I remember waiting about 15 minutes for the first pic from the set of Star Wars Episode I to load back in November 1997.
Dial-up BBS
0-1 Day NPD Warez
Extenders (for getting free LD calls)
Online BBS games like Usurper
Hi-res porn pics that took 20 minutes to download
i remember playing warcraft 1 on dial up and my dad trying to call home and getting a busy signal…
oh and about the 5.25" floppies… i remember installing the original DOOM onto my computer and having it take like 7 discs…
“please insert disk 3… please insert disk 4…”
[quote]Rhino Jockey wrote:
[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.
[/quote]
x 5 or whatever on the Anarchist’s Cookbook. My buddy and I must have tried for 2 months trying to make a dollar bill that we could pull back out of the change machine but no luck. We also tried stealing all the quarters out of payphones a few times; that didn’t work, either.
Honestly, now that I think about it, most of the shit in the Anarchist’s Cookbook didn’t work, lol.
And this is embarrassing, but in like 7th grade my buddy and I got the idea (from the internet) to smoke oregano from a post-it note. We figured the oregano would taste like pot and the glue from the post it note would get us high.
Good times.
Edit - and to top it all off we both claimed to feel “buzzed” afterwards, haha.
Before I had WWW-access, I used FidoNet and BBS.
One BBS actually provided a WWW email gateway - awesome: I could send and receive emails without having an ISP subscription (ISP fees were horrendous: add to the the regular horrendous telephone fees).
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scouring the WWW for open FTPs to download MP3s (most FTPs enforced a 2:1 (sometimes 3:1) ratio of uploads vs downloads, meaning: you had to up shit, first, before you could download)
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using random internet chats to improve language skills / fuck buddy retrieval
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Altavista
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porn
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remotely opening/closing CD-ROM drives of people believing in ghosts
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making money with HTML ‘coding’ skillz
Truth be told, it’s just because of the Interwebz that I became a computer scientist instead of a physician.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
My one buddy is still holding strong with winamp - he refuses to download iTunes, haha.[/quote]
I live off of winamp. Really, it’s Shoutcast streaming radio via winamp. It’s poor man’s satellite radio 
Oh, I was a MUD junkie, pre-internet. Text based multiplayer online gaming (modem based). Fucking rocking at 2400 baud.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
My one buddy is still holding strong with winamp - he refuses to download iTunes, haha.[/quote]
I live off of winamp. Really, it’s Shoutcast streaming radio via winamp. It’s poor man’s satellite radio
Oh, I was a MUD junkie, pre-internet. Text based multiplayer online gaming (modem based). Fucking rocking at 2400 baud.
[/quote]
Fucking A!
← also a Winamp aficionado.
I remember the first porn pic I ever saw was in 5th grade when we were supposed to be researching the Whitehouse in the computer lab and we all went to Whitehouse.com and… OMG TOPLESS GIRLS!!!
I still remember shaking from excitement and not knowing what to do about it, haha.
Obviously AIM was the cool thing to do after school back then.
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
I remember the first porn pic I ever saw was in 5th grade when we were supposed to be researching the Whitehouse in the computer lab and we all went to Whitehouse.com and… OMG TOPLESS GIRLS!!!
I still remember shaking from excitement and not knowing what to do about it, haha.
Obviously AIM was the cool thing to do after school back then.[/quote]
LMFAO!
When I was kid that was my favourite porn site to go to because in the history it would just say whitehouse.com.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]Rhino Jockey wrote:
[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.
[/quote]
x 5 or whatever on the Anarchist’s Cookbook. My buddy and I must have tried for 2 months trying to make a dollar bill that we could pull back out of the change machine but no luck. We also tried stealing all the quarters out of payphones a few times; that didn’t work, either.
Honestly, now that I think about it, most of the shit in the Anarchist’s Cookbook didn’t work, lol.[/quote]
The book was written in the 70’s I have feeling most of it worked when it came out.
[quote]Rhino Jockey wrote:
[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
[/quote]
Yep, it took me a few whips against a wall before it exploded… and it was pretty shitty to boot.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]Rhino Jockey wrote:
[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
[/quote]
Yep, it took me a few whips against a wall before it exploded… and it was pretty shitty to boot.
[/quote]
My friend found an actual hard copy at some random used bookstore in Pittsburgh back in '97. I used to use the paperclip trick on payphones.
As for the topic at hand. My dad is a college professor, so starting around '95 (7th/8th grade) I had access to fairly fast internet through the school:
- Chat rooms (especially ESPN’s) - if you knew any HTML at all, you could take over the entire chat board. Change everyone’s text, mess with the background color, post a couple hundred images at once and crash the entire server, etc…
- Def used AltaVista for searching.
- Bitmap porn, ftw!
- Napster like a mofo. I remember having to run mp3s through like 3 different filters on WinAmp to convert them so I could burn a CD.
- made about a million different AngelFire webpages, especially back before they forced you to add their banner to their page.
- I was the member of about 30 different e-wrestling feds.
For us early and mid 20’s guys the old internet has desensitized us to the point where we find nothing offensive anymore.
Goatse.cx, lemonparty.org, tubgirl.ca… who hasn’t been sent one of these sites by one of their friends as a prank?
[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]
hell yes. a friend and i did the same thing and it was not worth the effort.
[quote]iamthewolf wrote:
hell yes. a friend and i did the same thing and it was not worth the effort.[/quote]
Is that the one with all the strike-anywhere match heads stuffed into a tennis ball?
I got lazy and made a smaller variant, a Kinder Surprise capsule stuffed with matchheads and glued together with krazy-glue.
It blew up pretty well. Not enough to do any damage, but it put a nice singe mark on the wall I hucked it at
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
[quote]iamthewolf wrote:
hell yes. a friend and i did the same thing and it was not worth the effort.[/quote]
Is that the one with all the strike-anywhere match heads stuffed into a tennis ball?
I got lazy and made a smaller variant, a Kinder Surprise capsule stuffed with matchheads and glued together with krazy-glue.
It blew up pretty well. Not enough to do any damage, but it put a nice singe mark on the wall I hucked it at[/quote]
that’s the one. while ours did burst into flames, it did not explode in the manner that our young minds were led to believe. though, to be fair, we were probably expecting a little too much of it.
[quote]Vegita wrote:
Death Track. A racing game where you could ram, missle and drop mines on the other cars. It was awesome.
V[/quote]
Holy shit I played that game all the time.
I remember when google wasn’t around…
Oh wait. I don’t.
idk what my school was doing, but we had the 6 1/2 inch black floppy disc computers until about 98 or so, and all the teachers shit thier pants when we got these-