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We also got to see the rise of the Internet and the home computer revolution, as well as smartphones later on. We are the last ones to know what the world was like before all that. When you had to bike your ass to the local library just to look up a cake recipe, and "please allow six weeks for delivery" was the standard.
Anyway, does anyone wanna play Pogs? I got some cool new slammers here...
Let me just feed my tamagotchi quickly and then I'm in.
"if the Tamagotchi doesn't grew into adult in 5 minutes, i don't want to do nothing with it"
I recorded Mila Supastar from TV on cassette tape
I miss the old days of intenet when youtube didnt exist. When gmail was still beta and giving away invites...
Go back just a bit further to the days of AltaVista and I'm good. When it was still possible to store an entire website's markup and its images on one floppy disk. When people were running servers out of their basement and jumpstarting the early web.
Edit: The Fediverse certainly has that 1996 "wild west" feel to it though, I gotta say. We're just missing webrings and ugly-ass tiled backgrounds.
I did a bunch of school works when google didn't yet exist. It was a wild ride searching obscure sites and finding information in green webpages with lots of blinking texts and colors. Had to borrow the 5 cds encyclopaedia from a friend to get any historical information for some works. Wikipedia was barely starting and having info there for some things was amazing.
Damn days of downloading a random mp3 file 128kpbs quality of 3.4 MBs that took 1 or 2 days with computer turned on all night long.
I prefer mid 2000s internet
Each sub has a subscription counter. We need a permanent under construction community
Altavista existed atleast till the start of windows vista
That's so true
Dude, I still have a slammer that's solid copper. I'm going to win all your pogs. So yes, let's play.
don't forget smartwatches and the beggining of vr with the Nintendo virtual (word forgor)
Virtual Boy, it was a love-hate VR experience. Red wire-frames was very Cyberpunk.
Virtual boy
I'll bring my talkboy.