viewing porn pics from different porn sites with no anti-virus software… I always wondered why PCs only lasted 9months before my dad had to call his friend to fix them up and re-install everything.
Playing Starcraft on Battlenet and spending 5-15 minutes in the lobby waiting for everyone to download the map. It was cool 'cause you got to talk with people… now a days all people say is: “Hey” “GO” “GL” and “LAG!”
Shocked nobody has mentioned Napster yet. It’s amazing that everybody thought that the ability to spend 25 minutes to download one file which may or may not have been the song you were looking for was going to bring the record companies to their knees.
Making your AOL profile totally sweet.
When AIM came out and everybody switched on to that, making sure you always had the coolest quotes as your away message. Away messages were definitely the way cooler ancestors of Facebook statuses.
Making up screen names pretending to be your friends and asking ugly chicks out on AIM pretending you were them.
Addictinggames.com. That shit’s only like 5 years old, but whatever it was still awesome.
All the pages that looked like bad powerpoint presentations with distracting backgrounds and awkward animations.
OMG I remember ICQ. My roommate in grad school met her husband on there. We were in Michigan, he was in Ohio. This was when you could meet people from the internet and they wouldn’t be antisocial freaks. Remember “You’ve Got Mail?” Dial up…AOL…phone calls kicking you off line.
Remember when you used to get excited to get an email?
Anyone else remember the Anarchist’s Cookbook?
[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Anyone else remember the Anarchist’s Cookbook?[/quote]
fuck yes.
I got my hands on that in like 8th grade. Man I forgot about that. Good one.
[quote]John Romaniello wrote:
[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Anyone else remember the Anarchist’s Cookbook?[/quote]
fuck yes.
I got my hands on that in like 8th grade. Man I forgot about that. Good one.[/quote]
X2
I remember making a tennis ball bomb from the book
Napster haha I was one of the first kids to get dsl and use to laugh at everyone downloading a song for hours. Porn was awesome, taking 5 minutes to load to crotchel region, something about the anticipation was thrilling.
[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Anyone else remember the Anarchist’s Cookbook?[/quote]
Had completely forgotten about that, man that was great.
I remember my mom finding semi-nude pics on my computer and me just telling her it was a virus. She just assumed it was true. Anything bad on there could be explained by a virus. I don’t think she got on the internet for another 5 years or so for fear of viruses.
“Wanna cyber?” “No? Me neither…”
it took me 3 weeks to download the movie “ghost ship”. It turned out to be some other shitty music. I was so fucking mad!!! Fuck KaZA!!!
Melissa virus
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]John Romaniello wrote:
[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Anyone else remember the Anarchist’s Cookbook?[/quote]
fuck yes.
I got my hands on that in like 8th grade. Man I forgot about that. Good one.[/quote]
X2
I remember making a tennis ball bomb from the book[/quote]
I remember making one and it not working lol
I also got kicked off AOL for using one of those Progz things that draws shit in the chatrooms, sends out emails and does other annoying shit.
I built a few websites on Angelfire.
I remember looking for MIDI files and short .wav clips of songs before MP3s got popular.
I remember it taking like 30 minutes to find one good porn pic.
I remember searching for lyrics on OOHLA.com way back in 98 or so.
anybody remember pets.com? never went to the site myself but i totally have a mini version of that sock puppet dog in my room. great commercials. also, not internet but anyone use 5 and 1/4 inch floppies? i remember playing some ill dos games on those things.
[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Melissa virus[/quote]
Michelangelo.
I seem to remember MUD games, but didn’t really get into them. My computer science friends played them hours on end.
On computer it was mainly RPG stuff, D&D, Kings Bounty/Might & Magic, Bard’s Tale etc.
Warez
Geocities
Yeah,… Geocities, Angelfire, XANGA, lol.
Seeing which new font and background color I would use next in AOL messages.
Kazaa, Limewire, Morpheus, Napster… god there was so many.
Floppy drives, and actually using them, lol.
Buying this AOL cd discs at Blockbuster.
I had ICQ but never really used it.
The old school Yahoo directory.
Lycos, Hotmail. Hotmail still going strong.
The old school Facebook where you had to be an actual college student to use it.
Let’s see, Napster was the shit. I’d download songs for people at school and sell them the CD for 5 bucks (only 2 bucks was profit). One time I actually Telnetted some company’s server and ripped their username and password; passed it to one of my friends at school and next thing I knew, half the school was getting free 56k.
When Napster went down I had to contend with the nightmare that was Kazaa and Bearshare. Limewire brought my 2 year old computer to it’s knees.
Discovering Warez, CD key-gens, etc. was pretty cool. The day I found out I could get a high-priced program like Photoshop for free off the demo was a nice one. Interestingly enough, the only software I actually pirate nowadays is Office (lol). Thank you Opensource, for saving my blemished soul.
My computers were always slow as shit within a couple of years. I started of with a DOS system in '93, where I did nothing but play games (Prince of Persia FTW). I got a 133Mhz Pentium after that, which did a good job of aggravating me (Win95), running Word and Encarta 95 (remember when you had to PAY for encyclopedias?). Next was a P3-733, decent system with a 15" monitor that would give me a migraine after an hour.
My next comp was built from scratch- Athlon 1.33Ghz with SDRAM and a budget Nvidia card that was useless the next year (ran Quake 3 and MDK 2 just fine though, capped itself on Unreal Tournament).
I’d tinker with my PCs pretty obsessively to make them run a little faster, fuck with the registry, install shit, disable startup programs, you know, all the shit we don’t bother with now. I got pretty into overclocking too when the P4s and AMD Thoroughbreds came out. Got a 1.8Ghz Athlon to run at 2.38 on air (Thermalright slk-800u with a delta jet engine fan). Dabbled in watercooling but never had the balls, time or actual mechanical know how to put together a real DIY system.
Flash was pretty awesome, you know, back when any website that used made it blatantly obvious as opposed to the elegant, in-the-background, implementation now.
Porn was tough to be honest. I was 13-15 when I started giving a shit about it (as opposed to jerking off unaided, sigh good times). Unfortunately, broadband was ridiculously priced (2000-2003 Bahrain). I remembered getting off on 10 second clips, audio clips of people fucking, high res pics that took 10 minutes to load… and erotic text. I actually printed out a bunch of that stuff and did the deed in the bathroom.