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2011-12-15 09:06:08

#3226

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6729

herp derp as in widespread use, good connectivity, rich-format websites, lots of chat-rooms, lots of 'e-culture' (if that makes sense)

the specific dates just state my own early encounters with it.

seeing as the dot com bubble burst in 2001, at which point it's fair to say the internet was an "established" every-day thing... how are my dates off?

Last edited by Uzique (2011-12-15 09:07:07)

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2011-12-15 09:10:33

#3227

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5518|foggy bottom

the first time I ever really used a PC was in the early 90s where my school sent a few students each summer to some white peoples private school where one of the classes I had, the teacher put a cd in a case and inserted the case into the computer. I would always play some tomb escape game.

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2011-12-15 09:13:22

#3228

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

It was up and running pretty well by like 92-93. No, there was no flash, or fancy websites, but the backbone was there. Most homes that had a PC had a 9600 or 14.4 modem and a hookup to compuserve or aol or mindspring or whatever local isp they had available. I probably have different memories though because my dad had one of the first web servers in NYC so I always had an internet connection through his server.

I guess you're right though, it didn't really become 'cool' or 'mainstream' to use the internet till the very late 90s. Before then, everyone who touched a computer was openly looked at like this:

https://www.my-funspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/nerds-300x300.jpg

Now it's just there. Normal. meh

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2011-12-15 09:13:49

#3229

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

eleven bravo wrote:
the first time I ever really used a PC was in the early 90s where my school sent a few students each summer to some white peoples private school where one of the classes I had, the teacher put a cd in a case and inserted the case into the computer. I would always play some tomb escape game.

Tomb Raider, son!

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2011-12-15 09:14:12

#3230

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5518|foggy bottom

Uzique wrote:
eleven bravo wrote:
I used to be a part of the wannabe hacker club. i dl dozens of proggies and warez from the private server and mass mail chat rooms. got a lot of good games that noone remembers anymore.
i used to have an smtp worm out there called 'inkursion' (my first internet handle) that i made with a friend. it even got a threat-report on norton's official database being an early-teen when the internet really started to take off properly around 2000-2001 was good fun. i remember chat-rooms being like one of the main 'attractions' of the web.

I was in the army by that time and far away from technology that i used to use. one of the last things I did before I left I was downloading music from some file sharing software called simba or sumba or some shit like that

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2011-12-15 09:14:47

#3231

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5518|foggy bottom

Jay wrote:
eleven bravo wrote:
the first time I ever really used a PC was in the early 90s where my school sent a few students each summer to some white peoples private school where one of the classes I had, the teacher put a cd in a case and inserted the case into the computer. I would always play some tomb escape game.
Tomb Raider, son!

i dont think it was, this was like 91 92

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2011-12-15 09:15:20

#3232

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5845

Tomb Raider was '96 wasn't it?

2011-12-15 09:16:17

#3233

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

It was probably napster that made the internet cool. One program integrated music listening (cool) with internet downloading (nerdy) and made the latter cool by association. Pretty funny.

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2011-12-15 09:17:38

#3234

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

eleven bravo wrote:
Jay wrote:
eleven bravo wrote:
the first time I ever really used a PC was in the early 90s where my school sent a few students each summer to some white peoples private school where one of the classes I had, the teacher put a cd in a case and inserted the case into the computer. I would always play some tomb escape game.
Tomb Raider, son!
i dont think it was, this was like 91 92

Oh, then I have no idea. 91-92 CD's were still uber rare though. 3 1/2 in floppies were still the norm for games.

Oh the days of having to install a game from 8 different floppy disks...

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2011-12-15 09:18:36

#3235

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5518|foggy bottom

the game wasnt cd. it was already on all the pcs. it was closer to pac man.

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2011-12-15 09:19:27

#3236

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5845

/remembers when internet porn was only .jpgs

2011-12-15 09:20:06

#3237

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

It's too bad you didn't grow up in a white school district We had a lab full of Commodore 64's in elementary school. If we were good they let us play Hot Wheels or Oregon Trail or friggin Barbie.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
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2011-12-15 09:20:47

#3238

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5518|foggy bottom

Macbeth wrote:
/remembers when internet porn was only .jpgs

i remember when it was just gifs for trade in aol message boards

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2011-12-15 09:20:51

#3239

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

Macbeth wrote:
/remembers when internet porn was only .jpgs

shit, I remember grainy ass .gifs

.jpgs were like solid gold

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-12-15 09:21:38

#3240

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

eleven bravo wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
/remembers when internet porn was only .jpgs
i remember when it was just gifs for trade in aol message boards

zoom in even a little and all you saw was a box for a nipple

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-12-15 09:21:40

#3241

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6729

i had an atari with a bunch of games on floppy disc. took ages to boot. some were basic adventure games. a few classics like castlevania and lemmings. pretty sure that tech pre-dated the 90's, but i have no idea where it came from and how it ended up in my house. but by the internet becoming 'big' i mean like 56k+ dial-up as a standard, flash, rich-html websites, widespread proliferation of actual images and file-sharing and chat-rooms and instant messaging and everything else. sure the internet existed for the home user in the early 90's, and sure there was the dot com boom, but that was like text-based sites only for neckbeards.

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2011-12-15 09:21:50

#3242

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5518|foggy bottom

Jay wrote:
It's too bad you didn't grow up in a white school district We had a lab full of Commodore 64's in elementary school. If we were good they let us play Hot Wheels or Oregon Trail or friggin Barbie.

i had access to an appleIIe in elemntary. played a lot of lemonade stand and oregon trail and carmen san diego and some whale watching game where the goal was to take pictures of wales jumping out of the water

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2011-12-15 09:22:54

#3243

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

lemmings!

the only games I remember for Atari were Asteroids, Pong, and some cowboy gunslinger game with huge-pixelled conestoga wagons

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2011-12-15 09:23:36

#3244

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5518|foggy bottom

the only thing i remember from atari was being completely disappointed because of the artwork on the game boxes

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2011-12-15 09:23:56

#3245

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

eleven bravo wrote:
Jay wrote:
It's too bad you didn't grow up in a white school district We had a lab full of Commodore 64's in elementary school. If we were good they let us play Hot Wheels or Oregon Trail or friggin Barbie.
i had access to an appleIIe in elemntary. played a lot of lemonade stand and oregon trail and carmen san diego and some whale watching game where the goal was to take pictures of wales jumping out of the water

carmen san diego! was that the first tv show spawned from a video game?

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-12-15 09:27:23

#3246

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

Ha, it WAS called Gunslinger

https://www.atariguide.com/ss/outlaw.gif

This was the height of cool in the mid-80s.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-12-15 09:30:02

#3247

tuckergustav: ...; +1,590|6173|...

Jay wrote:
It's too bad you didn't grow up in a white school district We had a lab full of Commodore 64's in elementary school. If we were good they let us play Hot Wheels or Oregon Trail or friggin Barbie.

Holy crap..Oregon Trail...blast from the past.

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2011-12-15 09:30:39

#3248

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6571

you're old

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2011-12-15 09:31:34

#3249

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5617|London, England

tuckergustav wrote:
Jay wrote:
It's too bad you didn't grow up in a white school district We had a lab full of Commodore 64's in elementary school. If we were good they let us play Hot Wheels or Oregon Trail or friggin Barbie.
Holy crap..Oregon Trail...blast from the past.

Don't forget to name your 'family' after the boys in class you have a crush on

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-12-15 09:34:52

#3250

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5845

14 feet deep river -> try to cross it -> whole crew dies

The ole days. I preferred Sim City 2000

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