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redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.
I collected like 400 free AOL CD's and made this sweet rear end mobile that got destroyed during a house party by a roomate because he was an rear end in a top hat.

Sweet loving mobile though - it had like 8 swinging axis and featured tits from porn mags interspersed with the AOL cds. Was like 10 feet tall.

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Flo Cytometer
Apr 20, 2015

by Ralp
I remember sending in prepaid postcards for free AOL and Compuserve FLOPPIES so I could get some free floppy disks all I had to do was wait 2-4 weeks.

Now I barely have the patience for Amazon Prime.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.

Flo Cytometer posted:

I remember sending in prepaid postcards for free AOL and Compuserve FLOPPIES so I could get some free floppy disks all I had to do was wait 2-4 weeks.

Now I barely have the patience for Amazon Prime.

I never even "got" AOL back in the day. It was just for Mom's, right?

Flo Cytometer
Apr 20, 2015

by Ralp

redshirt posted:

I never even "got" AOL back in the day. It was just for Mom's, right?

It was for people too stupid to use prodigy.

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

Millie posted:


Oh oh, found one:



Also; giant truck (tractor?) tires and climb-things made from old tires.

lol i hosed myself up so badly flying off one of these, I'd never let my theoretical kids use one.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
lol if you've never used altavista, magellan, lycos, excite, and yahoo! search engines

blugu64
Jul 17, 2006

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?


Found this behind the desk drawer, I'm thinking 91-92 maybe.

soy
Jul 7, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Flo Cytometer posted:

It was for people too stupid to use prodigy.

Or any one of the 1000 local dialup ISPs that used to exist in any region.

Mooktastical
Jan 8, 2008

thathonkey posted:

lol if you've never used altavista, magellan, lycos, excite, and yahoo! search engines

Babelfish translation was a really easy way to get past the stupid filter on school computers.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free

thathonkey posted:

lol if you've never used altavista, magellan, lycos, excite, and yahoo! search engines

webcrawler my dude

texaholic
Sep 16, 2007

Well it's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
Netscape

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



thathonkey posted:

lol if you've never used altavista, magellan, lycos, excite, and yahoo! search engines

Hotbot was the best search engine for a period of time back then.

I remember the dark days where I used AOL as my ISP, and had to run a keep-alive program to keep it from logging off during long downloads.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Thots and Prayers
Jul 13, 2006

A is the for the atrocious abominated acts that YOu committed. A is also for ass-i-nine, eight, seven, and six.

B, b, b - b is for your belligerent, bitchy, bottomless state of affairs, but why?

C is for the cantankerous condition of our character, you have no cut-out.
Grimey Drawer
After I installed Windows 95 I watched this a whooooooole bunch of times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012


thathonkey fucked around with this message at 04:01 on May 9, 2015

Grant DaNasty
Jul 17, 2006

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.
Gosh a thread on a topic I'm familiar with over 6 pages? Instant Gas!

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




thathonkey posted:

lol if you've never used altavista, magellan, lycos, excite, and yahoo! search engines

Archie.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
god i loved these lucasarts adventure games so much when i was young




Flo Cytometer
Apr 20, 2015

by Ralp

soy posted:

Or any one of the 1000 local dialup ISPs that used to exist in any region.

There weren't too many of those in 1993. There were BBS, though..

mst4k
Apr 18, 2003

budlitemolaram

1979 was pretty much the best year to be born

Flo Cytometer
Apr 20, 2015

by Ralp

karma_coma posted:

1979 was pretty much the best year to be born

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aeETEoNfOg

Signed. Kinda.

mst4k
Apr 18, 2003

budlitemolaram


I was born in early 1979 so I'm going to say this doesn't apply to me

E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUqvPJ3cbUQ plus we got this

mst4k fucked around with this message at 05:47 on May 9, 2015

old beast lunatic
Nov 3, 2004

by Hand Knit

karma_coma posted:

1979 was pretty much the best year to be born

I was born then and can confirm this. I have had a really cool life based on 90% good timing.

Guildenstern Mother
Mar 31, 2010

Why walk when you can ride?

thathonkey posted:

lol if you've never used altavista, magellan, lycos, excite, and yahoo! search engines

My bf still uses yahoo search unironically.

DiHK
Feb 4, 2013

by Azathoth

Remember the one that had her tits? With Christan Slater?

I spanked it so much to that and slave Leia... Goddam

Millennials suck, boomers suck, lost gen is arright.... Nah they suck too.

Vlonald Prump
Aug 28, 2011

Here in America, you grab them by pussy. In old country, pussy grab you!!
Buglord

WanderingMinstrel I posted:

My bf still uses yahoo search unironically.
sever

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

WanderingMinstrel I posted:

My bf still uses yahoo search unironically.

is he japanese/weeb?

Guildenstern Mother
Mar 31, 2010

Why walk when you can ride?
I don't think he'd know an anime if it bit him. He's like some kind of proto bro.

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013

Flo Cytometer posted:

It was for people too stupid to use prodigy.

Looks like you never got to experience Neverwinter Nights that summer when AOL first premiered their all-you-can-internet for one price package.
MMO goldbox ADND 2nd ed poo poo pouring out the tap. Hitting reroll 1000x till you got godly stats then building a Cleric/Mage (CLAM) that had all the spells.

It was good.

Peanut Butler
Jul 25, 2003



I do not have a generation b/c I was born in pocket time

Homo Simpson
Oct 21, 2014

by Smythe
Lipstick Apathy
I'm 12 and what is this

midnightclimax
Dec 3, 2011

by XyloJW
Anyone remember Tequila virus? Cool.

Rambling Robot
Sep 13, 2011
Duggar Fan Club Superstar #1 LOL

redshirt posted:

So it's 1985, roughly. As a 15 year old in the year 2000, you could technically produce a child.

not all of us live in great britain.

soy
Jul 7, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Flo Cytometer posted:

There weren't too many of those in 1993. There were BBS, though..

I was thinking more 1995~ but I had a local ISP in 1993 which was also a bbs.. You had to use some hosed up winsock dialer thing, it was terrible.

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jonathan
Jul 3, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI-Qy6qcGjQ

I guess we're at that point where real-time games look better than pre-rendered.

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