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Internet Nostalgia Thread.
- Thread starter cronicmole
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Post your memories.Originally Posted by cronicmole
internet explorer
- winmx, kazaa
- Napster would take 30 minutes to download a song
- Netscape Navigator was the best web brower
50-100MB files, est DL time: 3hrs
Dial up noise.
oh man! you hit the spot with these
Dakota rube
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The local representative from Princeton couldn't call me to schedule an admissions interview because my phone line was always busy. I realized what had happened about a month after the "if you don't hear from us contact us" date.Originally Posted by erictheobscure
I find this pretty funny now, but it was a bit mortifying for a few years.
So, because you didn't get into Princeton you're a drug-addled internet surfer.
Wow, talk about karma!
foodguy
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i was talking to somebody the other day who lives on the mendocino coast and only has dial-up still ... i realized that for a narrow band of society, dial-up noise is going to be nostalgic.
how about the auto racing and the helicopter games that came with appleII?
programming a bouncing ball on commodore 64?
the first flight simulators?
or yelling from the back of the house "honey, don't pick up the phone, I've got to go online."
how about the auto racing and the helicopter games that came with appleII?
programming a bouncing ball on commodore 64?
the first flight simulators?
or yelling from the back of the house "honey, don't pick up the phone, I've got to go online."
Pennglock
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Before Youtube there was Collegehumor and Ebaumsworld
ICQ and AIM (who the **** still uses AIM?)
Somethingawful.com
Mainly waiting 30 minutes for 20 second Appreciation clips...
More recently:
Oink (RIP)
I don't want to talk about the hours I wasted on this (awesome, awesome) game. Played ladder matches with a clan and everying. COD and this new **** still can't compare... Remember Roger Wilco?
ICQ and AIM (who the **** still uses AIM?)
Somethingawful.com
Mainly waiting 30 minutes for 20 second Appreciation clips...
More recently:
Oink (RIP)
This^^ and the Rainbow Six games.Originally Posted by Mblova
I don't want to talk about the hours I wasted on this (awesome, awesome) game. Played ladder matches with a clan and everying. COD and this new **** still can't compare... Remember Roger Wilco?
foodguy
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but i still remember the first time they hooked us up with web browsers ... there were no pictures or even graphics to speak of, text-only, but in 4 clicks from my desk i was searching the "card catalog" of the bodleian library. i'll never forget that feeling ... holy ****.
HelloIDistance
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Getting stuff and chatting on WinMX.
Getting in trouble on AOL for acting as an AOL representative and trying to get peoples credit card info.
Creating a Pokemon website and making 40 dollars a month when I was 13.
Dial-up internet.
Not having social media.
Not having everyone using the internet.
The internet was way cooler back in the late 90s and early 00's.
Getting in trouble on AOL for acting as an AOL representative and trying to get peoples credit card info.
Creating a Pokemon website and making 40 dollars a month when I was 13.
Dial-up internet.
Not having social media.
Not having everyone using the internet.
The internet was way cooler back in the late 90s and early 00's.
HelloIDistance
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Before Youtube there was Collegehumor and EbaumsworldOriginally Posted by Pennglock
ICQ and AIM (who the **** still uses AIM?)
Somethingawful.com
Mainly waiting 30 minutes for 20 second Appreciation clips...
More recently:
Oink (RIP)
I don't want to talk about the hours I wasted on this (awesome, awesome) game. Played ladder matches with a clan and everying. COD and this new **** still can't compare... Remember Roger Wilco?
I miss Oink. When I was an Oink member my music collection grew so much. Never did end up joining one of the spinoffs.
Mblova
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Originally Posted by Pennglock
I don't want to talk about the hours I wasted on this (awesome, awesome) game. Played ladder matches with a clan and everying. COD and this new **** still can't compare... Remember Roger Wilco?
Yess. I wasted so many hours on all games in the series. Used to do pistol only matches with my clan. I remember one of the clans was ROMP but i forget the other one I was a part of.
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23 person chatrooms filled to capacity but no one talking because they had all gone private.Originally Posted by Digmenow
QFT.
-pre-brazzers Appreciation
-50 hitler
-newgrounds
-lotus breast
-90's internet forums
-stupid forwarded pornspam/chain emails
binge
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Seems like just yesterday I made my first call to China with a stolen calling card. On second thought, it was 1986 IIRC. Anyone else remember those phreak voicemail exchanges where stolen calling card numbers were left as the message and you had to be "in the know" on phreak sites to get the voicemail number and access code. The message was some guy reading off a 14-digit calling card number which had a shelf life of about 1-2 days before it was shut-down by the phone company.
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