests with (anime-waves doin some stellar work) and how to gain info easily on anything is such a bizarre feeling, like when humankind is making advancements which will be taken for granted in the future,even if technically it was within our grasp even earlier. I haven't been giving away much recently, been taking for granted somewhat our members generosity in making pc games much easier to obtain to everyone else, so here's some giveaways to make you happier and me express my feelings about how special a time we live in.
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